DEV PATIL
I build things.
SOMETIMES SOFTWARE.
SOMETIMES A COMMUNITY.
SOMETIMES SOMETHING THAT DIDN'T EXIST YESTERDAY.
I keep getting interested in problems that don't have a clean category.
So I build the thing. Then I see what happens.
Not a startup pitch deck. Not a funding round. Not a five-year corporate plan. Just a real bottleneck that needed an answer.
Once I understood something, I wanted to build it.
Code. People. Algorithms. Attention. Systems. Cameras. Businesses. Communities.
I DIDN'T START WITH A BUSINESS.
I STARTED WITH A RUN.
A Sunday morning run looks simple from the outside: arrive, run, have coffee, go home. Behind that simple morning is an entire chain of real-world friction.
Alpha Lead Pack / FC Road Pune
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Then the runs started adding up.
Somewhere between the first run and the 49th,
Alpha stopped being an event.
It became a system.
PEOPLE SAW A RUN.
I SAW A SYSTEM.
Manual registration Google forms crashed or lost member records right before Sunday editions.
A lightweight, mobile-first registration web pipeline with instant athlete profile creation.
Sign up takes 20 seconds from their phone, with zero lost entries or sunrise panic.
Try the check-in interaction.
Simulates how an athlete's pass is validated on-ground at the starting line.
Click “Simulate Scanner Check-in” to test the verification pipeline.
The machine disappears when it works.
Nobody at the starting line cares what database is running behind the screen.
They care that their payment worked, their pass arrived, their QR scanned, and their name was recognized.
That's the job.
THEN I HAD TO GET PEOPLE THERE.
A great experience is useless if nobody knows it exists.
The goal wasn't to make an ad look polished. It was to build a self-sustaining loop where every Sunday naturally fuels the next.
No paid ads. No influencer sponsorship. Just raw footage and clean systems.
The Reel / In-Stride Movement
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ORGANIC SHORT-FORM VIDEO
Raw, dynamic video capturing the genuine pulse of Pune runners at dawn.
Community Comments & Inbound Direct Queries
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AUTHENTIC ENGAGEMENT
Runners tagging friends, asking for routes, and planning Sunday morning meetups.
Alpha Registration & Pass Interface
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ZERO-FRICTION FLOW
Instant 20-second pass reservation from Instagram bio straight to wallet pass.
Sunday Morning Starting Line
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ON-GROUND GATHERING
700+ runners assemble before sunrise with verified digital QR passes.
Post-Run Highlight Reel & Recap
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SELF-REINFORCING LOOP
Morning footage edited and published by afternoon, starting the cycle again.
I STARTED BEHIND THE CAMERA.
When Alpha started, I wasn't trying to make films. I was trying to remember people.
I spent a year and a half watching people become part of something.
Runners arriving and meeting before sunrise / Pune
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Arriving, laughing, meeting strangers, struggling, finishing, resting, becoming friends.
“For a year and a half, I was almost never in front of the camera. I was behind it.”
I photographed people who had never met each other. People who came alone. People who were nervous about running.
People who came back every Sunday. People who found friends. People who finished something they didn't think they could.
People who wanted one photograph because they wanted to remember that version of themselves.
The photographs were not created for a portfolio. They were created for the people in them.
Then I realized the photographs were going somewhere.
Some became stories. Some became profile pictures. Some became posts.
Some became someone's proof that they had actually done it.
Some were shared with friends. Some probably disappeared into camera rolls.
That's okay. They were there.
Runner profile photo / story share screenshot
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Somewhere along the way, the archive crossed 3 Terabytes.
SUNDAYS • MOMENTS
REELS • MEMORIES
ALPHA / SUNDAY 31 • BANER
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ALPHA / SUNDAY 42 • FC ROAD
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ALPHA / SUNDAY 49 • KOREGAON PARK
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CAMERA ROLL / 2025 • POST-RUN COFFEE
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THEN THE CAMERA STARTED MOVING.
I started by documenting moments.
Then I started thinking about sequences.
