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It checks competing pull requests the issue page does not surface, commits and merged PRs that may have already fixed it, maintainer signals in the discussion, the repository's contributing and AI policy, and overall repo health, then returns a clear GO or STOP verdict. Built from the contributor's side after repeated wasted starts: in a field test over thirteen \"help wanted\" and \"good first issue\" issues in prettier, Apache Airflow, and Vitest, all thirteen came back STOP, each already carrying one to three open pull requests the issue page did not show.", "stack": [ "TypeScript", "Node.js", "npm CLI", "GitHub REST API", "GitHub Actions CI" ], "features": [ "One-command audit of any GitHub issue URL with a GO or STOP verdict", "Competing pull request detection, including PRs not linked back to the issue", "Already-fixed detection from commits, merged PRs, and discussion pointers", "Maintainer signal scan for comments that settle or redirect the issue", "Contributing and AI policy checks so agent-driven work does not violate repo rules", "Repo health read: merge rate on outside work and days since last outside merge" ], "learnings": [ "Most of what makes an issue a bad start is visible through the GitHub API in under a minute", "Designing checks from the contributor side rather than the maintainer side", "Keeping output opinionated: a verdict first, evidence second", "Packaging a CLI so npx runs it with zero install friction" ], "challenges": [ "Matching pull requests to issues when authors never use closing keywords", "Distinguishing a real maintainer signal from ordinary discussion noise", "Keeping policy detection honest when repositories document rules inconsistently", "Making STOP results feel helpful instead of discouraging" ], "impact": "Saves contributors and coding agents from spending days on issues that are already claimed, already fixed, or policy-blocked", "status": "Completed", "category": "Developer Tools", "github": "https://github.com/Yash121l/canistart", "demo": "https://www.npmjs.com/package/canistart", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-14", "url": "https://yashlunawat.com/projects/canistart" }, { "name": "BrainMCP", "slug": "brainmcp", "tagline": "Cloudflare Worker that serves a private second-brain vault as a remote MCP server", "description": "BrainMCP serves a private second-brain repository as a remote Model Context Protocol server over streamable HTTP JSON-RPC with bearer auth and zero npm runtime dependencies. Git remains the source of truth while a D1 index of notes, wikilink graph, and FTS5 chunks stays in sync through a push webhook and nightly cron as a disposable accelerator: wipe it, reindex, and the result is identical. Session bootstrap, rules, skills, decisions, and saves all run server-side, so a laptop, a VPS, and claude.ai behave identically, and a Vite + React + shadcn/ui SPA served as Workers static assets provides notes, graph, and key management.", "stack": [ "TypeScript", "Cloudflare Workers", "D1 (SQLite FTS5)", "R2", "Model Context Protocol", "Vite", "React", "shadcn/ui" ], "features": [ "Remote MCP server with streamable HTTP transport, bearer auth, and OAuth 2.1 for claude.ai connectors", "Session bootstrap tool returning always-on skills, binding rules, project note, and recent decisions", "Full-text and wikilink-graph search over the indexed vault with log filtering", "End-of-session save ritual written as one atomic multi-file git commit", "Scoped access keys with role and path permissions, editable in place", "PostToolUse telemetry hook with local redaction, spool, retry, and daily R2 rollup" ], "learnings": [ "Keeping git as the only source of truth while treating the index as disposable infrastructure", "Replacing machine-local session hooks with server-side bootstrap for consistent agent behavior", "Designing atomic save rituals that keep a knowledge vault consistent", "Building telemetry that redacts locally and never drops records" ], "challenges": [ "Keeping a D1 index faithfully in sync with an arbitrary git history", "Making one MCP server serve heterogeneous clients with different capabilities", "Implementing OAuth 2.1 and scoped keys without a framework on Workers", "Parsing frontmatter, wikilinks, and chunking consistently across seed and runtime paths" ], "impact": "Turns a personal knowledge vault into shared agent infrastructure: every client session starts with the same context, rules, and skills, wherever it runs", "status": "In Progress", "category": "AI Infrastructure", "github": "https://github.com/Yash121l/BrainMCP", "demo": null, "lastUpdated": "2026-09-18", "url": "https://yashlunawat.com/projects/brainmcp" }, { "name": "Angel OS", "slug": "angel-os", "tagline": "Private angel-investment operating system on the Cloudflare edge", "description": "Angel OS stores each private investment as a persistent record connecting its deal, decisions, cash flows, valuations, updates, metrics, notes, and documents. The React application and Hono API deploy together as one Cloudflare Worker, with D1 holding tenant-scoped records, R2 holding private documents, and Workers AI extracting document content strictly as proposals that cannot change a ledger amount, valuation, or confirmed metric without review. Portfolio math including MOIC, XIRR, allocation slices, and valuation freshness is computed per currency from recorded cash flows and dated marks, never inventing exchange rates. Authentication uses PBKDF2-hashed passwords, opaque session cookies, workspace roles, rate-limited login, and a full audit log.", "stack": [ "TypeScript", "React", "Hono", "Cloudflare Workers", "D1", "R2", "Workers AI", "Vitest" ], "features": [ "Eight-stage deal pipeline with decision memos kept as locked revision history", "Spreadsheet import with company matching, duplicate detection, dry run, and atomic batch writes", "Per-currency MOIC and XIRR from dated cash flows with Newton-plus-bisection solving", "Rounds, round participants, cap tables, ownership, and dilution tracking", "Valuation freshness, allocation by sector/stage/vintage/instrument, and global record search", "AI extraction and update parsing constrained to a review-gated proposal layer" ], "learnings": [ "Modeling private investment records so deals, ledger entries, and decisions stay connected", "Constraining AI output to proposals with provenance so it can never silently mutate financial data", "Computing portfolio metrics per currency instead of inventing conversions", "Designing memo revisions so the text a decision was taken against cannot change afterward" ], "challenges": [ "Solving XIRR reliably across irregular cash flow shapes with defined unavailability rules", "Keeping imports idempotent and atomic against duplicates and partial failures", "Enforcing workspace trust boundaries on every authenticated request", "Reconciling pipeline totals across mixed-currency deals without misleading sums" ], "impact": "Gives an angel investor one auditable system for pipeline, portfolio math, and decisions instead of scattered spreadsheets and inboxes", "status": "In Progress", "category": "Venture Ops", "github": "https://github.com/Yash121l/Angel-OS", "demo": null, "lastUpdated": "2026-09-18", "url": "https://yashlunawat.com/projects/angel-os" }, { "name": "PortHole", "slug": "porthole", "tagline": "Native macOS menu bar utility to see every listening port and kill its owner in one click", "description": "PortHole is a Swift + SwiftUI menu bar app that lists every TCP listener and bound UDP socket on your Mac, maps each to its owning process with the real app icon, PID, user, uptime, and bind address, and kills the process with one click: SIGTERM first, a configurable grace period, then optional SIGKILL escalation. Scans refresh on a schedule and are diffed between runs so the list updates incrementally without flicker. Smart labels