# Sivashankar A V — Personal Portfolio & Rainly Studios

> Sivashankar A V is a BCA student at Amrita AHEAD, an indie developer, and the creator behind Rainly Studios. He builds personal projects including RainNote (temporary note sharing with expiring links) and Cutie (a Discord bot serving ~8,000 servers).

## Creator Overview
- **Name**: Sivashankar A V
- **Domain**: https://sivashankarav.in
- **Email**: ping@sivashankarav.in
- **Identity**: BCA Student (Amrita AHEAD), Indie Developer, Founder of Rainly Studios (development brand).
- **Projects**: RainNote (expiring note sharing tool) and Cutie (Discord bot serving 8,000+ servers).
- **Aesthetic**: Newspaper / editorial layout, high-contrast, clean typography, performance-focused.

## Primary Pages & URLs
- [Home Page](https://sivashankarav.in/): Editorial masthead, developer intro, project highlights, and latest writing.
- [Coming Soon Dispatch](https://sivashankarav.in/coming-soon): Official launch notice, newsletter dispatch sign-up, and upcoming build progress.
- [Blog](https://sivashankarav.in/blog): Essays on indie development, modern web dev, and case studies for RainNote and Cutie.
- [About](https://sivashankarav.in/about): First-person story, education at Amrita AHEAD, Rainly Studios brand identity, and tech stack.
- [Contact](https://sivashankarav.in/contact): Contact form, mailto link (ping@sivashankarav.in), and developer links.

## Official Social Profiles
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sivashankarav
- GitHub: https://github.com/sivashankarav
- Twitter / X: https://x.com/sivashankarav
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/sivashankarav

## Featured Essays & Case Studies
- [Building RainNote & Cutie](https://sivashankarav.in/blog/building-rainnote): Technical case study on temporary expiring note sharing and scaling a Discord bot to 8,000 servers.
- [Lessons in Indie Development](https://sivashankarav.in/blog/indie-dev-lessons): Hard-won lessons as a solo developer building tools in the AI era.
- [Modern Web Architecture](https://sivashankarav.in/blog/designing-cutie): Building static-export, high-performance web tools with Next.js/React and Tailwind.

## Machine Discoverability Files
- [Sitemap](https://sivashankarav.in/sitemap.xml): Machine-readable XML catalog of all public pages.
- [Robots Policy](https://sivashankarav.in/robots.txt): Explicit crawler guidelines and sitemap declaration.
- [LLMs Summary](https://sivashankarav.in/llms.txt): Plain-language summary for LLMs and AI search engines.