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Bureau monograph — vol. 04 / 2026

Aarav Mehta

An independent design and engineering bureau of one, working from Pune since the autumn of 2019.
Eleven things shipped, fourteen essays published, one small studio kept alive on quiet labour.

EST.2019
BASEPune, IN
STAFF1
REPLY~36 h
PRINTedn. 01
/ 01 2025

Threadwell.

Long-form reader for private subscribers.

Built solo over six weeks of nights in late 2024 and shipped to a closed list of forty readers in February 2025. The largest single artifact in the catalogue to date; still receiving small typographic revisions every few weeks.

ROLE
design · engineering · writing
STACK
typescript · postgres · bun
SCOPE
6 weeks build · 14k loc
STATUS
operational, private beta
/ 02 2024

Fieldnotes.

Local-first writing tool for engineers.

A daily-driver notebook application, designed around plain text and markdown. Open source, in maintenance, ~2.4k installs. The slowest and most useful piece of software in the bureau.

ROLE
design · engineering · docs
STACK
svelte · sqlite · tauri
SCOPE
24 weeks build · 6k loc
STATUS
maintained, v2.1
/ 03 2023

Marginalia.

A study in editorial typography.

Twelve hand-typeset long essays, made in late 2023 as a deliberate exercise in setting type for screen. Retired in November 2024 and preserved, intentionally, as it was on the day it closed.

ROLE
design · writing · type
STACK
hand html · css
SCOPE
8 weeks build · 3k loc
STATUS
frozen, v1.0 final

SECTION 02

Index of writing, 2025 — 26.

Contact sheet, five most recent. Earlier sheets on request.

  1. / 17 V

    On knowing when a piece of writing is finished.

    essay · 12 pp.

  2. / 02 IV

    The website as a small private museum of the self.

    essay · 8 pp.

  3. / 28 I

    Notes on building software you have to live with.

    essay · 17 pp.

  4. / 14 X · 25

    In praise of the long maintenance period.

    essay · 9 pp.

  5. / 02 VIII · 25

    What I learned writing a tool for myself.

    essay · 6 pp.

SECTION 03

Bureau spec.

01 Principal
Aarav Mehta, 25 · engineer & writer · Pune, India.
02 Focus
Local-first software, editorial tooling, and long-form writing about both. No client work.
03 Method
One substantial artifact every ~6 weeks. Maintenance is preferred over new builds; revisions over rewrites.
04 Cadence
Writing is published when the bureau has something genuine to say; never on a schedule.
05 Output
To date: 11 shipped artifacts · 14 published essays · 0 abandoned projects under active responsibility.
06 Reach
hello@aarav.me. Reply P50 ~36 h. Slowly. Honestly.