Movement. Sound. Pacing. Anticipation. The moment before something happens. The moment after.
Dynamic Pack Motion Sequence / FC Road in Motion
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I WASN'T JUST DOCUMENTING WHAT HAPPENED ANYMORE.
I WAS LEARNING HOW TO MAKE SOMEONE FEEL WHAT HAPPENED.
THEN I PICKED UP A CAMERA.
Alpha Sunday In-Stride Film & Morning Atmosphere
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THE PRODUCT WASN'T THE RUN.
THE PRODUCT WAS THE FEELING.
A system can bring people to a starting line.
It can't make them care.
The camera became part of the system.
The camera wasn't simply documenting the system. The camera became part of the system.
I don't remember every run.
I don't remember every reel.
I definitely don't remember every frame.
But I remember what it felt like to stand behind the camera and watch people become part of something.
THINGS I BUILT.
Things I built because I wanted to know if I could.
I wanted to make something people couldn't just scroll past.
A physical reaction challenge built for Alpha Run Club athletes. Seven illuminated targets. Thirty seconds. One objective: hit the illuminated light before it shifts.
Click anywhere or press SPACE to begin.
When the screen turns GREEN, tap as fast as humanly possible.
A companion mobile dashboard lets players start the challenge and watch their performance live.
7 TARGETS / OLED / LOCAL WI-FI / LIVE REACTION DATAAutonomous Multi-Agent Simulation Engine
What happens when specialized AI workers collaborate, critique, and verify code without waiting for humans?
Dispatch check-in load test for 600+ simultaneous runners at 6:00 AM
Select a preset above or type a custom command below to trigger the multi-agent engine.
Curiosity-driven experiments.
AGENCY AGENTS ORCHESTRATOR
If autonomous AI agent teams can build and self-critique full features without prompt drift.
A DAG coordinator that splits objectives between specialized worker agents and self-healing QA reviewers.
10x engineering iteration speed. Self-healing critique loops caught 100% of lint & type regressions.
LINUX v4l2 LOW-LATENCY WEBCAM DRIVER
If an Android phone sensor could pipe uncompressed 1080p60 into the Linux kernel with sub-5ms delay.
A native v4l2loopback loop device fed directly via raw ADB USB 3.0 stream, bypassing all slow commercial apps.
Rock-solid 3.9ms latency. Used daily for live broadcasts and screen recordings.
SUNDAY MORNING DATA ROUTER
How much repetitive morning coordination could disappear without manual spreadsheets.
An offline-first check-in scanner and event data pipeline that syncs 600+ athletes without cloud bottlenecks.
Eliminated post-run admin work entirely so coordinators could focus on the runners.
PHYSICAL ROOM TRANSITION TRIGGER
If physical lights and workspace audio could wake up instantly without slow cloud servers.
A local network device monitor that powers on workstation lighting and audio inputs the moment my phone joins Wi-Fi.
Instant sub-50ms room transition. Runs every single day.
Where it broke: Cellular dropouts at outdoor park venues caused check-in queue backlog at 6:00 AM.
What I learned: Never rely on a cloud server at a live event starting line. Built an offline-first local cache that syncs after the run.
Where it broke: When the archive crossed 50,000 photos, rigid bib OCR failed on runners in motion (40% miss rate).
What I learned: Connected photo EXIF timestamps with course timing checkpoints, letting runners find their memory in seconds.
I THOUGHT I WAS BUILDING A RUN CLUB.
I WAS ACTUALLY LEARNING HOW SYSTEMS BEHAVE.
People. Technology. Attention. Habit. Identity. Emotion. Money. Community.
Change one part and the others move. That's what became interesting: the intersections.
Make the thing work reliably.
Make people discover and use it.
Give them a reason to care.
I'M DEV.
I spent a year and a half behind a camera watching people become part of something.
Somewhere along the way, I started building the systems around them.
I don't really know where one discipline ends and another begins anymore.
That's probably what I like about it.
WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO BUILD?
If it's still an idea, that's fine.
If it's already broken, even better.
Tell me what you're trying to make happen.