When I set it free as open source, I carried a loud hope inside a quiet heart - that kindred minds would gather around it, build with it, breathe into it. Instead, the ecosystem turned out to be a crowded emptiness - small, scattered, strangely silent till I myself do something.
Even hired virtual assistants are clueless.
It fell apart further as my friend Siddarth has been taking a breath since last year till this June. His father died. So.
Every module you see on unofficed.com was born in a pre-AI era - a mechanical miracle stitched together by one very human pair of hands. A side project that felt like a full-time obsession. It was free - completely free - yet generosity met with graceful absence.
Access was abundant; participation was scarce.
And still, the code travelled farther than the voices did.
Forty-six active projects spin today on its backbone. Three major brokers run entire API networks and wrappers on top of it.
Now, Deribit carries the full Unofficed system, which I made for it, that spun off options-startup - half a million active users move through it, and 300+ developers help sustain it. A solitary seed, growing into a forest, I don’t always stand inside.
But in India… creation without companionship becomes a loud loneliness. After a while, even passion grows tired.
Now the AI industry began sprinting ahead - evolving at a restless pace - and I found myself chasing speed with patience. So I chose quiet growth over visible noise.
I focused on upskilling as I found it fascinating.
I travelled as I grew frustrated with lots of NSE and MCX circulars. Actually, I had found a loophole around something, and they had it closed with the law of LPP.
So Southeast Asia became both office and classroom as I was depressed (well, more depressed as they have closed BN weekly options, which had higher VIX)
Maybe I protected my energy by withholding my presence.
But Deepak never stopped. Week after week - patient persistence, soft insistence. A steady reminder that sometimes faith survives where enthusiasm fades.
So let me try again.
Pardon the delay.
I will fix it.
I will fix it tonight.