I work on Grok at SpaceXAI (that's xAI) as a Software Engineering Specialist

I try to build things I'm curious about.

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I spent a couple of years shipping products. Most of them died.

Domains, ads, Reddit, Product Hunt, waitlists, relaunches, new landing pages. I kept telling myself this one might work.

A few of them:

• ShipDemos · demo videos from real UI, using AI
• AlgoHeads · jobs matched to people you already know (~1k users)
• QuitPremium · recruiter contacts without LinkedIn Premium (~3k users, I shut it down, legal)
• TryYourClothes · see clothes on a photo of you
• AnotherDayGone · macOS timeline of your day
• LearnAI · lessons and slides from a prompt
• Applymate · faster LinkedIn applying
• DocumentChat · chat with a PDF
• HabitHeatmap · habits like a GitHub grid
• ObjectDetector · objects and colors in a photo or video
• InternetThroughTime · what the web looked like in a given year
• WormyReads · browse books visually

At the time it felt like jumping from one dead idea to the next. Looking back I was just learning to ship, talk to users, debug real systems, and tell what was worth building.

Each one failed. Together they got me an offer from SpaceXAI.

Funny how failure compounds too.

Python, TypeScript, FastAPI, React, Next.js. RAG, LLM apps, agent workflows, evals, grounding checks. AWS, GCP, Postgres, Docker.

Resume: SourabhLigadeResume2026.pdf Hugging Face: grounding-eval-demo