Hi, I'm Tejas
- Building Zenkai Club, a small lab for useful tools that actually work
- Founder of Constella, a memory for all your scattered thoughts
- Before that, I built Conch AI
- bootstrapped, no funding, from a college dorm
- $1M ARR
- about 1.5M users
- Not every year went well: a university lawsuit, multiple hospitalizations, and one big challenge that scarred me for a few years
- Self-taught. Coding since I was 10, from YouTube, Codecademy and library books
- Grew up across India, France and the US, changing cities almost every year
- I like travel, badminton and long e-bike rides
Elsewhere
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- Zenkai Club
One lab for everything I build: Earshot, the Earshot Teleprompter, Fullbloom and more.
- Constella
San Francisco. Pulls your thoughts from every app and file into one place you can search and see.
- Conch AI
Bootstrapped to $1M ARR with no funding, from a dorm in Pennsylvania. Then my university took legal action over it, and I left to build something positive instead.
- Software engineer intern, MealMe
A Series A startup in San Francisco. Built a plugin that let any website order food with one line of code.
- SelfStarter
My first real company. Mostly a long list of lessons, and the traps I kept falling into.
- Bentley Systems and Villanova University
Software engineer intern on services with millions of requests, and machine learning research on voice agents that can use any app.
- PicassoAi
Turned photos into paintings with a GAN, before DALL-E. A few hundred users, and a lesson about value.
- Software engineer intern, Kisso Industries
A startup in Paris. My family had just moved from India to France. I taught myself web development in a few weeks to get it.
- Trollgen
A mobile app studio I ran through high school. 6+ apps and games, 40,000+ downloads, all designed and marketed by me.
- First lines of code
Games in Java and C++, from YouTube videos and books borrowed from the library.