Design & Build · Interactive learning software

Learning tools for music, culture, and the arts, built for the browser.

I'm Pramod. Thoughts & Bots is a one-person studio that designs and builds practice tools, curriculum explorers, and learning platforms for music schools, teachers, edtech teams, and cultural organisations. They run in any browser and install like an app. Fourteen of them are live and free in the Labs.

Tools live
14 free, installable
Music covered
157 ragas · 27 talas
In production
PsychStreet · Itihāsa Tattva
Based in
India · working remote, worldwide
Selected work

A few things I've built, and the thinking behind them.

All case studies →
PsychStreet — app screenshot
Progressive Web AppLive

PsychStreet

A psychology-led content platform that turns everyday moments into short, readable insight. Built to live on a phone, but feel like a quiet magazine.

RoleProduct design and full-stack build
OutcomeAn always-on publication people actually return to.
Itihāsa Tattva — app screenshot
Progressive Web AppLive

Itihāsa Tattva

Ancient Indian thought, arranged for modern reading. A patient interface for long-form cultural writing, with space for ideas to breathe.

RoleProduct architecture and frontend
OutcomeBridges long-form culture with modern UX without flattening it.
From the Labs, as case studies

Four tools that show the parts a music school or edtech team usually cannot get built: on-device pitch analysis, structured raga data, precise rhythm scheduling, and sampled instruments — all in a browser.

What I build for clients

Three ways to start, each with a price on it.

Every project reuses what the Labs already prove works — audio engines, raga and tala data, install-to-home-screen, on-device analysis — so scopes are fixed, quotes are quick, and the first working version arrives early. Prices are starting ranges; the spec call settles the number.

Who this is for
  • Music academies and online schools
  • Teachers with fifty or more students
  • Edtech teams that need interactive audio
  • Sabhas, festivals, and cultural institutions
  • Publishers and archives with long-form work
Start small

Practice Tool Sprint

One custom interactive tool for your students — a branded drone, a tala trainer, an ear-training game, a curriculum explorer. Delivered as an installable web app on your domain, or embedded in your site.

  • Discovery call and a one-page spec
  • Design in your colours and voice
  • Build on proven Labs code
  • Install-to-home-screen and offline support
  • Two weeks of fixes after launch
Time2–3 weeksFrom₹1.5L – ₹3Labout $2,000–$4,000 · fixed priceBest forAcademies and teachers who want one thing, done well, soon.
Start with this
Build the whole thing

Learning Platform Build

A student-facing web app for an academy, edtech company, or cultural organisation: lessons, embedded practice tools, progress, and a teacher view. Design and build, end to end.

  • Product design from the first sketch
  • Curriculum and content structure
  • Practice tools embedded where they are needed
  • Accounts, progress, and a teacher dashboard
  • Launch, handover, and documentation
Time6–10 weeksFrom₹7L – ₹16Labout $8,000–$20,000 · scoped in two tiersBest forOrganisations replacing Zoom links and PDFs with a real product.
Start with this
Use what exists

Embedded Labs licence

Any Labs tool inside your website or app, with your branding, your Sa presets, your tala list. Live in days, not weeks. Updated whenever the Labs are.

  • Your logo, colours, and default settings
  • Embed code or a page on your domain
  • Presets tuned to your syllabus
  • Ongoing updates and support
  • Cancel any time
TimeLive in under a weekFrom₹8k – ₹25k / monthabout $100–$300 per organisation · annual discountBest forSchools that want practice tools inside their own product now.
Start with this
After launch

A monthly product retainer keeps the work moving once something is live: new lessons, new tools, measurement, and the small things that only show up once students are using it.

Grant-funded projects

Applying to an arts or culture grant that needs a technical partner? I can scope and cost the build for the application and be named as the builder. Ask early; it makes the proposal stronger.

How I work

A small studio approach to building on the web.

I care about the kind of work that stays useful long after launch. The principles on the right are the ones I come back to, project after project.

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    Start with a real idea

    Every project begins from something specific. A gap, a curiosity, a problem worth solving. Never from a template.

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    Make it useful first

    Value for the person using it comes before anything else. Polish follows usefulness, not the other way round.

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    Ship small, improve often

    Focused releases over big launches. I would rather get one thing right this week than promise five for next month.

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    Pick the right tools

    Modern web where it fits, native where it matters, quiet tech where nobody should notice. No stack for its own sake.

About

A one-person studio for patient product work.

I started Thoughts & Bots as a place to put the things I make between client projects. Small tools, writing platforms, music experiments. Most of them live in the Labs and keep growing.

If you're building something in education, culture, or the arts, or just need a careful pair of hands on a web product, I'd like to hear about it.

Software design & build

End-to-end product work, from the first sketch to the shipped app.

Considered UX

Interfaces that stay out of the way. Flow over flourish, always.

Modern web, quietly used

PWAs, React, Next. Tools picked for fit, not for fashion.

People-first defaults

Value for the person using it comes before growth metrics.

Start a project

Tell me what your students need. I'll reply within a day.

A few lines are enough to start. If you would rather talk first, book a short call. I reply within one working day.

Book a 20-minute call
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    Send the brief
    The form on the right, or a plain email. Either is fine.
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    A reply within a day
    With the case study closest to your situation and a few questions.
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    A 20-minute call
    We settle scope, timing, and which offer fits.
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    A proposal in 48 hours
    Two options, fixed price, a start date, and what gets reused from the Labs.
Also on LinkedIn. Small tool ideas for the Labs are welcome by email too.
No newsletter, no follow-up sequence. One reply, from a person.