Nikhil Deshpande

Shipped

Everything I made myself, rather than for an employer. The line under each one says what state it is actually in.

Shipavali 2026शिपावली 2026One lamp for each thing I shipped in the week before Diwali.

Out now

Three strands in cyan, vermilion and violet weave across a night-blue ground, the art from the myguna.com home page.
A test of the mind, from Ayurveda

Guna

One PhD on the Ayurvedic mind, as a test anyone can take.

Free test · 40 questions · about 7 minutes
The cover of SrujanMitra 2026: blue, ochre and green washes bleed across raw canvas, and along their edge a listening face appears in profile.
Marathi Diwali Ank · published by Bobhata

SrujanMitra

One prompt, five models, one chance each.

Second edition · 21 pieces · five models
The Bobhata logo beside three phones showing the new site: the Shorts feed in front, with the video page and the series page behind it.
Media · ten years

Bobhata 2.1

A ten-year-old Marathi site moves to video, with its own reel engine.

Since 2016 · bobhata.com
A laptop on a desk at night shows a two-ring chart of disk space in blue and amber, beside stacked cardboard boxes, a wastepaper basket and a cup of chai.
Mac app for developers

KachraClean

It finds the space a general cleaner never lists.

v0.1.5 · Free Mac app · open source (MIT)
A hand holds up a printed page with several lines blacked out, beside an unredacted copy, in front of a laptop on a wooden desk.
Mac app and command line tool

Stripii

Your data never leaves your computer.

v0.3.0 · Free Mac app · CLI and engine open source (MIT)
A hand picks a navy tile from six shapes on the left, while on the right a path of tiles steps up to a small orange flag.
Evaluation · 2026

Jev AI 101

Judgment is cheap now. Planning still is not.

Playable · full benchmark and method online
A desk lamp lights handwritten Devanagari manuscript pages marked in red, a laptop with many panes of text and a cup of chai, index cards joined by red thread on the wall behind.
Fiction engine · in build

KathaForge

A thirteen-agent Marathi fiction and microdrama pipeline.

Since 2025 · kathaforge.com

Still finding out

Experiment · Claude Dev Day

AI Reading Pen

A child still learning to read needs it in their own language more than anybody.

Public repo · built for Claude Dev DayIndustrial vision · prototype

Visual QA

It has never run on a shop floor, and until it does I am not claiming it works.

Local prototype · adapters parked until a factory pilotPlatform · in build

Vartaforge

An editorial platform for regional Indic dailies and hyperlocal publishers.

Since 2026