Built for One
Software stopped being a product. Doctors are next.
An interactive web essay by Shubham Sahu, written as a companion to a LinkedIn post, on what happens when building software gets cheap enough to make an app for one person.
Deployed interactive essay; the figures it cites come from public reporting, not my own research.
What I built
My dad is diabetic, and no company will build an app just for him. I wanted a page that lets people feel that shift instead of reading another thread about it.
- Built four interactive scenes: an app for one person, AI writing a growing share of new code at Google, a clinic simulator with four doctors and too many patients, and India’s doctor gap.
- Wrote the page as a single dependency-free HTML file with Canvas and SVG animation.
- Published under shubham-sahu.me with cookie-free Cloudflare analytics and Google Analytics 4, covered by the site privacy notice.
Tools: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Canvas, SVG.
Website & project links
- Open Built for One ↗https://shubham-sahu.me/built-for-one/
- Public repository ↗https://github.com/https-shubhamsahu/built-for-one
About the builder
Shubham Sahu is the founder of NO SUS and co-founder of Aurigen, based in Mumbai. He builds privacy-focused software, web and mobile applications, embedded systems, and robotics, alongside studying Electronics & Computer Engineering at TSEC.
Shubham Sahu’s official profile and social accounts ↗