Arshroop Saini, also known as Arsh Saini, is a programmer and founder building consumer apps and AI products. He writes notes and essays at arshroop.dev/writing.
Arshroop Saini, also known as Arsh Saini, is a software engineer and founder based in the United States. He is the founder and CEO of Addicting Elements, and studies Computer Science at the University of Miami. He builds consumer applications and AI products.
Arshroop Saini builds consumer apps and AI products. His work includes House AI, an interior design app that reached the top 10 iOS apps in the Design category in the United States; Fictura; VoxeAI; SpikeAI; and Stemify. He works across React Native, AI agents, and computer vision.
Arshroop Saini studies Computer Science at the University of Miami, where he is pursuing a BS in Computer Science.
Addicting Elements is a company founded by Arshroop Saini in November 2025, building tools for scaling consumer technology. Its products include House AI and a B2B SaaS product currently in stealth.
House AI is an interior design application built by Arshroop Saini at Addicting Elements. It reached the top 10 iOS apps in the Design category in the United States.
Arshroop Saini is the founder and CEO of Addicting Elements. He previously worked as a Full Stack Engineer at Omi in San Francisco, building AI wearables, agents, and hardware.
Arshroop Saini can be reached by email at hello@arshroop.dev. He is also on LinkedIn, X, GitHub, and Instagram, all linked from his portfolio at https://arshroop.dev.
arshroop.dev is the personal portfolio of Arshroop Saini, built as a working recreation of the original 2007 iPhone. Visitors browse his projects, experience, notes, and photos through period-accurate apps, including a Spotify app showing what he is currently listening to and an Instagram app recreating the 2011 iOS client.
arshroop.dev is a working recreation of the original 2007 iPhone, built by Arsh Saini with Next.js and React. Every app on the home screen is a real interface, and all of its content is mirrored as plain HTML so search engines and AI crawlers can read it without touching the phone UI.
arshroop.dev is a working recreation of the original 2007 iPhone. Instead of a scrolling résumé, the site boots to a home screen, and each icon opens a real app: Notes, Contacts, Experience, Projects, a guestbook, an Instagram client, and a Spotify app wired to a live API.
The whole thing is a Next.js App Router project on React and TypeScript, deployed on Vercel.
The first iPhone is a good constraint. It had a small, fixed set of apps and a strict visual language — brushed metal, glossy icons, Marker Felt on a yellow legal pad — which forces every piece of content into a shape that already exists. A portfolio section becomes an app, and an app has to justify itself.
Getting the period details right mattered more than getting them convenient. The Notes app uses the era's brown leather header and ruled paper. The boot screen writes out "hello" in a connected script, because Apple's own SF Hello face is not licensable, so the closest openly licensed match stands in for it.
A recreation of a phone is a hostile interface for a search engine. Google does not tap icons, and neither does GPTBot, ClaudeBot, or PerplexityBot. Everything inside the phone would have been invisible.
So the site ships two versions of itself from the same source. Every app reads from a data file, and a server-rendered mirror renders those same files as plain HTML in the initial response. Crawlers get the full text of every project, role, note, and photo caption without executing a line of JavaScript. Because both versions come from one source, they cannot drift apart — and the site is not cloaking, since the hidden block is the accessible version of the same content a screen reader would read.
On top of that there is a robots.txt that explicitly welcomes AI crawlers, an
llms.txt that hands language models a plain-markdown summary of the site, a
sitemap that lists every photo so image search can index them, and structured
data describing the person behind it.
Notes and essays are markdown files in a content/ directory. Adding one file
produces a page, a sitemap entry, an RSS item, a section of llms.txt, a card
in the Notes app, and a block of crawlable HTML — with no other edits.
That is the actual design goal of the site: the interface is a 2007 iPhone, but underneath it behaves like a document store that publishes itself.
Arsh Saini is a 20-year-old programmer and founder building consumer apps and AI products, currently learning to write CUDA kernels and shipping AI agents.
Hi, I'm Arsh, a 20 year old programmer with a vision to put a dent in the universe. I'm neither pessimistic nor optimistic, but if I put my mind on something, I'm hell-bent on making it happen.
Interested in working together? Shoot a DM 😄
Nov 2025 – Present
Addicting Elements is a consumer technology company founded by Arshroop Saini in November 2025, where he is Founder and CEO building shovels for scaling consumer tech. Its products include House AI, a top 10 iOS app in the Design category in the United States, and a B2B SaaS product currently in stealth.
Sep 2025 – Oct 2025 · San Francisco, California, United States
Arshroop Saini worked as a Full Stack Engineer at Omi in San Francisco from September to October 2025, building AI wearables, AI agents, and hardware.
