Letter #02

The Fifth Verse, weekly update: 

This past week, we wrapped something we’ve quietly been shaping behind the scenes, a fully structured system for visual creation using JSON prompting.

Most people interact with AI using open-ended text prompts. That’s fine for simple ideas, but when you need precision, consistency, and control, especially across branded visuals, that approach falls short.

We took a different route. JSON prompting lets us define every detail. Lighting. Fabric texture. Camera angles. Color palettes. Facial expressions. It’s like giving AI a blueprint, not a vibe. And it delivers.

We now have a high-fidelity, high-polycount JSON prompt system that we use across all our brand assets — from UI layouts and 3D characters to all brand assets.

High-fidelity means the tone and visual emotion land exactly as we intend. High-polycount means the 3D renders are detailed, sharp, and fully formed. Not rough mockups or cartoonish sketches.

If you’d like to know how we built this entire system using just OpenAI’s 4o model, comment with your email ID below and I will create a detailed guide to share with you.

Wrapped up our modern dating blogs series

This week, we also wrapped a 10-part blog series on modern dating in India.

We wrote them to slow down and make sense of what we were seeing in our lives, in our friends’ stories, and in the patterns around us that most dating platforms never seem to talk about.

We covered everything from dating fatigue and FOBO (Fear of Better Options), to cultural filters and family pressures, to the emotional blind spots no one teaches us how to navigate. Especially in India, where dating exists in this strange space between tradition and freedom

A personal update: we moved in. Literally.

For four months, we built this thing from two different states. Video calls. Async updates. Shared docs. All of that. But the deeper the build got, the more friction we felt. We didn’t need more time. We needed more time together. So we made the call and last week, I packed my bags and moved to Bangalore.

We turned Krishna's living room into our first office. It’s not glamorous. It’s scrappy. But it’s ours. For so many of us who’ve dreamt of building something with close friends, this moment carries weight.

In the days leading up to the move, I kept waking up at odd hours because of how anxious and nervous I felt. But here’s the thing about anxiety: sometimes, it’s useful. It got me out of bed. It gave me sharper questions. It made me think harder about how we’ll scale, how we’ll get our first 100 users, how we’ll make our first revenue. It made the decision real. And honestly, I’m just grateful. Because building something meaningful now doesn’t always need a big team or a huge budget. It needs curiosity, focus, trust and most important, the right people. I am pretty sure we nailed the last part.