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Teja
@tejaryali.com
product | tinkerer on the side

learning to build on the internet

find a common slot across timezones: commonslot.app
Scheduling calls across timezones with friends and family is surprisingly painful

You’re constantly doing mental math, double-checking if it’s a reasonable hour for everyone, hoping you didn’t mess up daylight savings

Got tired of this, so I built CommonSlot over the weekend
December 15, 2025 at 10:45 AM
i love how you can just do stuff now

i used 100% of my free will and built a new web app

i hated having to sift through the world clock to schedule calls with my friends

i have a tool for that now! check it out
December 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Day 2 of 30: The Becoming

✅ 10k steps achieved thanks to walking back and forth from work. Walkable cities ftw

✅ Amazing back workout

✅ Setup cold outreach and sent out 20 emails. Need to figure out ways to scale without getting my domain blocked
December 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Stop seeking certainty without action.

You’ll never know things are going to work out before taking any action. You’ll not even know it while you’re taking action.

You just have to hope it does work out in the end and keep executing.

Focus on your own work and stop seeking certainty.
December 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Break the pattern today or the loop will repeat tomorrow 🔁
December 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
A lot of your problems disappear once you start noticing the difference between your rational mind and emotional mind, and stop them from corrupting each other
December 1, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I love executing tasks at work

I spend days building analysis to understand the problem and try different experiments

I struggle with selling my work. My work remains unknown and effort unnoticed.

I’m learning to take a step back into being the “work orchestrator” instead of the “executer”
December 1, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Day 1 of 30: The Becoming

✅ woke up early with anxiety but pulled myself back with a 10 minute meditation
✅ walked to work reached 3k steps, 7 to go
✅ booked flights for my nye trip. going solo after so long but time for it!
December 1, 2025 at 9:26 AM
just shipped a parking finder for Luxembourg City in under an hour using Google Antigravity

this is much faster and better compared to the previous times vibe coding with Claude Code or Lovable

what feature should i add next?

findmyparking.vercel.app
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findmyparking.vercel.app
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Spent all day migrating my websites from one hosting service to another coz I didn’t want to renew my subscription

Took very longer than I hoped it would, but we’re back!
September 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
After a gruelling data crunching for 7 hours on a Friday
a fried egg with a sad face and the words my brain is fried below it
ALT: a fried egg with a sad face and the words my brain is fried below it
media.tenor.com
September 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I’ve been trying to sit still and find true acceptance within myself

But the most effective way to acceptance is by doing the things you know you should

I feel so much nicer every day I got to the gym. Not because I need to look a certain way, but because I’ve done the thing I know is good for me
September 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Uhhh, why is one cell in mm/dd/yyyy and the other cell a text string when all I added was yyyy-mm-dd 😩
September 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I need a tool that reminds me it’s not so serious every time i get triggered by a work email
September 5, 2025 at 11:02 AM
My brain is an idea generating beast when I desperately want to fall back asleep at 1am.

All very exciting ideas that I will implement, but let me sleep, dude 🧠
September 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Man i stress too much before i speak up what’s on my mind. Practicing self acceptance starting with just speaking my mind.

Dear diary, it’s day 1
September 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Just done with 4 days in Porto 🇵🇹

Much needed break after back to back work travel, language test prep, and job change

Now time to refocus on side hustle! 👨🏽‍💻
July 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Back to the gym after weeks! Building back the consistency one day at a time
July 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Frozen fruits and vegetables are my favourite thing capitalism gave us 🍉🥭

No time spent cleaning and cutting, no need to worry about spoilage
July 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Trying to reduce my alcohol consumption but the weather is just too good 🍻
June 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
i was working on a teammate's promotion feedback last week and was surprised how difficult it felt to put together a paragraph without relying on AI

i got so used to giving AI some bullet points to generate a structured narrative.

i feel like my skill of long-form writing is slipping away
February 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
why would anyone schedule a call for 3pm on the 24th dec?!
December 24, 2024 at 10:38 AM
I’ve always thought I wasn’t the creative type, but working on UI updates taught me otherwise

Creativity is often just a series of small, thoughtful decisions

You keep changing colours, styles, and layouts - and suddenly it clicks
December 23, 2024 at 10:49 AM
ui re-design in progress 🎨
December 22, 2024 at 6:47 PM
i love shopping at local small businesses!

bought a plum liquor from a local distillery and selected in-store pickup as i wanted it today

the owner called within an hour. told me he didn't want me to drive an hour and that he can drop it off himself this evening 🥂
December 20, 2024 at 10:46 AM