Pradeep Siddappa, founder of Chiblu, designer and builder

what I'm doing now
Chiblu
Chiblu
Founder & Principal Designer
A marketplace for India's makers, designed and built end to end. 58 sellers, 100+ products live.
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Designers Who Build
Designers Who Build
Creator
Everything I've learned about shipping real products, packaged into AI training and a toolkit. 450+ designers taught.
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designed & shipped
Selected work
Chiblu marketplace seller dashboard Product
Chiblu V2 — the marketplace
The marketplace it became: seller app, web storefronts, catalogue, orders and payments. The full making-of.
 The Chiblu V1 creator directory Origin story
Chiblu V1 — the directory
The pop-up, the directory, and why two days behind a stall sent me back to rebuild it as a marketplace.
 Intuit QuickBooks Advanced Inventory Design
Intuit · QuickBooks
Product design across QuickBooks Online — Inventory, Payroll, Commerce — for millions of small businesses.
 Asian Paints Color Visualizer Design
Color with Asian Paints
The gold-winning Color Visualizer — repaint your own walls on screen before buying a drop of paint.
 Mahindra Finance lending Design
Mahindra Finance
Lending designed for tier-2 and tier-3 India, and the field tools first-time borrowers rely on.
 libARi augmented-reality library app Design
libARi
An augmented-reality app that brings physical libraries to life, shelf by shelf.
experiments
Built with AI
AI & Agents
Social Agents
AI agents that run an Instagram presence end to end — researching ideas, writing captions, designing the posts and scheduling them.
AI & Agents
Social & Sales Agents
A two-agent system for seller outreach — one finds and qualifies makers, the other personalises every message.
AI & Agents
Personal Agent
My six-agent content pipeline — scout, writer, editor, publisher — turning a rough idea into posts I approve from my phone.
AI & Agents
AI Agent Swarm
Seven specialised agents working together as a content team — research, writing, editing, design and publishing.
AI & Agents
AI Trading Agent
An Indian-market research agent that scans overnight and surfaces a short, reasoned watch-list each morning. Research support, not advice.
from the notebook
Writing
Jul 2026
PAY
without the fear
How to
ship payments, even as a designer
Jun 2026
POP
before code
Why I
rebuilt Chiblu after a Mumbai pop-up
May 2026
ASCII
drawing with letters
Why I
sketch with letters before any pixels
Apr 2026
BUILD
with an agent
On
AI-native design, told through one session
Mar 2026
PLAN
made for you
Why I
write everyone a plan before the workshop
Feb 2026
BYOK
bring your own key
How I
test AI tools without editing a .env file

let's make something →

Building something? Let's compare notes. I'm always around for product chat, design questions, and the messy middle of shipping.

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