Indie Agentic Engineer

I build AI tools, Agentic websites and write about what breaks.

Currently obsessing over agent workflows, edge runtimes, and how to keep this site from looking like every AI-built portfolio.

View work → Read writing

02 / Work

Selected projects

AI Layoff Tracker →

Started this after watching three friends get cut. Tracks 52 companies that explicitly cited AI as the reason for layoffs.

OpenWhisper →

Native macOS speech-to-text. Built it because dictation on the Mac was inexplicably bad.

BraveBridge →

Chrome extension that gives Claude eyes on your browser. Open source, MIT licensed.

Claude Speaks →

npm package that gives Claude a voice — MCP server wrapping edge-tts. Drop it into any agent.

Talk to Your Book →

Upload a PDF, chat with the contents. Weekend project that turned into something I actually use.

03 / Writing

Recent notes

I installed a Claude Code plugin before auditing it — here's the checklist I should have run first.

Stop paying for a VPS to run Puppeteer — use Cloudflare Workers instead.

I built a browser extension for AI agents — then discovered Claude already did it.

How I ditched Google Workspace and built my own stack on Cloudflare.

04 / Contact

Say hello.

If you're building something interesting, I'd love to hear about it.

hello@rajvardhman.com →