Logbook No. 3 · written while stuck at Silk Board

I’m building the reason you leave the house tonight.

This is my logbook: a school blog that became a startup, a few companies I’ve started and closed, a stint as a professional chaos manager venture builder, and what I’m cooking now in Bengaluru, a city where everyone has a startup idea and nobody has a free Saturday.

Flip the page Meet my past lives
brb! ← tap the house…
Entry 01 · who’s asking

Quiet kid, loud ideas, now a founder ← that’s me

It began as a school tech blog (yes, the nerdy kind). That became my first startup: five people, 1M+ annual visitors, then an exit. Since then I’ve built in SaaS, solar and IoT, plus a stretch as a venture manager at a venture builder, where I learned what keeps startups alive. Other people’s, mostly.

I applied for a BBA, graduated left after a few classes, and went back to building. Since then I’ve started companies, lost closed some, revived others, and scaled a few to take on industry leaders. Raised in a defence family among many cultures, so I collect people the way others collect fridge magnets. Weekends: mountains, travel and sci-fi documentaries, ideally far from the ORR.

Follow my route
Entry 02 · the main quest

Building AfterFive ← the main quest

AfterFive is a social platform for discovering local events: bootstrapped, Bengaluru first. This city has a brewery for every mood and a meetup for every hobby, and still plenty of us spend Saturday night with a delivery app and a screen. AfterFive is my attempt to fix that. I’m usually at the events myself, helping the hosts.

Read the scribbles
Entry 02½ · the journey so far

My journey map ← 33 places and a silent detour

Numbered pins are the homes I moved through, in order (Delhi shows up twice because I went back). Yellow is where I’m from. Black dots are fridge magnets, and green is Nepal, where I went quiet for ten days. Hover a place to find it.

DehradunMussoorieRishikeshNainitalBhimtalShimlaManaliSrinagarLadakhAmritsarMathuraAgraJaipurJodhpurUdaipurVaranasiKolkataDarjeelingMumbaiGoaHyderabadMysoreCoorgChikkamagaluruOotyWayanadKeralaChennaiMahabalipuramPondicherry1Champaran, Bihar2/7Delhi3Madhopur, Punjab4Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh5Meerut6Pune8Noida9Nepal (Vipassana)10Gurgaon11BengaluruNepalme, wandering ↗

Homes, in order

  1. Champaran, Bihar
  2. Delhi
  3. Madhopur, Punjab
  4. Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
  5. Meerut
  6. Pune
  7. Delhi
  8. Noida
  9. Nepal (Vipassana)
  10. Gurgaon
  11. Bengaluru

Fridge-magnet places

  • Dehradun
  • Mussoorie
  • Rishikesh
  • Nainital
  • Bhimtal
  • Shimla
  • Manali
  • Srinagar
  • Ladakh
  • Amritsar
  • Mathura
  • Agra
  • Jaipur
  • Jodhpur
  • Udaipur
  • Varanasi
  • Kolkata
  • Darjeeling
  • Mumbai
  • Goa
  • Hyderabad
  • Mysore
  • Coorg
  • Chikkamagaluru
  • Ooty
  • Wayanad
  • Kerala
  • Chennai
  • Mahabalipuram
  • Pondicherry
  • Delhi
  • Bengaluru
  • Nepal
Read the whole route
Entry 03 · previous lives

My past lives, on sticky notes

↓ Drag the red pins. Rearrange my career. Startups do it to everyone anyway.

NowAfterFiveFounder. Helping Bengaluru find what to do after five, and who to do it with.
2025Favcy Venture BuildersSide quest: Venture Manager at India’s largest venture builder, helping other people’s startups grow up.
2025FutrLoggerFounder/CEO. Real-time solar monitoring (IoT-SaaS). Sunshine, but with dashboards.Read: MTTD →
2023–24Futr EnergyFounder’s Office. An operating system for renewable energy, 30GW a year. Yes, gigawatts.
2020–22DinngIntern, growth, at India’s biggest salon CRM. Bad hair days, now with analytics.
2019–20PushstartIntern, marketing, at India’s entrepreneur community. Many founders, many coffees.
Start · 2015–17Freelance bloggerWhere it all began. Mostly design and website work for clients in the US, UK and Germany, and I ran my blog and all of it on my own. That blog grew into my first startup (1M+ annual visitors, then an exit). Words were my first product, and filter coffee was the whole budget.Read my old posts →
Entry 04 · field test

Survive my startup ← try not to die

Four decisions from building AfterFive. Keep every meter above zero, like a metro card on a Monday.

Entry 05 · toolbox

Things I’m (mostly) good at

Scrambled thoughts

MTTD: Optimizing solar at ground level How to hack your habit? Clean your social feed! All the scribbles
Last page

Pull up a chair. ← I’m listening

So, what are you working on? Building something, stuck on something, or just wondering why anyone would start another social platform in Bengaluru? Tell me. What would make your Saturday worth leaving the house for? I read everything and I write back, and I’m always up for a good filter coffee. Say hi on LinkedIn, X or Instagram and let’s talk. Nos vemos.

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