Khushin

Khushin Patel
Building in the open

Learning things and building cool stuff.

I’m figuring things out in public and turning the useful parts into real products.

Writing
Substack

I write when I figure something out — or change my mind.

Read along on Substack

The record
27 May → 31 Jul 2026

This is what learning in public looks like.

Every point comes straight from git. I don’t round the numbers.

Commits
1063
Days worked
57of 66
Busiest day
71
Repositories
4
5001000MayJunJul 2026-05-27 — 2 commits2026-05-29 — 7 commits2026-05-30 — 2 commits2026-06-04 — 1 commit2026-06-07 — 1 commit2026-06-08 — 5 commits2026-06-09 — 13 commits2026-06-10 — 27 commits2026-06-11 — 6 commits2026-06-12 — 8 commits2026-06-14 — 16 commits2026-06-15 — 17 commits2026-06-16 — 2 commits2026-06-17 — 15 commits2026-06-18 — 18 commits2026-06-19 — 17 commits2026-06-20 — 13 commits2026-06-21 — 6 commits2026-06-22 — 29 commits2026-06-23 — 29 commits2026-06-24 — 16 commits2026-06-25 — 20 commits2026-06-26 — 49 commits2026-06-27 — 13 commits2026-06-28 — 21 commits2026-06-29 — 11 commits2026-06-30 — 6 commits2026-07-01 — 23 commits2026-07-02 — 30 commits2026-07-03 — 13 commits2026-07-04 — 33 commits2026-07-05 — 14 commits2026-07-06 — 6 commits2026-07-08 — 19 commits2026-07-09 — 40 commits2026-07-10 — 40 commits2026-07-11 — 4 commits2026-07-12 — 18 commits2026-07-13 — 22 commits2026-07-14 — 16 commits2026-07-15 — 48 commits2026-07-16 — 36 commits2026-07-17 — 29 commits2026-07-18 — 7 commits2026-07-19 — 11 commits2026-07-20 — 19 commits2026-07-21 — 13 commits2026-07-22 — 15 commits2026-07-23 — 56 commits2026-07-24 — 22 commits2026-07-25 — 71 commits2026-07-26 — 10 commits2026-07-27 — 22 commits2026-07-28 — 13 commits2026-07-29 — 17 commits2026-07-30 — 24 commits2026-07-31 — 2 commits 2026-05-27 — An empty repository2026-05-29 — It ran on a phone2026-06-08 — The look arrived2026-06-09 — Privacy stopped being a sentence2026-06-11 — A door for other people2026-06-15 — It became an app2026-06-17 — A second thing began2026-06-18 — Someone who wasn’t me used it2026-06-22 — I removed the parts that were lying2026-07-03 — Somewhere to put it2026-07-22 — Started again, natively2026-07-25 — It became something you download An empty repositoryIt became something you download
Cumulative commits · daily volume beneath · marked where something changed

The log
Turning points

12 days the work changed direction.

  1. An empty repository
  2. It ran on a phone
  3. The look arrived
  4. Privacy stopped being a sentence
  5. A door for other people
  6. It became an app
  7. A second thing began
  8. Someone who wasn’t me used it
  9. I removed the parts that were lying
  10. Somewhere to put it
  11. Started again, natively
  12. It became something you download

The full record

The work
Two products

I’m building two things right now. They’re both real and still changing.

Garden · 836 commits · since 27 May

See your money without handing it over.

Garden helps you understand your money while keeping the private parts private. It works on the web and Mac today, with iPhone in progress.

Garden

Garden, desktop
Garden Native, iOS

Kapers · 94 commits · since 17 June

An assistant that asks before it acts.

Tell Kapers what you need. It works out the details, shows you the plan, and waits for your yes.

Kapers

Betas
Friends and family

Want to try one?

Here’s what you can try now, and what I’m still working on.

TestFlight opens the day the account clears.

Now

Let’s make something cool.

mail@khushin.com

Khushin Patel

Learning things and building cool stuff.

mail@khushin.com