Una, Himachal Pradesh  →  Ontario, Canada

HARSH Saini

Applied physicist by degree — an educator by obsession.

Three live pursuits — a novel, a world, and a suspension system that turns potholes into charge.

0years old, zero fear
0programming languages
0SAT score
0countries called home
0pages of a novel — awaiting publication

01 — The Story

From Panoh,
to the world.

I grew up in Panoh — a small village folded into the hills of Una, Himachal Pradesh, where big ambitions usually learn to stay quiet. Mine didn't.

I finished school in India, scored a 1540 on the SAT, and crossed the planet to spend four years in Canada earning a Bachelor's in Applied Physics — learning how the universe works, and how to explain it so anyone else can too.

Along the way I led a robotics club for a year, spent four months as an assistant therapist at Brampton Civic Hospital learning that communication is a form of care, coached IELTS students to the bands they needed, and taught applied sciences the way I wish someone had taught me — like a story, not a syllabus.

I've fallen along the way — more than once, harder than this page admits. But staying down never made the list. That's the whole trick, honestly: keep the calm, keep learning, get up.

Now I'm 21, working at Vision Success — not my company, but very much my canvas. I run the creative side: the brand, the campaigns, the content, the ideas. Most of what you see from Vision Success passed through my hands first.

02 — The Journey

Seven chapters,
so far.

01Himachal Pradesh

The village kid with a library habit

Schooling in India. A small village, a big appetite for books, and an exit ticket stamped with a 1540 SAT score.

024 years · Canada

B.Sc — Applied Physics

Four years wrestling the universe's rulebook. Somewhere between quantum mechanics and Ontario winters, the accent became native.

031 year · Lead

Robotics Club Leader

Led the builds, the team, the deadlines. This is where teaching stopped being a skill and became a reflex.

044 months · Brampton Civic Hospital

Assistant Therapist

A hospital ward teaches you what no lecture hall can: patience, presence, and the fact that communication is care.

05Educator · IELTS & Sciences

Teaching, professionally

Coached IELTS students to the bands they needed. Taught applied sciences like stories, not syllabi. Watching it click for someone never gets old.

06Now · Vision Success

The creative engine

Not my company — just my canvas. I run the creative side: brand, campaigns, content, and whatever needs making that day.

07Author · Game dev

Ashes of the First Sleep

Wrote all 200 pages. The manuscript now waits at the publisher's door — while I reforge its world into a video game.

03 — The Craft

One-man army,
fully stocked.

Teaching Programming

Six languages in the toolkit — and the rarer skill: making them make sense to absolutely anyone.

Applied Sciences, Taught Right

Physics and the applied sciences explained like a story, not a lecture — I've taught them for real. Test prep included; ask about the 1540.

Communication & IELTS

Native-level English, Canadian accent included. I've coached IELTS students to their target bands — I don't just have the skill, I transfer it.

Marketing & Momentum

Hand me the whole pipeline — positioning, campaigns, growth. "One-man army" isn't a metaphor here.

Product Building

Websites, apps, systems. Vision Success runs on stacks I stood up solo, end to end.

Fearless, Fast Learning

"Yeah, I got this" is a lifestyle. New tools, new fields, new rooms — they get learned by Friday. Keen is the default setting.

AI, Wielded Well

I work with AI like a power user — building with it, teaching with it, shipping faster because of it. This very site says hello.

Leadership

Led a robotics club through a full season of builds and deadlines. Calm calls, credit shared, results shipped.

* the six languages above are the usual suspects — challenge me on any of them at the whiteboard.

03½ — How I work

Keen, fast learner

New tools, new fields, new rooms — I pick things up fast, and I genuinely enjoy the picking.

Calm & composed

Deadlines don't rattle me. A hospital ward taught me steady; physics taught me patient.

Easy to work with

Zero drama, quick replies, clear communication. Teams keep me around — and keep me busy.

Fell. Got up.

Every chapter on this page has a stumble hiding in it. Staying down just never made the list.

04 — The Work

Vision Success.
The creative side.

Creative Lead · Brand · Content · Campaigns

An education institute with a big idea. I'm not the founder — I'm the person who makes it look, sound, and feel like a place worth joining. Most of what Vision Success shows the world passed through my hands first.

  • Brand & creative direction
  • Campaigns, content & storytelling
  • The website & digital presence
  • The teaching itself — sciences & code
Build something with me

05 — What I'm building now

Three pursuits.
All of them open.

One story told twice — as a novel and as a world you can walk through — and one piece of hardware that could change how every car on the road handles a bump. All three are live, all three are looking for the right people to back them.

ASHES OF THE FIRST SLEEP · HARSH SAINI

Pursuit 01 — The Novel

Ashes of the
First Sleep.

Book One of the Dreamshard Cycle. A story I carried from the hills of Himachal to the winters of Canada, and finally put on paper — 22 chapters, 200 pages, a finished manuscript and a print-ready edition sitting at 5.5 × 8.5.

