Hello! I'm Maanav.

Creative technologist working between software and music.

Building products for creative studios, and running Chor Bazaar, the label at the centre of Australia’s South Asian Diaspora.

maanav.ssaggu@gmail.com

© 2026

(01)

Valenti Studios ↗

valentimarketplace.com ↗

Valenti's community sells tickets, music, studio time and merch across multiple platforms, each taking a cut and none of them carrying the studio's name. Valenti wanted one storefront where Australian artists can share and discover there art.

Team of three: a product designer, a product manager and me. I Architected the infrastructure and platform working closely valenti to meet their needs. Concept to production took two months, and it's live with creator storefronts, platform wide search, custom mixing and mastering purchase flows and more.

(02)

Grants are most of the admin of being an independent artist. The criteria sit in long guideline PDFs, and it's easy to answer a question nobody asked. Grantwise also checks support letters against the claims you make and keeps the budget inside the funder's rules, starting with Sound NSW, Creative Australia, artsACT and Sounds Australia.

I designed the whole flow in Paper first, from uploading guidelines to exporting the application, along with its own design system. Now I'm building it in SvelteKit, with Convex for the database and live updates.

(03)

Chor Bazaar Website

label.chorbazaar.au ↗

Shows the roster, the brands we've worked with and the collective's reach in one place

I designed and built it in plain HTML, Tailwind and a few custom web components. There's no CMS, it loads fast, and I can update it between releases.

(03b)

Cupid's Bazaar

Released 14 February 2026, the latest Chor Bazaar mixtape after Awaaz, Loot Crate and 365 Days. Each of us flipped different records, then we built the rollout around them. Triple J, Homegrown India and Popshift picked it up, and Homegrown called it "rich in quick, punchy bursts" that "would light up a club night".

I produced four tracks, including Not Nice (Maania Remix), and mixed and mastered the project

(04)

Video Work

I shoot with the edit in mind and do my own grades in Resolve, so the cut and the look get made together. Most of the music work gets finished in post, usually on a release deadline.

(05)

dilla-time-game.fly.dev ↗

Match the melody

• Drag or use the arrow keys

Round complete

• Scored to the millisecond

Dilla never played on the grid. I wanted a game that trains your ear to hear that push and pull.

React and Tailwind on the front, with a small Express API that keeps each round's hidden offset off the client until you've heard the original. Scoring falls off on a curve, so landing within a few milliseconds still scores well. It's live on Fly.io with solo play and room codes for up to four friends, and moving scoring onto the server is next so rooms can't be gamed.

Maania, by the numbers

I make music as Maania and co-founded Chor Bazaar, where I curate the sound and lead the dance side.

It's where I learned taste, and how to ship creative work on a deadline.

Where

Role

Type

Relevance AI

Startup

KPMG

Enterprise

Valenti

Studio

Adrian William

Real estate

Culture Flip

Events

University

Degree

Got a creative problem that needs building, filming or scoring?

Let's build it.

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maanav.ssaggu@gmail.com

© 2026