Niket Shah

Ahmedabad, India

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

Tech Lead at ByteHint, where I rebuilt a 16,000-user desktop app from scratch and grew the new version to 250,000+ users. Co-founder of scri8e. I also built the POS a cafe chain's six outlets bill on every day.

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Do not disturb. Unless prod is down.

The record so far

1,000,000+downloads: Of the 2.0 I rebuilt from scratch. The legacy app had 16,000 users; the new one has 250,000+. Client work under NDA.
6outlets live in 5 days: On the POS and back office I built alone for a cafe chain. No downtime since.
5hackathon wins: Including HACKaMINeD 2025 outright, and a NASA Space Apps Global Nomination, top 947 of about 10,000 teams.
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

Selected work

All projects

Users

250,000+

Legacy app, 16,000
2.0, grown from zero

1 dot = 1,000 users1,000,000+ downloads

Tech Lead
ByteHint
Under NDA
2025

The 2.0 rebuild

A legacy desktop app with 16,000 users, rebuilt from scratch as the sole core developer across Electron, Express, MongoDB and AWS ECS. The 2.0 grew from zero, and I moved into Tech Lead.

250,000+users on the 2.0, up from 16,000 on the legacy app

1,000,000+downloads

Co-founder
Full stack
AI search
2026

scri8e

Answers from a team's Slack, Google Drive and Notion. Every source is cited, nobody sees a document they couldn't already open, and each answer says whether it's still true.

0permission leaks found

90%of questions find the right source in the top 8, up from 80%

Contract
Solo
POS
2026

Cafe chain operations and billing

A back office and a table-service POS for a multi-outlet cafe chain in India. Two Next.js apps on one Postgres database, built alone, with every rule that touches money enforced in the database.

6 in 5 daysoutlets live on the new POS

96%fewer serverless requests

Solo
AI
Launched in 2 days
2026

Would This Win?

Three AI hackathon judges who read your repo before the real ones do. Every README claim is traced to the file that would implement it, you answer three questions against a 30-second clock, and your odds move live. The model never sets a number.

0numbers set by the model

$0.006per full judging session

What I'm in the middle of

At ByteHint: Tech Lead. Sprints, releases, technical direction, and the argument about what we're not building this quarter.
Building scri8e: Live with paid plans, no paying customers yet. Getting the first teams on it is the job now.
On call for a cafe chain: Six outlets bill on what I built every day, and I'm still shipping what the counter staff ask for.
Still chewing on: Wardro8e, where I built the hard part first and checked whether anyone would pay far too late.

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 got here

Me at 2am when something breaks in production.