Hitaarth

DestinationA Daily Reading Practice in English and Hindi

CrewSolo build

StatusLAUNCHED

Problem: Feeds give endless information and almost nothing that stays.
What I did: Built a daily practice: one idea, what it means, and one small action, in 4 languages.
Result: 669 hand-picked ideas, launched September 2026.

Distribution Before Monetization
Demand Before Rails
Local-First Privacy

Visit live app What it measures and why

One sentence can change a day. Feeds bury it.

Social media gave me endless information and almost nothing that stayed. Every so often, though, one sentence changed how I handled a conversation or a hard decision. I wanted a place where ideas weren't buried under algorithms.

One idea, three layers.

The thought (a line worth rereading), the meaning (why it matters), the practice (one small action for today). Tap "I did it" when you have. That tap is the whole point.

ideas, chosen by hand: 669
languages, Hindi in Devanagari: 4
WhatsApp card styles: 3

What It Refuses To Do

No feed, no engagement algorithm, no ads, no account. It works offline after the first visit, and favourites and notes never leave your phone.

Four rules I held to.

Distribution before monetization. The share card is the growth engine, so the craft went there first.
Demand before rails. Payments get built only if 20% of the first 50+ premium visitors ask for it.
Measure without watching. Cookieless, anonymous analytics, and a public metrics doc.
Kill what can't ship. A promised widget died when the platform couldn't deliver it, and the copy was fixed the same day.

Our son's name, and the value behind it.

When our son was born, we named him Hitaarth: Sanskrit for one whose purpose is to do good. The app isn't a tribute to him. It's named after the value I hope we both grow into.

One person, zero dependencies.

A small product experiment, run in public, in vanilla HTML, CSS and JavaScript with no build step.