👋 I'm 13. I run a software company by myself.
No co-founder. No backend team. No investors. No support system beyond a laptop and a lot of trial and error.
Just me — building, breaking, and rebuilding — under a name I gave myself: Akhouri Systems.
This isn't a "look how young I am" post. It's a "here's what I actually shipped" post.
🏗️ The Setup
Team size: 1 (me)
Funding: ₹0
Infrastructure: none — everything ships as offline, standalone executables
Support system: Google, documentation, and a lot of failed builds
Everything below is real, working software — not prototypes, not concepts. Shipped, versioned, and public on GitHub.
🔒 ATLOCK — A Total Security Suite for Windows
The flagship product. Currently on v4.0.
What it does:
System Lockdown — locks the entire machine for a set duration; blocks Alt+Tab, the Win key, and kills Task Manager on sight via a low-level keyboard hook
File Guard — locks files at the NTFS Access Control List level, the deepest permission layer Windows exposes. A guarded file can't be opened, moved, or deleted by anyone — not even an admin
Password Vault — AES (Fernet) encryption with PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 key derivation (200,000 iterations), fully local storage
Intruder Ops — auto-captures a photo on the first wrong password attempt, a 10-second video on escalation, plus an audible alarm
What changed in v4: rebuilt the entire encryption layer from scratch, It's 100% offline — no accounts, no tokens, nothing leaves the machine.
This was also the hardest thing I've built. Getting NTFS ACLs to actually enforce permissions — instead of faking a lock with a password screen — meant working directly with Win32's security APIs.
📝 ANOTE — A Lightweight Multi-Tab Text Editor
Built because I wanted a notepad replacement that didn't feel like it was designed in 2005.
Multi-tab interface
Built-in multi-language translator
Password-protected lock screen
A meme canvas mode (because why not)
🧮 ACALCU — A Fully Customizable Calculator
Not just a calculator — a calculator you can actually make your own. Custom themes, layout control, and a polished UI instead of the default OS calculator experience.
📷 APIC — An Image Processing Tool
A utility for handling and processing images locally, without uploading anything to a cloud service to do it.
🧭 Why I'm Building Like This
I'm not waiting until I'm "old enough" to have opinions about software. Every one of these products started the same way: something annoyed me enough that I decided to just fix it myself instead of waiting for someone else to.
No team means every decision is mine — and every bug is also mine. No funding means every tool has to actually work, because there's no runway to hide behind. No backend means everything has to be genuinely self-contained, which is a harder constraint than it sounds.
🚀 Where to Find All of It
🔗 GitHub: https://github.com/Akhouri-Anmol-Kumar
🔗 ATLOCK specifically: https://github.com/Akhouri-Anmol-Kumar/ATLOCK
Everything is free, open, and documented. If you're curious how any of it works under the hood — the NTFS ACL implementation in ATLOCK especially — I'm happy to write a deeper technical breakdown if there's interest.
If you're young and building something, and you feel like you're "too early" to ship — you're probably not. Start now, ship something small, and keep going.
Would love feedback from this community, technical or otherwise. 🙏
"We Build What Other Forgot To Fix"
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