read each process's real command line to infer what it is actually running, so a bare node process is labeled \"Vite\" or \"Next.js dev\" with its project folder, and sockets bound beyond localhost are flagged Exposed.", "stack": [ "Swift", "SwiftUI", "lsof", "SMAppService", "XCTest", "macOS 14+" ], "features": [ "Live port list with 1s/2s/5s/manual refresh and diff-based incremental updates", "Process mapping with real app icons, PID, user, uptime, bind address, and executable path", "Graceful kill flow with confirmation, grace period, and optional force-kill escalation", "Smart process labels inferred from command lines plus editable port-number rules", "Exposed-socket flagging, menu bar warning state, and optional notifications", "Full keyboard navigation, VoiceOver labels, search, filter, sort, and group-by-app" ], "learnings": [ "Designing a scanner behind a protocol so a sandbox-permissible implementation can replace lsof later", "Using KERN_PROCARGS2 and vnode path info to turn opaque processes into readable project labels", "Skipping UI writes entirely on no-change scans for a flicker-free menu bar list", "Mapping kill(2) errors like EPERM and ESRCH into honest UI states" ], "challenges": [ "Working within App Store sandbox incompatibilities and choosing Developer ID distribution instead", "Parsing lsof field output robustly with fixture-based unit tests", "Collapsing notification bursts so new-port alerts stay useful", "Keeping a menu-bar-only agent app configurable without a Dock presence" ], "impact": "Removes the everyday friction of hunting down which process owns a port, especially when five node processes are five different projects", "status": "Completed", "category": "Developer Tools", "github": "https://github.com/Yash121l/PortHole", "demo": null, "lastUpdated": "2026-09-13", "url": "https://yashlunawat.com/projects/porthole" }, { "name": "Yardstick", "slug": "yardstick", "tagline": "Private local LLM eval harness that pins model IDs per pipeline with evidence", "description": "Yardstick answers, for each new model: better at which of my tasks, worse at which, at what cost, and with what API quirks, so model IDs get pinned per pipeline with evidence instead of guesswork. Every fixture is bespoke and synthetic because public benchmark contamination makes shared items useless. The harness ships provider adapters with a registry and preflight, caching, a spend meter, dry-run mode, and a verdict engine across classification, extraction with provenance, NL-to-SQL, writing, long-context, contract probes, and vision suites. First real runs surfaced actionable findings: a 4.2x cost difference for 3.6 accuracy points on triage, tokenizer billing drift between model generations, and a determinism gap where one model accepts temperature 0 but does not honor it.", "stack": [ "TypeScript", "Node.js", "DuckDB", "Vitest", "Anthropic API" ], "features": [ "Bespoke synthetic fixtures across seven task pipelines plus an agentic sandbox", "Four provider adapters behind a registry with preflight checks", "Execution-graded NL-to-SQL against DuckDB with dialect traps", "Dual-judge grading with confidence intervals and tie-within-noise reporting", "Per-run spend meter, cache, and dry-run mode for cost control", "Verdict engine that turns per-pipeline trade-offs into explicit model pins" ], "learnings": [ "Single averaged scores hide real disagreement between models; per-dimension reporting matters", "Accepting a parameter is not the same as honoring it, as the temperature 0 probe showed", "Measuring tokenizer behavior directly instead of trusting migration documentation", "Keeping fixtures private and synthetic to avoid benchmark contamination" ], "challenges": [ "Writing fixtures hard enough to discriminate between strong models", "Grading long-form writing and long-context recall with consistent judges", "Keeping eval costs predictable with spend meters and dry runs", "Distinguishing model behavior from harness noise across repeats" ], "impact": "Turns model selection from vibes into per-pipeline evidence, with measured cost, accuracy, determinism, and API quirk trade-offs", "status": "Completed", "category": "AI Infrastructure", "github": "https://github.com/Yash121l/yardstick", "demo": null, "lastUpdated": "2026-08-13", "url": "https://yashlunawat.com/projects/yardstick" }, { "name": "Railly", "slug": "railly", "tagline": "Flighty-style train tracker for Indian Railways: native iOS app plus Next.js site", "description": "Railly is a train tracking companion for Indian Railways with a native SwiftUI iOS app and a Next.js marketing site in one repository. It offers real PNR status, per-passenger booking details, live rake formation, routes drawn on real track geometry resolved offline from OpenStreetMap, and a Passport-style logbook of every kilometre ridden. An offline catalog of 4,022 trains and 9,109 station codes ships byte-identical across platforms, 120 corridors carry real OSM track geometry, and Live Activities put a journey on the lock screen and Dynamic Island. Because India publishes no open live-position feed, positions are projected along real routes from published timetables and labeled as estimates wherever they appear.", "stack": [ "SwiftUI", "iOS 17+", "Next.js 16", "React 19", "TypeScript", "MapLibre GL", "Tailwind CSS 4" ], "features": [ "PNR status with per-passenger booking, coach, berth, quota, chart state, and fare", "Routes rendered on real track geometry from an offline OSM-to-corridor pipeline", "Timetable-projected live positions with delay modeling, always labeled as estimates", "Offline catalog of 4,022 trains and 9,109 station codes on both platforms", "Live Activity extension for lock screen and Dynamic Island", "IRCTC deep links for booking with no ads and no ticket sales" ], "learnings": [ "Keeping the map line and the tracked position on the same geometry so every distance and bearing agrees", "Building data pipelines that bundle byte-identical catalogs across web and iOS", "Labeling estimates honestly when no official live feed exists", "Integrating undocumented third-party endpoints defensively with health probes" ], "challenges": [ "Resolving OSM ways into correct per-corridor geometry and detecting wrong corridors automatically", "Modeling delay accumulation realistically from timetable data alone", "Handling feed fragility across multiple unofficial data sources with fallbacks", "Shipping a Live Activity experience that stays accurate during a journey" ], "impact": "Brings Flighty-grade journey awareness to Indian Railways passengers while staying honest about what is measured and what is estimated", "status": "In Progress", "category": "Mobile", "github": "https://github.com/Yash121l/railway", "demo": null, "lastUpdated": "2026-08-21", "url": "https://yashlunawat.com/projects/railly" }, { "name": "NagrikSetu", "slug": "nagriksetu", "tagline": "Citizen-first search and navigation layer for public information in India", "description": "NagrikSetu is a civic information product for India that helps citizens understand who owns a public issue, which office or officer to contact, what grievance path applies, and which source proves the answer. The current build is a working Next.js product with deterministic civic records, first-party record detail pages, all 28 state and 8 union territory pages, sourced state profiles, Hindi/English pilot UI, a privacy-limited correction queue, PWA metadata, and agent-ready operating documentation.", "stack": [ "Next.js", "TypeScript", "React", "PostgreSQL", "PostGIS", "PWA", "Vitest", "Hindi / English UI" ], "features": [ "Citizen-facing search layer for roads, offices, tenders, civic issues, and grievance paths", "Deterministic data backbone with typed civic records, source catalog, validation, and generated normalized artifacts", "First-party public record detail pages with evidence, freshness, and source provenance surfaced in the