Putting scene
Putting scene is an app/website where users flock to book the interesting offline events happening in Bangalore. The way it differentiated itself from other local competitors like District was by manually curating the good events out of a large volume of events from other websites (yes, we listed events listed on our competitors’s website too) and by partnering with interesting venues/resturants to list events on the app/website. This means that it required three pieces of software
- An app/website for consumers to come and book events.
- A platform for restaurants/venues i.e partners to upload events and see bookings.
- An internal dashboard for operations team through which they could upload the manually curated events and oversee the event and partner details.
As the founding engineer, I saw built and launched the Putting Scene website, Partner dashboard and Admin dashboard within first quarter of me joining the company. I then built the company’s first ever Android and iOS app while learning how to build one on the go. The app was built and launched on 9th October, 2025.
Emergent
I joined Mukund Jha, founder of Dunzo and Madhav Jha in the pre-seed phase of Emergent on the recommendation of Siddharth Sharma. At that time we were heavily in experimentation phase but our initial goal was the build an Agent which could automate UI testing of apps and websites. An MVP, I built an agent which could take natural language commands like “Book a flight from me from Bombay to Delhi” and write playwright code to achieve the goal. I later built a telegram bot which could receive these intructions as telegram messages. It would operated on a remote machine to achieve it’s goals and would converse with user if it got stuck anywhere.
Although impressive when they worked, these demos were extremely flaky. Thankfully, the demo worked on call during our YC interview. I’m not sure how big of a role it played, but we eventually got into YC.
Kasrat
Right now most of my time goes into building tools that make writing on the web feel less like a chore. I’m interested in the space between a plain text file and a full-blown content management system, where the tooling gets out of the way and lets you focus on the words.
A few things currently on my desk:
- A tiny static site starter that doesn’t need a theme or a tutorial to understand
- A command-line tool for turning a folder of notes into a searchable archive
- Some experiments with variable fonts and fluid typography
- A long-overdue rewrite of my reading list, which has been a mess for years
None of these are ready to share yet, but I’ll post updates here as they take shape. If you’re working on something similar, send me a note. I’m always happy to compare approaches.
A better journal
Right now most of my time goes into building tools that make writing on the web feel less like a chore. I’m interested in the space between a plain text file and a full-blown content management system, where the tooling gets out of the way and lets you focus on the words.
A few things currently on my desk:
- A tiny static site starter that doesn’t need a theme or a tutorial to understand
- A command-line tool for turning a folder of notes into a searchable archive
- Some experiments with variable fonts and fluid typography
- A long-overdue rewrite of my reading list, which has been a mess for years
None of these are ready to share yet, but I’ll post updates here as they take shape. If you’re working on something similar, send me a note. I’m always happy to compare approaches.
Notedown
Right now most of my time goes into building tools that make writing on the web feel less like a chore. I’m interested in the space between a plain text file and a full-blown content management system, where the tooling gets out of the way and lets you focus on the words.
A few things currently on my desk:
- A tiny static site starter that doesn’t need a theme or a tutorial to understand
- A command-line tool for turning a folder of notes into a searchable archive
- Some experiments with variable fonts and fluid typography
- A long-overdue rewrite of my reading list, which has been a mess for years
None of these are ready to share yet, but I’ll post updates here as they take shape. If you’re working on something similar, send me a note. I’m always happy to compare approaches.
sarbjeet-dubey.blog
Right now most of my time goes into building tools that make writing on the web feel less like a chore. I’m interested in the space between a plain text file and a full-blown content management system, where the tooling gets out of the way and lets you focus on the words.
A few things currently on my desk:
- A tiny static site starter that doesn’t need a theme or a tutorial to understand
- A command-line tool for turning a folder of notes into a searchable archive
- Some experiments with variable fonts and fluid typography
- A long-overdue rewrite of my reading list, which has been a mess for years
None of these are ready to share yet, but I’ll post updates here as they take shape. If you’re working on something similar, send me a note. I’m always happy to compare approaches.