Projects
This page lists some of my personal projects. Some very early work can be found here. There are also some fairly active Github repositories as well.
Miscellaneous
Personal projects
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2012 Word Pluck
A Create.js experiment, Word Pluck is a fun little browser based typing game. A premium version (with touch support and other enhancements) is available for Windows 8 is available.
November 2012
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2011 Simple Planner
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.
September 2011
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2010 CV Maker
A sophisticated web app for writing, maintaining, and publishing professional resumes. Supports multiple CV templates and export formats (TXT, HTML, PDF). Almost 1 million users as of 2015.
October 2010
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2010 Olam
The regularly curated, de-facto online English &, Malayalam dictionary that serves 2+ million lookups as of 2015.
May 2010
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2010 Vettila Music
An indie music label (South India) aiming at creating fresh music and promoting budding talents. Released several albums and helped several artists catch breaks.
January 2010
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2008 ColoursMix
A niche clothing company aimed at procuring and manufacturing fabric locally, empowering local communities.
December 2008 (Terminated)
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2008 Oddpath People
A people search engine with a database of 100million+ U.S phone records.
April 2008 (Terminated)
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2007 TwoKop (Two kinds of people)
A satirical webcomic portraying current events in the form of `two kinds of people`
October 2007 (Terminated)
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2007 Pencily
Instant inspiration for illustrators / artists / designers. A realtime topic-wise newsfeed aggregator.
October 2007 (Terminated)
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2007 RichMint
A User Interface design, usability testing and evaluation company. Richmint has UI experts who create beautiful user interfaces for the masses.
October 2007 (Terminated)
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2007 Cinemalayalam
A talent recruitment and content portal for the South Indian cinema industry started with the support of eminent industry professionals. Had a built mini-social network, profile, recruitment management and tracking system, payment gateways etc. Failed to gain adoption as it was too early for the market.
September 2007 (Terminated)
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2007 Oddpath
One of the largest local search engines in the US with over 11 million listings. Sold to a US company.
May 2007 (Terminated)
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2006 Simpleones
A short lived pet social network based on the Crowd engine.
December 2006 (Terminated)
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2006 Thumbq
An image storage and sharing website. Supported dynamic inline galleries, transitional thumbnails, transitional slide shows, easy embeds and more. Quickly grew in popularity, but died due to the lack of funding.
October 2006 (Terminated)
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2006 Great People
A simple wiki system with biographies of eminent people (Scoop).
October 2006 (Terminated)
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2006 Topstories.in
An instant news aggregator for major Indian newspapers (Scoop).
October 2006 (Terminated)
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2006 Outpost
A buzz-tracker application (social search engine) (Scoop). Searched popular social media sites news sources for a given keyword and displayed popularity indexed results with a popularity score in real time.
October 2006 (Terminated)
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2006 Font.in
A font search engine with a huge collection of downlodable fonts (Scoop). Glyph maps, live text preview and more.
October 2006 (Terminated)
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2006 Crowd
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.
October 2006
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2006 Hive
A social networking engine (PHP, MySQL) with support for profiles, friends, messaging, filse and photos, and more.
August 2006
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2006 Commentful
A browser extension to monitor and alert of replies to comments and responses left anywhere on the web (blogs, forums etc.). Supported a wide variety of sources including almost all popular blog software and platforms, and came with a desktop notification widget. Was acquired by the Network LLC. in January 2007.
July 2006 to January 2007 (Terminated)
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2006 Krun.ch
An intuitive online file sharing, compression, decompression, 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.
May 2006 (Terminated)
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2005 SplogSpot
A public searchable database of Spam blogs. Had a public API available for integration and a large, automatically curated and near-realtime updated database of spam blogs. Data was acquired from the pings that Pingoat received.
Sep 2005 to Mar 2006 (Terminated)
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2005 Pingoat
A blog ping (XML RPC) app that became hugely popular, and was one of the top 2000 websites on the internet (Alexa). At its peak, Pingoat handled 8 million pings a day.
July 2005 to March 2006 (Terminated)
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2005 Vine
An advanced blogging platform and social network that was meant to be the successor to boastMachine.
Early 2005 (Terminated)
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2004 KeyPop
A keyword research tool that fed data from the Overture marketing data and Google.
September 2004 (Terminated)
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2004 Fontgo
A font search engine with a huge archive of 10,000 downlodable fonts.
August 2004 (Terminated)
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2003 NewzPile
Originally started as a passive news aggregator with embeddable scroll news tickers, Newzpile was later turned into a realtime keyword based news aggregator.
Dec 2003 to July 2012 (Terminated)
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2003 boastMachine
One of the early open source blogging systems that supported multiple blogs, themes, users, categories, posts and tags, comments, file attachments, search, rating, rss feeds, anti-spam and ip blocking, backup and maintenance and more. Has been downloaded over a million times over the years, at its peak, powered half a million blogs on the internet. Active development ceased in 2007.
Mid 2003 - April 2007
