About
Hi, I'm Hira 💎
Harman Singh Hira — but mostly people call me Hira.
const hira = {
origin: "Chandigarh, India 🇮🇳",
location: "Auckland, NZ 🇳🇿",
codingSince: 2009,
firstSale: "age 15 💸",
status: "husband + dad + still building ✦"
};
I was born in Chandigarh, India 🇮🇳. Proper North Indian vibes. Loud weddings, buttery parathas, and that one uncle who always has business advice nobody asked for. That was home.
Then in my early 20s I packed my life into a couple of suitcases and moved to New Zealand 🇳🇿. Actual main character move. New country, new accent around me, new everything. Scary but also lowkey thrilling. Like jumping into cold water and acting chill about it.
I'd already finished all my studies back in India. Thought I was done. Plot twist — I added a diploma in Business Management & Leadership here in NZ just to keep things spicy 🎓✨ If you're gonna move countries, might as well upgrade yourself too, right?
Rewind to 15-year-old me. While most of my friends were grinding games and yelling into headsets 🎮, I was that kid who thought HTML was more fun than FIFA. I started building websites. Then templates. Then somehow I sold a few. Actual money. At 15. Madness 💸
At 16, I had a tech blog running Google AdSense and it was making money. Not "buy a Lamborghini" money, relax. But enough to make teenage me feel like a startup founder in his bedroom 🤯
The wild part? I never studied IT in school. Not once. Everything I know came from YouTube, forums, trial and error, breaking stuff, fixing stuff, breaking it again. YouTube and curiosity carried me heavy 🤝
Then I moved to NZ and life said — okay boss, time to grow up. Full-time job. Not in tech. More like pizza deliveries 🚗. Study during the day, work after, tired 24/7. Coding slowly drifted into the background. Not because I stopped loving it. Just because life got loud.
But I missed it. Like properly missed it. Coding is my version of therapy. Just me, the screen, late-night silence, and a random idea turning into something real. No noise. No expectations. Just vibes 💡✨
So I started again. Built random tools. Some useful. Some questionable. Some that should never see daylight again 😅 We're not discussing those. Growth.
I still don't do tech as my full-time career. People ask why. Honestly? The moment coding feels forced, my brain switches off. I lose the spark. I like building when I feel like building. When it's fun. When it's messy and experimental and mine.
If it turns into pressure, deadlines, corporate calls, and "just circling back" emails — I know myself. The magic fades. So I keep it as my thing. My playground.
I'm a dad now too 👶 Yeah. That happened. Life upgraded me from pizza delivery guy to husband to father. Wild timeline.
Nothing humbles you faster than a tiny human who doesn't care about your side projects, your code, or your "late night deep thoughts." Sleep schedule? Gone. Priorities? Rewritten. Heart? Softened in ways I did not see coming.
It's different now. I still code. I still build. I still chase random ideas at odd hours. But there's this deeper layer to everything. I'm not just building for fun anymore. I'm building while thinking about legacy, stability, setting an example. Lowkey mad.
These days I'm happily married. My wife is literally sitting next to me as I type this and pretending she's not reading over my shoulder 😄👰 And somewhere in the house there's a tiny human who owns us both.
I binge movies like it's a sport 🎬, explore new places whenever I can ✈️, randomly deep-dive into topics at 2am 🧠, and yeah… food is still a big part of my personality 🍜
Huge foodie. No shame. And not to gas myself up too much, but I'm kinda decent in the kitchen 👨🍳🔥 Indian food, obviously. But I experiment. Sometimes it slaps. Sometimes it's a disaster and we call it "fusion."
Chandigarh kid who liked code more than cricket » Moved to NZ » Delivered pizzas » Built weird tools » Got married » Became a dad » Still learning » Still curious » Still vibing.
If you made it this far — proper respect. Thanks for stopping by. Cheers 🥂