Hi, I amAnkush Singh
Community Manager @ ArweaveIndia
Building BetterIDEa & Clickoor
ArweaveIndia Hackerhouse '23 Winner
Ex Developer intern @ Physics Wallah
Ankush
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Projects
July 2024
APM CLI Tool
A command line interface to manage Arweave AO packages (similar to npm)
[
NPM,
Arweave/AO,
Typescript
]

June 2024
AO Package Manager
A package manager for Arweave AO that allows you to easily install and manage packages
[
Arweave,
LUA,
AO
]

April 2024
Learn AO
A platform full of interactive exercises that help you understand how to develop on AO on Arweave
[
Arweave AO,
NextJS
]

April 2024
Clickoor Camera
A point and shoot camera, powered by the Arweave Blockchain, that has an infinite and paermanent storage for your valuable photos
[
Raspberry Pi,
Arweave,
Python
]

December 2023
BetterIDEa
An online IDE for easy developemnt of Arweave ao processes. ๐Ÿฅ‡ Winner of Arweave India cohort #1 hackerhouse
[
Arweave,
Vite,
Blockchain
]

November 2023
weebletstore.in
E commerce store for anime merchandise
[
NextJS,
SanityCMS,
E-commerce
]

March 2024
AntiSus Browser
UPES Hackathon 8.0 submission. An AI enabled web browser to detect sus activity on websites
[
ElectronJS,
ANN,
Flask
]

November 2023
GitAR
Bounty based reward platform for applications in the ARWEAVE ecosystem
[
React,
Vite,
Arweave
]

November 2023
ICPixel
A pixel art drawing and sharing tool on the Internet Computer Protocol
[
React,
Motoko,
Internet Computer Protocol
]

October 2023
GitRaven
A blockchain based opensource issue bounty platform
[
React,
Solidity,
Ethereum
]

October 2023
Class Compass
A mobile app to help students find vacant classrooms on campus for recreational activities
[
React Native,
Firebase,
Expo
]

July 2023
Lucky Knight
Turn based game where you play as randomness and decide the fate of a knight through minigames. Submission for GMTK 2023 game jam with theme 'Roles Reversed'
[
Godot,
GDScript
]

2022
Unity: In-game item marketplace using DeSo NFTs
Prototype of how NFTs can be used to create a marketplace for cross-game compatible items
[
Unity,
DeSo,
C#
]

2022
Desonity
Unity game engine extension that acts as a bridge between DeSo blockchain and Unity
[
Unity,
DeSo,
C#
]

2022
Untitled Dice Game
Dice based top down shooter game | Submission for GMTK 2022 game jam with theme 'Roll of a dice'
[
Godot,
GDScript
]

Animedoro Timer
A simple pomodoro timer for anime lovers
[
HTML,
CSS,
JavaScript
]

