Utkarsh Samdani. Builder, operator, analyst.

I’m 18, from Hyderabad, and in my first year at MIT Bengaluru. I’ve been running servers for other people since I was 14.

Outside class that means Helstify, a hosting venture where your AI can get onto the server and do the work itself. I also write about defence and geopolitics, working from satellite images and public records.

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Utkarsh Samdani, arms crossed, in a coral T-shirt

Building: Helstify
Latest investigation: Four Days in May
Local time: 02:23 IST
Studying: MIT Bengaluru

What I’ve built since I was 14.

Three hosting ventures and a publication. Each one taught me something the next one needed.

Helstify 2026 – now

Live

Hosting with mail built in. You connect the AI you already pay for (Claude, Codex, opencode or Antigravity), decide what it’s allowed to touch, and it works on your files, database, DNS and mailboxes directly.

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conflict.asia 2025 – now

Being rebuilt

A defence and geopolitics publication I run with a small team of OSINT analysts. It’s offline while we rebuild it.
Qixla Cloud 2025 – 2026

Now part of Helstify

Hosting, domains and servers in one place. Its infrastructure is what Helstify runs on today.
DynaCore 2022 – 2025

Retired

My first venture, started at 14: hosting for websites, Discord bots and game servers. Three years of billing, support tickets and servers breaking without warning.

The full story of each one

I write about wars using only public evidence.

OSINT is short for open-source intelligence. You work out what happened from things anyone can look at: satellite photos, government tenders, local news, a minister saying too much on live TV. No leaks, no insiders. You gather the public pieces and check them against each other until the story holds.

For Four Days in May, that meant lining up dated satellite images of Pakistani airbases against the Pakistan Air Force’s own repair tenders. It runs to about 7,800 words, with 34 images and 24 sources.