Nitesh Kumar

Ai Dev | Built & running a social platform at $0 | Realtime systems | Founder @WavmateOfficial

[Nitesh Kumar @imnit3sh]

400+ days.
150K+ lines of code.
$0 spent.
Built a social media platform from scratch using Claude’s free tier.

It’s now live:
https://t.co/GtApHhjcxK

#BuildInPublic #IndieHackers #AI #Startup #Solopreneur #WebDevelopment

[Nitesh Kumar @imnit3sh]

@WHYkalwani This resonates with me. I've built a production platform from scratch backend, frontend, infrastructure, AI integrations, deployment, and automation. Real-world engineering teaches lessons no coding puzzle can.
Wavmate: https://t.co/GtApHhjcxK
GitHub: https://t.co/BkNAwuszas

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@AvinashSingh_20 Building Wavmate a social media platform. Still early, but shipping every week.
https://t.co/ZAjIL4chV5

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Built Wavmate, a global map-based social platform, using @SarvamAI for multilingual voice news bringing it to Indian-language audiences worldwide #BuildWithSarvam @SarvamForDevs

[Nitesh Kumar @imnit3sh]

@SarvamAI Built Wavmate, a global map-based social platform, using Sarvam AI's for multilingual voice news bringing it to Indian-language audiences worldwide. Excited to see #BuildWithSarvam grow.

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Posted this on r/indianstartups 3 days ago. 238K views.800+ upvotes.

The discussion wasn't really about one AI model getting blocked. It was about a bigger question: how much of the technology stack do we actually own?

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@aether_uiux https://t.co/ZAjIL4chV5

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@pie6k https://t.co/ZAjIL4chV5

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@JunaidAckroyd https://t.co/ZAjIL4chV5

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@16vchq https://t.co/ZAjIL4chV5

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@benln Check this
https://t.co/ZAjIL4chV5

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@shafu0x HR: what is your greatest weakness?
Engineer: I sometimes over-engineer solutions.
HR: sorry we are looking for someone more of a team player.

[Nitesh Kumar @imnit3sh]

@clarefinds Building Wavmate a map-based social platform where you explore news, posts and people by country on an interactive world map.

400+ days solo. Just went viral on Reddit last month.

Would love to connect.
https://t.co/VdliqJuH07

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@CuerpaAsasino @vasantshetty81 Wright brothers needed wood, fabric and physics.

All freely available.

Building GPU infra needs billions in capital and Nvidia chips that are export controlled by the same country that just banned our access.

This is not a mindset problem. It is a structural problem.

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@kunalvg IT veterans didn't fumble. They optimized for what the market rewarded.

Cheap services for foreign clients. That was the incentive.
The system is broken. Not the people.

Until that changes next gen will fumble the next wave too.

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@cryptoady Lead tabhi karenge jab sirf consume karna band karenge.

Har wave mein yahi hua technology aayi, hum ne use kiya, banaya nahi.

Aur problem talent ki nahi hai. Conviction ki hai.

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@svembu 99% of Indian startups run on AWS. Cloudflare. Twilio. Stripe.

Even Indian government websites run on Cloudflare.

Switch to open source models — infra underneath is still foreign.

The dependency didn't go away. It just got quieter.

We need the ecosystem. Not just the model.

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@beatsinbrief Sridhar Vembu is right. But "build AI" is not enough.

India needs the full stack.

GPU cloud. CDN. Data centers. Monitoring. Auth. Storage.

Zoho understood this 20 years ago. Built everything themselves.

We need 100 Zohos. Not 100 AI wrappers.

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@rkjat65 @IndianTechGuide 0.64% R&D of GDP. Private sector contributes only 36% of that.

But private sector is not lazy. It's rational.

No VC funds boring infra for 10 years with no customers.

Rent AWS, ship tomorrow, raise money. That's the playbook.

The incentive is broken. Not the talent.

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@IndianTechGuide India doesn't need just an AI model.
It needs an ecosystem. GPU cloud. CDN. Data centers. Monitoring. Auth. Storage.

A model running on AWS with an Indian flag on it is not sovereign AI.

Today proved it. One US government order and we're all locked out.