From Idea to Play Store: How I Used Copilot CLI to Ship My First Android App
How Copilot CLI, Next.js, Capacitor, and a local-first architecture helped turn Atlas Junior into a real Android app and a Play Store launch.
Thoughts on tech, AI, and everyday life.
How Copilot CLI, Next.js, Capacitor, and a local-first architecture helped turn Atlas Junior into a real Android app and a Play Store launch.
A tired-parent bedtime ritual turned into a 24-book library — built from a moral catalog, a CLI-first workflow, and a simple prompt-to-image pipeline.
SpaceX's $75 billion IPO became the spark for a simpler question: how does an IPO really work, and where does the money actually flow?
Nine days through the Abode of Clouds with three generations — family memories at Kamakhya, Shillong, Cherrapunji & Dawki, a tourism flywheel hiding in plain sight, and how the mountains cleared nearly 8 hours of sleep debt.
What building sumitc.in with AI taught me about where the real work actually is. The tech took one evening. The clarity took longer.
A Copilot CLI extension was running fine — then suddenly it wouldn't load, and every tool call silently failed. Root cause: one missing argument in a constructor call after a CLI version bump.
Every summer, when we start planning a family trip, the same question pops up: what about the plants? I built a simple automated drip-watering system you can control from your phone — for under ₹2,500.
My daughter and I were playing chess when she asked ChatGPT to verify a checkmate. That one question sent me down a rabbit hole testing all three major AI models on the same chess position.
A few weeks ago I judged ProdX 2026 at IIT Hyderabad — and noticed something fascinating: all seven finalist teams had nearly identical AI-generated analyses. Here's what that means for the future.
It started with a casual hallway conversation. Late February, I was visiting the Microsoft campus in Redmond — and a colleague said something that would reshape my commutes for the next two months.