Hey, I’m Bilal
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I build things, read more books than I finish, watch a lot of films, and drink too much coffee. Say hi!
Reading now
5 books
- Bangalore Through the CenturiesHasan
- Red RisingBrown
- Same as EverHousel
Building
All projectsSynapse
Synapse is hospital management software for outpatient care, built for one pilot hospital in India. That hospital runs on paper today. It sees 100 to 250 outpatients a day with one regular doctor, a stand-in for leave and a visiting specialist about once a week. One front desk handles reception, billing and the pharmacy. The goal was a real system for that building first, structured so it could later serve other hospitals as a product.
Kaapi
Kaapi started as Brew Notes. That was a private brew journal: you logged your beans, your gear and every cup, so a good result stopped being an accident you couldn't reproduce. It worked, and it was live, but it answered a question only its owner was asking. The bigger gap sat one step earlier. Nobody in India can currently answer "show me a light-roast washed coffee under ₹800 that suits a V60." The coffees exist, spread across a dozen roaster shops with a dozen ways of describing them, and there's no single place to look.
Chapter-1
Chapter-1 began as a set of design mockups. Four screens for a GLP-1 (Zepbound) weight-loss tracker, drawn in Claude Design on a house visual system called "Industry": steel-blue on a pale blueprint ground, square hairline cards with small + registration marks in the corners, a faint 45-degree hatch. The itch was to make them real. Not a screenshot of a tracker but a working one, with the charts actually computing from data and the whole thing behaving, on exactly that design system rather than an approximation of it.
