Projects
This page lists some of my personal pet projects. Some very early work can be found here.
As a professional consultant, I have worked with clients from all over the world for more than 12 years, on projects across numerous domains.
Tidbits
- StringValidator.py – a simple Python class for basic string validation
- Ishtika – a geometric unicode Malayalam font
- MLphone – an algorithm for generating phonetic hashes for Malayalam words, like Metaphone for English (Python, PHP)
- ml2en – a library for phonetically transliterating Malayalam script to Roman / Latin characters (Python, PHP, Javascript)
- localStorageDB – a simple database layer for localStorage (Javascript)
- xmlutils.py – a set of Python scripts for converting XML files to SQL and CSV (Python)
- tinytooltip – an extremely tiny tooltip plugin for jQuery (Javascript)
- tinytabs – a tiny tabbing plugin for jQuery (Javascript)
- jqDialog – a dialog plugin for jQuery (Javascript)
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Word Pluck
November 2012
A Create.js experiment, Word Pluck is a fun little browser based typing game that was played over 40,000 times within twenty four hours of going live. A premium version (with touch support and other enhancements) is available for Windows 8 is available.
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World Clocks
September 2011
An interactive world clock app that can time-keep over 400 cities of the world (with a curated DST database). Uses canvas to render animated analog/digital clocks, and localStorage to store user data. Created as 10k app competition entry. The chrome app version is currently nearing a quarter million users.
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Simple Planner
September 2011
A self contained, offline calendar/event manager/personal planner (extension for Chrome browser). Uses localStorage to store entries. Can export entries to ICS and CSV. Created as 10k app competition entry.
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CV Maker
October 2010
A sophisticated web app for writing, maintaining, and publishing professional resumes. Supports multiple CV templates and export formats (TXT, HTML, PDF). Nearing 100,000 users.
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Olam
May 2010
The regularly curated, de-facto online English & Malayalam dictionary with hundreds of thousands of words.
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Vettila Music
January 2010
An indie music label (South India) aiming at creating fresh music and promoting budding talents.
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Simpleones
December 2006 Terminated
A short lived pet social network based on the Crowd engine.
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Crowd
August 2006
An attempt at a social networking site for India. The engine was an evolved version of Hive. Didn't go into fruition, but turned into a full fledged re-usable social networking platform that powers a few niche social networks.
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Crowd
August 2006
A social networking engine (PHP, MySQL) with support for profiles, friends, messaging, photos etc.
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ColoursMix
December 2008Terminated
A niche clothing company partnership touting casual wear clothing. Aimed at procuring (and manufacturing) fabric locally, empowering local communities.
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Oddpath People
April 2008Sold
A people's search engine with a database of 100million+ U.S phone records.
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Oddpath Money
March 2008Sold
Realtime stock quotation and monitoring tool.
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Words and Language
January 2008
A similarity-search engine for English words. Interest stemmed from BSc. thesis on computational linguistics.
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TwoKop (Two kinds of people)
October 2007Terminated
A satirical webcomic portraying current events in the form of “two kinds of people“
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Pencily
October 2007Terminated
Instant inspiration for illustrators / artists / designers. A realtime topic-wise newsfeed aggregator.
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RichMint
October 2007
A User Interface design, usability testing and evaluation company. Richmint has UI experts who create beautiful user interfaces for the masses.
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Oddpath
May 2007Sold
One of the largest local search engines in the US with over 11 million listings.
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Thumbq
October 2006Terminated
An image archival and sharing app. Supported dynamic inline galleries, transitional thumbnails, transitional slide shows and more. Quickly grew in popularity, but died due to the lack of funding.
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Great People
October 2006Terminated
A simple wiki system with biographies of eminent people (Scoop).
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Topstories.in
October 2006Terminated
An instant news aggregator for major Indian newspapers (Scoop).
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Outpost
October 2006Terminated
A buzz-tracker application (social search engine) (Scoop). Searched popular social media sites and news sources for a given keyword and displayed popularity indexed results with a popularity measure in real time.
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Font.in
October 2006Terminated
A font search engine with a huge collection of downlodable fonts (Scoop). Glyph maps, live text preview and more.
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Shorturl
October 2006Terminated
A simple url-shortner (Scoop).
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Scoop
September 2006Terminated
A “conglomerate” of web services for India.
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Commentful
July 2006 to January 2007Sold
A tool to monitor replies to comments and responses left anywhere on the web (blogs, forums etc.). Supported a wide variety of sources including almost all blog software and platforms, and came with a desktop notification widget. Was acquired by the Bloggy Network LLC. in January 2007.
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Cinemalayalam
September 2007Terminated
A talent recruitment and content movie portal for the South Indian cinema industry started with the support of eminent industry professionals. Had a custom built mini-social network, profile, recruitment management and tracking system, payment gateways etc.
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Krun.ch
May 2006Terminated
An intuitive online file sharing, realtime compression and archival app. Quickly grew in popularity, but was terminated as a result of losing control of the domain name due to fraudulent activities by the registrar, RegisterFly.
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SplogSpot
Sep 2005 to Mar 2006Sold
A public searchable database of Spam blogs. Had a public API available for integration. Had a large, automatically curated and near-realtime updated database of spam blogs.
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Pingoat
July 2005 to March 2006Sold
A blog ping (XML RPC) app that became hugely popular, and was one of the top 2000 websites on the internet (according to Alexa stats). At its peak, Pingoat was handling 8 million pings a day.
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NewzPile
Dec 2003 to July 2012Sold
Originally started as a passive news aggregator with embeddable scroll news tickers, Newzpile was later turned into a realtime keyword based news aggregator.
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Vine
Early 2005Terminated
An advanced blogging platform and social network that was meant to be a successor to boastMachine. However, terminated development mid-way due to change in priorities.
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KeyPop
September 2004Terminated
A keyword research tool that fed data from the Overture marketing data and Google.
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myPageRank
June 2004Terminated
A Google pagerank checker, badge tool.
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boastMachine
Mid 2003 - April 2007
One of the early open source blogging systems that supported multiple blogs, users, categories, posts and tags, comments, file attachments, search, rating, rss feeds, anti-spam and ip blocking, backup and maintenance etc. Has been downloaded over a million times over the years, and at its peak, powered half a million blogs on the internet.
