# Nikhil Patil (indieNik)

> Product-minded engineer who runs cafés and builds the systems that run them. I build AI products, autonomous systems and the software behind my own café business.

Location: Bengaluru, India. Contact: https://nikhilpatil.in/contact/ (a form for humans; no email address is published). Pronouns: he/him.
Roles: Lead engineer, Publicis Sapient; Founder and operator, The Jaggery Point; Founder, Appetite Avenue.

## Pages
- [Home](https://nikhilpatil.in/): who I am and featured work
- [Work](https://nikhilpatil.in/work/): every project with stack, status and links
- [How I work](https://nikhilpatil.in/how-i-work/): principles, the daily loop, tooling
- [Writing](https://nikhilpatil.in/writing/): published articles
- [For agents](https://nikhilpatil.in/for-agents/): how to read this site programmatically
- [Contact](https://nikhilpatil.in/contact/): how to reach me

## Machine-readable
- [me.json](https://nikhilpatil.in/me.json): full profile, projects and principles as JSON
- [llms-full.txt](https://nikhilpatil.in/llms-full.txt): everything on this site in one plain-text file
- [MCP server](https://nikhilpatil.in/mcp): Streamable HTTP endpoint with tools get_profile, list_projects, get_project, how_i_work, contact
- [Agent card](https://nikhilpatil.in/.well-known/agent-card.json)

## Projects
- [IgniteAI](https://igniteai.in): One product photo in, one finished UGC video ad out. (live, 2025 to present)
- [Alphie](https://trades.nikhilpatil.in): An intraday trading bot for NSE stocks, with a Claude sleeve inside hard risk rails. (live, 2026 to present)
- [DhanChakra](https://shop.nikhilpatil.in): An affiliate income loop that scouts, creates, publishes, measures and heals itself. (live, 2026 to present)
- [Baristalk](https://baristalk.com): Scan a table QR, speak your order in any language, it lands on the counter priced and paid. (live, 2026)
- [PanelPrep](https://panel-prep.web.app): A live mock interview with two AI panelists who have two real voices and interrupt each other. (live, 2026)
- [Hoist](https://hoist-learn.netlify.app): A JavaScript and TypeScript learning PWA built for recall under pressure, not just comprehension. (live, 2026)
- [next eight seconds](https://nexteightseconds.web.app): An Instagram channel where the audience writes a story and AI films the next eight seconds daily. (live, 2026)
- [IgniteAds](https://ads.igniteai.in): A media-buying agent that builds a whole Meta campaign, launches it paused, and waits for a human to type ACTIVATE. (live, 2026)
- [Espresso Journal](https://espresso-journal.netlify.app): A one-day build for dialing in espresso, with one concrete suggestion per shot. (live, 2026)
- [Automated Product Demo Builder](https://github.com/indieNik/Automated-Product-Demo-Builder): A one-page product spec in, a narrated three-minute demo video out. (archived, 2026)
- [Oasis POS](https://oasis-android-283b2.web.app): The offline-first Android point of sale my café chain runs on every day. (live, 2026 to present)
- [club by The Jaggery Point](https://club.thejaggerypoint.com): A loyalty club where the phone, the counter and the POS share one data plane. (live, 2026 to present)
- [Tea Tee Store](https://merch.thejaggerypoint.com): A Shopify store replaced with my own Angular SSR, NestJS and Prisma platform. (live, 2026)
- [OASIS v1](https://github.com/indieNik/oasis-the-jaggery-point): A zero-cost café back office with Google Sheets as the database. (archived, 2025 to 2026)
- [Zenith](https://nikhilpatil.in/work/zenith/): An operations portal for Appetite Avenue outlets: orders, analytics, expenses, invoicing and events. (live, 2025 to present)
- [OverSight](https://github.com/indieNik/oversight): A decision acceleration app for fast fashion executives, built for a 2026 hackathon. (hackathon, 2026)
- [GenAI Avatar Interviewer](https://github.com/indieNik/genai-avatar): A speaking avatar that conducts a screening interview, from a 2024 hackathon. (hackathon, 2024)
- [LangChain experiments](https://github.com/indieNik/langchain-experiments): Where the AI work started in 2023: searchable YouTube transcripts with FAISS and GPT-3.5. (archived, 2023)

## Ventures
- [The Jaggery Point](https://thejaggerypoint.com): A chai café chain with four outlets across Bengaluru and Belgaum, built around jaggery chai. Every sip and bite made with the goodness of jaggery.
- [Appetite Avenue](https://appetiteavenue.com): Corporate café partnerships. The café your workplace runs on.

## Links
- github: https://github.com/indieNik
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhiljpatil
- medium: https://medium.com/@indienik
- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/indienik
- x: https://x.com/indienik
- soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/real_indienik
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@indieNik
- stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/users/3438461/indienik