Niket Shah

Niket Shah

Ahmedabad, India

I'm 21.250,000+ peoplerun code I shipped.

Tech Lead at ByteHint, where I took over a desktop product at 16,000 users and kept shipping until it passed 250,000+. I write production software across desktop, mobile, AI and search, and right now I'm building Scri8e.

Niket working on a laptop with headphones on
Do not disturb. Unless prod is down.

The record so far

1,000,000+downloads
On a desktop product I took over at 16,000 users. It's client work under NDA, so there's no case study for it.
5hackathon wins
Including Overall Winner at HACKaMINeD 2025.
Top 947of about 10,000 teams
NASA Space Apps 2024 Global Nomination, on top of winning the local round.
17first paid client
Full time at 20. I left a BCA after three semesters, so there's no degree.
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Electron
  • React Native
  • Node
  • Express
  • MongoDB
  • Postgres
  • Firebase
  • Supabase
  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • AWS
  • Stripe
  • Tailwind

What I'm in the middle of

  • At ByteHint

    Technical direction, sprints, releases, and the argument about what we're not building this quarter.

  • Building Scri8e

    Search over Slack, Notion and Drive that respects permissions.

  • Still chewing on

    Building the hard part of Wardro8e first, and checking whether anyone would pay far too late.

  • Range

    Desktop software, a CLIP recommender, permission-aware search, storefronts, and whatever a hackathon threw at me that weekend.

Selected work

All projects

In development, 2026

Scri8e

Company search across Slack, Notion and Drive that respects permissions.

More than ten customer calls before the first line of code.

I'll tell you if you don't need me.

Scoping and product calls come first. Most failed projects I've seen were scoped wrong, and the code was fine. Then the architecture, the code, and whoever picks up the phone when it breaks at 2am. That's usually me.

A client once came to me wanting a developer. Two calls in, it was clear their product worked and nobody knew it existed. I turned the work down and told them to put the budget into marketing.

The product thinking is the part I care about most: what goes in the first version, what waits, and how people find the thing once it works. I'll argue with you about all of it.

How I work
Me at 2am when something breaks in production.

Elsewhere

Got something worth building?

Get in touchshahniket643@gmail.com