Founder · App Studio · Creator Operator

TanDhingra

Founder of AppCacti Studios — a high-velocity app studio built on the principle that creators deserve technology that keeps them on the edge. Each app solves one real problem, ships fast, and is built around the creator ecosystem. 50M+ views generated. Hundreds of creators managed. Currently building Luma. Based in Bali.

50M+

Views generated

100s

Creators managed

Apps built

AppCacti Studio → Work together

AppCacti pipeline active

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Luma

Current build · lumaapp.mom

In Review

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EDGE

Biometric trading OS · Apple Watch

In Dev

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GetBananaSplits

Creator pay marketplace · getbananasplits.com

Active

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ButterBeats

Hindu bar · Seminyak, Bali

What I do

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App studio — build, launch, repeat

AppCacti is a high-velocity app studio built to ideate, build, launch and scale mobile applications at internet speed. Every app solves one focused problem for one specific audience. No bloat. No overbuilding. Ship, learn, iterate.

apps built across the studio

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Creator ecosystem architecture

Managed hundreds of creators across platforms — from onboarding and content strategy through to distribution infrastructure, analytics and monetisation. Deep practitioner understanding of what makes creator audiences trust, grow and convert.

100s

creators managed at scale

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Mass distribution & viral mechanics

Engineered content distribution systems that have generated 50M+ views. Expert working knowledge of Instagram Reels, TikTok and cross-platform amplification. Understands the algorithm as a practitioner who has operated inside it — not read about it.

50M+

views generated across platforms

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Film & documentary production

Directed Rivers of Life — a feature documentary on the ontological significance of rivers, following one of the world's first rivers granted legal personhood. Multi-territory shoot. Companion book in development. Film is the long lens. Apps are the short game.

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Why creator collabs work differently with me

I don't approach creators as distribution channels. I've built the infrastructure — the content systems, the creator pipelines, the monetisation models — from the inside out. I know what it takes to keep a creator at the technological edge of their category, and that's what AppCacti builds toward with every product. When I reach out about an app, it's because I genuinely believe it belongs in front of that creator's audience.

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Studio approach

One focused problem per app

Collab format

Early access, not ads

Creator focus

Keeping creators on the edge

Track record

50M+ views, 100s managed

The AppCacti pipeline

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Luma — current build

The breastfeeding app for the 3am mum. One tap logs a feed. Apple Watch native — no phone needed. Smart memory tells you which side, how long ago, what to do next. Calm, not clinical. In App Store review. Waitlist at lumaapp.mom.

iOS · watchOS→

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EDGE — performance OS for traders

A biometric performance platform for traders. Real-time Apple Watch integration monitors heart rate and HRV to detect when a trader is entering suboptimal states — stress, overconfidence, emotional tilt — and delivers live interventions. "Your strategy isn't broken. Your state is." $29/month.

Crypto · Finance→

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GetBananaSplits — creator pay marketplace

A marketplace and community platform for creators to find, split, and monetise collaborations. TAM: $6.8B. Closest comp: Getmelon.io. Built for the creator economy's actual financial infrastructure — not the glamour, the plumbing. Active development. Fundraising in progress.

Creator · Marketplace→

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Pomegranate Arts Collective — Toronto

Co-founded with Alex Widder, Doruk Taskiran and Silka Hsu. One of Toronto's most distinctly curated cultural spaces — visual arts, music, performance. Where community became the operating principle. Won a WWOOF video contest. The first proof that the right room changes everything.

Arts · Toronto→

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ButterBeats — Hindu bar, Bali

A devotion-first Hindu cocktail bar in the heart of Seminyak. Drinks named after goddesses, jazz threading through the room, incense in the air. The kind of space that draws people in on feel alone. Alive, doing well. @thebutterbeats.

Bali · Live→

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Rivers of Life — documentary

Feature documentary on the historical, spiritual and ontological significance of rivers. Shot across multiple territories, following a group journeying to a river granted legal personhood status. Poetic. Participatory. Alive. Companion book in development.

Film→

The code

Conviction over permission

He has never waited for the room to be ready or the conditions to be right. The pattern across every chapter of his life is the same: a decision made before the path was clear, followed by the work to make it real. Dropping out wasn't reckless — it was the first expression of a principle he still operates by. Move. Then figure it out.

Operating principle

The sacred is an input, not a decoration

He has spent meaningful time with non-duality, permaculture, indigenous knowledge systems, and the kind of spiritual encounters that don't resolve neatly. These aren't aesthetics or weekend interests. They inform how he builds — the attention to feel, the prioritisation of calm over noise, the belief that the best systems work the way a river does: inevitably, patiently, and with force.

Orientation

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Proximity is the fastest education

The most formative chapters of his development have come from being inside rooms with people operating at a higher level — absorbing vocabulary, instinct and conviction through proximity rather than instruction. You cannot read your way into this. You have to be there. Every serious collaboration he enters is built on this principle.

Learning model

Simplicity is the hardest thing to build

He has lived in enough places — cities, small towns, farms, bars — to understand that complexity is easy and simplicity is earned. Every AppCacti product is an exercise in removing everything that doesn't need to be there. The one-tap feed log. The one clean screen. The one moment that matters. Restraint isn't limitation — it's the work.

Design philosophy

Continuity matters more than novelty

He has stood at the edge of ceremonies that have run unbroken for centuries, and felt the weight of what it means to hold something alive across time. That sensibility runs through his work — building things that compound, not things that spike. A creator relationship built properly lasts. A community held with care grows. The river is always flowing.

Long game

Devotion is the only sustainable fuel

Not discipline — devotion. Discipline is a contract you make with yourself that can be broken. Devotion is what remains when the motivation runs out, the results are slow, and the path is unclear. It's what connects the bar in Bali to the film on the river to the app in the App Store. Everything he builds, he builds because he genuinely believes in what it is for.

Core belief

What he believes

"Creators deserve technology that keeps them at the edge — not apps that slow them down."

— The AppCacti thesis

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AGI becomes the new religion

Knowledge determines the being. The gods of the modern era are made of information.

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O'Neill Cylinders for heavy industry

Move carbon-heavy industries off-planet. Space for the things that damage Earth.

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Vertical hydroponic towers