IndiaNIC Infotech
Android Developer. Android was brand new in India. So was I.
Founder · Bolo Media · Ahmedabad
I’m building
Bolo.
Jaimin Mehtaજૈમિન મહેતા
Entrepreneur with 17+ years in tech, building Bolo Media: helping small businesses advertise like big brands with the help of AI.
What I’m building · by Bolo Media
Bolo: ads that speak your customer’s language.
Bolo means “speak” in Gujarati and Hindi. Bolo turns a product photo or a few lines of text into ready-to-post video ads and reels with natural Gujarati and Hindi voices, for the small and local businesses that can’t hire a studio or an agency.
01 · UploadA photo or a few linesYour product photo, or what you want to say.
02 · Bolo makes itScript, voice, videoWritten and voiced in Gujarati or Hindi.
03 · Post itReady for Instagram & WhatsAppA vertical reel your customers will actually watch.
Clothes
Jewellery
Snacks
FestiveSmall photo top-left: what the shop gave us. Big video: what Bolo made from it.
Try Bolo ↗The shop down the road deserves the same advertising as a big brand. બોલો is how I’m making that happen.
I wrote my first Android app in 2009, when Android was still new in India. Over the next seventeen years I built software, led mobile projects and ran technical delivery, first at companies in Ahmedabad and then for Vagaro, a global software company.
One gap kept bothering me. Big brands have agencies, studios and voice artists. The saree shop, the jeweller and the namkeen brand down the road have a phone and a WhatsApp status. Their customers think in Gujarati or Hindi, yet almost every tool for making ads assumes English and a budget.
In 2026 I founded Bolo Media and started building Bolo to close that gap: give Bolo a product photo or a few lines of text, and it gives back a ready-to-post video ad in the language your customers speak.
Jaimin MehtaFounder, Bolo Media
17+years in tech
2009Android developer since
6companies, developer to founder
3languages: ગુજરાતી · हिन्दी · English
Experience
Seventeen years, six chapters.
From Android developer to founder.
Softweb Solutions
Software Developer. Shipping software for clients, fast.
Astron Infotech
Senior Developer. More ownership, bigger pieces of the product.
Silver Touch Technologies
Assistant Project Lead & Mobile Engineer. Nine years: from building apps to leading the teams that build them.
Vagaro
Technical Project Manager. Running technical delivery for a global software company.
Bolo Media
Founder. Ads that speak the customer's language.
Writing
Notes from the build.
01Founder02Story03AI & Tech04Founder05Story06AI & Tech
Why I'm building Bolo Media
Why I'm building Bolo Media, from the Bolo Media founder: small businesses deserve video ads in their own language, without a studio or an agency.
From Android developer to founder: my 17-year path
I'm Jaimin Mehta, founder of Bolo Media in Ahmedabad. My path from Android developer in 2009 to founder in 2026, role by role, and what each role taught.
Why Indian languages are still hard for AI voice
AI text to speech in Indian languages has improved fast, yet scripts, silent vowels, code-mixing, numbers and names still trip it up. Here is why.
Building an AI startup from Ahmedabad
What it is like to be an AI startup founder in Ahmedabad: building close to Gujarati customers, the city's tech roots, and what you give up outside Bengaluru.
Why I left a stable job in 2026 to start Bolo
Leaving a job to start a startup in India is a serious call. Why I left a stable role at Vagaro in 2026 to build Bolo Media, and the doubts worth weighing.
From Android in 2009 to AI in 2026: two platform shifts
I started as an Android developer in 2009 and now build with AI. What the mobile to AI platform shift has in common, where it differs, and what I watch for.
Off the clock
When I’m not building.
Wildlife
Asiatic lions in Sasan Gir, Gujarat.
Mountains
Pahalgam, Kashmir, December 2023.
The coast
Goa in the monsoon, July 2019.
Machines
Bikes, cars and anything built with care.