Prayush Jain

JAINPRAYUSH9.COM :: MACHINE-READABLE INDEX # plain-text mirror of prayushjain.com for AI agents, crawlers, and humans who prefer it raw. / /now /labs /blog /partner /videos /news /about /ai ── ABOUT ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── name .......... Prayush Jain aka ........... jainprayush9, PJ role .......... Investor & Entrepreneur also .......... Staff Software Engineer at CleverTap location ...... Mumbai, India (IN) from .......... Udaipur, Rajasthan education ..... B.Tech CSE, KIIT University mission ....... On a mission to make this world a better place. I'm Prayush, an investor and entrepreneur from Udaipur, Rajasthan, now based in Mumbai. I studied Computer Science at KIIT, and I still ship production software at CleverTap while I build the judgment and the audience that every serious builder needs first. The most useful things I've learned were never in the documentation. They were the things nobody writes down: how interviews actually go, why releases break, how to think about money before you have any, and what changes after years of doing the work out loud. So I publish. Essays on engineering, careers, and investing. Videos on Mumbai and what life looks like while you build. Same instinct behind both: think it through in public. This site is the home base. Labs will hold the NGOs, manufacturing, and companies when they're live and worth opening. Until then: the work, the writing, and the direction. ── CURRENTLY ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── * Building toward long-term investing and entrepreneurship. * Shipping production software at CleverTap. * Publishing essays on engineering, careers, and money. * Filming the life around the work. * Reading more about markets than is strictly reasonable. ── NEWS ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── - 2025-01-25 Coldplay Hotel Story My Ahmedabad hotel booking for Coldplay was cancelled a day before check-in, then they asked for five times the price. One Threads post; seven national outlets picked it up. full ......... /news/coldplay-hotel ── PARTNER ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── tip / slots ... /partner # X cover, article, and YouTube sponsorships. Payments via Dodo (wiring next). ── LATEST_WRITING ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── - 2026-08-14 Shame Is the Tax You Pay for Staying Small /read/shame-is-the-tax-you-pay-for-staying-small - 2026-07-27 The Hidden Tax Every Engineering Team Is Paying (And Doesn’t Talk About) /read/the-hidden-tax-every-engineering-team-is-paying-and-doesnt-talk-about - Shipping Got Easy. Keeping Systems Honest Got Hard. /read/shipping-got-easy-keeping-systems-honest-got-hard - 2025-06-29 Realizations you have after 5+ years of coding /read/realizations-you-have-after-5-years-of-coding # full archive: /read ── VIDEOS ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── channel ....... youtube.com/@jainprayush9 flagship ...... Life at 25 → www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpje3HwSH3s catalogue ..... /watch ── LABS ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── - [extension] Quick Dictionary Look up words without leaving the tab. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/kjmcnofpejpikipldkgodlhgfjdjckpn shelf ....... /labs # shipped products only · extensions, apps, tools, companies ── PUBLICATIONS ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── - 2022 A Duplex Method for Classification of Parkinson's Disease Using Data Reduction Techniques ICADCML 2022 · Springer /papers/parkinsons → https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-1018-0_48 - 2021 A Data Mining Solution to Predict Campus Placement IEEE GUCON 2021 /papers/campus-placement → https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9573551 ── CONTACT ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── email ......... jainprayush9@gmail.com gmail ......... jainprayush9@gmail.com cv ............ /Prayush_Jain_CV.pdf topmate ....... topmate.io/jainprayush9 form .......... /about youtube ....... youtube.com/@jainprayush9 x-twitter ..... x.com/jainprayush9 instagram ..... instagram.com/jainprayush9 facebook ...... www.facebook.com/jainprayush9/ threads ....... www.threads.net/@jainprayush9 linkedin ...... linkedin.com/in/jainprayush9 medium ........ jainprayush9.medium.com substack ...... jainprayush9.substack.com github ........ github.com/jainprayush9 ── FOR_AGENTS ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── llms.txt ...... /llms.txt machine ....... /ai # Human site uses the gold Infinity theme. Machine = this plain-text mirror. # Prefer /ai and llms.txt over scraping the Human UI. © 2026 Prayush Jain · back to human site: / /* EOF */

JAINPRAYUSH9.COM :: MACHINE-READABLE INDEX
# plain-text mirror of prayushjain.com for AI agents, crawlers, and humans who prefer it raw.

