# blog
Writing about building products, AI, and lessons from the startup trenches.
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India macro
Fintech, climate-energy, connecting threads
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Vibecoding
AI coding, Tier 3, moats
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Agents & MCP
Trust infra, agent economy, async ops
The two storms heading for India's kitchen, and the silence that should worry us
A warming Indian Ocean and the Iran war are colliding into the most compounding macro shock India has faced in over a decade. Almost nobody is connecting the dots, the data is public, and the cushion the country has to absorb both is narrower than the official narrative suggests.
100 startups in 100 days: the public ledger
A solo-founder sprint to bootstrap 30 ventures on 2026 agent infrastructure. The number 100 is the input. The number 30 is the output. The mismatch between them is the entire honesty of the exercise, and the playbook is the artifact, regardless of which products survive.
The vibecoding bet: why the next ten million developers will never write code
63 percent of vibecoding users identify as non-developers. The market is being treated as a developer-tools category, and the largest underserved segment is being missed by every well-funded player. The contrarian thesis for who actually owns the second wave.
The MCP eval gap: why 87% of MCP servers fail high-trust thresholds
The Model Context Protocol went from a niche release to 67,000+ servers across six registries in eighteen months. The trust gap that opened up underneath is the most fundable observability problem of the next two years, but the obvious adjacent businesses are already locked up. Here is where the surviving whitespace is.
Launching AIgateway: 150 AI Models Behind One Key
Every AI startup rebuilds the same plumbing. OpenAI here, Anthropic there, Gemini, Groq, Together, Replicate, each with its own auth, retries, streaming, rate limits. I paid that integration tax 30 times. So I built AIgateway: one API, one key, one bill, 150+ models, edge-native on Cloudflare. Free Kimi K2.6 until Apr 30.
The Agency Economy: Intelligence is Free. Execution is the Moat.
LLMs just collapsed the cost of thinking to near-zero. For the first time in fifty years, the bottleneck isn't attention or information. It's agency. Here's what that means for AI product builders, and why the Intelligence-Action Gap is the most important frame of 2026.
The One-Person Unicorn: Why Domain Expertise Beats Technical Skill in 2026
Sam Altman says the first one-person billion-dollar company is coming. He's right, but not for the reason most people think. The winning founders of 2026 aren't hacker generalists. They're domain experts with a keyboard. Here's the playbook.
The Asynchronous Advantage: How Solo Founders Out-Ship 20-Person Teams
I run 30 products from Bengaluru, solo. Teams with 20 engineers in SF ask how it's possible. It's not 20x productivity. It's a completely different operating system. Here's the async playbook that makes it work.
The Build-in-Public Playbook: How I Got 10K Followers by Shipping, Not Tweeting
How I use building-in-public as a growth strategy: the content formula, the platforms, the metrics, the viral loop, the mistakes to avoid, and real templates you can steal.
The AI-Native PM Skills Matrix: A Complete Framework for 2026
The PM job description hasn't changed in 10 years, but the job itself has changed completely. Here's the definitive skills matrix for the AI era, with assessments, examples, and an action plan.
Your AI Wrapper Has No Moat. Here's How to Build One
The problem with 'AI wrapper' startups and how to build defensible products on top of foundation models. The 5 layers of AI product moats, with real examples, a self-assessment framework, and the playbook for each layer.
The Chief AI Officer is a Temporary Role: A Historical Analysis
In 2010 it was the CDO. In 2015, the CIO. In 2024, the CAIO. Why standalone AI leadership roles have a 3-5 year shelf life, with data, org charts, and a better path forward.
The Solo Founder's Cloudflare Stack: How I Ship 12 Products Without a Team
A deep technical walkthrough of how I use Cloudflare Workers, Pages, R2, D1, KV, Queues, and AI to run a 12-product venture studio with zero DevOps, zero servers, and zero employees. Real architecture, real costs, real tradeoffs.
The Super App Myth: Why Focus Wins in India
Every boardroom in India wanted to build the WeChat of India. Five years later, the data tells a very different story. A complete teardown with market data, case studies, and lessons for founders.
The 'India 2' Trap: A Case Study from Building Paytm Soundbox
Most Indian startups fail because they build for India 1 but price for India 2. A deep case study from my time at Paytm, with the framework for getting this right.
Latency is the New Downtime: Why Speed is Your AI Product's Moat
In the GenAI era, slow is the same as broken. A data-driven guide to inference speed, latency budgets, and why edge compute is a survival mechanism, not an optimization.
Junior PMs Build Features. Senior PMs Build Loops: The Growth Engine Playbook
The difference between a one-time spike and exponential growth is whether you're building features or compounding loops. A complete guide with diagrams, examples, and an audit framework.
The Search Bar is Dying: How AI is Replacing Navigation with Intent
We're moving from navigation (clicking menus) to intention (typing what we want). A deep analysis of why your product design is about to become obsolete, with examples, data, and a redesign framework.
Building 20 AI Products as a Solo Founder: The Execution System
Inside the venture studio model, execution framework, and economics behind launching 20 AI-powered SaaS products in 12 months, with zero employees.
The Complete Guide to Building Voice AI Applications
A comprehensive guide to building voice AI applications, from choosing the right models to deployment strategies. Learn from real-world examples and avoid common pitfalls.
The All-in-One AI Audio Workstation: Reclaiming Creative Momentum
Creators burn countless hours bouncing between tools to achieve production-ready audio. This deep dive explores why that happens, where the industry is headed, and how AudioPod AI carves a durable niche.