Ashish Narayan

The product lens

Where things actually are

Where's my garam masala?

  1. Where's my garam masala?
    01Where's my garam masala? — A weekend-scale experiment in whether a vision model can replace a mental index.Full size ↗
  2. Two verbs: teach, and ask
    02Two verbs: teach, and ask — The whole product is one loop, and the review step in the middle is the design.Full size ↗
  3. One frame, and nothing else
    03One frame, and nothing else — The privacy boundary is narrow enough to state in a sentence.Full size ↗
  4. The constraint that decides whether it works
    04The constraint that decides whether it works — A live camera preview needs a secure context, which on a home network is awkward.Full size ↗
  5. What this artifact does not establish
    05What this artifact does not establish — The stated-limits section, which for this project is most of what there is to say.Full size ↗

The whole thing — a weekend-scale experiment, not a product. Written from the repository and the README. No accuracy was measured; the experiment was built, not evaluated.

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