Pravin Lohani

Hey, I'm Pravin, 19 years old, originally from Nepal and now a Computer Science student @ University of Waterloo. I wrote my first line of code at 9 in Lua while messing around in Roblox Studio, and I've been chasing that build-something-from-nothing feeling ever since. From grinding my way to top-20 globally in Pokémon Brick Bronze as a kid to now shipping projects that have reached over 30 millions views, I've always chased the next thing that obsessed me.

Life's thrown some real curveballs, and I've kept moving anyway, including beating cancer at 17 and pushing through a major surgery while staying locked in on school, friends, and whatever I was building next. These days I'm a SWE Intern @ Inductive Solutions and if I'm not on the clock, I'm probably at a hackathon or deep in a side quest.

If you're into ambitious builds, a little controlled chaos, and a lot of fun along the way, we'll surely get along.

Halftime

Dynamic Ads Layer

Contextual ad platform using Grok Vision to analyze video frames and insert ads at optimal moments. Built a two-pass pipeline with Grok for transcript analysis and frame selection, enabling real-time personalized ad placements. Reaching 20M+ views in under a week. Winner @ xAI Hackathon.

Steve

Cursor for Minecraft

Minecraft Forge mod that turns everyday natural-language prompts into fully coordinated in-game workers that mine, build, and automate tasks, reaching 5M+ views and 1.1k+ GitHub Stars in under a week.

CityWok

Audio Fingerprinting System

Building an audio fingerprinting system over 200+ episodes using a time-aligned voting algorithm to find exact timestamps while avoiding false positives at a millions-of-hashes scale. Optimized hash matching with an inverted index and time-aligned voting for O(1) lookups and zero false positives across millions of prints.

Spellcast Agent

Computer vision Boggle solver

AI agent that screenshares the Spellcast board, runs a custom YOLOv8 OCR model and pathfinding to play high-scoring words in real time, with 99.5% mAP@0.5 and 48% higher accuracy than pytesseract.

Quiry

Search for a Discord memory

RAG-powered system with Rust microservices, Kafka, Pinecone, and Elasticsearch that ingests chats and turns messy Discord history into sub-second semantic search and Q&A.

Versus

UFC for language models

Letta-powered arena where LLMs trash-talk and battle in games like Battleship, Trivia, and Wordle over WebSockets, complete with post-fight, voice-synth "interviews" for highlight-reel moments. Built months before Kaggle and Google DeepMind released the exact same concept. Finalist for UC Hack Berkeley.

DealyDigests

Smart credit card optimizer

Dashboard that analyzes real transaction streams to recommend the best card and merchant for each purchase. Winner at HackPrinceton.

ThreadIt

AI fashion studio for Shopify

Interactive sketch-to-storefront tool where users draw on garment templates, generate production-ready mockups with diffusion models, and one-click publish product pages to Shopify. Finalist at AgentHacks.

Lovely

AI dating co-pilot

Agentic system that automates texting, call prep, and in-date coaching using vector memories and RAG (including Meta smart-glasses integration) so users get social "superpowers" without losing their own voice.

dotpush

Auto-commit LeetCode to GitHub

Chrome extension that detects solved LeetCode problems in the browser and instantly pushes clean, organized solutions into a GitHub repo, now used by 150+ programmers.

Chess Engine

Minimalist engine, real games

Custom chess engine experiment in C++ focused on clean board representation, legal move generation, and basic search/evaluation so you can play full games against your own logic instead of a black-box engine.

Incident Reporter

Lightweight incident command center

Web tool built in Ruby with Redis for logging incidents with timeline, severity, and root cause, then exporting structured reports so teams can review what happened and standardize follow-ups.

MemoAR

Statue museum in your camera

AR experience that lets users point their phone at statues to see animated characters, timelines, and context overlays, turning passive city landmarks into interactive mini-museums. Winner at Zapparthon.

Flockings Simulator

Playground for emergent swarms

Real-time visual simulator of flocking behavior where thousands of agents follow simple local rules (separation, alignment, cohesion) to produce complex, satisfying swarm patterns you can tweak live.