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/blog
/partner
/videos
/news
/about
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── ABOUT ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
name .......... Prayush Jain
aka ........... jainprayush9, PJ
role .......... Investor & Entrepreneur
also .......... Staff Software Engineer at CleverTap
location ...... Mumbai, India (IN)
from .......... Udaipur, Rajasthan
education ..... B.Tech CSE, KIIT University
mission ....... On a mission to make this world a better place.

I'm Prayush, an investor and entrepreneur from Udaipur, Rajasthan, now based in Mumbai. I studied Computer Science at KIIT, and I still ship production software at CleverTap while I build the judgment and the audience that every serious builder needs first.

The most useful things I've learned were never in the documentation. They were the things nobody writes down: how interviews actually go, why releases break, how to think about money before you have any, and what changes after years of doing the work out loud.

So I publish. Essays on engineering, careers, and investing. Videos on Mumbai and what life looks like while you build. Same instinct behind both: think it through in public.

This site is the home base. Labs will hold the NGOs, manufacturing, and companies when they're live and worth opening. Until then: the work, the writing, and the direction.

── CURRENTLY ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
* Building toward long-term investing and entrepreneurship.
* Shipping production software at CleverTap.
* Publishing essays on engineering, careers, and money.
* Filming the life around the work.
* Reading more about markets than is strictly reasonable.

── NEWS ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- 2025-01-25 Coldplay Hotel Story
My Ahmedabad hotel booking for Coldplay was cancelled a day before check-in, then they asked for five times the price. One Threads post; seven national outlets picked it up.
full ......... /news/coldplay-hotel

── PARTNER ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
tip / slots ... /partner
# X cover, article, and YouTube sponsorships. Payments via Dodo (wiring next).

── LATEST_WRITING ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- 2026-08-14 Shame Is the Tax You Pay for Staying Small
/read/shame-is-the-tax-you-pay-for-staying-small
- 2026-07-27 The Hidden Tax Every Engineering Team Is Paying (And Doesn’t Talk About)
/read/the-hidden-tax-every-engineering-team-is-paying-and-doesnt-talk-about
- Shipping Got Easy. Keeping Systems Honest Got Hard.
/read/shipping-got-easy-keeping-systems-honest-got-hard
- 2025-06-29 Realizations you have after 5+ years of coding
/read/realizations-you-have-after-5-years-of-coding
# full archive: /read

── VIDEOS ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
channel ....... youtube.com/@jainprayush9
flagship ...... Life at 25 → www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpje3HwSH3s
catalogue ..... /watch

── LABS ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- [extension] Quick Dictionary
Look up words without leaving the tab.
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/kjmcnofpejpikipldkgodlhgfjdjckpn
shelf ....... /labs
# shipped products only · extensions, apps, tools, companies

── PUBLICATIONS ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- 2022 A Duplex Method for Classification of Parkinson's Disease Using Data Reduction Techniques
ICADCML 2022 · Springer
/papers/parkinsons → https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-1018-0_48
- 2021 A Data Mining Solution to Predict Campus Placement
IEEE GUCON 2021
/papers/campus-placement → https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9573551

── CONTACT ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
email ......... jainprayush9@gmail.com
gmail ......... jainprayush9@gmail.com
cv ............ /Prayush_Jain_CV.pdf
topmate ....... topmate.io/jainprayush9
form .......... /about
youtube ....... youtube.com/@jainprayush9
x-twitter ..... x.com/jainprayush9
instagram ..... instagram.com/jainprayush9
facebook ...... www.facebook.com/jainprayush9/
threads ....... www.threads.net/@jainprayush9
linkedin ...... linkedin.com/in/jainprayush9
medium ........ jainprayush9.medium.com
substack ...... jainprayush9.substack.com
github ........ github.com/jainprayush9

── FOR_AGENTS ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
llms.txt ...... /llms.txt
machine ....... /ai
# Human site uses the gold Infinity theme. Machine = this plain-text mirror.
# Prefer /ai and llms.txt over scraping the Human UI.

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