UI", "Complete geography coverage for all 28 Indian states and 8 union territories", "Sourced state administration and economic profiles with documented refresh procedures", "Extensible administrative, rural, and urban local-government hierarchy model", "Hindi/English pilot interface, PWA metadata, offline fallback, and privacy-limited correction queue" ], "learnings": [ "Designing civic search around evidence and source freshness instead of generic keyword matching", "Modeling India-specific administrative, rural, and urban government structures in typed data", "Writing agent operating docs so future ingestion and validation work can be resumed safely", "Balancing public usefulness with caveats around fixture-backed data and official completeness" ], "challenges": [ "Keeping civic answers useful without pretending fixture data is official or complete", "Representing all states and union territories consistently while preserving local variation", "Designing correction flows that collect signal without exposing personal grievance details", "Separating deterministic search behavior from future live-ingestion infrastructure" ], "impact": "Makes Indian public information more navigable by connecting civic questions to responsible offices, evidence, and official paths instead of opaque search results", "status": "In Progress", "category": "Civic Tech", "github": "https://github.com/Yash121l/NagrikSetu", "demo": null, "lastUpdated": "2026-06-27", "url": "https://yashlunawat.com/projects/nagriksetu" }, { "name": "FundOS", "slug": "fundos", "tagline": "Production-grade VC operating system for portfolio intelligence and LP operations", "description": "FundOS is a full-stack venture capital operating system for fund teams. It replaces spreadsheet-heavy portfolio operations with portfolio health scoring, founder updates, LP reporting, board and IC workflows, financial statements, cap tables, capital calls, distributions, and optional AI agents that fall back to deterministic rule-based behavior when no external AI key is present.", "stack": [ "Next.js 15", "TypeScript", "Prisma", "PostgreSQL", "Redis", "Tailwind CSS v4", "Trigger.dev", "OpenAI", "Docker", "Turborepo" ], "features": [ "Portfolio health scoring across growth, revenue trend, runway, and burn efficiency", "Founder portal for weekly and monthly operating reports, news, escalation tracking, and email webhook ingest", "LP entity management with capital calls, distributions, LPAC meetings, waterfall tracking, and report access control", "Financial statements, MRR waterfall, unit economics benchmarks, investment tracker, cap table, and liquidation waterfall tools", "Board meetings, resolutions, follow-on notes, IC status, conviction tagging, and value-add activity logging", "AI agents for portfolio Q&A, meeting prep, LP narratives, trend detection, market intelligence, and alert summaries", "Role-based access for analysts, partners, founders, and LPs at route and query level" ], "learnings": [ "Designing AI-assisted workflows that remain useful without external model access", "Modeling venture fund operations across portfolio, LP, founder, board, and investment domains", "Using server actions, Prisma, Redis, and background jobs for a dense operational product", "Building product analytics and error observability as optional infrastructure rather than hard dependencies" ], "challenges": [ "Keeping AI-generated reporting auditable and editable for fund teams", "Separating founder, LP, analyst, and partner data access without weakening usability", "Coordinating daily trend jobs and weekly alert briefs without duplicating deterministic analytics logic", "Representing fund metrics like TVPI, DPI, RVPI, IRR, and MOIC in a way teams can act on quickly" ], "impact": "Turns VC fund operations into one auditable system of record, with AI layered on top of deterministic portfolio logic instead of replacing it", "status": "Completed", "category": "Venture Ops", "github": "https://github.com/Yash121l/FundOS", "demo": "https://fundos.yashlunawat.com", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-06", "url": "https://yashlunawat.com/projects/fundos" }, { "name": "Vessel", "slug": "vessel", "tagline": "Single-binary self-hosted app deployment manager for Linux VPS machines", "description": "Vessel is a lightweight operating layer for self-hosted apps on a Linux VPS. It bootstraps Docker, nginx, firewall rules, domain routing, certificates, and app deployment workflows from a single Go binary, with curated templates for tools like Metabase, n8n, Umami, Plausible, Open WebUI, and Plane.", "stack": [ "Go", "SQLite", "Docker", "nginx", "systemd", "YAML", "GitHub Pages", "Makefile" ], "features": [ "One-line installer and first-run owner account setup for a protected management UI", "Server bootstrap for Docker, nginx, firewall configuration, and domain-based deployments", "Curated embedded and remote template catalog for self-hosted applications", "Automatic Docker Compose generation, reverse-proxy configuration, and certificate handling", "Live logs, start/stop/restart/update lifecycle controls, and long-running operation history", "Full backup archives, restore support, and existing Docker container import", "Role-based user system for small teams sharing one VPS" ], "learnings": [ "Designing a Go control plane that can safely operate real VPS resources", "Building a template registry that works embedded in the binary and remotely via GitHub Pages", "Coordinating Docker Compose, nginx, filesystem state, SQLite, and background operations", "Creating a self-hosting UX that hides sharp DevOps edges without hiding system truth" ], "challenges": [ "Keeping server bootstrap idempotent across partially configured machines", "Managing long-running deployment operations with clear step-level history", "Designing backups and restores that are simple enough for non-specialists to trust", "Supporting local template overrides without breaking remote catalog updates" ], "impact": "Makes self-hosting practical on a plain VPS by packaging bootstrap, deployment, logs, lifecycle, and backups into one small Go control plane", "status": "Completed", "category": "DevOps", "github": "https://github.com/Yash121l/Vessel", "demo": null, "lastUpdated": "2026-05-30", "url": "https://yashlunawat.com/projects/vessel" }, { "name": "Forge", "slug": "forge", "tagline": "Self-hosted Git platform with smart HTTP, SSH transport, orgs, and webhooks", "description": "Forge is a self-hosted Git platform for small trusted groups and for learning how GitHub-style systems actually work. The current backend foundation supports smart HTTP and SSH Git transport, revocable sessions, PostgreSQL-backed metadata, organizations, collaborators, repository webhooks, a browser UI, production-oriented configuration, and MkDocs Material documentation.", "stack": [ "Go", "PostgreSQL", "sqlc", "Docker", "SSH", "JWT", "MkDocs", "Git HTTP Backend" ], "features": [ "JWT cookie auth with register, login, logout, current-user endpoints, and stored revocable sessions", "Repository CRUD API with owner-aware clone URLs and sharded bare repository provisioning", "Smart HTTP Git transport through git-http-backend and SSH Git transport with registered public keys", "Organizations, membership roles, repository collaborators, and browser UI management surfaces", "Repository webhooks for push and delete events with signed async delivery and status tracking", "Embedded PostgreSQL migrations with in-memory fallback for tests and no-database runs", "Background repository maintenance for git gc, commit-graph refresh, and size accounting" ], "learnings": [ "How Git hosting systems bridge metadata, filesystem state, auth, and Git transport protocols", "Implementing smart HTTP and SSH transport without abstracting away Git internals", "Using PostgreSQL-backed metadata while keeping local testability through an in-memory store", "Designing