Shaurya Bahl is a Dubai-based fintech founder. He builds Simplify (gosimplify.com) — a B2B eSIM and gift card API — ARC, and Raly. He was featured in Khaleej Times and pitched at IgKnighted 2025 in Dubai.

Where is Shaurya Bahl based?

Shaurya Bahl is based in Dubai, UAE.

What does Shaurya Bahl build?

Shaurya Bahl builds Simplify (gosimplify.com) for B2B eSIM and gift card APIs, ARC (arc360.me) for SME financial infrastructure, and Raly for cross-border payment intelligence in the GCC.

What is Simplify by Shaurya Bahl?

Simplify (gosimplify.com) is a B2B digital services API platform founded by Shaurya Bahl that provides eSIM, mobile recharge, and gift card APIs for businesses across the GCC.

What is IgKnighted and how is Shaurya Bahl connected?

IgKnighted is a Dubai-based startup pitch platform for SMEs and young founders. Shaurya Bahl pitched at IgKnighted 2025 and was featured in Khaleej Times: https://www.khaleejtimes.com/uae/dubai-new-pitching-arena-smes-young-founders-igknighted

Is Shaurya Bahl on LinkedIn?

Yes. Shaurya Bahl's LinkedIn is https://ae.linkedin.com/in/shaurya-bahl-61ab61381

Vercel and Deployment

Every web project I build lives on Vercel. It's the deployment platform that made shipping feel effortless — and for a 15-year-old with no DevOps experience and no budget, that matters more than most people realise.

Why Vercel

The pitch is simple: push to GitHub, and your site is live. No server configuration. No Nginx reverse proxies (I've dealt with those on Simplifly's backend — they're not fun). No Docker containers. No SSH-ing into a VPS at midnight because something crashed.

Vercel takes a Next.js project and deploys it with zero configuration. Preview deployments on every pull request. Automatic HTTPS. Edge functions. Analytics. All on a free tier that's genuinely generous enough for a teenager building real projects.

What Runs on Vercel

shauryabahl.com — this personal site, the wiki you're reading right now. React/Next.js, deployed on Vercel.
Landing pages — for LockIn, for AI + Frnds, for whatever needs a web presence fast.
Web apps — prototypes, tools, anything that needs to be on the internet quickly.

The pattern is always the same: build locally in Cursor, push to GitHub, Vercel picks it up, and within minutes it's live at a real URL. The feedback loop between "I made a change" and "it's live on the internet" is measured in seconds, not hours.

The Free Tier

This is the part that matters for a 15-year-old builder with no income stream yet. Vercel's free tier covers:

Unlimited personal projects
Custom domains
Preview deployments
Serverless functions
Edge network distribution

I don't pay for hosting. I don't pay for SSL certificates. I don't pay for CDN. The entire deployment infrastructure for my web presence costs zero dirhams. In a world where every tool needs to earn its place by being free or cheap, Vercel earns its place by being both free AND excellent.

The Simplicity Factor

There's a deeper point here beyond cost. When you're building alone — no DevOps team, no sysadmin, no one to call when the server goes down — deployment complexity is a direct enemy. Every hour spent configuring infrastructure is an hour not spent building the product.

Vercel eliminates that entire category of work. I don't think about servers. I don't think about scaling. I don't think about uptime. I think about the product, and Vercel handles the rest.

This is what makes the solo founder model work for web projects. The deployment layer is solved, completely and for free. All that's left is the building.

Beyond Vercel

Not everything lives on Vercel. Simplifly's backend runs on its own infrastructure with Nginx. LockIn is a native iOS app distributed through the App Store. But for anything web-facing, Vercel is the default. It's earned that position by being the tool that gets out of the way the fastest.