Saurav Sharma is an indie hacker & software engineer who builds SaaS products end to end, currently working on LazyPlanner.

The story so far

I taught myself to code on freeCodeCamp, then spent five years shipping Django backends for clients around the world: payroll SaaS, recruiting tools, lead routing, voice AI. Remote gigs, full-time and freelance.

Between jobs I took breaks on purpose, and I used them to build my own projects. LazyPlanner (AI planning SaaS), ox (deploy tool), Tymr (focus timer), plus plenty of ideas that never left the notebook. Those breaks were also school of a different kind: Go, HTMX, real-time AI, what makes design good, and sales (cold email, copywriting, reading buyers).

Now I am trying to make my own indie products work, LazyPlanner first, while keeping a foot in client work when I want it.

Projects

• LazyPlanner AI planning SaaS, built and deployed solo. Django · Vue · Celery · own
• ox Vercel-grade deploys on a single VPS. Go · HTMX · own
• Tymr Real-time focus timer. Django · Channels · own
• Generative Studio Real-time AI voice backend. Current day gig. FastAPI · LiveKit · client
• LeadPlane Lead routing into CRM, email, WhatsApp. Django · Celery · client
• The Payroll App Payroll SaaS features and refactors. Django · PostgreSQL · client

Blog

• Agentic Loops & Swarm is the New Moat Why agent loops beat one-shot prompts.
• Anti-Engagement-Farm: GPT-4o prototype to local classifier From GPT-4o to a 42MB model running on device.
• Deployment Guide for Django + Vue.js on VPS Full walkthrough from bare server to production.

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