production configuration and safe repository mutation paths" ], "challenges": [ "Making bare repository provisioning safe with atomic staging and deletion", "Coordinating repo-level mutation locks across metadata and filesystem changes", "Delivering signed webhooks asynchronously while preserving delivery status", "Keeping the current scope focused before adding pull requests, issues, LFS, and CI runners" ], "impact": "Demystifies GitHub-style platform internals by implementing auth, repo metadata, Git transport, webhooks, and a browser UI in one deployable system", "status": "In Progress", "category": "Developer Tools", "github": "https://github.com/Yash121l/Forge", "demo": null, "lastUpdated": "2026-06-01", "url": "https://yashlunawat.com/projects/forge" }, { "name": "Health Check", "slug": "health-check", "tagline": "Zero-hosting-cost status monitoring powered by GitHub Actions and GitHub Pages", "description": "Health Check is a production-grade website monitoring system that runs entirely on GitHub Actions and publishes a static status dashboard through GitHub Pages. Every 5 minutes it checks configured services for HTTP status, latency, SSL certificate validity, keyword presence, redirect behavior, and JSON schema correctness, then commits results and sends Email or Telegram alerts when state changes.", "stack": [ "Python", "GitHub Actions", "GitHub Pages", "YAML", "HTML", "Email Alerts", "Telegram Bot" ], "features": [ "Scheduled GitHub Actions workflow that checks monitored targets every 5 minutes", "HTTP status, latency, SSL certificate, keyword, redirect, and JSON schema checks", "Concurrent check runner writing latest state and historical snapshots to repository data files", "Static dashboard generation and GitHub Pages deployment with no external hosting", "Email and Telegram state-change alerts with optional secrets per channel", "Config-driven targets and global threshold settings" ], "learnings": [ "Using GitHub Actions as a small reliable scheduler and persistence loop", "Designing monitoring output that can be committed, rendered, and audited as static files", "Building alerting that degrades gracefully when a notification channel is not configured", "Keeping status pages cheap and inspectable by avoiding a database or server" ], "challenges": [ "Preventing alert noise by detecting state changes rather than every failure sample", "Handling partial failures across checks while preserving clear dashboard state", "Balancing repository history growth with useful monitoring history", "Making setup simple enough for forks while still supporting secrets and custom targets" ], "impact": "Shows how far GitHub-native automation can go: scheduled monitoring, persistence, alerts, and a live status page without paid infrastructure", "status": "Completed", "category": "Observability", "github": "https://github.com/Yash121l/health-check", "demo": "https://yash121l.github.io/health-check/", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-27", "url": "https://yashlunawat.com/projects/health-check" }, { "name": "ShopBridge UCP Demo", "slug": "ucp-demo", "tagline": "Agentic commerce protocol walkthrough for discovery, checkout, identity, and payments", "description": "ShopBridge UCP Demo is a single-page educational demo that documents and simulates Universal Commerce Protocol flows. It presents how an AI agent, UCP bridge, merchant APIs, identity providers, and payment handlers can coordinate capability discovery, catalog search, cart mutation, checkout sessions, OAuth linking, mandates, transports, and protocol versioning.", "stack": [ "HTML", "CSS", "JavaScript", "Universal Commerce Protocol", "GitHub Pages" ], "features": [ "Portfolio-style single-page UI explaining UCP capabilities and integration flow", "Profile discovery examples for merchant and platform capability documents", "Capability negotiation simulation with version and extension compatibility checks", "Catalog, cart, checkout, identity linking, payment mandate, and transport mapping sections", "Protocol error, fallback, security signal, and version compatibility examples", "No-build static deployment for easy inspection and sharing" ], "learnings": [ "Mapping agentic commerce into concrete protocol objects and lifecycle states", "Explaining interoperability through capability negotiation instead of one-off integrations", "Designing educational demos that make protocol behavior visible without requiring a backend", "Thinking through identity, payment, security, and fallback behavior for autonomous shopping flows" ], "challenges": [ "Condensing a broad protocol surface into a readable single-page artifact", "Keeping examples accurate while clearly labeling the project as a demo rather than a production backend", "Showing agent, merchant, and payment responsibilities without overloading the UI", "Making static protocol examples feel interactive enough for presentations" ], "impact": "Makes agentic commerce interoperability easier to reason about by turning UCP concepts into visible flows and inspectable examples", "status": "Completed", "category": "Agentic Commerce", "github": "https://github.com/Yash121l/ucp-demo", "demo": "https://yash121l.github.io/ucp-demo/", "lastUpdated": "2026-05-30", "url": "https://yashlunawat.com/projects/ucp-demo" }, { "name": "Central Programme Management Portal", "slug": "central-programme-portal", "tagline": "Secure role-based programme management portal scaffold with PostgreSQL-backed authorization", "description": "The Central Programme Management Portal is a clean prototype scaffold for a secure role-based programme management product. It uses a compact operational UI, backend-owned authorization, httpOnly JWT sessions, PostgreSQL persistence, Drizzle ORM, shared permission contracts, and a pnpm/Turbo monorepo across React web, Fastify server, and shared DTO packages.", "stack": [ "React", "Vite", "TypeScript", "Fastify", "Drizzle ORM", "PostgreSQL", "pnpm", "Turbo", "Cloudflare Pages" ], "features": [ "Compact programme-management UI scaffold with shared UI primitives", "Fastify server with httpOnly JWT sessions and backend-owned authorization boundaries", "PostgreSQL persistence through Drizzle ORM with migration and seed scripts", "Shared role, permission, and DTO contracts across web and server packages", "Docker Compose-backed local development with demo admin credentials", "Cloudflare Pages configuration for deploying the web bundle" ], "learnings": [ "Structuring RBAC around backend-owned permissions instead of frontend-only guards", "Keeping monorepo contracts shared without coupling the web and API too tightly", "Setting up Drizzle migrations, seed data, and typed DTOs for quick product iteration", "Designing operational UI around density, clarity, and repeated admin workflows" ], "challenges": [ "Starting from a PRD and preserving only the useful parts of an older implementation", "Keeping auth and authorization boundaries explicit in a prototype scaffold", "Coordinating local Docker infrastructure with pnpm workspace scripts", "Designing for future programme roles without overbuilding the first pass" ], "impact": "Provides a secure foundation for role-based programme operations with clear auth boundaries and a production-oriented monorepo structure", "status": "In Progress", "category": "GovTech", "github": "https://github.com/Yash121l/SCP", "demo": "https://scp-api-ivory.vercel.app", "lastUpdated": "2026-06-15", "url": "https://yashlunawat.com/projects/central-programme-portal" }, { "name": "Babel Room", "slug": "babel-room", "tagline": "Real-time multilingual voice conferencing at the Cloudflare edge", "description": "Babel Room is a real-time multilingual voice conferencing app built entirely on a Cloudflare-native stack (Workers, Durable Objects, D1, R2, Workers AI, Workflows). It runs a full STT → translation → TTS pipeline per audio chunk at the edge with no external servers, enabling