22chapters, complete
200pages, print-ready
3cinematic trailers cut
Manuscript finished — seeking a publisher Cover & interior designed...

Everything a publisher needs already exists: the manuscript, the cover, the print file, and trailers I animated and scored myself. What I'm looking for is the imprint — or the backing to publish it independently and keep the rights.

Back this book

Pursuit 02 — The Game

The same world,
but you're standing in it.

I'm rebuilding the novel as a playable world in Unreal Engine 5 — every location modelled from the book's own descriptions, using the book's own metaphors as geometry. The Archive's bridges are pages. Caelverra's towers all lean the same way, because handwriting has one slant. Nothing here is stock; I built it.

The Heartwood — a 168-metre tree lit from below at night
The Heartwood — 168 m tall, the scale anchor of the world
Thornhaven village at blue dusk
Thornhaven — warm, ordinary, doomed
The Root Archive — a vertiginous canyon of shelves
The Root Archive — a 420 m lit canyon of shelves
The wall-walk at Ashhold fortress
Ashhold — 16 m curtain wall, 46 m signal tower
The gate at Caelverra under a low vellum sky
Caelverra — bone towers under a sky of parchment
7zones built
298static meshes authored
63textures, PBR pipeline
UE55.8 · Blender → FBX/glTF

Written world bible, full art direction, a custom master material, an authored character, and a rendered trailer with original score — all of it solo. What funding buys: a team, a vertical slice, and a demo people can actually play.

Back the build

Pursuit 03 — The Venture

The road pushes back.
We keep the energy.

Designed in India · Built for Indian roads

Electromagnetic suspension exists — Bose built it, Audi shipped it. All of it for luxury cars, on roads that were already smooth. Nobody has built it cheap, for a motorcycle, for roads like ours. India rides 21 crore two-wheelers over the worst surfaces on earth, and every one of them throws that energy away as heat. We are starting there — not because it is easier, but because it is ours.

Every vehicle on the road throws energy away. Hit a pothole and your damper turns that jolt into heat and dumps it into the air — while the bump still reaches your spine. I'm developing a suspension unit that does the opposite: it harvests the energy of the road and, in the same stroke, cancels the bump before you feel it. First fitting: the rear monoshock of a motorcycle.

A provisional patent is in preparation. The working principle, geometry and control strategy are deliberately not published here — serious enquiries get the technical brief under NDA.

drag to orbit

The unit

A direct replacement for the damper already bolted to the car. Same mounting points, same load path, same package — so it retrofits instead of demanding a new platform. That's what makes it fundable rather than theoretical.

  • Form factorDrop-in damper replacement
  • FunctionHarvests + actively cancels
  • CoreWithheld — under NDA
  • StageBench prototype & provisional
DRG-001REAR MONOSHOCK ASSY · SHEET 1 OF 1 SCALE 1:8 · SUBJECT TO PATENT · NOT FOR REPRODUCTION
100rider stability 0.0Wh recovered
BATTERY SEALED UNIT internals withheld — NDA RIDER STAYS LEVEL the bump never arrives WHEEL TRACKS THE ROAD full travel, every pothole MECHANISM WITHHELD

The numbers above are illustrative, not measured. This is a behavioural drawing, not a design drawing, and not a performance claim — it shows what the unit is meant to do (the wheel takes the road, the rider doesn't, charge returns to the battery) and deliberately shows nothing of how. Real figures arrive when the rig does, and they'll be published whatever they say. Fitted here to the rear monoshock, because that is where a two-wheeler carries a single damper — and where India's first build will go.

Recover, don't waste

Road vibration becomes recovered charge instead of heat dumped into the air. Range you were already paying for.

Cancel, don't cushion

Reacts to the road faster than a spring can compress — so the disturbance is answered before it reaches the cabin.

Cheap to prove

The prototype path is deliberately low-cost and buildable on a bench. This is not a decade-long moonshot.

Where it's headed

EVs first, where every recovered watt is range — then anywhere a wheel meets a bad road. India has plenty.

Stage — bench prototype & provisional filing

I'm raising to file the provisional, build the instrumented rig, and publish measured numbers. Investors and technical partners: the brief is ready and it goes out under NDA.

Pursuit 03 — Where it goes

Start on two wheels.
Climb from there.

The same unit gets bigger, not different. Every rung up this ladder is more mass, more travel and more energy per bump — which makes the physics easier, not harder. So we start at the rung that is cheapest to prove and hardest to survive: an Indian road, under a motorcycle.

01 We are here

Motorcycle

One damper, not four. A bench rig costs thousands, not lakhs — and the roads that destroy suspensions are the roads we already live on.

