BUILDER
∗ Portfolio 2026 — Coastal Karnataka → Bangalore
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coastal → city
Building
brands,
businesses
& systems.

From a small village in coastal Karnataka, ended up doing engineering in a core branch in Bangalore. Aiming to build brands, businesses and systems currently exploring patterns to climb my first step, from where I can unlock a few more opportunities. Might sound incompetent, but I've never earned anything from building. Reason? See below.

Location: Bangalore, KA
Origin: Coastal Karnataka
Mode: Builder
Status: Exploring → Climbing
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02 — Experience

Things I've
done & survived.

∗ Formal
Business Operations
Fintech Company · 4 months
Customer onboarding, influencer marketing, and customer-side product enhancement. Held it down across multiple fronts in a fast-paced fintech environment.
Founders Office - Generalist
Logistics Company · 1 year · First employee
Was their first formal employee. They never hired another after me (hint: they never grew). Did everything except tech and finance. Built the entire operational backbone solo.
₹0/month
∗ Hustle - Real bread earners
Real Estate Agent
Land Sales
Sold land worth ₹4.5 Crore. Learned that real money moves in real assets.
₹4.5 Cr in sales
Pre-owned Vehicle Sales
Used Vehicles
Moved vehicles worth ₹38 Lakhs. Sales is sales - doesn't matter if it's land or wheels.
₹38L in sales
Restaurant
Nov 2019 – Mar 2020
Ran a restaurant. Then COVID happened. Some timelines write themselves.
pre-covid hustle
03 — Stack

Tools I've
touched & used.

∗ AI / LLMs
ChatGPT Claude Gemini All chat-based LLMs
∗ Automation
n8n Zapier Make
∗ No Code
Bubble.io Wix
∗ Zero Code / Vibe
Emergent Lovable Claude Chat
∗ Databases
MongoDB Supabase Firebase
∗ Others
Google Analytics Google Sheets Google Forms Typeform Twilio Railways
04 — Products

Things I
actually built.

Six products across three modes of building. None made me rich. All made me smarter. Every single one started with a spark that felt undeniable.

Try every product → demo@gmail.com  ·  password: nomatterwhat@123

Microkorant
Live

"Influencer marketing runs purely on views. I always calculated ROI when working with influencers - and it never made sense."

Result-driven influencer marketing tool. Eliminates vanity metrics and tracks actual clicks and sales per influencer. Plans to start an agency - kicking off April 2026.

MongoDB Claude Chat Railways
ROI tracked
Apr Agency launch
app.microkorant.in →
Kubal
Live

"I met a guy on his way to HSR for an interview at three companies for the same profile. If only the first company could share feedback with the others — anonymously — it would've saved everyone time."

Community hiring platform built entirely with AI. Gives feedback to every candidate, helps them understand what to improve, and handles privacy + legal concerns built-in. Bigger vision: full-stack HR platform with a verified-only professional network.

Claude Chat ChatGPT Railways MongoDB
Early stage
kubal.online →
MicroKorant CRM
Closed

"Leads were scattered everywhere messages, sheets, random notes. Teams had no system to follow up or close on WhatsApp."

Lightweight CRM for small teams. Captured leads, sent reminders, and closed deals on WhatsApp. Closed, but the idea lives on; may rebuild with WhatsApp as the base.

Google Forms Typeform Twilio ChatGPT
4 Product Hunt followers
Raazneeti
Closed

"The last budget speech was hours long. Less than 10% of people read it. Fewer understand the details. But everyone's money is in it."

Unbiased political and social intelligence platform. Tracked government projects, politician cases, affidavits, and controversies. Closed, but the idea of an AI journal with chat is still alive; not for profit.

Bubble.io ChatGPT + Web Search
0 Users - honest
Ambade One
Live

"I went to find a PG for my cousin. Every listing online was incomplete. Every search meant physically going location to location, asking prices, negotiating. Took days."

PG discovery platform for Bangalore. 200+ manually entered PGs from HSR and BTM Stage 2. Solving the chicken-and-egg problem by entering data manually first. Vision: expand to every real estate category, built differently than what exists today.

Bubble.io
1,800 Views in week 1
200+ PGs listed
ambadeone.live →
TrayaTech Labs
Closed

"Kirana stores were getting digitized, but the early tools created more friction than they solved. Quick commerce wasn't the answer for them yet."

Quick commerce platform for retailers, intended to enable fast commerce for kirana stores, eliminating friction from early digitization. Custom-built product with a small hired team.

Custom Build
4 VCs spoken to
12 Retailers interviewed
2 Commitments secured
05 — Next

Bucket list.
Not a dream board.

01
Build a backend supply chain for an agricultural product
02
Build software + full ecosystem for cooperative banks
03
Build tech for the retail industry
04
Build a seafood retail chain across India
05
Build a team of 7 who build, execute, and measure products like a business factory
06 — Biggest Regret

I build products. I've talked to investors. I've worked in early-stage startups. But I've never talked to my potential clients and never tried to sell anything exclusively.

That's why I've never earned anything from building. Not incompetence. Not bad products. Just never closing the loop with the one person who matters most — the customer. Everything else was practice. This is the lesson.