Hey, I'm KP. I help builders and founders build in public so new opportunities find them.

Karthik Puvvada. Head of Community at Netlify. 5x founder. Product Hunt Community Member of the Year. Host of the Build In Public Podcast.

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TACTICALMeet Jev: It is 200x faster than LLMs at decision making (and the demos are unhinged)

STORYEight personal AI agents worth watching (and where the rest live).

STORYMuse is taking the internet by storm

STORYHow I kicked off the world's largest hackathon 🤯

CAREERHow I landed a dream job at an ambitious startup by building in public

TACTICALHow to build an MVP without setting $17,000 on fire like me

STORYHow a $100 ad budget led to $25,000 in revenue

TACTICALLessons from hunting 90+ products on Product Hunt 🚀

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