Vastu Shastra is something almost every Indian family consults at some point, when buying a flat, building a home, or rearranging a room. But the experience is broken. You either pay a consultant a hefty fee, or you Google your way through contradictory blog posts, or you download one of the many "Vastu apps" that are basically a static compass with ads stacked on top. I grew up around this tradition, and as a mobile engineer I kept thinking: the core of Vastu is fundamentally spatial and directional. Direction, zones, placement. That is exactly what a phone with a magnetometer and a floor plan on screen is good at. The gap between how rich the tradition is and how poor the digital tools were felt almost personal. What problem were you trying to solve? Trust and translation. People do not just want "kitchen in the southeast" as a rule; they want to point their phone, see their own home's zones overlaid on their own floor plan, and understand what to fix and, importantly, what a practical remedy is when relocating a room is impossible, which for most apartment dwellers is always. Nobody is moving their bathroom. So every tip in Suvastu ships with an upay, a realistic correction. That single decision shaped the whole product. The second problem was language. Vastu lives in Hindi in most homes, but the apps live in English. Suvastu is bilingual at the content level, not as an afterthought translation layer. How did your approach evolve? Honestly, a lot. I started building "a compass app with tips". Three things changed along the way: First, I stopped treating content as filler. I built a structured knowledge base of a few hundred genuinely distinct, classically grounded tips with categories, zones, elements, and remedies, instead of padding thousands of near-duplicates. Quality of the corpus became the moat, not the compass widget. Second, AI changed the ceiling of what a solo developer could ship. Floor plan analysis used to be consultant-only territory. Now Suvastu can generate a personalised report from your plan, which felt like science fiction when I started sketching this. Third, I learned that distribution is a product too. I ended up building an entire internal content pipeline, tips, captions, graphics prompts, so that the app and its Instagram presence run from the same single source of truth. As a solo founder with a day job, systems beat hustle. Happy to answer anything about the stack or the tradition itself!

Suvastu

Your home, in harmony.

Your home, in harmony.