Essays - KP's musings

Career stories, playbooks, and battle reports from 10+ years of building in public. 82 and counting.

TACTICALMeet Jev: It is 200x faster than LLMs at decision making (and the demos are unhinged)Sep 18, 2026
STORYEight personal AI agents worth watching (and where the rest live).Sep 12, 2026
STORYMuse is taking the internet by stormSep 9, 2026
TACTICALYour app is a restaurant: APIs, MCP, and WebMCP for non-technical buildersSep 6, 2026
TACTICALThe most interesting & ambitious things built on GPT-6 Astra (so far)Sep 6, 2026
STORYI asked my 71,000 followers their favorite personal sites. Here are the 46 they recommended.Sep 6, 2026
TACTICALI hunted GPT-6 Astra. It went #1 on Product Hunt.Sep 4, 2026
CAREERThe Price of Greatness Is 100 Reps*Jul 26, 2026
CAREERReflections from my time at PaddleNov 15, 2025
TACTICALI introduced vibe coding to MBA studentsNov 7, 2025
CAREERJoining NetlifyNov 6, 2025
TACTICALWhy 90% of Founders Burn Out Before Growth [Notes from my latest Q/A]Sep 12, 2025
STORYAnnouncing the official Vibe Coding Showcase (plus other wins) 🎉Jul 29, 2025
STORYVibe Coding Showcase is back. Here are 10 new projects.Jul 2, 2025
STORYVibe Coding Showcase: 12 Incredible Projects Built by Everyday PeopleJun 22, 2025
CAREERGoogle's CEO Vibe Codes in His Free Time. What's Your Excuse?Jun 5, 2025
CAREERA prediction 👀Jun 4, 2025
STORYHow I kicked off the world's largest hackathon 🤯May 20, 2025
STORYKP’s Curated ListsOct 1, 2024
CAREERClosed mouths don’t get fed 🤭Mar 19, 2024
CAREERA carrot in Kitkat packaging 🥕Mar 1, 2024
TACTICALHow SaaS Founders Can Crush MarketingFeb 16, 2024
TACTICAL2 Simple (But Profound) Sales Tips I Give Every FounderFeb 9, 2024
CAREERJoining PaddleJan 25, 2024
STORYHow I Made It To America 🇺🇸Jan 23, 2024
CAREERKP’s 2023 Annual ReviewJan 1, 2024
TACTICALLeadership Lessons from Bill WalshDec 15, 2023
CAREERMy Career UpdateDec 14, 2023
CAREERUpdate on BIPFDec 10, 2023
CAREER4 miracles of my lifeNov 29, 2023
TACTICALBillion Dollar Ideas (from my notebook)Nov 1, 2023
TACTICALWant to attract world-class employees who have so many options? Here's how.Oct 11, 2023
TACTICALHere's the exact criteria I'm using to decide my next SaaS idea 🔖Oct 3, 2023
TACTICALWhat kind of questions you should ask your customers?Sep 5, 2023
STORYWhat have I been up to? Here are the major highlights.Aug 19, 2023
CAREERThe Power Of Belief CapitalAug 2, 2023
STORYNew podcast episode and shutting down our SaaS productJul 19, 2023
STORYWrapped up our 2nd cohort. Here's how it went.Jul 6, 2023
TACTICALThe Anatomy Of A Great AskJun 20, 2023
CAREERHow to handle and transcend the challenges of building in public 💪🏼Jun 8, 2023
TACTICALYour MVP must be a food truck 🚚May 24, 2023
TACTICAL3 simple but non-obvious tips to winning #1 position on Product Hunt 👀May 3, 2023
TACTICALHere are 7 plug-and-play formats for your Twitter or Linkedin posts 💎Apr 24, 2023
STORYHere are 5 small wins from my week 👀Apr 14, 2023
STORY"Shit! We might be onto something here"Mar 31, 2023
STORYMillion Dollar Exit and A SaaS with $4k MRRMar 24, 2023
TACTICALBuilding in public advice for newbiesMar 16, 2023
STORYHow Tally went from 0 to $40k MRR all while building in public 👀Mar 9, 2023
CAREERBeing a founder is stressful, especially as a solo founder. Here's how to cope.Feb 22, 2023
TACTICALHere are 10 interesting and helpful people to follow in the 'build in public' niche.Feb 15, 2023
CAREERPutting fuel to the fire of No-Code 🔥Feb 8, 2023
STORYMy next thing 👀Feb 2, 2023
CAREERHow to avoid the road blocks and limiting beliefs that pop up while building in public 🚧Jan 25, 2023
STORYHow Cal.com is building an open-source rocketship in public 🚀Jan 18, 2023
TACTICALHow to acquire your first 100 beta usersJan 11, 2023
TACTICALSales lessons from over $1.5m in revenueJan 4, 2023
STORYHere's my best of 2022 listDec 28, 2022
STORYHow a $100 ad budget led to $25,000 in revenueDec 28, 2022
CAREERHow do you handle this stress of being a founder and entrepreneur?Dec 21, 2022
STORYHow Ankur Nagpal is building Carry in publicDec 14, 2022
CAREERI asked ChatGPT about building in public and here's what came out 🤯Dec 7, 2022
CAREERYou can't control going viral but you can control being prolific.Nov 29, 2022
CAREER"I have nothing to sell you"Nov 23, 2022
CAREERHow I shoot my shot in public and what I learnedNov 16, 2022
TACTICALWhere can you go to learn more about building in public deeply?Nov 9, 2022
TACTICALThe no BS way to grow from 0 to 3000 followers on Twitter 🌱Nov 2, 2022
TACTICALHere are 8 unique ways to build in public 👀Oct 27, 2022
TACTICAL12 tweet templates to put an end to your Twitter writers' blockOct 18, 2022
TACTICALThe building blocks of building in public [part 2]Oct 11, 2022
TACTICALThe building blocks of building in publicOct 4, 2022
TACTICALUnderrated startup demosSep 27, 2022
TACTICALHow to build an MVP without setting $17,000 on fire like meSep 13, 2022
TACTICALLessons from hunting 90+ products on Product Hunt 🚀Sep 6, 2022
STORYI launched a new thing.. actually 3 things in the last 10 days 👀Aug 9, 2022
STORY1 Major & 1 Minor Announcement 📣Jul 23, 2022
STORYThe ending is really another beginningJun 12, 2022
TACTICALI asked all my followers one simple question and here's what they had to sayJan 17, 2022
CAREERtreasures in my mind but couldn't open up my own vaultAug 9, 2021
STORYAn excuse to publish a new blog post 😉Feb 18, 2021
CAREERHow I landed a dream job at an ambitious startup by building in publicOct 6, 2020
TACTICALNewsletter distribution is broken, it needs to be fixed urgently.Jun 15, 2020
TACTICALThe underrated types of capital that no one is talking aboutMay 26, 2020
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