iSHARATH Labs

My Eechoo Peechoo lives some 2100 kilometres away from me. & she's growing up so fast. I video call her every day & a new animal, a new song, sometimes even a new planet comes up everyday. & even though I learned her language, the names of all her imaginary friends, all her choreography, but the distance is real. I don't want to be in a different city, working 360 days every year to meet her for 5. So I decided to build something in her name, & bloody make it grand, so she knows what responsible abundance is. Actually it's not just selflessly for her, but it's selfishly for me too. Eventually, I will make enough money to fund the things I loudly care about, visual arts, conservation, environmentalism, the causes that need telling but don't get the audience anytime. Which is why this isn't just about side hustles or passive income or whatever that phrase means. It's about abundance. Real abundance. The kind that will give me the freedom to cause real change, one that only comes when I won't have to choose between survival and meaning.

My niece loves dancing. I'm building so the music never stops.

I build apps. Seemingly simple ones. But for deeply niche problems.

Most would say "simple" means dumbed down. But I truly believe products & solutions should be highly dumb in operability, but deeply gratuitous in purpose, brilliant in execution, insanely ethical in intent & marvellously fore-planned for long term sustenance. Every line of code, every file, every feature in getBylines was written within that boundary. You're not paying for bloat. You're not funding someone else's data-selling business.

getBylines is a professional portfolio for creative professionals, content creators, multimedia specialists, media production crews, journalists; anyone whose work lives on platforms/sources they don't own. Instead of pasting 100s of links in chats or maintaining hard-to-track digital sheets, getBylines becomes your singular source for tracking your work. A portfolio that's safe, secure, sheltered, self-contained & strengthened by ethics & technology in the backend.

If the piece of work you contributed to is hosted on the internet, be it any social media platform or be it any publisher's website of portal or be it your own blog, simply share that link with getBylines & the app will fetch its metadata & even statistics from official APIs of supported social media platforms. This means it becomes the untouched source of truth, you claim your work creates impact, now you show it. The interface ensures that everything about your portfolio is right there for you to see, in a personalised container that is yours & only yours. So next time, no need to spend hours on Vimeo or Youtube fighting their search results to find yourself, share it once with getBylines & find it whenever you want within 5-6 taps.

& here's the thing about data in 2026, you're either the user or the product. I've triple checked to make sure you're the user. In fact in the career-coach-insight-planner feature of getBylines, I could've used Gemini free tier, saved myself a ton of money, built bigger margins. NO. I bled into my own costs and went with Vertex AI and Gemini Enterprise because privacy isn't a feature I'll compromise on. You share a link with getBylines, and only you see what's in your vault. Not me. Not anyone. Unless of course you decide to share your portfolio, at that point you get the capability to export a highly customisable PDF or a web-link that ensures utmost credibility since it is hosted on getBylines' server & thus remains tamper proof. & yes, this isn't me being noble, it's me being practical. You feel more human when you're not treated like data. And when humans stick together, they build better things.

100s of cafes & coffee shops across Delhi NCR can lay claim to 'getBylines was built here'. But the place I love calling iSharath Labs HQ is Alleppey, Kerala. Come for the views, stay for everything.

And I'm actually just one person. iSHARATH Labs is a Sole Proprietorship, no partners sullying my groove, no investors breathing down my neck, no board telling me to monetise faster by pivoting to chase the shiny thing. I built getBylines because it solved a problem I faced. I solved it to the extent that it would make me happy. & now I spend hours listening to & fixing for people who use it.

It's slower this way. But it's meaningful this way. It's also honest this way.