First-person writing on Hindi music, production craft, and the working intersection of independent music and AI software.
Producing a new age album solo in 2015: how Echoes at Taj split 14 tracks across three families, why the Hindi cadence paused, what Studio One held.
My production SaaS stack 2026 is Bun and Hono with Postgres; my MVP and personal-brand stack is Next.js 16 with SQLite. Here is why I run both.
I release my royalty-free music catalogue under CC BY 4.0 while running ten-plus SaaS ventures. Split-lane math: visibility floor, not revenue floor.
I self-submitted Echoes at Taj to the 58th Grammys in the New Age category from New Delhi via a US musician friend's Academy credential. It did not advance.
MCP as CMS is the 2026 pattern for running your brand site admin as a private MCP server. The 9-tool surface, Bearer auth, and the convergence test.
Audacity, FL Studio, Studio One, Logic Pro: the 16-year DAW arc that taught me OS and DAWs do not matter, flow does, and the one switch I would undo.
Months of watching Docker logs in production became hono-honeypot, a Hono middleware that blocks 200 plus attack patterns before the app sees them.
The boring AI SaaS stack I run as a solo founder in 2026: Next.js 16, SQLite, BetterAuth, one small VPS. Real hours, proportion-framed cost.
Suno v5.5 and Udio shipped real upgrades in March 2026. Here is where they save a working Hindi producer time, and where they still cannot touch a vocal.
I hand-rolled the MusicRecording and MusicComposition JSON-LD for a 49+ track Hindi catalogue. Here is the graph, the spec gotchas, and why.
Public 2026 data says llms.txt does not move AI citation numbers. I ship one on this site anyway, per-request and dynamic. Here is the honest case.
Postgres is the default for a reason. It is also the wrong default for a solo-founder SaaS in 2026. This site runs on SQLite; here is why that is the correct call.
I am a musician turned founder. This is the one rule that runs both crafts: what can be removed and still have the song work, and the tests I use.
NCS means no-copyright sound. Here is the 2026 guide to Hindi and Urdu NCS tracks, CC BY 4.0 credit rules, and YouTube Content ID for Indian creators.
