Antharmaya Labs
Field notes
Product decisions, market truths, and what building software in India actually teaches us. Written by the people doing the building — not a content team.
Open source
7 July 2026 · 4 min read
Why RateGuard runs inside your app instead of in front of it
Every AI gateway sees 100% of your traffic and holds your provider credentials to do it. In March 2026, two compromised LiteLLM releases showed what that costs when the gateway itself gets hit — even though the actual damage was narrower than the headlines made it sound.
Open source
5 July 2026 · 5 min read
Your AI agent doesn't know its own budget until it's gone
Uber capped its AI budget after blowing through it in four months. A different company burned $500M on Claude in thirty days. Agents don't ask permission before they spend — they find out after. I open-sourced the piece that lets them ask first.
Open source
3 July 2026 · 5 min read
Your AI agents start every task blind — so I built them a command center
You direct a handful of coding agents, and each one starts every task cold: no goals, no map of the code, guessing and re-reading until it drifts. Here's the local-first command center I built to deploy them grounded, and why I'm open-sourcing it.
Open source
22 June 2026 · 3 min read
Your AI agents have amnesia — and they don't talk to each other
You use four or five AI coding agents. Each keeps its own private memory and none of them compare notes. Here's why that's the real tax on agentic work, and the two small open-source tools we built to fix it.
Business model
21 June 2026 · 5 min read
Why we take zero commission — and how we make money instead
PhotoSelect takes no cut of what a client pays a studio. That isn't a temporary discount or a launch sweetener. It's the business model — and it changes who we're building for.
Field note
15 June 2026 · 3 min read
What our pilot studios taught us about delivering photos in India
We thought we were building a better gallery. The studios in our pilot quietly corrected us — about families, about networks, and about what 'professional delivery' actually means in India.
Field note
15 June 2026 · 4 min read
Why we built pay-to-unlock instead of deliver-then-chase
Our first product's defining decision wasn't a feature. It was changing the order in which photos and money change hands — and letting software, not the photographer, be the one that asks.
