Anshul Vasmate

2026 · Python

ShortsForge

One command turns a topic into a finished video.

Type a topic. It writes the script, plans the scenes, writes the image prompts, speaks the narration, and cuts the video with captions ready to post.

The language model and the voice both run on my own computer, so a video costs nothing to make and works with the internet off.

The hard part was not generating things, it was stopping the character from changing appearance between scenes. One file now describes the character, and every prompt repeats it word for word.

2026 · OpenCV, MediaPipe

MotionVision

Move the mouse with your hand in front of a webcam.

The camera tracks 21 points on your hand. Pinch to click, hold to drag, or record a gesture and bind it to a keystroke, a media key, or an app.

Getting from "works once in a demo" to "works every time" was the entire project: cursor jitter from natural tremor, Windows display scaling, a second monitor, and drags that stuck when the camera dropped a frame.

2026 · Windows, networking

Two machines, two hours apart

My home laptop, reachable from campus, without opening a single port.

The machine at home sleeps until it wakes itself on a schedule. From campus I can take over its screen, run a command on it, or drop a file in a folder and watch it appear on the other side. The two are joined by a private encrypted network, so nothing is exposed to the open internet and no company holds my files.

Almost none of this worked the first time, and none of the failures printed an error. The machine simply did not wake up, and there was nothing to read.

Waking it took five fixes stacked on top of each other, and four of them were symptoms. The real cause was a second sleep timeout Windows does not show in its settings screens at all — you can only see it by asking the power tool to dump hidden values. It applies specifically when the computer wakes for a scheduled task, and it was putting the machine back to sleep about two minutes after every successful wake. Along the way I also found that the sleep command most of the internet recommends silently turns wake-ups off, because of how its arguments land on the real function underneath.

The lesson I actually keep: when a system fails silently, stop trusting what it displays. My file sync looked perfectly healthy in its own window for ten days while it copied nothing, after an update quietly left it running under a blank identity. Now I check that a real file moved, not that the screen looks fine.

Building

Business model explainer

A tool that shows you exactly how a business makes money.

Pick a company and watch one customer dollar move: who pays whom, what the product actually costs, and where the margin is hiding. Change one number and the whole picture moves with it.

I started it because I could repeat that Costco makes its money on memberships rather than groceries, but I could not show anyone why that is true. Saying it is not understanding it.

Where it stands: the model of the data is drawn and the first diagrams work. Next is wiring real published figures in instead of illustrative ones.

Selling

Booking sites for local shops

Barbers, salons and restaurants lose appointments to the phone.

The demo on the right is a working app, not a picture of one: real accounts with email verification, a reservation system with live table availability, and an account page where a guest can cancel a booking.

I wrote the attack tests too — for stolen sessions, injected database commands, and cancelling someone else’s reservation. Thirteen of them run on every change and all thirteen pass. One real bug turned up during the build: password-reset links were being built from a header an attacker controls.

The hard part is not the code. I can build the site in a weekend; I have never walked into a barbershop and asked for the sale. That is the part I am trying to get better at.