§ WRITING

Writing as I go.

Personal, professional, career, and project notes on what I’m building, what’s breaking, and what I’m learning along the way.

23 MAY 2026mridula
Weekend 3: A Micro-Loan Portfolio Simulator
The original brief was a public sandbox with sliders. The honest version is a private tracker. I built the private version first — without the auth — and learned more from that small inversion than from anything else this weekend.
12 min
17 MAY 2026mridula
Weekend 2: An Organic Farm Listing App
Five FPOs, fourteen listings, Hindi by default. The platform's job isn't to close deals — it's to bridge a listing to a phone call.
9 min
16 MAY 2026mridula
Weekend 2: An SHG Loan Rules Chatbot
I built the eval before I built the UI. The numbers told me something I didn't expect: the chatbot is more honest than it is helpful.
8 min
11 MAY 2026mridula
Weekend 1: A Mandi Price Explorer for Uttar Pradesh
1,500 data points a day, published openly by data.gov.in. The surprise wasn't building the app. It was that the data was there at all.
6 min
10 MAY 2026personal
Introducing the Mridula Initiative
A personal initiative bringing tech and capital to rural livelihoods in India, named after my mother.
3 min
09 MAY 2026career
Fifteen Years In: A Letter to Myself at Ten
I wrote a career-advice piece five years ago, at the ten-year mark. Here it is again, annotated by the person I am now — and with one section the original couldn't have anticipated.
8 min