Welcome to my humble abode on the internet. Here's everything you need to know about me, all within 3 minutes:
I did my bachelor's in computer applications from a tier-3 college in Rajasthan. The college wasn't good enough, so I taught myself to code, from YouTube, online courses, and whatever I could find. Got really interested in startups. Started freelancing while still in college, built CRMs, integrated APIs, figured out what clients actually needed when they couldn't articulate it. That's where I learned that shipping is a skill.
Around that time, I read Naval's quote about getting what you want if you're smart enough. I was fascinated by tech Twitter, so I gave myself a challenge: could I get 1,000 quality tech people to follow me without gimmicks? and I did. Made friends who are still around. Learned about building in public. That community ended up shaping a lot of what came next.
But first, I wanted to build something of my own. I'd only made small projects and only knew frontend. Picked an idea anyway. This was mid-2024, just before AI coding assistants really took off.
Four weeks later, I launched Slik. A complete e-commerce discovery platform. Did everything from research and design, to dev, marketing, and support. Got thousands of visitors, hundreds of users. Multiple buy offers came in. Job offers too. I said no to all of it because I wanted to keep building.
Started working on my next idea when a friend introduced me to someone building something similar. Our visions aligned. I joined as Co-Founder & CTO at a hyperlocal social experiences startup, which we later named Be Offline, and that's when things got interesting.
I did everything: hired and managed interns, talked to early customers, turned insights into features, worked in Figma with our designer, coded dashboards and prototypes, dug through PostHog analytics. When our app developer left, I learned React Native on the fly and optimized the app. To everyone's surprise, I not only improved the performance, but also reduced the size by almost half. That's when I realized: I can learn anything and build anything.
This was also when AI coding tools started getting good. I became obsessed. Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf... I started integrating them into my workflows. The thing about AI tools is they let me do all the other stuff fast and good enough, so I can spend most of my time on what actually matters: obsessing over making the customer experience better. Now I ship products and prototypes within hours and days instead of weeks and months.
We launched, got hundreds of users, generated real revenue, ran our own offline experiences. When we couldn't scale our hyperlocal bets as planned without external monies, we pivoted to board games. Built one from scratch, launched at India's biggest tabletop gaming event, iterated based on feedback, and started selling it through a shopify store. While I love what we've built in this year-long journey, I think it's time to move on from this and put my skills to better use at a high talent density startup where I get to learn from folks smarter than me and make the products that I love, better.
It's hard to put what I've been doing into a strict role, but from thinking strategically, executing rapidly, and talking to users, to turning data into decisions, working with designers, and shipping fast, it's largely product management. The kind that gets hands dirty. The kind that ships. And I want to do this surrounded by people more talented than me, learning while doing meaningful work.
Growing up in rural India and being chronically online and hanging out with cool internet folks gave me a unique perspective. I think I understand the broad spectrum of consumer internet deeply, from people in remote villages in Rajasthan to folks in Bandra. That understanding is my edge in building consumer products. It gives me the ability to think in first principles a bit better than others.
I want to help shape what gets built, not just how. Be part of the conversations about strategy and direction. Look at data, change our minds, care about why we're building something. Own outcomes, solve real problems.
If you're building something that matters, something that makes people's lives genuinely better, I want to talk. I bring technical chops, product intuition, and an obsessive drive to ship.
Let's build something together.