Abin John

I’m an engineer & tinkerer who likes building things and (try to) make them work beautifully. I obsess over beautiful interfaces and the “feel” of using thoughtful software.

I earlier had a brief stint as a music producer, and later as a podcast editor & producer. I did that full time for a few years before I got drawn into the world of tech while building small tools to help my business. Now, engineering is uno, podcasting is dos.

When doing neither of those, I do some reading & writing. I haven’t been consistent, but I’m trying to be better. I also keep going back to GTA San Andreas for some reason. The newer games don't give me the vibes that SA did.

Always open to discussing anything tech, content and music. My socials in decreasing order of preference :p

projects.

• Conduktor

  Conduktor is a cmdk-style command palette that lets you get tab & browser actions done entirely from your keyboard. Launch it with a shortcut, type what you want, and control your browser from one place without using the mouse or trackpad.

• Sidesy

  Sidesy is a chrome extension that brings YouTube comments to the side of the video to let viewers scroll through the comments without scrolling past it. Built it to scratch my itch, but is currently being used my more than 4000 people across the world.

work.

• Last9

  Got first-hand experience building UI for scale and handling huge client-side data sets. Built v0 of the Logs & Traces interfaces, then iterated them into production-grade observability workflows.

• Dukaan

  Intern → Full timer → Part of the controversial layoffs :) Worked on the seller-side dashboard with focus on payment integrations and enterprise plugins.

• Hophead

  A podcasting agency that I started with a couple of my friends. We eventually shut it down after a few years when we realised we were effectively still freelancing under a brand name.

• PwC

  Brief stint in the Identity and Access Management space. Quickly realized it’s not a good fit for me and left to go all in on my podcasting business.