Arvind Puthucode

Hi, I'm Arvind.

I build software, and I like being close to the people who use it.

Arvind and a white puppy on the front steps, both looking at the camera
me and my puppy

What I'm doing now

I work at Weedu with Aravind Sriraman. He founded Togai, which was acquired, and he has become a mentor to me.

I built Weedu's personal assistant from the first line of code. More than 3,000 people use it now. My favourite part is seeing it take a small, annoying chore off someone's plate.

Now we're working on hardware for the home. I haven't built hardware before, so I'm learning a lot, quickly.

About ScoutFox

A year ago I thought building cool SaaS like ScoutFox meant something. Right now I'm questioning that.

ScoutFox still runs, and some VC firms still pay for it. But I keep asking myself what makes a product count. Is it just the tech? I don't think so. ScoutFox is closer to a vitamin, nice to have. I want to build a painkiller, something people can't go without.

So for now I'm at Weedu, learning from someone who has done this before, and looking for that painkiller. If I find it, in ScoutFox or somewhere else, I'll go all in.

How I got here

  1. Before

    I worked as an engineer on augmented analytics systems and large data pipelines.

  2. Oct 2025

    I left my job to figure out what I actually wanted to build.

  3. First try

    A Socratic learning app. It didn't work. I learned that learning products depend on changing people's habits, and that edtech is very crowded.

  4. Second try

    SignalNotNoise, an attempt to understand influencer marketing. It left me with one question I couldn't shake: for a given goal, which signals are worth watching?

  5. Jan 2026

    I started ScoutFox during the Lossfunk residency to answer that question.

  6. Feb 2026

    ScoutFox won the OSS4AI hackathon, then went through the TinyFish accelerator. People at Business Today and Analytics India Magazine started using it.

  7. Mid 2026

    I joined Weedu.

Things I've made

  • Weedu

    A household assistant that helps families keep the home running. I built the assistant, and more than 3,000 people use it.

  • ScoutFox

    Watches public websites and tells you when something important changed. Some VC firms pay for it.

  • IntersecTX

    A hackathon project I built with a team. We won.

Videos

ScoutFox walkthrough ScoutFox demo Generating functions IntersecTX demo

Thanks for reading this far.

Arvind