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Hi. I'm Amar.

Rhymes with 'summer'

Lead Product Manager in Google Labs, working on Gen Media Models for Google Flow

01 Writing & Links

Essays Workshop LinkedIn Twitter

Featured essay Build to Think: An Autumn Audit Ten months, one person, 1,268 commits — and one commit nobody typed. The year-to-date audit of every project in the workshop: a golf record that captures, gates and pushes itself nightly, a course you can own through a side door, a leave that moved the clock from 5am to 9am, and the lessons that survived all of it.

02 Projects — built to think 17 projects · 990 commits · as of 27 Oct 2026 · the board →

P-01 Catalina A deterministic war-game engine: Westeros houses on real California terrain, three genres on one substrate Live 21 commitsAug–Sep 2026React · Vite · zustandSep 2026 P-02 Bittman A cooking coach for one new dad: twenty dinners in order, 45 recipes, menus, a fridge, and a curriculum that plans to make itself unnecessary Live 25 commitsAug–Oct 2026Next.js · zustandOct 2026 P-03 Mackenzie A golf record of one player: 175 rounds, a shot ledger from the watch, a course map, a nightly capture that commits by itself — every number derivable Live 114 commitsAug–Oct 2026Next.js · MapLibreOct 2026 P-04 Prompts The first engagement-weighted AI prompt benchmark — ~1,381 prompts mined from viral posts on X — and a public market map Live 307 commitsFeb–Aug 2026Next.js · PostgresAug 2026 P-05 Golf An arcade golf sim over real municipal courses — wind, spin, and terrain slope from elevation data; 21 courses baked from OSM — and now a course-manager sim through a side door Live 59 commitsMay–Sep 2026React · CanvasSep 2026 P-06 Rush A 3D arcade racer over real San Francisco terrain, in the lineage of SF Rush Live 3 commitsJul 2026Astro · R3F · RapierJul 2026 P-07 Flow TCG A deckbuilder where you shepherd a GenMedia model past the Launch Review Committee Live 27 commitsJun–Jul 2026Next.js · ZodJul 2026 P-08 SF A paper-and-ink atlas of a real move to San Francisco — contours, burritos, and a sun-chasing weather console Live 123 commitsApr–Jul 2026Astro · MapLibreJul 2026 P-09 Archetypes Draw archetype cards and explore interactive readings, rendered in 3D — 87 defended entries, rebuilt from a phone-built v1 Live 172 commitsMar–Jul 2026Next.js · R3FJul 2026 P-10 Inference A playful calculator for the compute costs behind generative AI, on a sourced price ledger Live 64 commitsApr–Jul 2026React · ViteJul 2026 P-11 Stems Splits any song into vocals, drums, bass, and other — entirely on your own machine — then draws it Live 25 commitsJul 2026Python · Demucs · WebCodecsJul 2026 P-12 Levels An atlas of level design — the repo is the database, the validator is the test suite Live 9 commitsJul–Sep 2026Next.jsSep 2026 P-13 Course Renderer A golf-course digital twin renderer built with Codex — MapLibre over OSM, the keyless thesis's control arm Live 11 commitsJul 2026MapLibre · SupabaseJul 2026 P-14 Prompts MCP A remote MCP server serving the prompts observatory — and an explainer of how remote MCP works Live 6 commitsJul 2026MCP · VercelJul 2026

P-15 Minecraft Mods Two Minecraft mods: MTL Memories on Forge and LabsCraft on Fabric with an LLM-powered NPC — plus SportsCraft in a PR Building 14 commitsJan–Jul 2026Java · Fabric · ForgeJul 2026

P-16 Kareem RPG A birthday RPG for a friend, shipped on itch.io Live 0 commits—Godot P-17 Bass Learning the bass, my own weird way — a practice tool with a thirty-tab library and one logged practice Live 10 commitsApr 2026Next.jsApr 2026

03 The web — what traveled between them

Not nine prototypes — a cinematic universe.

The cast recurs. Doppler's four-time club champion walked out of the tournament record and became the man swinging the club in Golf. Rush was cut whole out of SF and now drives a golf course. The build-time fact-check written for Prompts was reinvented, independently, in two more repos.

Every project is a node. Every lesson that traveled is an edge. The site is where the web becomes visible — read the appendix →