Things Gautam has designed, built and shipped: full-stack side projects and tools.
Atarashi
I wrote a scaffolding tool, then found out it could never support the thing I wanted it to do
TypeScriptNode.jsCLInpm
Expressentials
I published a small Express library, and strangers found every edge case I had not thought about
TypeScriptExpressNode.jsnpm
TypeScriptNode.jsCLInpm
SystemCanvas
Every system design diagram I drew started as a rectangle I had to name myself
TypeScriptNext.jsReactPostgres
Treegen
A tool for pasting folder structures into READMEs that accidentally became a tool for reading them back
5installs
GoCLI
The graveyard
Things I started and stopped. Every one of them taught me something the finished projects couldn't.
- kilo2026
Wrote a text editor in C by following someone else's tutorial. Finished it, understood raw terminal mode for the first time, and never opened it again. Vim was already there.
- MarkdownNinja2025
A Markdown ↔ HTML toolkit, built before I had read enough of the CommonMark spec to know how much of it I was ignoring. The parser taught me more than the product ever would have.
A bot to apply to jobs for me. It worked, which was the moment I realised I did not actually want a job I could get without reading the posting.
- watsify2026
Started it on a train, lost the thread by the time I got off. Some ideas only survive the commute they were had on.
- ExcaliSave2026
A Chrome extension to save Excalidraw canvases locally without paying for premium. Shipped, used it for a month, then started paying for premium.