https://thekohai.com/ How developers in India build with AI. Curated by AI, edited by a human. en https://thekohai.com/blog/aanya-iyer-recipe-search https://thekohai.com/blog/aanya-iyer-recipe-search Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT One Developer's Story Three Sunday afternoons, 240 pages of Tamil-English shorthand, and a single prompt that learned her family’s way of measuring “a little salt.” We sat down with Aanya to walk through the build. https://thekohai.com/blog/rohan-mehta-terminal-todo https://thekohai.com/blog/rohan-mehta-terminal-todo Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT One Developer's Story A Pune backend engineer built a 180-line CLI that turns his last seven days of commits into Monday’s priorities. The result lives in his shell. No app, no notifications. https://thekohai.com/blog/chennai-tamil-code-review https://thekohai.com/blog/chennai-tamil-code-review Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT One Developer's Story Karthik Subramanian wanted his team’s junior devs to read review comments in their first language without losing precision. We walked through the system he ended up with. https://thekohai.com/blog/priya-shah-one-prompt https://thekohai.com/blog/priya-shah-one-prompt Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Working with Claude The Ahmedabad designer’s eight-line prompt now handles meeting notes, weekly recaps, and a fairly aggressive opinion about her writing voice. Here’s the prompt. https://thekohai.com/blog/vihaan-kapoor-freelance-script https://thekohai.com/blog/vihaan-kapoor-freelance-script Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Build Notes Invoicing, contract drafts, follow-ups, monthly reports — all of it from one file on his laptop. He showed us the parts he’s embarrassed about, which were the parts we found most useful. https://thekohai.com/blog/anjali-rao-maintainer-inbox https://thekohai.com/blog/anjali-rao-maintainer-inbox Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Working with Claude After 9,000 GitHub notifications in a year, she started over. The new system labels, summarises, and writes draft replies. She still presses send. https://thekohai.com/blog/vadodara-zero-cloud-saas https://thekohai.com/blog/vadodara-zero-cloud-saas Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Build Notes “You don’t need a GPU to start.” A quiet writeup of the architecture, the trade-offs, and the moment one of her customers asked how it was so fast. https://thekohai.com/blog/saurabh-joshi-tailor-shop https://thekohai.com/blog/saurabh-joshi-tailor-shop Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Weekend Builds Order book on an iPad, voice notes in Gujarati, automatic reminders before festival deadlines. He sent us photos of the actual workshop. https://thekohai.com/blog/cursor-vs-claude-code https://thekohai.com/blog/cursor-vs-claude-code Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Tools in the Wild Four developers, one 4,000-line legacy file, two tools. We logged what worked, what didn’t, and what surprised us about each of them.