Indie AI Dev-Tools Builder · Issue #1
Shashwat Tiwari
I make hard things click.
I build local-first AI tools for developers, and ship each one with the single idea that makes it work. Your data stays on your machine. Based in India, working globally.
Eight projects. Eight universes. Each one drawn by a different hand — because they were.
Origin
Most AI tools are harder to understand than they need to be.
I build AI developer tools, mostly alone and mostly fast. What I am after is the moment someone says “wait, that’s it?”
So every project here ships with the one idea behind it. If I cannot write that sentence, I do not understand the thing well enough.
I build in the open, failures included.
The Work
Four out of eight · click a panel to open it · every one shipped alone
EARTH-90214NOIR · GREYSCALE PRESS· '26
Echo
Local-first AI. The cloud only sees blanks.
Hide the private parts before they leave. Put them back after.
In private developmentEARTH-9282099 · NEON OFFSET· '26
AutopilotHQ
A team of AI agents, not one chatbot.
Hire a team instead of a chatbot.
In active developmentEARTH-14512SP//dr · CEL ANIMATION· '26
Jarvis
An accountability buddy in your Mac's notch.
Put it in the notch, the one thing you cannot close.
AlphaEARTH-138PUNK · PHOTOCOPIED ZINE· '25
PromptDrop
The prompts that actually work.
Rank by what is working now, not by what got uploaded.
LiveThe other four, and what each one is for →
Abilities
Issue #1 · character stats · no levels, no percentages
- TypeScript
- Python
- Go
- Dart
- Rust
- Swift
- React
- Next.js
- GSAP
- Tailwind
- Three.js
- Node.js
- Firebase
- Cloudflare Workers
- Postgres
- FastAPI
- Flutter
- SwiftUI
- React Native
- Local-first systems
- AI developer tools
- Agent design
Team-up
Who this works for · and who it does not
Good fit
- You want the builder to be able to explain it
- You care where your data sits
- You would rather see the failure log
Bad fit
- You need a committee and six weeks of discovery
- You want the complexity kept as a moat
- “AI-powered” is the feature
Back matterThings worth writing down · 4 entries
RAG is just good search plus a note to the AI
The most over-explained idea in AI, in one sentence.
Local-first changes who you have to trust
Move the data and the promise becomes a fact.
Building in public compounds
Strangers correct a public mistake. A private one repeats.
Agents are just a loop
Pick a tool, read the result, decide again.
Got something messy?
I'm building things that don't exist yet, mostly alone. If any of it is useful to you — or there's something you think is worth building — say so.
shashwattiwari1305@gmail.com