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2026-08-03Engineering4 min read

How We Built WinIsland: Bringing Dynamic Island Overlay HUDs to Windows

A technical dive into building a top-of-screen floating overlay in Flutter Desktop, handling native Win32 media events, and decoupling UI isolates.

Ishu Prabhakar

Ishu Prabhakar

Founder & Lead Engineer

2026-07-22Engineering5 min read

How We Built WinSearch: A Spotlight-Style Launcher for Windows using Flutter & C#

A technical deep dive into named-pipe IPC, Riverpod state management without codegen, and building an instant keyboard-driven launcher for Windows.

Ishu Prabhakar

Ishu Prabhakar

Founder & Lead Engineer

2026-06-29Engineering9 min read

WebRTC vs. WebSockets vs. gRPC: Choosing the Right Real-Time Protocol

Building real-time applications requires choosing between WebRTC, WebSockets, and gRPC. We break down the protocols, how NAT traversal works, and how to choose the right tech for peer-to-peer streaming and low-latency APIs.

Ishu Prabhakar

Ishu Prabhakar

Founder & Lead Engineer

2026-06-02Engineering9 min read

Why Your AI Coding Assistant Doesn't Actually Know Your Codebase

Every agentic coding session starts the same way — your AI rebuilds context from scratch. RCE is a persistent cognition layer that eliminates that problem, giving AI agents and developers instant, accurate, grounded answers about any codebase.

Ishu Prabhakar

Ishu Prabhakar

Founder & Lead Engineer

2026-05-24Identity Infrastructure1 min read

Rebuilding Facial Authentication SDK for Indian Startups

How we engineered a lightweight, GDPR-compliant facial recognition liveness SDK specifically optimized for KYC workflows.

Ishu Prabhakar

Ishu Prabhakar

Founder & Lead Engineer

2026-05-22Productivity1 min read

Designing Flash Connect Device Communication

Deep dive into our peer-to-peer zero-config discovery network and the custom local sync parameters that make cross-device productivity seamless.

Ishu Prabhakar

Ishu Prabhakar

Founder & Lead Engineer