participants to speak in their own language and hear others in theirs.", "stack": [ "TypeScript", "React", "Vite", "Tailwind CSS", "Hono", "Cloudflare Workers", "Durable Objects", "Cloudflare D1", "Cloudflare R2", "Workers AI", "Cloudflare Workflows", "WebRTC", "pnpm" ], "features": [ "Full STT → translation → TTS pipeline per audio chunk running entirely at the Cloudflare edge", "Durable Object-backed WebSocket hub (RoomDO) fanning out per-participant translated MP3 audio and captions", "DO SQLite persisting presence and rate-limit state across hibernation cycles", "Hybrid audio delivery: WebRTC mesh for natural peer-to-peer audio + Workers AI TTS for translated speech playback", "Sequential Workers AI pipeline: Whisper (STT) + Llama 3.1 (translation) + MeloTTS (TTS)", "Post-call summary Workflow reading transcript segments from D1, generating a Llama Markdown summary, writing to R2", "pnpm monorepo (apps/worker, apps/web, packages/shared) with GitHub Actions CI/CD", "Auto-deploying with D1 remote migrations on every push to main" ], "learnings": [ "Building stateful WebSocket hubs with Cloudflare Durable Objects", "Chaining Workers AI models (Whisper + Llama + MeloTTS) for a real-time translation pipeline", "Cloudflare Workflows for async post-call processing with D1 and R2", "Hybrid WebRTC + Workers AI audio delivery architecture", "pnpm monorepo structure with shared packages across worker and web apps", "GitHub Actions CI/CD with D1 remote migrations" ], "challenges": [ "Minimizing latency in the STT → translation → TTS pipeline at the edge", "Managing Durable Object hibernation while preserving presence and rate-limit state", "Coordinating WebRTC mesh audio with translated TTS playback without desync", "Handling per-participant audio fan-out at scale inside a single Durable Object", "Structuring a monorepo with shared types across Worker and React frontend" ], "impact": "Edge-native multilingual conferencing with zero external servers — full STT/translation/TTS pipeline running on Cloudflare infrastructure", "status": "Completed", "category": "Full Stack", "github": "https://github.com/Yash121l/babel-room", "demo": "https://babel-room.yashlunawat.com/", "lastUpdated": "2026-04-29", "url": "https://yashlunawat.com/projects/babel-room" }, { "name": "Quorum", "slug": "quorum", "tagline": "Distributed systems sandbox running Raft, CRDT, and gossip protocols on real edge infrastructure", "description": "Quorum is an interactive distributed systems sandbox that implements and visualises Raft consensus, LWW-Register CRDT, and Rumor-Mongering epidemic protocols — each running as a separate Cloudflare Durable Object across geographic PoPs. The browser dashboard lets you inject network partitions, send commands, and watch real-time D3 latency heatmaps as algorithms negotiate state across actual edge nodes.", "stack": [ "TypeScript", "React", "D3", "Tailwind CSS", "Hono", "Cloudflare Workers", "Durable Objects", "D1", "Cloudflare KV" ], "features": [ "Raft consensus with configurable election timeouts and heartbeat intervals", "LWW-Register CRDT with gossip-based replication across geographically distributed nodes", "Rumor-Mongering epidemic protocol demonstrating eventual consistency", "Network partition injection and real-time recovery observation via the browser dashboard", "Geographic multi-region deployment across actual Cloudflare edge PoPs", "D3-powered latency heatmap and cluster topology visualisation", "Per-algorithm Durable Objects with SQLite state, alarms, and WebSocket fan-out" ], "learnings": [ "Implementing Raft leader election, log replication, and safety properties from scratch", "Designing CRDT merge functions that are commutative, associative, and idempotent", "Using Cloudflare Durable Objects as stateful, geographically placed distributed system nodes", "Building real-time WebSocket dashboards for multi-node distributed algorithm visualisation", "Routing across geographic Cloudflare edge locations for true multi-region deployments" ], "challenges": [ "Faithfully simulating network partitions in a production edge environment", "Making Raft safety properties concrete and observable through real distributed behaviour", "Keeping WebSocket fan-out low-latency across geographically distributed Durable Objects", "Designing an intuitive dashboard for non-trivial distributed system state (split-brain, quorum loss)", "Managing SQLite + alarm state across Durable Object hibernation cycles" ], "impact": "Makes distributed consensus and replication algorithms tangible — Raft, CRDT, and epidemic protocols running on real geographically distributed infrastructure, not simulations", "status": "Completed", "category": "Full Stack", "github": "https://github.com/Yash121l/Quorum", "demo": null, "lastUpdated": "2026-04-29", "url": "https://yashlunawat.com/projects/quorum" }, { "name": "Tessera", "slug": "tessera", "tagline": "Mid-frequency ML trading system for cryptocurrency perpetual futures", "description": "Tessera is a research-grade mid-frequency algorithmic trading system targeting cryptocurrency perpetual futures (Binance, Bybit) with 15-minute to 4-hour holding periods. It combines advanced microstructure feature engineering (VPIN, OFI, microprice), LightGBM ensemble models with meta-labeling, and live paper trading via Nautilus Trader — achieving a backtest Sharpe of 1.41 over a 2021–2024 walk-forward period.", "stack": [ "Python", "Jupyter", "LightGBM", "DuckDB", "Docker", "Nautilus Trader", "Grafana", "Prometheus" ], "features": [ "Advanced microstructure feature engineering: VPIN, OFI, microprice, and order flow imbalance indicators", "Triple-barrier labeling with uniqueness-weighted samples to prevent training data leakage", "Ensemble modeling: LightGBM base model + meta-labeling layer for bet-sizing precision", "Purged Cross-Portfolio Validation with Sharpe correction for time-series data integrity", "Quarter-Kelly risk sizing with circuit breakers and kill-switches for capital protection", "Live paper trading via Nautilus Trader with real-time Grafana/Prometheus monitoring", "250+ unit tests and accompanying peer-reviewed research paper" ], "learnings": [ "Financial ML techniques: VPIN, OFI, triple-barrier labeling, and fractional differentiation", "Purged cross-validation to prevent lookahead bias in time-series model evaluation", "Meta-labeling as a second-stage model to improve precision without sacrificing recall", "Quarter-Kelly criterion for risk-adjusted position sizing under uncertainty", "Integrating live paper trading infrastructure with real-time monitoring dashboards" ], "challenges": [ "Preventing data leakage in time-series backtesting — look-ahead bias is subtle and costly", "Calibrating risk parameters (Kelly fraction, circuit breaker thresholds) for live trading", "Designing reproducible research workflows with Jupyter, DuckDB, and version-controlled data", "Achieving consistent Sharpe in out-of-sample walk-forward periods (2021–2024)", "Building reliable paper trading infrastructure with accurate simulated fills and slippage" ], "impact": "Research-grade trading system: Sharpe 1.41 (walk-forward 2021–2024), Deflated Sharpe 0.87, max drawdown 8.2%, average holding period 47 minutes", "status": "In Progress", "category": "ML / Finance", "github": "https://github.com/Yash121l/Tessera", "demo": "https://tessera.yashlunawat.com/", "lastUpdated": "2026-05-19", "url": "https://yashlunawat.com/projects/tessera" }, { "name": "GhostPilot", "slug": "ghostpilot", "tagline": "Local-first BYOK desktop app for AI-powered social publishing across LinkedIn, X, and Instagram", "description": "GhostPilot is a local-first, Bring-Your-Own-Key (BYOK) desktop app for AI-powered social publishing. It writes one draft and adapts it for LinkedIn, X (Twitter), and Instagram simultaneously — keeping all data on your Mac with SQLite + Drizzle ORM, OAuth tokens in macOS Keychain, and zero data leaving