About me:
- I've built and sold 2 companies
- 4 products I've built have been used by 1 million+ people
- Born in the UK, lived in India for a few years, found home on the internet
- I try to practice being "default helpful"
- I love people who are curious, kind & ambitious
- Generalist: noob coder, functional designer, good marketer → strong at building things people love
Common themes to my work:
Make hard things people want to do much easier, through:
- Technology removing steps to create magic
- Design making it friendly
- Community giving people permission to do something new
- Format to meet people where they are
Proof of work:
covers.ai - an AI tool for swapping voices on any song
- 10m+ users organically
- Monetised through subscriptions & custom voice models
- 100m+ TikTok views, growing by targeting songs for different fandoms
- Used in political campaigns in India
- Music industry confused
drayk.it - an AI Drake song generator
- 200k+ users in 2 weeks, the world’s first text-to-song generator
- Created the world’s first AI song to be played on radio (Hot 97, USA)
- Featured in The New Yorker & Complex
mayk.it - a simple music studio on your iPhone
- Used by 1m+ amateurs to make songs that go viral on TikTok
- The world’s biggest UGC music distributor with songs earning 3bn+ annual streams on TikTok, Spotify, Apple Music, etc.
- 40% W8 retention for creators (n-week)
patent drop - a newsletter that summarizes big tech patents every week
- Solo operator, 6 figure side business through advertising
- Grew to 100k+ readers including CEOs, hedge funds, tech employees & people curious about the future
- Acquired by The Daily Upside, a biz publication with 1m daily readers
haikujam - an app where people made friends by writing poems together
- Made 2m people in India & Philippines feel less lonely
- 30+ minutes per day spent writing daily by the average user
- Featured in The New York Times & Best Apps by Android & Apple
- Acquired by India’s biggest mental health company in 2020
WIP list of ideas:
- baby fund: a JustGiving for parents to raise money that can only be invested into their kid’s future [25/06/24]
- anti-spend: an app tracking the money you don’t spend by being more thoughtful [25/06/24]
- traingames: a game engine for making training AI models fun, faster & cheaper [2024]
- skanda: 3D printer for rapidly printing replacement parts & weapons on a battlefield [2024]
- Comparethebot: a robot comparison site for robots across different verticals (e.g. cleaning, sex, etc). Sell through affiliates
- patanjali-wrapper: take Patanjali ayurvedic products, repackage it for a western audience, go viral using TikTokshop
- long live research inc: a personalized newsletter that summarizes new research that extends lifespan, tailored to your health needs [25/06/24]
- funAPI: an API for embedding branded mini games into your apps or website to deepen engagement, without needing to build it [2024]
- cold turkey: gamify going cold turkey on your poison (e.g. vapes); no daily streaks, just a timer going up; 3 lives; if you get a craving, distract yourself with a set of quizzes / challenges [2024]
- suppstack: a directory that tracks celeb & wellness influencers supplement stack [2023]
- e-shaman: ketamine or psilocybin assisted therapies conducted remotely with experts to ensure a safe, productive trip [2022]
- goodgrief: a digital immortality service - send data (audio, videos & photos) on your loved ones to be preserved and turned into a digital avatar [2021]