My Workspace

Where building happens. Not a Silicon Valley office with standing desks and kombucha on tap — a room in Dubai where a 15-year-old ships products after school.

The Physical Setup

The workspace is home. My room is where LockIn was built, where Simplifly was iterated, where Raly's scrapers were written, and where this wiki was created. There's no separation between "office" and "life" — the same desk where I do homework is the desk where I write Swift and TypeScript.

The setup is functional, not aesthetic. A laptop, a screen, and whatever peripherals are needed for the current project. When I'm testing LockIn's push-up detection, the phone is propped up on books. When I'm debugging Simplifly's API, there are too many browser tabs open. When I'm designing in Figma, the screen is never big enough.

The Software Environment

The real workspace isn't the physical setup — it's the software:

• Cursor — where most code is written, with Claude integrated for AI assistance
• Xcode — for LockIn and any Swift/SwiftUI work. Love-hate relationship.
• Figma — for design work before any code is written
• GitHub — version control under osh0612, the source of truth for everything
• Vercel — deployment platform for all web projects
• Terminal — for git, npm, and the occasional server debug session
• Safari/Chrome — for testing, research, and the inevitable Stack Overflow tab

The Schedule

Building happens after school. The typical day:

• School hours — math, physics, the academic stuff that feeds into pilot training prep
• After school — 2-3 hours of building. This is the sacred time. Features get built, bugs get fixed, products move forward.
• Evenings — sometimes more building, sometimes group chats, sometimes rest
• Fridays — co/Build at Nevermind, building alongside other founders
• Late nights — the honest truth is that some of the best work happens after everyone else is asleep. 11pm to 1am coding sessions are not rare.

The Environment

Building at home means building around family. Mom and Dad are supportive — Dad's fintech background at Thunes means he actually understands what I'm building. Ranveer (my brother) is around. The workspace exists within a household, not separate from it.

This has trade-offs. There's no isolation for deep focus — school, family, and building all compete for the same hours. But there's also no loneliness. The solo founder experience is already isolating enough; at least the physical environment has people in it.

co/Build Fridays

Once a week, the workspace expands beyond home. co/Build at Nevermind is where I build alongside other founders — Manav Chawla's community of 200+ people who show up every Friday to work on their things. It's not a coworking space in the traditional sense. It's a room full of builders, and the energy is different from building alone.

The Philosophy

The workspace is minimal because the work isn't about the workspace. I've seen setups on Twitter with three monitors, mechanical keyboards, and RGB lighting. Cool. But the best products I've built were made on a basic laptop in a room in Mudon Rahat. The tools matter. The environment is just where you sit.

See Also

• Cursor and Claude -- the primary building tools
• The Solo Founder -- why the workspace is a one-person operation
• co/Build -- the weekly extension of the workspace
• Health & Fitness -- the daily routine around building