Aakash Pahuja — Product Designer × Vibe Coder

Aakash Pahuja in his studio at night, guitar in hand, black coffee on the desk.

Hello · 01

Design is how it works — and how it feels.

I’m a passionate product designer and vibe coder who loves creating flawless digital experiences. By day I do product management at American Express; by night I design, code and ship my own apps — every flow, every empty state, every haptic.

Deeply caring about the end user isn’t a line on my resume. It’s why everything I ship has an undo, a dark mode, and copy written for the person having a bad day.

9+ years in product @ Amex 6 apps designed & shipped solo 0 templates used ∞ black coffee

Work · 02

Six ideas, forged into apps.

Designed, built and shipped end-to-end. No team, no templates — just problems I cared about and the obsession to finish them properly.

01 / 06 — ANDROID

Spends

Know what’s actually left.

Smart Cycle budgets by your salary and each card’s own billing cycle — not the calendar month.
Reads bank SMS on-device with one-tap add — and learns your categories and what to ignore.
Recurring autopilot, category splits, home-screen widgets and encrypted Drive backup.

Private · Offline-first · ~25 Indian banks parsed

02 / 06 — ANDROID

Notification Digest

A calmer phone, without missing what matters.

Intercepts the noise and delivers clean, scheduled digests — OTPs, calls and messages stay real-time.
An inbox that works like email: search, filters, swipes and deep links back to the exact thread.
A quiet counter of every interruption you never felt.

Kotlin · Jetpack Compose · Material 3

03 / 06 — ANDROID

ColorCloset

Outfits from the colours you already own.

A swipeable deck of colour pairings built only from your wardrobe — double-tap to save, mark worn.
Tuned to your skin tone on the 10-point Monk scale, grounded in real colour science.
The gap engine names the one colour that unlocks the most new looks.

4 wardrobes · Pantone-referenced dataset

04 / 06 — ANDROID

Pause

A minimal doom-scrolling interrupter.

Watches the foreground app; after your chosen stretch of continuous scrolling, a calm glassmorphic overlay appears.
Not a blocker — it breaks the momentum and hands the choice back to you.
No accounts, no analytics, nothing ever leaves the device.

Interrupt the autopilot · Let the user choose

05 / 06 — ANDROID

ForgeAI

Your gym. Your AI coach. Your lifetime progress.

One conversation drives everything — “bench 80 for 8, 7, 6” becomes structured training data.
Progressive-Overload Coach: last session → today’s target → and the why behind it.
Bring a Claude or OpenAI key — or run fully offline with the built-in local coach.

AI fitness OS · demo for gym owners

06 / 06 — ANDROID

BragBuddy

Twenty seconds a day. An always-ready appraisal doc.

Speak your day; it becomes clean, categorised bullets organised around your own appraisal framework.
At review time: a crisp, curated summary you paste straight into the form.
Anonymous and local-first — audio never leaves the phone.

Voice-first · works instantly, no setup

Career · 03

Product management, at enterprise scale.

AMERICAN EXPRESS

Sr. Associate — Digital Product Management

Current

ComXHub — Intake & Governance Portal

Driving product strategy for an enterprise portal that modernises how customer communications are created, governed and delivered across markets — one digital entry point for the entire lifecycle, inside a large multi-year transformation program.

Completed

Raven Migration

Led end-to-end discovery and migration of hundreds of legacy communication templates across 19 markets to a modern platform — reverse-engineering undocumented workflows and training engineering teams on the framework that made it repeatable.

Before that: nearly a decade at Amex across UAT delivery (90+ projects, 500+ communications) and customer-operations leadership — plus a string of founder ventures along the way: a tech consultancy, a D2C apparel brand, an online grocery store and a music-gear brand. Product mindset, learned the hard way.

Play · 04