Hey, Yoginder here.Call me Yogi.

I build products, or at least I try to. Six years in, my experience makes me a better fit as a frontend guy than as someone who's dabbled in every tech stack, so I've gone deep on building with React and React Native, but I'm open to working with other modern frontend tech too.

What I build with

Portrait of Yoginder Kumar
Based in Pune, MH

Work, told as stories

What the job was, what I did, and what changed.

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Building in the open

Things I've built and things I'm building. New projects show up here as they start.

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Shvaas

Live

A voice-first AI app where you just talk, and it remembers. Natural conversation with long-term contextual memory, built and launched from a blank canvas.

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Supabase
  • Anthropic
  • Deepgram

LinkedSub

Paused

An AI LinkedIn content tool with post generation, scheduling and a profile grader, plus full billing. Built end to end, then paused, because the landing page promised a feature that can't be built safely. Thinking about reviving it as a narrower, honest product.

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Express
  • Supabase
  • Gemini
  • Razorpay

Writing

Longer, thought-through pieces on frontend architecture and building with AI.

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Three layered design-system tiers (swatches, tokens and a UI card) inside green guardrails, with an AI cursor approaching

· 6 min read

Why You Need a Design System, and Why AI Just Made It More Urgent

A design system is three layers of tokens plus guardrails. What it's made of, when you need one, and why AI agents make building it first more urgent.

Eight aging, cracked code slabs struck by a green lightning bolt, with IOU slips piling at the base

· 4 min read

What an 8-Year-Old Codebase Taught Me About AI's New Speed Expectations

AI lets teams ship 5-10x faster, but nobody is pricing in the debt. What an 8-year-old Backbone codebase taught me about speed, planning and engineering.

Beyond work

What I do when I'm not shipping features. Most of it involves a joke.

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