Kunal Mishra

Indoor Positioning System

I'm building a wifi-based hi-precision indoor positioning system as a GPS alternative indoors. Supported by gradCapital and BITS SIRE.

SLM Inference on Edge Devices

A lot of mobile devices come with Neural Processing Units but they're underutilised for Small Language Model (SLM) inference processes. We're building an inference engine that solves this.

ServiceSetu Higher-Ed Job Portal

Built a jobs and announcements portal for ServiceSetu, a higher ed job portal that a PhD at my college is running with her husband. They have a large following and routinely get 45-60k views a month.

CSI Based Activity Recognition

A paper I worked on under Prof Sougata Sen where we're trying to train a model on CSI value plots of a WIFi network in a room to recognise what's going on between the sender and receiver.

Telescope Webportal

I lead a team building a webportal for an automated telescope setup at SEDS Celestia, our college astronomy club's motorised telescope, so anybody could request a live image from it of the night sky.

Smart Space at DaSH Lab

A research project I lead under Prof Arnab Paul at DaSH lab, BITS Goa. We're set up raspberry pis and cameras in a classroom to monitor student attention and help improve teaching pedagogy. It's been a wild ride getting hardware, ML, and real classrooms to play nice together.

Full Stack at Buttondown

I built a few features with Django and Vue.js. I've been generally interested in the email industry. It was a dream working with Justin.

BioCompute Research

Researched and wrote scripts for BioCompute — Bacterial DNA can store digital data thousands of times more densely than Seagate's current best tech. We're working on a device which would bring this in a form you can plug into your PC.

Dump.ink (now defunct)

Dump is a minimal micro-blogging platform I built for Deta Space which lets anybody create and host their own microblogs for free for ever. It is completely decentralised. Deta offered to buy it from me if I turned it into a decentralised social media protocol which I couldn't work on as life got in the way. I may continue this in the future.

Marketing Consulting at Deta.space

For a brief stint, Deta hired me to help them think new marketing strategies for their personal cloud product. About an year later, they pivoted to building a browser. They recently shut down.

Twift.xyz (now defunct)

Now defunct, Twift helped creators run "reply with an 👋" giveaways on Twitter, handling sending thousands of DMs without being marked as spam. I built and designed the whole web-app and DM-ing engine while Prado (@pradologue) helped me with growing it to hundreds of users. We had to eventually shut down when the Twitter API pricing change made this too expensive to continue ($40k/month to be exact).

Socialscri.be

I built a SaaS tool that lets newsletter creators add social sign-up buttons (sign-up with google) to their websites without coding. I designed and built the entire thing up and grew it to a few thousand dollars in profits.

Content Marketing at HelloMeets

Did SEO for HelloMeets — I handled the entire publishing process for the HelloMeets blog while growing it from 600 to over 45k visits a month, in 8 months on a strict budget.

Back of my Head (now defunct)

I ran an email newsletter rounding up cool stuff I found throughout the week. It went on the get over a thousand subscribers but I couldn't be consistent and decided to drop it. It did lead me to build Socialscribe though.

Design for The Morning Context

I designed the infographic template for an newly launched, independent, subscription-based news publication from the cofounders of The Ken. Thanks Ashish K Mishra and Harveen Ahluwalia for this gig.

Right Click (now defunct)

I used to write a blog called Theciva about tech news and stuff like what would happen if Apple bought DuckDuckGo, flaws of India's COVID-times contact tracing app or what Google being carbon neutral meant. I also got a little bit of readers through SEO though most readers came through repost (w canonical urls) on Medium (unfortunately their partner program wasn't in India then) and HackerNoon (where I won me 3 Noonies prizes!). Theciva evolved into Right Click (had to change the name!) which I tried to turn into Morning Brew for tech (also inspired by Filter Coffee). Later, I shut it down and sold the coolest twitter username I have ever owned yet—@rightclick—to rc.xyz, an NFT art platform for the easiest $1000 of my life.

Freelance Content Writing

Did Freelance Content Writing — In 2018-19, I wrote a bunch of articles for Mobisium, a blog that later turned into a content platform. They paid me peanuts (between ₹180-300 per 1000-2000 words) but it was my first time working for someone else and I loved it. I even pitched them a video that I did alongside a blog post. I also did a few gigs on Fiverr for their minimum $5.