your device. Supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq, OpenRouter, and Ollama via a unified AI Gateway abstraction.", "stack": [ "Electron 39", "React 19", "TypeScript", "SQLite", "Drizzle ORM", "Tailwind CSS v4", "Vitest", "Playwright", "OpenAI", "Anthropic", "Ollama" ], "features": [ "Composer: generate platform-specific post variants for LinkedIn, X, and Instagram via AI in one action", "Scheduler: automate post publishing at predetermined times across all connected platforms", "Personas: authoring identities with custom voice and style guidance per platform", "Goals: AI decomposes high-level objectives into weekly posting strategies", "Trends: aggregates trending topics from Hacker News and Reddit with relevance scoring", "Analytics: track post counts, token usage, and AI provider spending across sessions", "Connections: OAuth 2.0 for LinkedIn, X, and Instagram via system browser — tokens stored in macOS Keychain, never on a server" ], "learnings": [ "Building local-first Electron apps with SQLite and Drizzle ORM for zero-server data persistence", "IPC communication patterns between Electron main and React renderer processes at scale", "OAuth 2.0 flows via system browser with a custom URL scheme (ghostpilot://) — tokens never pass through a server", "AI Gateway abstraction supporting OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq, OpenRouter, and Ollama under a single interface", "macOS Keychain integration via Electron safeStorage for secure credential storage", "Electron packaging, codesigning, and CI/CD release pipelines with GitHub Actions" ], "challenges": [ "Designing an AI Gateway that abstracts across 5 providers without leaking provider-specific API shapes", "macOS Gatekeeper codesign requirements for distributable Electron apps without an Apple Developer account", "Preventing duplicate publish races in the scheduler under concurrent IPC calls (gutted SchedulerService)", "Resolving OAuth EADDRINUSE crashes from multiple loopback server instances on repeated OAuth flows", "Handling deprecated AI image models (dall-e-3 → gpt-image-1) and base64 image CSP issues" ], "impact": "v1.0.4 released — local-first BYOK social publishing with zero server dependency, OAuth via system browser, and multi-provider AI gateway", "status": "Completed", "category": "Full Stack", "github": "https://github.com/yash121l/GhostPilot", "demo": "https://ghostpilot.yashlunawat.com/", "lastUpdated": "2026-05-16", "url": "https://yashlunawat.com/projects/ghostpilot" }, { "name": "DRIFTCHECK", "slug": "driftcheck", "tagline": "Visual and accessibility regression monitoring on Cloudflare infrastructure", "description": "DRIFTCHECK is a visual and accessibility regression monitoring tool built on Cloudflare's edge infrastructure. It automatically crawls websites, compares screenshots using 1024-dimensional perceptual embeddings via Vectorize, and performs WCAG 2.1 accessibility audits using Llama-3.2-Vision — surfacing visual drift and accessibility regressions before they reach users.", "stack": [ "TypeScript", "React", "Vite", "Tailwind CSS", "Hono", "Cloudflare Workers", "Cloudflare Workflows", "Workers AI", "D1", "R2", "Vectorize", "Playwright" ], "features": [ "Visual drift detection: screenshots converted to 1024-dimensional vectors, cosine similarity comparison with 0.08 threshold", "Severity classification: Critical (>30%), Major (15–30%), Minor (8–15%) drift levels", "WCAG 2.1 accessibility auditing via Llama-3.2-Vision running at the Cloudflare edge", "Dashboard with side-by-side diff viewer, live sessions, and approval/rejection workflows", "GitHub webhook integration for Git-triggered deployment checks", "Cloudflare Workflows for durable, resumable crawl orchestration across pages" ], "learnings": [ "Building perceptual similarity systems with Cloudflare Vectorize (1024-d embeddings)", "Running vision model inference at the edge for accessibility auditing without external APIs", "Durable workflow orchestration with Cloudflare Workflows for multi-page crawl state", "Designing diff viewer UIs that clearly surface subtle visual regressions", "Integrating GitHub webhooks to trigger CI/CD-coupled visual regression checks" ], "challenges": [ "Choosing a cosine similarity threshold that minimizes false positives on dynamic content", "Handling animated and ad-injected pages that legitimately change between snapshots", "Running Playwright-based page crawls within Cloudflare Workers execution constraints", "Coordinating multi-page crawl state across Cloudflare Workflow steps", "Building a diff viewer that highlights subtle colour and layout shifts clearly" ], "impact": "Edge-native visual regression and accessibility monitoring — perceptual vector similarity catches UI drift and WCAG violations automatically on every deploy", "status": "Completed", "category": "Full Stack", "github": "https://github.com/Yash121l/DRIFTCHECK", "demo": null, "lastUpdated": "2026-05-03", "url": "https://yashlunawat.com/projects/driftcheck" }, { "name": "CodeSetu", "slug": "codesetu", "tagline": "Self-hosted cloud deployment platform — deploy and manage cloud projects from a single CLI", "description": "CodeSetu is a self-hosted PaaS (think Heroku/Render/Railway) built across five repositories. Developers deploy projects via a deploycloud CLI, which queues builds through an AWS SQS-backed build engine that detects project type and containerises via Docker or Nixpacks, pushes images to ECR, and orchestrates runs on AWS. A dashboard + API (Prisma + pnpm monorepo) manages projects, domains, env vars, logs, and rollbacks. Infrastructure is fully codified with Terraform across dev/staging/production environments.", "stack": [ "TypeScript", "Node.js", "Prisma", "AWS", "Terraform", "Docker", "Nixpacks", "Next.js", "Nextra", "pnpm", "Turbo", "oclif" ], "features": [ "deploycloud / dcloud CLI with commands: deploy, domains, env, login, logs, projects, rollback", "SQS-driven build engine — auto-detects project stack, containerises via Docker or Nixpacks, pushes to ECR", "Platform API + web dashboard for managing projects, domains, environment variables, and deployment history", "AWS CodeBuild + ECR integration for scalable, isolated build execution", "Terraform modules for reproducible AWS infrastructure across dev, staging, and production", "Nextra-powered documentation site with Pagefind full-text search", "pnpm workspaces + Turbo build orchestration across all five repositories" ], "learnings": [ "Architecting a multi-repo PaaS ecosystem with clear service boundaries", "SQS consumer patterns for reliable async build job processing", "Nixpacks polyglot build detection for framework-agnostic deployment", "Terraform module design for multi-environment cloud infrastructure", "CLI development with oclif — commands, flags, interactive prompts, and WebSocket log streaming" ], "challenges": [ "Keeping five separate repositories consistent without a true shared monorepo", "Designing a CLI that integrates cleanly with the platform API and streams real-time logs via WebSocket", "Nixpacks build detection edge cases for non-standard project structures", "Multi-environment Terraform state management across dev/staging/production", "MDX content pipeline with Nextra for rich, searchable documentation" ], "impact": "End-to-end self-hosted PaaS — from CLI deploy command to containerised AWS run — built as a cohesive five-repository ecosystem", "status": "In Progress", "category": "Full Stack", "github": "https://github.com/codesetu-in", "demo": null, "lastUpdated": "2026-04-12", "url": "https://yashlunawat.com/projects/codesetu", "repos": [ { "name": "platform", "url": "https://github.com/codesetu-in/platform", "description": "Core API + web dashboard monorepo (Prisma, AWS SDK, pnpm workspaces + Turbo)", "stack": [ "TypeScript", "Node.js", "Prisma", "AWS", "pnpm", "Turbo", "Docker" ] }, { "name": "cli", "url": "https://github.com/codesetu-in/cli", "description": "deploycloud / dcloud CLI — deploy, manage domains, env vars, view logs, rollback deployments", "stack": [ "TypeScript", "oclif", "WebSocket" ] }, { "name": "build-engine", "url": "https://github.com/codesetu-in/build-engine", "description": "SQS-driven build orchestrator — detects stack, builds via Docker/Nixpacks, pushes to ECR", "stack": [ "TypeScript", "Docker", "Nixpacks", "AWS CodeBuild", "AWS ECR", "AWS SQS" ] }, { "name": "infra", "url": "https://github.com/codesetu-in/infra", "description": "Terraform modules for AWS infrastructure across dev/staging/production environments", "stack": [ "Terraform", "AWS" ] }, { "name": "docs", "url": "https://github.com/codesetu-in/docs", "description": "Nextra-powered documentation site with Pagefind full-text search", "stack": [ "Next.js", "Nextra", "MDX", "Tailwind CSS" ] } ] }, { "name": "Subdomain Finder", "slug": "subdomain-finder", "tagline": "Production-deployed subdomain enumeration tool with edge caching and SSE streaming", "description": "A production-deployed subdomain enumeration tool built on Cloudflare Workers + Pages. Aggregates OSINT data from Certificate Transparency logs (crt.sh) and HackerTarget DNS in parallel, with sub-100ms repeat lookups via KV edge caching and live results streamed to the frontend via Server-Sent Events.", "stack": [ "TypeScript", "React", "Vite", "Tailwind CSS", "Zustand", "Hono", "Cloudflare Workers", "Cloudflare Pages", "Cloudflare KV", "DNS-over-HTTPS" ], "features": [ "Aggregates OSINT data from Certificate Transparency logs (crt.sh) and HackerTarget DNS in parallel", "Sub-100ms repeat lookups via Cloudflare KV edge caching", "Server-Sent Events streaming architecture delivering live scan results as each source responds", "3-tier cache strategy (HIT / STALE / MISS) with 7-day TTL and stale-while-revalidate behavior", "DNS records resolved at the Cloudflare edge via DNS-over-HTTPS (1.1.1.1) — no CORS proxy latency", "AbortController-based pause/resume/stop controls with Zustand state management", "Result export as JSON, CSV, and plain text" ], "learnings": [ "Building streaming architectures with Server-Sent Events on Cloudflare Workers", "Implementing multi-tier cache strategies with Cloudflare KV", "Running all external OSINT API calls server-side inside a Worker to eliminate CORS issues", "DNS-over-HTTPS resolution at the edge for low-latency lookups", "AbortController patterns for pauseable/resumeable SSE connections", "Zustand state management for complex async scan state" ], "challenges": [ "Ensuring accurate results by aggregating multiple OSINT sources in parallel", "Handling API rate limits and partial failures gracefully", "Designing the 3-tier cache to serve stale results instantly while refreshing in background", "Persisting scan progress to KV even after client disconnects", "Optimizing response time for large domains with many subdomains" ], "impact": "Production-deployed OSINT tool with edge-native architecture, sub-100ms cached lookups, and real-time streaming results", "status": "Completed", "category": "Full Stack", "github": "https://github.com/Yash121l/subdomain-finder/", "demo": "https://subdomainfinder.yashlunawat.com/", "lastUpdated": "2026-05-10", "url": "https://yashlunawat.com/projects/subdomain-finder" }, { "name": "LifeOS", "slug": "lifeos", "tagline": "Cross-platform AI life management app for iOS, Android, and Web", "description": "LifeOS is a cross-platform AI life management app (iOS/Android/Web) built with Swift/SwiftUI, Kotlin, and Firebase. It unifies calendar, tasks, finance, and knowledge capture into a single coherent system, powered by Claude API and on-device CoreML for intelligent rescheduling and burnout detection.", "stack": [ "Swift", "SwiftUI", "Kotlin", "Firebase", "CoreML", "Claude API", "WidgetKit", "CoreLocation" ], "features": [ "AI rescheduling engine that auto-reprioritizes time blocks on deadline overruns", "Burnout detection from missed-deadline patterns using CoreML", "Dynamic Island Live Activities, WidgetKit home/lock screen widgets, and Siri Shortcuts for sub-3-second capture", "Multi-provider bank aggregation with on-device expense categorization using a CoreML classifier trained on 15+ merchant patterns", "GPS-triggered context switching using CoreLocation geofences to surface location-specific task lists", "Automatic iPhone Focus Mode activation — all location processing fully on-device" ], "learnings": [ "Integrating Claude API for intelligent AI-driven scheduling and rescheduling", "On-device ML with CoreML for privacy-preserving expense categorization", "Building Dynamic Island Live Activities and WidgetKit extensions", "CoreLocation geofencing for context-aware automation", "Cross-platform architecture spanning iOS, Android, and Web with shared Firebase backend", "Secure token storage using iOS Keychain" ], "challenges": [ "Keeping all sensitive data (location, bank tokens) fully on-device", "Designing a coherent UX that unifies calendar, tasks, finance, and knowledge capture", "Training a CoreML classifier on merchant patterns for accurate expense categorization", "Synchronizing state across Dynamic Island, widgets, and the main app", "Handling cross-platform parity between Swift/SwiftUI and Kotlin" ], "impact": "Unified life management system with on-device AI, privacy-first finance tracking, and deep iOS system integrations", "status": "Completed", "category": "Mobile", "github": "https://github.com/Yash121l/lifeOS", "demo": null, "lastUpdated": "2026-05-20", "url": "https://yashlunawat.com/projects/lifeos" }, { "name": "Air Quality Intelligence", "slug": "air-quality-intelligence", "tagline": "Data-Driven Air Quality Analysis & Policy Simulation Platform", "description": "A comprehensive air quality research platform that investigates particulate matter exposure across economies, time, and socioeconomic conditions. Combines World Bank PM2.5, GDP, urbanization, and health burden indicators (2004-2020) with city-level OpenAQ data to deliver actionable insights through interactive dashboards and machine learning predictions.", "stack": [ "React.js", "Vite", "Plotly.js", "Python", "FastAPI", "Pandas", "Scikit-learn", "Random Forest" ], "features": [ "Interactive Plotly dashboards with year sliders and hover tooltips", "Policy Lab with GDP, urbanization, and health sliders for PM2.5 simulation", "Random Forest regression model (R² ≈ 0.97) for exposure prediction", "Regional trends, choropleth maps, and GDP vs PM2.5 bubble charts", "Seasonal pollutant fingerprint analysis", "Research Hub with curated datasets, reports, and literature" ], "learnings": [ "Building end-to-end data pipelines with modular Python scripts", "Implementing Random Forest models with feature importance analysis", "Creating interactive Plotly visualizations as standalone HTML dashboards", "Designing RESTful APIs with FastAPI for data exploration", "Working with World Bank and OpenAQ environmental datasets", "Explaining ML model outputs for policy teams and stakeholders" ], "challenges": [ "Merging heterogeneous data sources with different temporal granularities", "Designing intuitive policy simulation interfaces for non-technical users", "Balancing model accuracy with interpretability for decision-makers", "Handling missing values and data quality issues in environmental datasets", "Creating responsive dashboards that work across device sizes" ], "impact": "Enables policymakers to simulate and visualize the relationship between economic indicators and air quality outcomes", "status": "Completed", "category": "Full Stack", "github": "https://github.com/Yash121l/SASB", "demo": "https://air-quality-prediction.yashlunawat.com/", "lastUpdated": "2026-04-01", "url": "https://yashlunawat.com/projects/air-quality-intelligence" }, { "name": "StockAnalyzer Pro", "slug": "stock-analysis-platform", "tagline": "Advanced Stock Analysis & Trading Platform", "description": "Professional-grade