Available · Summer 2026

Riya Mehta

Indie hacker · CS @ BITS Goa

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Riya Mehta
Online
Where
Goa, IN
GMT+5:30
Building
A type-safe API client for IRCTC's hidden endpoints
GitHub stars
1,247★
About

I make tools for problems I personally have.

I dropped my first side project at sixteen, learned what 'load-bearing' means at eighteen, and have shipped 14 small things since. I write code that does one thing well, then I tell three people about it.

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Build small. Build often. Tell almost no one until it works.

— a sticky note above my desk
Selected projects

Things I built that other people use

Tatkal Bot
side4.2k MAU
Tatkal Bot

Books your IRCTC tatkal in 1.7 seconds. Used by 4,200 strangers.

toolopen-source
Lumber

A static-site generator for class notes.

personal1 user (her)
Nudge

Tiny daily-habit web app I made for my mom. She uses it.

Sigil
library284 stars
Sigil

Headless React UI primitives I use across all my projects.

extension11k WAU
Wikithumb

A Wikipedia link-preview Chrome extension. 11k weekly users.

Stack

What's running in the background

Languages
TypeScript · Python · Go
Daily drivers
Frontend
React · Next.js · Tailwind
Most of my time
Backend
Postgres · Redis · Edge
Where the real bugs live
Building blocks
Vercel · Supabase · Resend
Free tier maximalist
Currently learning
Rust
It's going slowly
Recovering from
Java in college
It still has a place
Worked on

Internships and other detours

R
Razorpay
Summer 2025
SWE Intern
Built a contract-first SDK generator. Cut frontend integration from 4h to 12 minutes for 47 internal teams.
C
Cred
2024
Frontend Intern
Shipped the new merchant onboarding flow. +18% conversion on the lift-off page.
B
BITS GymKhana
2023 — present
Web Lead
Maintain the events platform. 8k MAU, hand-rolled auth, runs for ~₹600/mo.
Get in touch

I read every email. Even the long ones.

Email me→riya@example.com
Find me
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📍 Goa, India · happy to relocate