Projects by Avula Hariswara Reddy

Five tools for a grocery shop, a PG, a clinic and kirana shops, each with the problem behind it and what building it taught me.

Things I've built, and what they taught me

I don't only build for practice. I like finding out whether something can actually be useful to someone. Most of these started with a problem I could see around me, several things I didn't know yet, and a lot of testing.

How I build. I use AI coding assistants, mostly Claude, to write much of the code, and I'm open about that. Deciding what to build, how the pieces connect, testing it with the people who use it and fixing what breaks is my part, and it's where most of my learning has come from.

Family shopNewest

Vedasri Traders

Our family runs a kirana shop in Gachibowli. Customers nearby are used to ordering from quick-commerce apps, so I wanted our shop to offer that too, without losing what a neighbourhood store does well: credit for regulars and bulk prices for businesses.

  • Shopping list scanner: photograph a handwritten list and it fills the cart
  • AI Chef plans a dish using only what's in stock right now
  • One app, two sides: a customer shop and an admin back office

What I learnedTwo kinds of users in one app meant learning how row-level security keeps data apart. A security audit then showed me where I had got it wrong the first time, and I fixed it.

Next.js 14SupabaseGeminiRazorpayCapacitor
Vedasri Traders home screen with grocery categories and AI Chef
Family businessUsed every day

PG Management App

My father runs Bhagya Lakshmi PG, homes for women with more than 250 beds across three properties. Registers weren't keeping up and he was looking at paid rental software, so I built our own, shaped around how the PG actually works.

  • Occupancy, collections and dues across every property
  • OCR that reads handwritten rent notes and new-tenant forms
  • Messages to tenants through the Meta WhatsApp API, and branded receipts on demand

What I learnedSoftware for a real business has to fit how people already work. Much of the PG still runs on paper, so the app learned to read it instead of asking everyone to type.

React + TypeScriptSupabaseGemini APIMeta WhatsApp API

Private and login only, so there's no public link.

PG app dashboard showing 93.4% occupancy
Client projectBeyond the website

Hitex Health Nest

A polyclinic in Shilpa Hills under Dr. Bhaskar Reddy needed to be found and trusted online. I built its website, then got involved in the rest of its digital start: how the clinic should present itself, its Instagram presence, and ideas for its first posts.

  • Three-step booking that becomes a ready-to-send WhatsApp message
  • An offline AI receptionist that answers common questions without any external API
  • Helped set up the clinic's Instagram and plan its content, using ChatGPT to draft and test ideas

What I learnedA clinic doesn't just need a website. It needs patients to find it, trust it and reach it. That question pulled me into social media, content and how one tool hands people on to the next.

Next.jsTypeScriptTailwindInstagramChatGPT
Hitex Health Nest homepage on a phone
Family businessBeyond the website

Bhagya Lakshmi PG website

Most people find a PG through word of mouth or listing apps. I wanted prospective residents to understand our three homes in Kondapur, Madhapur and HITEC City before they ever called: the rooms, the food, the facilities, and how to get in touch.

  • A page for each home, plus facilities, food menu and gallery
  • A three-step enquiry form that hands the details to WhatsApp
  • Meta and ChatGPT ads that I run for the PG, pointing people to the site

What I learnedGetting noticed is its own problem. A good website still needs ads, clear information and a quick way to reply, all working together.

Static siteCustom domainLocal AI assistantMeta ads
Bhagya Lakshmi PG website on a phone
Built in 2 daysThe Knowledge Society

UdhaarAI

Most kirana shops keep customer credit in a paper notebook, because writing is faster than typing. UdhaarAI lets them keep writing. At the end of the day the shopkeeper photographs the page, and every customer's account updates in one click.

  • Reads handwritten Hindi, Telugu and English, with a review screen for unsure entries
  • Customer ledgers, payments, reminders and profit analytics
  • A no-sign-up demo with a sample shop

What I learnedWhere AI helps and where plain code is better. I used Gemini only to read handwriting and wrote the rest as rules I could test, 224 automated tests by the end.

Selected for The Knowledge Society. UdhaarAI was my entry to the TKS Prompt to Product challenge. It took me to the interview round and earned me a place in the TKS virtual programme.

UdhaarAI landing page on a phone

A website is only one piece.

Building for real businesses changed how I look at technology. A website stopped being a page to design. I started asking how people find it, how they get in touch, where the information lives, and which small jobs could run on their own.

Each project added another part of that picture. Pick one to see which parts it needed.

  1. 01How do people find it?

  2. 02How do they get in touch?

  3. 03Where does the information live?

  4. 04What runs behind the scenes?

Tap any partto see where I used it and what it does.

Paper stays. The software adapts.

Small businesses around me still run on handwriting: credit notebooks, rent slips, shopping lists. Instead of asking people to stop writing, three of my products read the paper for them.

Ramesh, rice + oil, ₹450

customerRamesh
credit₹450
ledgerupdated

UdhaarAI

Kirana credit notebooks in Hindi, Telugu or English

Room 204, rent paid, ₹8,500

room204
rent₹8,500
receiptsent on WhatsApp

PG Management App

Handwritten rent notes and new-tenant forms

2 kg atta, 1 L oil, toor dal

matched3 products
unsure?shows options
cartready

Vedasri Traders

Customers' handwritten shopping lists