# DP

> half batman, half spider-man. no superpowers. no plot armor.

DP builds small apps, cuts video edits and writes long essays about tech. A sketchbook of everything made, brewing and half-finished.

My friends call me DP. i build small apps for things that annoy me. i also edit videos using stuff i shot myself, tv series, movies and random media. sometimes i explore new aesthetics through cover art, my apps' design and personal graphic design. some of it's useful. most of it's just fun.

## Right now
- taking a break between coding and experimenting.
- trying new things on purpose: ai-first videos, tiny tools, whatever sticks.
- figuring out which of the three brewing things gets the next month.

## Currently brewing
- **ombly**: redaction that actually redacts. most "redacted" pdfs still have the text sitting under the black box. select, copy, oops. it finds the private bits in your documents, like account numbers and ids, and takes them out for real. it runs on your own computer. nothing gets uploaded. (https://www.ombly.space/)
- **aarchid**: a personal botanist on your phone. plant apps tell you to water on tuesdays. plants don't know what a tuesday is. it's a plant-care harness. it takes into account where you are, which plant it is and how old it is, so the care it suggests fits that plant, in that place, at that age. (https://www.aarchid.space/)
- **status widgets**: so your users stop blaming you for someone else's outage. when something your app depends on goes down, your users blame you for things you can't control. it's event-driven. it watches your apps and infrastructure, and when something goes down it tells your users automatically, so they always know what's wrong. (https://www.status-widgets.com/)

## Projects
- [openlens](https://madebydp.com/made/openlens): tells tired maintainers which prs are real and which are someone farming green squares.
- [retold ai](https://madebydp.com/made/retold-ai): feed it a three-hour movie. get a trailer back.
- [spotify mcp](https://madebydp.com/made/spotify-mcp): tells you how your music taste has shifted. no premium needed.
- [black hole simulation engine](https://madebydp.com/made/black-hole-simulation-engine): i watch too much interstellar. so i made light bend around a black hole in c++.
- [hackmate](https://madebydp.com/made/hackmate): tinder, but for co-founders. swipe right on someone who also wants to stay up till 4am fixing prod.
- [onlynerds](https://madebydp.com/made/onlynerds): not what the name suggests. you fork a course, remix it and learn it with an ai tutor.

## Older projects
- **toolchainai**: llm agents with tools, minus the boilerplate. (https://www.npmjs.com/package/toolchainai)
- **video call streaming**: webrtc rooms where one person streams and everyone else watches. (https://github.com/dfordp/fermion-timepass)
- **meeting scheduler mcp**: finds the cal.com and calendly links inside an organization, so an ai can book the meeting. (https://github.com/dfordp/mcp-timepass)
- **sarnet**: colours in black-and-white radar satellite images. (https://github.com/dfordp/sarnet-api)
- **super grader**: reads answer scripts and grades them against a rubric. (https://github.com/dfordp/super-grader-api)
- **crowd funding**: fundraising where a smart contract handles the payouts.
- **sumz**: summarises articles so you don't have to finish them. (https://ai-summariser.vercel.app/)
- **one med**: a family's medical records in one place, shareable by link. (https://github.com/dfordp/one-med-api)
- **goserve**: send it code, get output back. nothing runs on your laptop. (https://compile-me.ankn.dev/)
- **ai companion**: chatbots modelled on real personalities.

## Video edits (creative YouTube channel)
- [Batman | Creep (Radiohead)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXTFnEZPrms): robert pattinson brooding to radiohead.
- [General Mbappé](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUNFQOCjuBQ): world cup brain rot, cut with love.
- [BoJack Horseman's Final Curtain Call](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbqI3q4Ie_g): the view from halfway down. bring tissues.
- [SUPERSONIC AMV](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpgy_Vzf_WI): jjk, aot, demon slayer and levi, held together by skrillex.
- [Across the Spider-Verse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxpDMCuoJ1s): way too many keyframes.
- [This Is What Fear Sounds Like](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAEg4RMd-RI): the batman, again. there is a pattern.
- [The Batman - "Kick Out"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waiViufbhgk): travis scott and a very wet gotham.
- [My Existence | Spider-Man: Brand New Day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ERdcDGxWqg): tom holland, cut to skrillex.
- ["I came here to kill you" | ON TIME](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R51daZr3nqY): my ai-first short film. sci-fi, and a little tense.
- [The Blessings Between Elements](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlY7xaZF7Mk): a visual poem.
- [Semblances of February, ch. 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk3k53Us6MM): stillness and surrender. the slow one.
- [Khada hu aaj bhi wahi | Choo Lo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in6f_jQeDQw): the local train.
- [Let Her Go x Husn](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8VqfBAxE5o): the most watched one.
- [Beyond the Spider-Verse Hype | Annihilate](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7WF3SFJ_XU): metro boomin, skrillex and miles.
- [Supersonic Edit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tkIM84blHo): skrillex, the first time.
- [Existance Edit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA5-XLwRnvQ): nvke and josh neuman.
- [The Batman - "Foolish"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykfIzflcBsc): where the batman thing started.

## Explainers (technical YouTube channel)
- [Why AI agents get adopted, then silently abandoned](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTRByjnrluM): people try your agent once, like it, and never open it again. this is about why.
- [Core database topics explained like you're 5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYn6ccE68D0): three database ideas that sound scary and really aren't.

## Writing
- [Why Most AI Workflows Fail (And Nobody Wants to Talk About It)](https://madebydp.com/words/why-most-ai-workflows-fail) (2026-06-05): most ai workflows die quietly after the demo, and the pitch decks never mention it.
- [The Invisible Arbitrage: Why I'm Trading the Hype-Cycle for the Real Economy](https://madebydp.com/words/the-invisible-arbitrage) (2026-05-11): i'm stepping off the hype cycle to build for the boring, real economy.
- [Voice AI Has a Networking Problem Nobody Talks About](https://madebydp.com/words/voice-ai-networking-problem) (2026-05-09): voice ai breaks in production at the network layer, not the model.
- [I tried making a decentralized OS on my own and failed miserably](https://madebydp.com/words/decentralized-os-on-my-own) (2026-03-23): phones and laptops make bad servers. i found out by overheating several.
- [The AI Mirage: Power Grids, Paper Billions, and the Global Reality Check.](https://madebydp.com/words/the-ai-mirage) (2026-03-20): the ai boom is running into power grids and paper valuations.
- [The AI Productivity Paradox: Why Efficiency is Skyrocketing While Employees are Burning Out](https://madebydp.com/words/ai-productivity-paradox) (2026-03-18): ai makes teams faster and more burnt out at the same time.
- [Definitive Guide to AI Benchmarks: Comparing Models, Testing Your Own, and Understanding the Future](https://madebydp.com/words/guide-to-ai-benchmarks) (2025-03-07): how ai benchmarks are built, how models compare on them, and how to test your own.
- [Why Quantum Computing is the next big thing?](https://madebydp.com/words/intro-to-quantum-computing) (2025-02-19): quantum computing in plain words, for students and the curious.
- [Untapped Potential of Blockchain](https://madebydp.com/words/untapped-potential-of-blockchain) (2025-02-04): blockchain is useful for a lot more than coins.
- [My Experience Using GenAI in Software Development](https://madebydp.com/words/experience-using-genai-sde) (2024-09-10): what genai changed in how i write software, and what it didn't.

## Elsewhere
- Technical YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dilpreetgrover11
- Creative YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@dfordp
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_dfordp_
- X: https://x.com/dfordp11
- Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/dfordp/
- Email: dilpreetgrover2@gmail.com