stock analysis platform featuring real-time market data, technical indicators, portfolio management, and AI-powered insights for smarter trading decisions. Built with a focus on performance and user experience, handling thousands of concurrent users while maintaining sub-second response times.", "stack": [ "React.js", "Tailwind CSS", "Node.js", "Express", "MongoDB", "WebSocket", "Chart.js", "Redis" ], "features": [ "Real-time stock price updates with WebSocket integration", "Interactive historical data visualization with Chart.js", "Company profiles with comprehensive financial summaries", "Personalized watchlists with portfolio tracking", "Advanced stock screening with custom filters", "Price alerts and notifications" ], "learnings": [ "WebSocket implementation for real-time data streaming at scale", "Efficient caching strategies using Redis for frequently accessed market data", "Building responsive data visualizations with Chart.js", "Optimizing MongoDB queries for time-series financial data", "Implementing rate limiting to manage third-party API quotas", "State management patterns for real-time applications" ], "challenges": [ "Handling high-frequency data updates without overwhelming the client", "Implementing efficient data caching while ensuring freshness", "Building a responsive UI that handles thousands of data points", "Managing API rate limits from multiple financial data providers", "Ensuring data consistency across distributed cache layers" ], "impact": "Built a production-ready platform handling real-time market data with efficient caching strategies", "status": "Completed", "category": "Full Stack", "github": "https://github.com/Yash121l/Stock-Analysier", "demo": "https://stock-analysier.yashlunawat.com/", "lastUpdated": "2026-04-01", "url": "https://yashlunawat.com/projects/stock-analysis-platform" }, { "name": "System Design Simulator", "slug": "system-design-simulator", "tagline": "Interactive platform to design, simulate, and understand scalable systems", "description": "An interactive system design simulator that helps developers visualize and experiment with scalable architectures. Users can design systems using components like load balancers, databases, caches, and queues, and simulate real-world scenarios to understand performance, bottlenecks, and trade-offs in distributed systems.", "stack": [ "React.js", "Tailwind CSS", "Node.js", "Express", "Canvas API", "WebSocket" ], "features": [ "Drag-and-drop system design interface", "Pre-built components like Load Balancer, Cache, DB, Queue", "Real-time simulation of request flow", "Visual representation of bottlenecks and latency", "Scenario-based testing (high traffic, failures, scaling)", "Interactive learning experience for system design concepts" ], "learnings": [ "Deep understanding of distributed system architecture", "Designing interactive visual simulation tools", "Handling real-time updates with WebSockets", "Managing complex state in frontend applications", "Modeling system performance and bottlenecks" ], "challenges": [ "Simulating real-world distributed system behavior accurately", "Designing an intuitive UI for complex architectures", "Managing performance with many interactive components", "Ensuring scalability of simulation logic", "Balancing realism with usability" ], "impact": "Helps developers and students understand system design concepts through hands-on simulation instead of static diagrams", "status": "Completed", "category": "Full Stack", "github": "https://github.com/Yash121l/system-design-simulator", "demo": "https://system-design-simulator.yashlunawat.com/", "lastUpdated": "2026-04-01", "url": "https://yashlunawat.com/projects/system-design-simulator" }, { "name": "CPU Scheduling Visualizer", "slug": "cpu-scheduling-visualizer", "tagline": "Interactive tool to visualize and compare CPU scheduling algorithms", "description": "An educational tool designed to help students and developers understand CPU scheduling algorithms through interactive visualization. Compare algorithms like FCFS, SJF, and Round Robin side-by-side with real-time Gantt charts and metric calculations.", "stack": [ "React.js", "Tailwind CSS", "Framer Motion", "Vite", "D3.js" ], "features": [ "Visualize CPU scheduling algorithms in action", "Compare algorithm performance side-by-side", "Real-time Gantt chart generation", "Automatic calculation of scheduling metrics (Turnaround Time, Waiting Time)", "Interactive quiz mode for learning", "Export and share simulation results" ], "learnings": [ "Implementing complex scheduling algorithms in JavaScript", "Creating interactive visualizations with D3.js and Framer Motion", "Managing complex state for simulation data", "Building an intuitive user interface for educational purposes", "Optimizing performance for real-time rendering" ], "challenges": [ "Accurately visualizing concurrent process execution", "Handling edge cases in scheduling algorithms", "Designing a responsive timeline view", "Making abstract concepts concrete through UI design" ], "impact": "Helps students visualize and understand complex OS concepts through interactive learning", "status": "Completed", "category": "Frontend", "github": "https://github.com/Yash121l/sem6-os-project", "demo": "https://cup-scheduling-visualizer.yashlunawat.com", "lastUpdated": "2026-04-01", "url": "https://yashlunawat.com/projects/cpu-scheduling-visualizer" }, { "name": "Newsletter", "slug": "newsletter", "tagline": "Automated tech digest newsletter powered by n8n workflow automation", "description": "A monorepo-based newsletter automation system that curates, aggregates, and distributes weekly tech digest emails using n8n workflows. Built with TypeScript across a Turbo-powered monorepo with pnpm workspace management — the pipeline handles content ingestion, formatting, and delivery without manual intervention.", "stack": [ "TypeScript", "n8n", "Turbo", "pnpm" ], "features": [ "Automated content curation and aggregation via n8n workflows", "Monorepo architecture with Turbo build orchestration across packages", "pnpm workspace management for modular, independently versioned packages", "Configurable workflow triggers for periodic digest generation and delivery", "Environment-based configuration for multi-stage deployment" ], "learnings": [ "Building reliable content automation pipelines with n8n visual workflows", "Monorepo management with Turbo and pnpm workspaces", "TypeScript-first architecture for automation and content tooling", "Designing idempotent pipeline stages for safe retries" ], "challenges": [ "Ensuring consistent content quality from heterogeneous sources", "Managing monorepo dependencies across independently deployable packages", "Handling delivery failures and retries without duplicate sends" ], "impact": "Automated tech digest pipeline that eliminates manual curation through n8n workflow orchestration", "status": "In Progress", "category": "Full Stack", "github": "https://github.com/Yash121l/newsletter", "demo": null, "lastUpdated": "2026-05-21", "url": "https://yashlunawat.com/projects/newsletter" } ], "experience": [ { "title": "Intern", "organization": "RTP Global", "location": "Bengaluru", "duration": "Jun 2026 – Present", "type": "work", "description": "Joining RTP Global as an intern in Bengaluru, entering the venture capital and startup ecosystem from the builder side. 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A Practical Guide for Modern AI Systems", "slug": "what-is-an-agent-harness", "excerpt": "AI agents are powerful but unreliable by default. Learn how agent harnesses bring structure, control, and reliability to build production-ready AI systems.", "category": "Artificial Intelligence", "tags": [ "AI", "AgentSystems", "LLM", "SoftwareEngineering", "TechBlog", "SystemDesign" ], "publishDate": "2026-04-29", "readTime": "6 min read", "url": "https://yashlunawat.com/blogs/what-is-an-agent-harness" } ] }