  • Cheapest possible proof
  • Harshest real-world input
  • World's largest market for them
02 Next

Three-wheelers

Autos run all day, fully loaded, over the same broken tarmac. Duty cycle is brutal and constant — which is exactly what an energy-recovering damper wants.

  • Commercial buyers do maths
  • Runs 10+ hours a day
  • Fleet sales, not one at a time
03 Then

Passenger cars

Four units per vehicle and a cabin whose comfort is the product. This is where Bose and Audi played — but they never had to survive a Himachal state highway.

  • 4× units per vehicle
  • Comfort is a paid-for feature
  • EVs pay twice: ride and range
04 The prize

Fleet & commercial

Buses and trucks carry the most mass over the worst surfaces for the longest hours. Highest energy per bump, and an operator who counts every rupee of running cost.

  • Most energy available per stroke
  • Buyers who measure payback
  • Retrofit, not new platforms

Why it retrofits

It replaces a damper at the mounts a damper already uses. No new chassis, no new platform, no manufacturer rewriting a vehicle around it. That is the difference between a product someone can buy and a research project someone has to adopt.

Why India first

Bad roads are a feature here. The worse the surface, the more there is to recover and the more a rider notices the difference. A technology that only makes sense on rough ground should be born somewhere with plenty of it.

What has to be true

All of this rests on one unproven step: that the unit recovers enough energy, and reacts fast enough, to beat a good conventional damper at a price people will pay. Nothing above matters until the bench rig says so. That measurement is what phase one buys.

06 — Back the work

The Invisible Minds.
Named, not forgotten.

Nothing here was built with a budget. If you put something behind any of the three — money, mentorship, a door opened, a name introduced — you go on the record as one of the Invisible Minds: the people behind the work who never asked for the spotlight. You get a signed certificate of contribution, and your name travels with the project.

Phase one — the honest version

₹5,00,000

buys a filed provisional and an instrumented prototype with measured numbers. Not a pitch deck. A rig on a bench with a sensor on it.

₹0committed so far — you could be first
  • ₹40,000Provisional patent — drafted and filed through an agent
  • ₹60,000Prototype materials and fabrication
  • ₹1,50,000Instrumentation — the part that turns a claim into data
  • ₹1,20,000Machining, iterations, and the two rebuilds every first prototype needs
  • ₹90,000Six months of runway to actually do the work

What I will not pretend

The physics here is textbook — induction and Lorentz force, a century old, not in dispute. What is unproven is my implementation, and I'm not going to put invented efficiency figures on a website to make this look better than it is. That is exactly what the ₹5 lakh is for: to replace my claim with a measurement anyone can check. If the number comes back bad, you'll hear that from me too.

90 daysProvisional filed — priority date secured
180 daysInstrumented rig, published measurements
ThenEither a real seed round, or an honest post-mortem
Ember

You opened a door

An introduction, a mentor hour, a signal boost. Named on the Invisible Minds roll, certificate issued.

Ashbearer

You kept it moving

Everything above, plus your name in the novel's acknowledgements and the game's credits.

First Light

You made it possible

Everything above, plus a stake in the conversation — early builds, the technical brief under NDA, and a seat at the table.

The first hundred

One hundred names go on this wall — in the novel's acknowledgements, in the game's credits, and on the patent's contributor record. After that it closes and never reopens. Every slot below is genuinely still empty.

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stands among The Invisible Minds — those who put something behind the work before the world was watching.

The Ashes of the First Sleep

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07 — Beyond the work

The person
behind the résumé.

  • Traveling

    Collecting horizons. The map has too many unvisited pins and I take that personally.

  • The mysteries of space

    Amateur detective on the universe's cold cases — dark matter, deep time, and everything in between.

  • Reading & writing

    Input and output. One fills the well, the other empties it onto pages like Ashes of the First Sleep.

  • The Second Breakfast Club

    Hobbit-grade enthusiasm for small joys. Yes, second breakfast is real, and yes, it's important.

  • Tarang, the mascot

    तरंग — Sanskrit for wave. A damped oscillation is exactly what good suspension does to a bump: absorb it, and refuse to keep arguing about it. It runs along the foot of this page. Hit it and watch it settle.

  • The Bat

    Lifelong Gotham correspondent.

08 — Your move

Let's build
something real.

Hiring, backing, publishing, or asking for the technical brief? I reply fast — usually faster than you'd expect.

Emailharshsaini0502@gmail.com Phone+91 85807 38920
Base campVPO Panoh, Una, Himachal Pradesh, India
Open to work — building, teaching, or both

Lands straight in my inbox — replies usually come back the same day.

Hey — it's Harsh. If you scrolled all the way down here, we'd probably get along.

I'm the guy who gets excited about second breakfast, black holes, and shipping things at 2 a.m. — usually all in the same day.

Whatever you're dreaming up, I want to hear about it. Call me, or just write. I always answer.

— Harsh

P.S. — yes, the bat is clickable.

तरंग