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Timeline
2024
๐Ÿฅ‰ Weavers dev bounty III
- Won third place
- Build a Vercel like deployment platform for permaweb apps
๐ŸŽ‰ Showed up to buildspace nights & weekends s5 kickoff
- Just keep building
๐Ÿš€ Arweave India Demo Day
- Demoed BetterIDEa and clickoor
๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Became community manager @ Arweave India!
- Helping out the community
- Managing the Arweave India Discord server
- Organising cool events
๐Ÿš€ Launched Clickoor Camera โ“!
- A point and shoot camera, powered by the Arweave Blockchain, that has an infinite and permanent storage for your valuable photos
๐ŸŽ– UPES, Dehradun: Hackathon 8.0
- Built an AI enabled web browser for detecting sus activities on websites
- One of the top 5 projects
๐Ÿš€ AO testnet Launch - 27th Feb, 2024!
- Launched BetterIDEa too
๐Ÿคฉ Arweave India Launchpad program!
- Three month program
- Building BetterIDEa as a product
๐Ÿคฏ Met Sam Williams IRL at Bangalore!
- AO reveal to India hackers
2023
๐Ÿฅ‡ Won the Arweave โ“ Hackerhouse at Bangalore ๐Ÿคฉ!
- Built a web based IDE for Arweave Smartweave contracts
- Arweave Cohort 1
- Amazing People, Amazing Experience
- Long term friends made
๐Ÿฅˆ Runner up in Crewsphere College level ICP hackathon!
- ICPixel
๐Ÿ‘ Participated in E-Suraksha hackathon at CU
- Really bad experience, organisers were not fun, they took away my airplane :(
๐Ÿคฉ Got selected as an Arweave Scholar!
- Built GitAR: A bounty platform for Arweave projects
- Fully sponsored trip to Arweave India Hackerhouse in Bangalore from 3rd to 6th December
- (Kya matlab exams shuru ho rahe hai 1st December se ๐Ÿ˜ญ)
๐Ÿคฉ ETH Global 2023!
- Won Tableland Prize Pool ๐Ÿ†๏ธ
- Build GitRaven with Tableland database
๐Ÿ™Œ Participated in Polkadot Ink Hackathon by Encode Club
- Built a Polkadot based game item marketplace
- Didn't win anything but atleast it was a good experience, did pitch practice and pitched in front of Judges
๐Ÿ™Œ Participated in a 3 day workshop on Internet Computer Protocol
- Learnt Motoko
- Deployed ICPixel on the mainnet
๐Ÿฅˆ Placed second in Hack-O-Octo!
- Built GitRaven
๐Ÿ˜ฎ Review paper got accepted into SmartTechCon 2023 Singapore
- Application of Blockchain as a means for vote kicking in Video Games
Started weebletstore.in
- Anime merch store
๐Ÿฅณ Got invited to IIT Guwahati IEEE GCON Conference!
- Participated in Vegathon finals at GCON
- Won first prize ๐Ÿ’ช
- Great experience
Got shortlisted into top 6 teams to the POC stage of Vegathon
- Started intense development of our Indigenous Flight Controller
- Sleep is for the weak?
๐Ÿฅณ Accpeted for CDACs GCON Vegathon
- Got the opportunity to work with VEGA Microcontrollers
- CDAC provided us with a VEGA Aries V2 board for the Hackathon
๐Ÿฅณ Qualified for Level 2 of Gujarat Robofest
- Our underwater drone proposal got accepted
- Got โ‚น50k funding from Gujarat Govt. to build a Proof Of Concept
๐Ÿฅณ Visited IIT Roorkee during Cognizance (Their TechFest)!
- Participated in Blockathon
- Developed BBIP - Blockchain Based Identification Protocol
- Participated in Intel OneAPI workshop + hackathon
- Won 1st prize in the OneAPI Hackathon ๐Ÿฅ‡
- Got โ‚น12k worth amazon gift card as the prize
๐Ÿ’ช Participated in HackNSUT '23
- Built an attendance NFT reward system
- 5irechain
- Madhur Virli Standup :O
- Teamed up with online friends for offline hackathon
๐Ÿฅณ First hackathon win of the year - SheBuilds!
- Used Rust for the first time, loved it ๐Ÿ˜ณ
- Built Smart Contracts on Concordium Blockchain
- Concordium track runnerup ๐Ÿฅˆ
2022
๐Ÿฅณ Attended my first DevFestโŒ—
- By GDG Ludhiana (it was their first organised DevFest too)
๐ŸŽ‰ Won WeMakeDevs <> Stream hackathon on Devpost!
- Built a game with Unity
- Won 'Best educational game' track
- Got a one on one session with Kunal Kushwaha ๐Ÿคฉ
๐ŸŽ‰ Won Support-a-thon hackathon on Devpost!
- Won 'Best use of cockroachDB' track
๐Ÿ˜ฒ Joined a winter internship programme
- By IEEE Young Professionals
๐ŸŽ‰ Got an Internship at PhysicsWallah!
- ๐Ÿ˜ณ Tech Intern lessgooooo
๐ŸŽ‰ Placed 2nd in Hash-It-Out Coding Competition!
- Organised by Computer Society of India
๐ŸŽ‰ Won the Neighbourhood Hacks 2 Hackathon!
- Won best use of DeSo
- Won most creative use of DeSo
๐ŸŽ‰ Got an Internship at OtakuKart
- Gamedev intern lesssgoooooo
- Co developed a mobile horror game
๐Ÿ’ช Participated in Hacktoberfest '23
- Third hacktoberfest :O
๐Ÿ’ช Joined Hackoverflow Society
- As a core Tech Team Coordinator
- Exploring college and anything and everything :hmmmmmmmm:
๐Ÿ’ช Participated in IC-Hack 2022 Hackathon
- Organised by IEEE India Council
- At BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore
- Secured top 5 position in Education Track โœŠ
๐Ÿ“• Started College
- At Chandigarh University
- Majoring in Computer Science and Engineering
๐Ÿง‘โ€๐ŸŽ“ Graduated High School [12th Standard]
- Scored 82%
๐Ÿ’ช Participated in the GMTK Game Jam 2022
- Theme: 'Roll of a dice'
- Ranked 1.6k out of 6.1k+ submissions
๐Ÿ’ช Participated in TezAsia Hackathon
- Learnt about SmartPy and Tezos smart contracts
- Developed an on-chain blogging webapp
๐Ÿ Developed Better PW
- Lightweight Client for the Physics Wallah education platform
๐Ÿ›  Started developing Desonity
