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title: "Prithvi Bharadwaj"
description: "Founder in San Francisco building at the intersection of AI and games. Previously CTO of Applied Reality (Roam)."
canonical: "https://prithvibharadwaj.com/"
last_updated: "2026-11-05"
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# Prithvi Bharadwaj

> Founder in San Francisco building at the intersection of AI and games. Previously CTO of Applied Reality (Roam).

Hey, I'm Prithvi Bharadwaj. I've been building things on the internet since I was 13. Games first. Then AI. Then companies around both. I moved from Bangalore to SF to keep doing it.

## Previously

- I'm building Entice, an AI growth team that studies everything in your category and never clocks out until you're the brand people choose
- I was the CTO of Applied Reality, an AI startup in SF building generative world models for games + robotics ($4.5m raised)
- Built Roam, an AI consumer app that lets you go from a text prompt to a 3D multiplayer game in minutes
- At 19, I solo-bootstrapped a game studio and shipped 100+ titles with Voodoo and Supersonic - 200K+ downloads and six figures in revenue

## Sidequests

- **Shelve** - agentic tab management and navigation: https://tryshelve.com
- **Kiln** - self-hosted agentic media gen platform: https://github.com/prithvi-bharadwaj/ai-gallereo
- **pet** - local dev server launcher via bookmarks: https://github.com/prithvi-bharadwaj/pet
- **Martin** - personal writing app for better clarity and speech: https://github.com/prithvi-bharadwaj/martin
- **Reflink** - clipboard injector for Wispr Flow: https://github.com/prithvi-bharadwaj/wf-reflink-extension
- **Contx** - multimodal context extractor for AI: https://github.com/prithvi-bharadwaj
- **slack huddle mcp** - local MCP for Slack huddle transcripts: https://github.com/prithvi-bharadwaj/slack-huddle-mcp
- **HeyWhisker** - AI pin for irl transcription: https://whisker-alpha.vercel.app/
- **Going Viral** - X simulator where your post blows up: https://going-viral.vercel.app/

## Lore

- Made my first internet money at 13 - a check from Google for a viral YouTube video showing how to hack other people's passwords
- Discovered an exploit on FarmVille that let me get unlimited resources, traded them with classmates in exchange for doing my homework
- Started an ecom brand in high school. Got bored and stopped it after I sold out my whole collection (200+ sales)
- Borrowed money to build a gaming PC, paid it back in <2 months selling design services as a teenager
- Convinced Voodoo I was a five-person studio by teaching myself code, art, animation, game design, and music
- Won Buildspace Nights & Weekends S4's live game show out of 30,000+ builders and teams, with a MrBeast game I built in under six weeks
- Played Counter-Strike and Dota 2 competitively; won local and regional tournaments

## Writing

- **the buildspace experience** (jun 2024): https://prithvibharadwaj.substack.com/p/the-buildspace-experience
- **antigravity IDE for unity** (may 2024): https://medium.com/@prithvibofficial/how-to-use-antigravity-in-unity-for-game-development-8da2cbc353cb
- **how to use cursor AI with unity** (feb 2024): https://medium.com/@prithvibofficial/how-to-use-cursor-ai-with-unity-a32291f9e852
- **building & skiving** (jan 2024): https://prithvibharadwaj.substack.com/p/building-and-skiving
- **looking back at 2023** (jan 2024): https://prithvibharadwaj.substack.com/p/looking-back-at-2023
- **travel, timepass and being in the trenches** (dec 2023): https://prithvibharadwaj.substack.com/p/travel-timepass-and-being-in-the
- **i might have overcorrected** (nov 2023): https://prithvibharadwaj.substack.com/p/i-might-have-overcorrected
- **the philosophy behind "asjbdhjasdfhgw"** (nov 2023): https://prithvibharadwaj.substack.com/p/the-philosophy-behind-asjbdhjasdfhgw

## Connect

- Email: hi@prithvibharadwaj.com
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/theprithvibharadwaj
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prithvibharadwaj/
- Twitter: https://x.com/PrithviBtw
- GitHub: https://github.com/prithvi-bharadwaj
- Medium: https://medium.com/@prithvibofficial
- Substack: https://prithvibharadwaj.substack.com

## Pages

- [Home](https://prithvibharadwaj.com/): who Prithvi is, past work, sidequests, writing
- [About Prithvi Bharadwaj](https://prithvibharadwaj.com/about): Prithvi Bharadwaj is a founder in San Francisco working where AI and games meet. Previously CTO of Applied Reality, the AI startup behind Roam.
- [Contact Prithvi Bharadwaj](https://prithvibharadwaj.com/contact): How to reach Prithvi Bharadwaj: email, X, and LinkedIn.
- [Privacy](https://prithvibharadwaj.com/privacy): What prithvibharadwaj.com collects, what it doesn't, and how to reach the person responsible.
- [llms.txt](https://prithvibharadwaj.com/llms.txt): briefing for language models, with when-to-use guidance
- [Sitemap](https://prithvibharadwaj.com/sitemap.xml)