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Aswin Mohan

handcrafted by someone who loves code (mobile, frontend, backend), design and life.

loves making products, mostly mobile, web, and design.

Experience

  • ReturnQueen (2024-): working on the Mobile App with React Native, web app with React and backend with Elixir and Phoenix.
  • IndiePaper (2021-2022): built and lauched an entire self-publishing platform for self-published authors, wound it down due to lack of customers.
  • Buy Me a Coffee (2020-2021): part of the team that rewrote the mobile app into React Native.

Projects

  • LessPhone: distraction free android-launcher, created as 19 y/o, scaled to 250,000 users.
  • CoronaRM: built the first CRM for managing Covid patients, at peak was helping make 8,000 calls per day.
  • Ultron OS: built as 16 y/o, fully bootable OS built in high-school.

Problems I care about

  • Moving money is slow: Cross-border and domestic payments should not take more time to settle than a suitcase full of cash on a flight.
  • Access to clean, safe and abudant energy: Humans should have access to almost-free, abundant and clean energy. Nuclear might be an answer.
  • Reversing climate change: Climate change is here, we missed the boat to stop it, we should be looking for ways to reverse it.

Collections

  • Obsessive: People who were obsessed with things that had a net positive outcome for everyone.

If any of these sound interesting to you, or would just love to talk, add any resource to my collections page, you can email me at [email protected].

Top Posts

&&& MacOS like Fonts on Manjaro/Arch Linux

Learn how to setup Manjaro/Arch to get MacOS like fonts in the interface and Chrome.

&& How to be more lucky in your life.

The role luck plays in your life and your career and how you can improve the chances of you being lucky in life.

& Superfast Webapps using NextJS, Vercel, LiveView and Fly.io

IndiePaper has a NextJS frontend which proxies requests to the LiveView backend. This means that I can easily edit and serve the marketing pages separtely and make it available even when the main site goes down. This post outlines the setup.

& Page Specific Javascript with Phoenix LiveView and Esbuild

Learn how to split your LiveView Javascript pagewise with esbuild, so your main app.js file stays small and people only download and execute the javascript they require.

All Posts

How to Deploy your Phoenix LiveView 1.6 app on Digital Ocean with Docker

2022-Jun-13 Learn how you can deploy your Phoenix and LiveView based Elixir apps on the Digital Ocean App platform with Docker.

& Page Specific Javascript with Phoenix LiveView and Esbuild

2022-Apr-25 Learn how to split your LiveView Javascript pagewise with esbuild, so your main app.js file stays small and people only download and execute the javascript they require.

Phoenix LiveView in Production

2022-Apr-06 I used Phoenix LiveView in Production for my last startup IndiePaper. This blog post outlines why I used LiveView, issues I came across, the good parts and gotchas to look out for.