Case Study · Vedic Astro Studio
Shipping a deterministic engine to a live free tier.
Vedic Astro Studio is a shipped public product with an honest launch boundary: the free tier is live, and the paid plans are built but deliberately not open.
free tier live
01 · The problem
Compute, do not generate
Astrology software earns trust by computing, not generating. The calculation engine had to be deterministic: same chart in, same result out, every run. AI stays out of engine code.
02 · The approach
The shared studio stack
A Vite and React frontend, a FastAPI sidecar, Supabase plus SQLite for data, and a Tauri v2 desktop build. The same stack discipline as every studio product.
03 · What shipped
A live free tier
The free tier is live at vedicastrostudio.com, on the web and as a desktop build. It is the one external link on this page, and it resolves.
04 · The boundary
Paid plans, deliberately closed
Paid plans are built but not yet open. The launch is gated on purpose: revenue proof outranks feature count, so the paid door opens when the product has earned it.
05 · What it proves, and what it does not
End-to-end shipping, honestly bounded
It proves end-to-end shipping across web and desktop by one person through the studio system. It does not yet prove paid demand, and this page says so plainly.
Next Stop
Where to from here
The rest of the work carries the same honest states.