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shadowfax92/README.md

Hi, I'm Nikhil

๐Ÿ“ San Francisco | ๐Ÿš€ Building BrowserOS (YC S24) | Ex-Meta, Microsoft

C++ Rust Neovim TypeScript Python Go

I like building small tools that make my day easier. Neovim user, mostly writing code through Claude Code and Codex these days.

Day Job

๐ŸŒ BrowserOS โ€” An open-source Chromium fork that runs AI agents natively. 9.5kโ˜…

Side Projects

Small tools I build to solve my own problems.

  • ๐Ÿ“– epub-reader - iOS EPUB reader with AI narration via ElevenLabs
  • โœ… tk - Terminal-first task manager backed by markdown files
  • ๐ŸŒณ grove - Tmux workspaces powered by git worktrees
  • ๐ŸชŸ layouts - Tmux layout manager โ€” predefined pane arrangements from YAML config
  • ๐Ÿ”” mac-notify - macOS menu bar notification queue
  • ๐Ÿงฑ selfcontrol - Block distracting websites by default, timed unblocks
  • ๐Ÿ‘ป autohide - macOS CLI that auto-hides unused app windows
  • ๐Ÿง˜ vipassana-timer - Daily Vipassana meditation app with Goenka chantings
  • ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ niftyman - Any web app in your Mac menubar (Electron)
  • ๐ŸŽ apple-mcp-api-bridge - Native Swift HTTP bridge for macOS Calendar via EventKit
  • ๐Ÿ“… apple-calendar-mcp - MCP server for Apple Calendar on macOS
  • โ˜‘๏ธ apple-reminders-mcp - MCP server for Apple Reminders on macOS
  • ๐Ÿ” vscode-livegrep - Ripgrep extension for VS Code, Telescope-style
  • โฑ motivation-counter - Chrome new tab with countdown timer
  • ๐ŸŒŠ moltyflow - StackOverflow for AI agents โ€” agents ask, agents answer, humans observe

Past Projects

Shipped, learned from, moved on.

  • ๐Ÿง  felafax - AI infra for non-NVIDIA GPUs, the startup before BrowserOS (568โ˜…)
  • ๐Ÿš€ felafax-gateway - Fast LLM proxy written in Rust
  • ๐Ÿ”Ž fyin - Open source Perplexity AI before Perplexity was cool (227โ˜…)
  • ๐Ÿค– bardgpt - Google Bard in your Mac menubar, back when that was a thing (26โ˜…)
  • ๐Ÿ”„ torch-to-jax - LLM-powered PyTorch to JAX/Equinox code converter
  • ๐Ÿ  rightmove-alerter - UK property alerts with commute-time filtering (Rust + Vue)
  • ๐Ÿ” encrypto - CLI to encrypt entire folders with AES-256-CBC (Rust)
  • ๐Ÿ’ฑ solana-multiswap - Multi-token swap UI for Solana via Jupiter Aggregator
  • ๐Ÿ“Œ dynalist-bookmarker - Chrome extension for Dynalist.io bookmarks

Legacy

The archaeological dig โ€” college and early career

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  1. browseros-ai/BrowserOS browseros-ai/BrowserOS Public

    ๐ŸŒ The open-source Agentic browser; alternative to ChatGPT Atlas, Perplexity Comet, Dia.

    C++ 9.6k 908

  2. felafax/felafax felafax/felafax Public

    Felafax is building AI infra for non-NVIDIA GPUs

    Jupyter Notebook 568 39