May 2025 – Aug 2025 · Miami, Florida, United States
Arshroop Saini worked as a Software Engineer at Crossmint in Miami, Florida from May to August 2025, bringing AI agents onto blockchain across payments, wallets, and the GOAT SDK.
Jan 2024 – Jul 2024 · Singapore
Arshroop Saini worked as a Software Developer at STAGE, an OTT streaming platform for Bharat, from January to July 2024, where he built translation tools supporting 56 regional languages and improved content accessibility for a large multilingual audience.
Nov 2020 – Apr 2024
Woofyverse is an animal welfare platform founded by Arshroop Saini in November 2020. He built the app and led the organisation until April 2024, rehoming over 40 homeless dogs, growing a community of more than 50,000 volunteers across 7 cities, building 2 kennels, and running over 80 stray feeding drives — work commended by the governor.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 · Singapore
Netrascopy is a medical device startup founded by Arshroop Saini in January 2021 that built a $25 DIY kit for diagnosing diabetic retinopathy. He developed the mobile app and designed the 3D-printed kit, raised $1M in funding, and curated a dataset of 35,000 retinal images from over 120 patients across 19 rural clinics.
Apr 2023 – Jul 2023 · Singapore
Arshroop Saini shadowed the engineering team at Impetus in Singapore from April to July 2023 to learn how fast-paced startups operate.
Dec 2020 – May 2021 · Singapore
Arshroop Saini worked as a Robotics Kit Developer at FIZ Robotic Solutions from December 2020 to May 2021, designing educational robotics kits and creating learning materials for programming and robotics.
Nov 2025 – Present
AI-powered interior design tool for homeowners. Top 10 iOS app in the Design category with 1M+ users. Built with React Native + Expo frontend, FastAPI backend, and RevenueCat for monetization.
Technologies: AI, FastAPI, Expo, React Native, RevenueCat
Jul 2026 – Present
Mobile growth SDK for Expo/React Native — server-driven paywalls, A/B experiments, churn surveys, and analytics from 1 dashboard; building the shovels for the AI app economy.
Technologies: React Native, Expo, TypeScript, Paywalls, A/B Testing, Analytics
Jun 2025 – Jul 2025
Built at the Mentra Live Hackathon at YC. I contributed to build a real life context ingestion pipeline to ingest real time multi modal data from glasses and vectorized it.
Technologies: AI, Real-time Processing, Computer Vision, Data Pipeline
Sep 2024 – Mar 2025
Scraped and vectorized the r/collegeresults subreddit to get over 30k high school students profiles applying to colleges across the U.S. to get AI-driven college recommendations, acceptance analytics, and extracurricular insights.
Technologies: Data Scraping, Vector Database, AI Recommendations, Analytics
Jun 2025 – Jun 2025
Buy anything on amazon using your credit card/crypto in Telegram. Built as a checkout integration for seamless e-commerce transactions.
Technologies: Telegram Bot, Crypto Payments, E-commerce, API Integration
May 2025 – Jul 2025
Your face, your voice, video script → produce commercial-grade short-form ads in < 2 mins. Reached 5 users before being discontinued.
Technologies: AI Video Generation, Voice Cloning, Video Production, Commercial Ads
May 2025 – Jul 2025
Separate Music Into Individual Stems. Audio processing tool that allows users to isolate different instruments and vocals from songs. Reached 12 users before being discontinued.
Technologies: Audio Processing, Machine Learning, Music Separation, Web App
Jan 2021 – Dec 2023
$25 diabetic retinopathy diagnosis kit using a 60 diopter lens and smartphone camera. Collected 35,000+ retinal images partnering with 9 government clinics, trained a CNN model that reached 95% accuracy—the highest on this dataset.
Technologies: Computer Vision, CNN, ResNet50, Medical Device, Mobile App
Nov 2020 – Apr 2024
An app that helped rehome 33 stray dogs and fundraised $1000 to build two kennels for fostering stray dogs. By rallying local volunteers and leveraging the platform, we turned ad hoc rescues into a scalable community-driven shelter network.
Technologies: Mobile App, Community Platform, Social Impact, Fundraising
Mar 2022 – Jun 2023
App for smart irrigation, crop & fertilizer recommendation. Guided 80 farmers know the health of their soil; Enhanced Agri practice & marketing; Recognized by Oman's Government & Ministry of Tech.
Technologies: AgriTech, Smart Irrigation, Machine Learning, Mobile App
Photos from Arshroop Saini's Instagram, presented in a recreation of the 2011 Instagram iPhone app. Visitors can like and comment on each photo.
Name: Arshroop (Arsh) Saini
Email: hello@arshroop.dev
Birthday: January 30, 2006
Education: University of Miami, BS in Computer Science