Shut down · 2026
Niket Shah
Tech Lead at ByteHint · Ahmedabad, India
I help you decide what to build,then I build it and run it.
Scoping and product calls come first, because most of the failed projects I have seen were mis-scoped rather than mis-coded. Then the architecture, the code, and whoever has to pick up the phone when it breaks at 2am, which is usually me.
Tech Lead at ByteHint. Four years across desktop software, a CLIP-based recommender, permission-aware search infrastructure, and a company I founded and closed myself. Five hackathon wins somewhere in there. Currently building Scri8e.
- Users on my code
- 250,000+
- Writing software
- 4+ years
- Hackathons won
- 5
- Startups founded
- 1
- TypeScript
- React
- Next.js
- Electron
- React Native
- Node
- Express
- MongoDB
- Postgres
- Firebase
- Supabase
- Python
- FastAPI
- AWS
- Stripe
- Tailwind
How this usually starts
I will tell you if you do not need me.
A client came to me wanting a developer. Two calls in it was clear the build was not the problem. What they had worked fine. Nobody knew it existed. I told them to put the budget into marketing and come back if that changed anything.
That was comfortable money for straightforward work and I turned it down. Six months of me adding features nobody had asked for would have cost them a great deal more than one honest conversation did.
The consulting is the part I care about. What belongs in the first version and what can wait. Whether a feature is load-bearing or just there because a competitor shipped one. How the thing reaches people once it works. I will argue with you about all of it, which is the opposite of what you get from someone billing hourly.
Selected work
Proof that I can actually build
Right now
What I am in the middle of
At ByteHint
Technical direction, sprints, releases, and the argument about what we are not building this quarter.
Building
Scri8e. Customer discovery is done, the multi-connect architecture and the integration harness are in, and the connectors are the current work.
Still chewing on
Building the hard part of Wardro8e first and testing whether anyone would pay far too late. I ran ten customer calls before writing a line of Scri8e.
Range
Desktop software, a CLIP recommender, permission-aware search, storefronts, and whatever a hackathon threw at me that weekend.
Ventures and links
I reply to everything.
Freelance by referral only, which is just how the work has come in so far. Tell me what you are building and what is in the way. If the answer is that you do not need a developer yet, I will say that instead.
Ahmedabad, India · 4+ years shipping · Press / to jump anywhere