build bold.build fast.build once.

Iit started with noticing

Fig. 1 — after Zallinger, misremembered
TIMELINE001

The long way here

A short history of making.

First Website
2019
Flutter Apps
2020
Google UX Cert
2021
IITR
IIT Roorkee
2022
My Smart Alpha
2023
GSoC × Summer of Bitcoin
2024
EZ
EZAIX
2024
Recepto.ai
2025
Aurora AI
2026

First Website — Web Developer

Built my first website around cybersecurity. From breaking things to making them.

Beyond the job title

What I spend my time on

  1. 01MOST DAYS

    Code

    I ship what I design. Building the thing is still the fastest way to find out whether the design actually held up.

  2. 02MOST DAYS

    Design

    The part I'd keep if I had to drop the rest. Systems, states, and the small calls nobody notices when they're right.

  3. 03WEEKLY

    Writing

    Notes on design and code, plus a fantasy novel I keep returning to. Writing is how I work out what I actually think.

  4. 04NIGHTS

    Building

    Small products of my own, made in the open. Fewer roadmaps, more evenings, and a shorter distance to the first user.

Learn loudly · Ship openly

Open source

  1. 01

    Google Summer of Code · Neutralino.js

    Open Source Developer · 2024

    Debugged a large C++/JS codebase and shipped Windows 7 support upstream for the cross-platform desktop framework (Windows API, WRL).

  2. 02

    Summer of Bitcoin · Breez Wallet

    Product Design Fellow · 2024

    Designed for Breez, a Lightning wallet with 50K+ users, and brought RAG + AI into UX research — mining 100K+ Telegram messages into evidence-backed design decisions.

  3. 03

    Do Nothing

    Author & maintainer

    A local-first app that does the hard thing so you can do nothing — built and maintained fully in the open.

Sitting on a low wall under a bare tree, looking out over a snowbound village at first light
Looking up between glass towers in a business district, one figure in the foreground
Standing on a boulder with both arms out, face to the sky, snowfield and peaks behind
Looking down at a pair of rubber boots on untracked snow, animal prints running past
Rows of prayer flags strung across a wooden footbridge over a boulder-strewn river
Portrait in a scarf and dark coat, laughing, in a stand of pines under fresh snow
Sitting on a granite boulder beside a turquoise glacial river, pines on the far bank
Meltwater running down a village track between banks of dirty snow at dusk
A small camp of huts on a bare ridge with a snow-covered range behind it

Open source

GSoC ’24
Summer of Bitcoin ’24

Shipped in the open

DESIGN AND CODEREFUSE TO SETTLE

Portfolio · 2026

Bhuvan Ade

Founding product designer
Bengaluru, India

Bhuvan Ade · a note

The craft lives in the details nobody is asked to notice.

IIT Roorkee

2022 — 2025