design engineer·founder of devsforfun studio

i design and build the whole product — the part people touch, and the part that makes it work.

i work with founders as a founding designer, a technical partner, or the person they bring in to figure out what to actually build with ai. based in india, working worldwide.

four school-house colors · one operatorthe palette i've carried since kindergarten
calendar pro — live & in use✦devsforfun id — powering the whole ecosystem✦smart india hackathon 2024 — winner✦seven products shipped this year✦pixelform — design studio✦stafflo — ai studio✦
02 — ways to work together

three ways i help founders. all of them start with a call.

01
founding designer / engineer

i join early teams and own design and the front-to-back build. i've shipped seven products solo this year — i can do that inside your team instead.

02
design partner, via pixelform

my studio pixelform takes your brand and product from messy to shipped. start with a $500 audit, scale into a full engagement.

pixelform.design →
03
ai builds, via stafflo

my ai studio stafflo works out what's actually worth automating in your team's day, then builds it to run on machines you own. start with a two-week audit.

stafflo.ai →
book a call → clndr.proevery engagement starts here.
03 — selected work

everything here started as a problem i was living with. i built the fix, then made it something other people could use.

shipped & in use
clndr.pro
calendar pro's month view, with the ask clndr assistant clearing a day of events
calendar prolive

the scheduling tool i use myself and others book me through. the proof that i ship things people actually use.

clndr.pro →
devsforfun.app
the devsforfun app store, where every app signs in with one devsforfun id
devsforfun idlaunched

the account, billing, and app-store layer every other product plugs into.

devsforfun.app →
building now
a roast my website report for bigappledesigns.com, overall score 34 out of 100
roast my websitebeta

drop a link, get a brutally honest site critique. the top of my studio's funnel.

roastmywebsite.devsforfun.app →
framework.inkform.dev
the @inkform/framework docs site, built with the framework itself
inkformnear ready

a writing-first cms where github is the database. the open-source framework's already out; this site's blog runs on it.

inkform.dev →
the studios · client work
pixelform.design
the pixelform homepage: design, all the way down
pixelformdesign studio

my design-engineering studio. where this craft turns into client work.

pixelform.design →
stafflo.ai
the stafflo homepage, with bench desk reading a vendor requirement out of an email
staffloai studio

my ai product studio. private ai tools for staffing and lending teams, run on machines they own.

stafflo.ai →
04 — how i think

i write about design engineering, ai tooling, and what's actually worth building right now.

i keep a public record of the calls i make about where the tools are going — starting now, dated and in the open.

a year ago i called it: affordable text-to-speech and real code generation were about a year out. in june 2026 they landed — almost to the month. i didn't write it down publicly then, so take the reasoning on its merits — i'm publishing it now.

read the reasoning → · writing it now
latest writing// written and published from inkform
latest2026-08-18This is the beginningHi! I'm Charan Manikanta Nalla (you can call me Charan). This blog is being written, and being published, all from the CMS (Content Management System) software I built myself, called Inkform CMS. And this point forward, I'm going to use this to manage all of my blog content.1 min readread it →
everything i've written →
i also write about — ai · design · tinyml + hardware · business
the newsletter

figuring out what still pays to learn and do, while ai reshapes everyone's work.

roughly once a week, i write down what i'm figuring out and where i think this is all headed. that's the whole thing.

no spam. unsubscribe anytime. built on my own tools.
05 — the studio

everything i build lives under one roof — devsforfun studio.

calendar pro, the identity layer, the design and ai studios, the writing tools, the hackathon work, the space stuff — one operator, one system, all plugged into the same spine.

see the whole thing → devsforfun.com
livecalendar proschedulinglivedevsforfun idthe spinelivepixelformdesign studionear readyinkformwriting toolslivestaffloai product studio
soonspaceapps.devspace stuff
soonterralaunchlaunch tooling
livebookofhackathonshackathon work
06 — the story

i taught myself all of this from a village in andhra pradesh with unreliable power and no fast internet. here's the short version.

the tablet · age 14

i spent two years and three dead devices fixing a tablet everyone said was unfixable. i didn't have the 4g, the tools, or the knowledge. i found them one at a time.

devs for fun · college

i founded my college's first google developer student club, then built devs for fun — a teaching program that reached 376 people across four universities and three continents.

sih 2024 · winner

we won the smart india hackathon. first team from my college to ever get that far. it turned into my engineering job.

now · no runway

i built an entire product ecosystem in the margins of that job. now i'm leaving it to go all in. no runway. all in.

the one line i live by
failureisnot defeat.
07 — teaching

teaching is the part i keep coming back to.

i started by teaching web dev to 376 people across four universities. that was before ai collapsed how fast anyone can learn. i'm building the next version now — teaching people to actually build in the ai era, where time-to-skill has dropped through the floor.

for orgs, colleges & teams

i run workshops and talks on building with ai, design engineering, and shipping fast. i've taught hands-on since college — the devs for fun sessions are on youtube.

book a workshop → clndr.prowatch past sessions →
for students & learners

i share how i build, what still pays to learn, and the tools worth your time — free, across youtube and the newsletter.

youtube →subscribe →
the track record so far
376
people taught, hands-on
4
universities reached
3
continents, one program
1st
gdsc chapter at my college
08 — work with me

have a problem
worth solving?

book a call · clndr.pro design work · pixelform ai work · stafflo the whole studio · devsforfun.com