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A curious builder who happens to use software as his medium.

I'm Anurag. I run Big Bear Software, build DocPilot for Indian doctors, and lead UI at NextEra AI. But the job titles are the least interesting part. This page is the rest.

Why I build

Because some problems deserve better.

Ten years ago it was one line of code, a Hello, World! that ran, and something in me that never quite switched off after that. origin story coming

What kept me here isn't the code. It's the moment a real person uses a thing you made and their day gets measurably lighter, like a teacher finding a school in three seconds, or a doctor sending a prescription before the patient reaches the parking lot. Software is the medium; that moment is the point.

These days I'm trying to build software for people who are usually ignored by good software: Indian clinics, small businesses, people with real work to do. to be confirmed in my words

The two modes

Explorer and quiet.

Explorer mode

Out there

Road trips. Meeting strangers. Travel, long conversations, wrong turns taken on purpose. The best ideas rarely happen at the desk.

Adventures →

Quiet mode

In here

Coffee, music, code, AI, reading, thinking. Long stretches of building where the world goes quiet and the work talks.

Journal →

Things I believe

Working principles, honestly held.

Software should feel effortless.

The best products disappear. If a doctor has to think about DocPilot instead of the patient, DocPilot has failed. Effort spent by the builder is effort saved by ten thousand users.

Curiosity beats certainty.

Certainty closes doors; curiosity opens them. The most useful question in any review is “what if we're wrong about this?”

Great products solve emotional problems.

Nobody wants prescription software. Doctors want to leave the clinic on time and feel in control of their day. The feature list is the surface; the feeling is the product.

Every project teaches something.

Twenty-plus projects in, not one was wasted. Even the failures paid tuition. That's why the Failure Museum exists: the lessons are worth more than the wreckage.

two more coming: one about AI, one about people. I'd rather leave gaps than fake conviction.

Small things that matter

What I notice.

I notice interior design, the way a room decides how you feel before anyone says a word.

I love coffee shops. Some for the coffee, most for the feeling.

I enjoy long drives. The thinking happens somewhere around hour two.

I value conversations that go somewhere real. Small talk is a door, not a room.

I laugh easily once I'm comfortable. Getting me there isn't hard: good coffee, honest questions.

Questions I'm exploring

I collect these instead of answers.

  • Why do some products become habits while better ones get deleted?
  • Why do strangers sometimes become friends in one conversation?
  • Can software make people feel understood?
  • What does a doctor actually feel at 9pm after the last patient?
  • Why does a road trip solve problems that a desk can't?
  • When does a tool stop being a tool and start being a place?
  • What would Indian software look like if it were designed for India first, not translated to it?
  • How much of good taste is just noticing longer than everyone else?
  • Will AI make builders lazier or braver?

Still reading?

Then we'd probably get along. See what I'm building, read what my friends say about me, or just say hello.

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