- A Unity3D extension that allows developers to integrate the DeSo Blockchain into Unity games
๐Ÿ Built a prototype of buying in-game items as NFTs
- Using Unity 3D game engine and DeSo Blockchain
- A marketplace could be setup without explicitly needing a backend server to handle in-game purchases as the same could be done through the Blockchain network
2021
๐Ÿ›  Started building Cordify
- Tool to bridge the gap between web2 (twitter, reddit, etc) platforms with web3 DeSo platform
- Started out as a Discord bot that added features of the blockchain into Discord servers, and now is a full fledged application integrating Discord, Twitter and more platforms with DeSo
๐Ÿ Built Animedoro Timer
- Timer app built in Vanilla HTML, CSS and Javascript
2020
๐Ÿ›  Started Discord Bot Development
- Discord.py
- Did a lot of bot development for fun
- Did couple of paid gigs too
๐Ÿ›  Started learning Python
- print('Hello World!')
๐Ÿง‘โ€๐ŸŽ“ Graduated Middle School [10th Standard]
- Scored 89% ๐ŸŽ‰
๐Ÿ’ช First freelance gigโŒ—
- Built an AR application that would scan different birds in childrens picture books and play bird sounds
๐Ÿ•น Developed a VR game - Cheap Saber
- Clone of Beat Saber, playable on android VR devices
- Utilises Augument Reality marker based tracking to move virtual sabers
๐Ÿ’ช Participated in a VXR hackathon by VRocKS
- Developed a VR story telling demo for Android VR devices
๐Ÿ Built a Human following Arduino Car
- Shortly after the TinkerFest Competition, I built this car that will detect any human through a phones camera and follow them
- Learnt about OpenCV
- Felt good because it worked (unlike the one from tinkerfest ๐Ÿคญ)
๐Ÿ’ช Participated in Tinker Fest Robotics Competition
- Built an autonomous, trash seggrating robot car using LEGO as the body frame and Arduino + Android Mobile as the Brain ๐Ÿง 
- Although our bot did not function as ecpected, we learnt a lot and had fun
2019
๐Ÿ›  Started learning Game Dev
- Debug.Log("Published some games on Play Store and got banned afterwards ๐Ÿคก")
๐Ÿ’ช Built a model version of a Light Interferometer
- Using a Microscope slide, 2 pieces of mirrors (that I broke in half), a cheap lazer pointer and a lens I salvaged from another lazer pointer
- Similar arrangement like the LIGO
- Interference pattern was slightly visible
๐Ÿ’ช Performed the Double Slit Experiment
- Using a cheap lazer pointer and insulating tape
- Learnt about Dual Nature of Light
๐Ÿ›  My Attempt at building an Arduino CubeSat
- 3D printed frame
- Got CW telemetry working witha 433MHz RF transmitter & receiver
๐Ÿ Built an Ultrasonic Standing Wave 'Levitator'
- Followed an instructable article to and ripped apart couple of ultrasonic modules to build a mini levitator thingie
- Learnt about Standing Waves
- Small pieces of paper/styrofoam could be held in air at specific nodes of standing waves
๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ”ง Assembled my first 3D printer [Ender 3]
- Since then I have learnt a lot about the tech behind 3D printing and assembled more than 6 printers
๐Ÿ˜ณ Got an Arduino UNO
- Learnt about IoT, embeded circuits, electronics
- Built random fun projects with the UNO and various Modules
- Built cool stuff with the power of LEGO and Arduino. (I still have the LEGO Mindstorms RCX kit)
๐Ÿ Built a LEGO line follower and modified gears to speed it up
- Learnt about gear ratios
2017
๐Ÿคฃ Made HTML tutorials
- School had HTML and CSS in our curriculum so I made video tutorials and uploaded them on youtube for my friends to learn from ๐Ÿ˜†
๐Ÿ’ช Participated in a Cubing Competition for the first time
- Got an average time around 40 seconds and personal best 34 seconds
- Met Akash Rupela, former Indian record holder for fastest 3x3 solve ๐Ÿ˜ณ
2016
๐Ÿค“ Learnt my first programming language - QBASIC
- Good ol' days
- For refrence: http://tedfelix.com/qbasic/
๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ”ฌ Got interested into Science and made videos on youtube
- Homemade Litmus paper and indicator solution
- Theory behind how LIGO detects gravitational waves
- and more in the following years ๐Ÿคฉ
2013
๐Ÿ“ธ Attended a 3 day workshop on photography by the British Council
- The organisers liked some of my photos very much :D
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Academic Papers (2)
Blogs (4)
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Achievements (10)
2024 ๐Ÿฅ‰ Third prize
2023 ๐Ÿฅ‡ Grand Prize
2023 ๐Ÿฅˆ Second
Crewsphere ICP College level hackathon
2023 ๐Ÿฅˆ Second
Hack-O-Octo 1.0
2023 ๐Ÿฅ‡ First
CDAC's GCON Vegathon
2023 ๐Ÿ… Track Prize
2022 ๐Ÿฅˆ Second
Hash It Out 1.0
2022 ๐Ÿ… Track Prize
Neighbourhood Hacks 2.0
2022 ๐Ÿ… Track Prize
Support-a-thon
2022 ๐Ÿ… Track Prize
We Make Devs <> Stream hackathon
Participations (18)
non exhaustive
2024
LFGHO 2024
2023
NASA CanSat '24 (cleared PDR round | Built a prototype sat)
2023
EthOnline 2023
2023
ICP Workshop
2023
SIH Tekathon 2.0
2023
Hack-O-Octo 1.0
2023
GCON Vegathon '23
2023
IIT Roorkee Intel OneAPI workshop + hackathon
2023
HackNSUT '23
2023
SheBuilds
2022
Hash-It-Out
2022
AWS Commnuity Day Quizes
2022
Hack The Mountains 3.0
2022
IC Hack '22
2019
Tinkerfest Junior Robotice competition
2019
MIT Appinventor hackathon
2017
City of Joy CubeComp
2013
British Council Photography Workshop
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