Currently building AskTota

Builder at heart,
marketer by habit.

I'm Reet. I write the code, ship the product, and then go find the people it's for. Ten-plus products shipped in the last year, four years of getting developers to actually use hard things, and one astrology app that reads like a group chat.

Reet Batra speaking on stage at ETHIndia
4,800+developers
taught in person
10+ products shipped
4K to 8K views an episode
Based in
Bangalore, India
01: How I work

Most people do one of these.
I do all three, in that order.

01

Build

I write the code myself, end to end.

TypeScript, Python, Next.js, React Native, the Claude API. The agent, the interface, the deploy, the cron job that keeps it honest. Ten-plus shipped products in the last year, almost all of them solo.

  • docsParity
  • AskTota app
  • Muscle Mommy
02

Product

I pick the wedge and cut everything else.

Every product on this page has one deliberate no in it. AskTota chose print over cosmos. Nudge skipped signup. Muscle Mommy refuses a weight jump that is secretly a doubling. Scope is the product.

  • PRDs
  • Pricing
  • Onboarding
03

Growth

Then I go get the users, on camera if needed.

Four years of developer marketing: an 11-city workshop tour to 4,800+ developers, a video series at 4K to 8K views an episode, a $21K grants program, and now a daily reels engine for AskTota.

  • Content systems
  • Community
  • Launches
02: Work

Things people can use today.

All deployed, none of them a demo. Most were built solo, end to end, to fix a problem I actually had. The first one is the one I'm all in on.

FlagshipProductLive on Google Play
The Daily Tota · Vol. You

AskTota

Real Vedic astrology, filed as a tabloid. Your actual birth chart, read against today, written like your group chat.

Daily readings, crush checks, celeb charts, and a chat that cites the chart data behind every claim. No ads, no data brokers, no dark patterns. The astrology is computed deterministically; the LLM only interprets. Android now, iOS next.

My role
Product, the app, brand system, website, growth. Built with one engineering partner.
Growth engine
A 19-piece explainer library with calculators, a reels-first Instagram schedule, and a landing page that sells the free tier honestly.
  • React Native
  • Expo
  • Node.js
  • TypeScript
  • Python engine
  • LLM
AskTota home screen, a tabloid-style daily reading
AskTota daily read screen
100% free tier
AI tool

docsParity

Finds where an SDK's docs and code have drifted apart.

Reads the real exported API from the TypeScript compiler, crawls the live docs, and has an LLM rank every mismatch by severity. Each finding becomes a pre-filled GitHub issue.

  • TypeScript
  • TS Compiler AST
  • Next.js
AI tool

Blunt

A speech coach that tells you exactly what to fix, then makes you say it again.

Built because every public-speaking tool is polite. This one is not. Record, get roasted with specifics, redo the take.

  • Next.js
  • Convex
  • Voice
Product

Muscle Mommy

A lifting PWA that decides your next set for you.

Reads last session and prints per-set targets. Knows a 2.5kg to 5kg dumbbell jump is a 100% increase and refuses it. Imports from Hevy automatically.

  • PWA
  • Next.js
  • Hevy API
Product

bestie, don't.

The friend who takes your phone after a breakup.

No-contact streaks with repair, a panic button that runs a 20-minute urge timer, an 8-week journal arc. Anything that names a third party is encrypted server-side.

  • Next.js
  • Supabase
  • Dodo Payments
Product

Nudge

A job tracker for people who struggle to act on opportunities.

No login, no signup, single user on purpose. One prioritized push notification every morning and nothing else.

  • Next.js
  • Web Push
Dev tool

hook-catch

Debug webhooks in real time, no account needed.

Point any webhook at a generated URL and watch every request land live with headers, body, and replay.

  • Next.js
  • Supabase Realtime

More on GitHub: claude-deck, deja-vu-agent, open-money-intel, pricekit, and the rest. All repos

03: Growth

Shipping is half the job. The other half is getting anyone to notice.

I spent four years doing developer marketing for hard-to-explain platforms. Numbers below are from that run. AskTota is where I'm applying all of it now, to consumers instead of developers.

0+
developers taught in person

11 cities, one workshop tour

4K to 0K
views per video episode

a technical series I wrote and hosted

$0K
in developer grants run

picked, tracked, pushed to ship

0+
students through one bootcamp

5 weeks, curriculum to mentorship

04: Life

Off the laptop.

The parts that don't fit on a resume and matter more than most of what does.

Travel

The laptop comes along.
The calendar does not.

I travel whenever the gap between two launches allows it, and I build better after. New cities are the only place my product ideas show up without being asked. If you have a recommendation, I want it.

Send me somewhere
Reet waving in a narrow Barcelona street
Carved stone archway over a Barcelona doorway
Barcelona street scene
Barcelona street scene

Gm Barcelona ✨

@reet_batra · Jun 2025Open
On stage, on camera

I like a room.

Twenty-plus workshops, a handful of conference talks, and a video series where I explained hard tooling in under five minutes. Give me a mic and a whiteboard and I'm happy.

A habit

If an app annoys me for a week, I replace it.

A lifting tracker, a breakup boundary app, a job tracker with no login, a speech coach that isn't polite, a local dashboard for my coding agent. None of them started as a business. A few of them got users anyway, which is usually how I find out an idea is real.

  • 21 blog posts
  • 52 public repos
  • Hackathon wins
  • Open source PRs
05: Shelf

Books I read.

Kept as a to-do list, because a to-do list is the only format I reliably finish. Ticked means read. The rest are the pile I keep promising myself.

The finished pile. It only grows.
reading-list.md
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  • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

    Eric Jorgenson

    Read
  • Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

    Satoshi Yagisawa

    Read
  • Who Moved My Cheese?

    Spencer Johnson

    Read
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06: Now

What I'm doing this month.

Building
AskTota. Android is live, iOS is next, and the daily reels engine posts at 13:00 IST whether I feel like it or not.
asktota.com
Contributing
Fixes for the tools I build on: a streaming bug and a TTS parameter in Sarvam AI's SDK and skills, a Quickstart crash in Cyberwave's docs, and a stale Docker warning in Zcash Labs' agent skills, all merged. I also reported ten broken imports in Mastra's docs, and their team shipped the fix the same day. The kind of bugs you only hit by building on an SDK instead of reading it.
The latest merged PR
Open to
Forward Deployed and AI DevRel roles, and product conversations with people building things developers have to understand before they can use them.
The FDE portfolio

Updated October 2026