Building Blank Canvas. Always WIP.
Pune, India
Joined January 2013
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A picture is worth a thousand words. But how many sounds are in it? Made a little experiment this weekend that turns your photo into a musical instrument. Upload an image. Move around it and play it.
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BillDesk started verifying my Google Play developer account in January 2026.
In February ‘26, they came to my workplace for IRL verification, took pictures, asked for company documents… and even asked for our equity split.
Why do you need my equity split for payment verification?? 😭
It’s August now. Still no response.
And today I get this email from Google Play threatening payment restrictions.
No useful response from Google either after raising a ticket.
6+ months for verification. What exactly am I supposed to do here?
@GooglePlay @billdesk @GooglePlayBiz
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If you’re a creator with an audience thinking about getting into the app business, here’s one thing to understand early:
Don’t start by chasing habit trackers, wallpaper apps, or another “trending” utility category, even creators with massive audiences hit a ceiling there.
The screenshot is a blast from the past. It’s MKBHD’s wallpaper app : 6k downloads, <$5k revenue last month.
And that’s MKBHD. One of the biggest creators on the planet.
Now look at Jack Friks, because his path is actually the blueprint:
He did start with a utility - Curiosity Quench, but here’s the difference:
he didn’t rely on the utility to take off.
He built a whole content engine around the process:
- he built PostBridge to promote it,
- he documented everything,
- he shared his learnings in real time,
- and he turned the journey into the product.
Then his audience grew.
Then the apps grew.
Then the ecosystem grew.
Jack essentially told his audience:
- “Here’s how I’m building.”
- “Here’s how I think.”
- “Here’s the shortcuts I use daily.”
- “Here’s the system I’m creating, you can use it too.”
That’s why it worked.
It wasn’t the utility, it was the identity attached to it.
Creators win in apps when the product feels like an extension of:
- their workflow
- their taste
- their process
- their aspirational identity
People don’t just download an app.
They download the version of themselves they want to move toward.
So yes, you should build.
But build something that gives people superpowers instantly, not just wallpapers.
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Time to simplify my portfolio, I’m selling one of my iOS apps.
It’s stable, has predictable proceeds (~$450/month), and runs without a backend (maintenance ~$1/month).
Posting the dashboard below. DM if you want more details or are interested.
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What’s the best way to get support from @claudeai @AnthropicAI , got billed twice and the only support agent is an AI bot? 😢
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I think it’s a 1:1 relationship. The moment you try to explain it, it loses its essence.
It’s not humans on one side and God on another.
Example: It’s more like having a pet, you love them in a way that only you get. Try explaining it to someone else, and they won’t feel it the same way you do.
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I had a brief exchange with Hector for an app I was making that he was interested in many years ago - it didn’t go through but you can tell a lot about someone when they need nothing from you.
He was kind enough to guide a newbie like me (fun fact : I got into the b2c game because of an app he made like 15 years ago)
Okay - now back to work.
So…
@zach_yadegari and @blakeandersonw are making $3M in sales on the App Store and now charge $5k for a course?
I’ve done +$150 million on the App Store and give people advice for free.
Are we are doing something wrong? @eddy_homez
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Space travel: not profitable.
Simulated intimacy: $30/month recurring.
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I'm a mitochondria and I just hit $15K MRR.
It was simple :
Didn’t do outreach.
Didn’t do cold emails.
Didn’t even open Excel.
Just asked people what they hate → built half a solution → posted on Tiktok once. Now it prints.
Stop overthinking shit. Just do things.
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Hot take : a world where every human should have one animal to take care of throughout their lifetime. Starting as a compulsory rite of passage into adulthood. When will people realise that the human experience is incomplete without a shared animal bond. That was the whole point of Pokémon haha
After thinking about it for a day, here's another take on the stray dog issue - municipal failure (again) leading to externalities dumped on the citizens (again).
I think a large portion of the stray dog population will dwindle if we just clean up our garbage. Rest sterlisation, vaccination and collaring will take care off. This will leave some small percentage to be culled.
A lot of first world countries took the short path to end stray dog menace and will now lecture the world on animal cruelty. Even so, the thought of culling lakhs of dogs makes me sick. I can totally understand this aspect.
What bums me out is that we can't have nice things because our Municipal Corporations cannot do anything. They have failed to sterilise and vaccinate, failed to clean garbage where the doggos go for food and so on.
Yet another government created mess causing us to fight against each other. If we're serious about dog welfare we will have to come together at neighbourhood level, build shelters, vaccinate and sterilise the dogs - there's no shortcut to this.
Some judge got hurt, took suo moto coginzance and now we're all citizens at each others throats. Is this how we make progress?
But I'll still say this to dog lovers - any dog that you aren't willing to put a collar on is not a dog you love. Loving dogs in the abstract and general sense of it doesn't give you the rights of a dog lover. To be taken seriously, prove your love by providing a collar and owning the welfare of the dog - morally and legally.
Let's take three months - dog lovers do your bit. In three months we should round up all uncollared dogs. Fair?
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