Builder, writer, and relentless knowledge-sharer based in the Western Hemisphere. I believe sharing what you know is one of the greatest accelerants for progress — the internet is the printing press of our era. I write about AI, software, finance, and whatever else I find interesting at ashwinmenon.com.
- 🎯 Hunchle — AI-powered trivia app that generates personalized questions to help you learn
- 📌 Tack On — Add context to any webpage with AI-generated annotations (Tack On tab on Hunchle)
- 📖 Readable — Chrome extension that turns articles into a swipeable, distraction-free reading experience (source)
Deep-dive, interactive articles on topics that deserve more than a blog post.
- 🧠 Cluster Headaches Explained — The "suicide headache": pathophysiology, treatments, and open research questions
- 🏠 The Coming Housing Crisis — Affordability, structural dynamics, and what's ahead for the housing market
- 🏦 The Fed Explained — Federal Reserve policy, interest rates, and how they ripple through the economy
- 🤖 I Need More Context — On what LLMs actually need to perform well
- ⚡ Optimizing Tack On — Performance deep-dive on an AI feature
- 🏎️ F1 AI Benchmarks — Benchmarking AI models, Formula 1 style
- 💭 Are We in a Bubble? — Examining the AI hype cycle
- 🚪 Why I Quit My Job — Leaving stability to build in AI
- 🍗 I Want My Chicken Shawarma — How I cut booking costs by 10x with AI
- 🔮 Hunchle: Generating Questions — AI-powered question generation for trivia
- 🛠️ How I Used AI in Hunchle — Practical AI integration in a real product
- 🌍 Democratizing AI — Making AI accessible to everyone
Selected posts from across topics — software, finance, immigration, culture, and more.
- 📐 On Software Design — Principles that actually matter
- 👔 My Stint as a Manager — Lessons from switching roles
- 💰 A Guide to Finances — Securing the foundation
- 🌴 A Malayalee's Guide to Kerala — The insider's travel guide
- 🇺 EB-5 for Indians — Navigating US immigration
- 🧠 Models for Thinking — Mental frameworks I've found useful
- 🎬 YouTube Videos Worth Watching — Curated recommendations
One-off tools and pages built when inspiration struck.
- 💳 Cash vs Points — Miles vs cash-back calculator with breakeven analysis
- ♟️ Lichess — Visualize your rating progression over games played
- 🧹 Clean Logs — Strip file:line prefixes from log output
- 🧭 Values — Personal values and life philosophy
- 🎸 Lennon or McCartney — Beatles preference analyzer by composition
- 📱 Phones — Device Speedometer benchmark scores compared
- 📅 Yearly — Year planner with monthly tasks and progress tracking
- 🏋️ Benchmarks — Personal exercise and fitness benchmarks
- 💹 Finance Tools — CAGR calculator, BNPL analyzer, stock pricer, and more
Tampermonkey userscripts I built to fix annoyances and add features to sites I use daily. Please reach out if you'd be interested in using any of these.
- 🔧 IRINet Export + IRR + Splits + Multi-Year Tax + Carryover — Full FIFO tax-lot tracker with IRR, splits, and multi-year carryover for Robinhood
- 📊 IRR Details — Detailed IRR breakdown on Robinhood account history
- 💼 Portfolio Return Column — Adds a return column to Robinhood's investing page (with SPA support)
- 📜 Log Robinhood History — Exports Robinhood history as a single parseable string
- 📈 Insert Show More Link — Auto-expands Robinhood stock history
- 🏠 Redfin Property Sale History CAGR Calculator — Computes CAGR on Redfin sale history (always expands)
- 💾 LinkedIn Quick Save Button — One-click save on LinkedIn posts
- 🎮 Reddit → Steam Rating Tool — Fetches Steam ratings for r/GameDealsFree posts (manual fetch, editable titles, age bypass)
- 📖 Reading Speed Tracker with History — Track and log reading speed over time
- 🔤 Gemini Tab Title from Conversation — Sets Gemini tab titles from conversation content
- 📝 GitHub Always Soft-Wrap — Forces soft-wrap on all GitHub file views
- 🗣️ [Language Learning]: App to learn various languages.
- 🧬 Neural Net Course — Building neural networks from scratch (in progress)
