Logs & Journal

As of today I’ve been rejected by 3 Investors / Grants.

• Solo.Club  
• Founders Inc Investor (he said get a job to fix your problems)  
• Merge Grant(Applied for $906)

This creates an impression over my brain that F*ck Investors & GO BOOTSTRAPPED / DEBTSTRAPPED.

I’ve also applied to YC as a solo founder even though they prefer a co-founder as well. I think i’ll get the rejection decision by 5th of Sept iirc.

I got reached out by a ceo again on 15th August(he reached out to me on 2nd july as well). He clearly mentions that he really wants me to work at his company as a founding engineer with 2% equity.

I tell him, Let’s get on a call on Monday(18th of July). He replies with nothing and leaves me on seen.

I reply next day with “sure bro, thanks for leaving me on seen

ain’t joining thanks for your efforts, feel free to block me 😄🙏” Sent on 16th August

Reason behind this message was him not sending “sure” and still tweeting on his twitter(shitposting about some stuff) the day before.

Then he replies with “Hey hey I have tons of DMs and work”

“And alright I guess I don’t see a fit. Good luck I wish you all the best” - 16th of August

Then I wait for him to unfollow, He unfollows me on 19th August and then I Unfollow him as well :>

Back to working on Coldran.

Ditched building Ruklist(Side Quest for Money). SQLBase will be Open Source under Coldran.

Started working on Coldran today.

A Bangalore CEO with funding reached out to me(A friend directed him to me), He wanted help related to dev rel but they considered me as the marketing guy.

Their Platform was not very usable and bad frontend code considering beautiful simple basic design is the new moat. they were just suffering from that specific problem.

ps: they provided memory to llms with knowledge graphs.

They also had 10+ underpaid employees with bad technical skills, the only people with good technical skills were probably just 2 people.

Had 4 Calls(total of 8 Hours) with him and I wanted to manage the team, the public branding, distribution and the product design part. I clearly mentioned I’d work everyday without any leave and 10hrs everyday and 4-5 hours to Coldran.

The last call we had also included their COO(bro was condescending af) and that ruined the whole aura of that CEO. Personally that guy would ruin the whole fugging company.

They clearly mentioned that they want a serious person but i was being serious but they mentioned a guy ripped them off because he wanted a pocket money. BUT GOD!

THE CEO & COO Talk with me Happened with me from 11 pm - 2 am, then went on a walk with my Father. They mentioned they’ll figure out what they can pay me asap (i’ve already sent them my required compensation btw)

I get a text at 1 pm and then i get on a call with the ceo and they mentioned they’ll pay me $803/month instead of $1,722/month which i asked.

He mentioned I can reply whenever I want today and my self esteem didn’t let me take it because it was clearly underpaid for a full time job with the whole team management. I texted him on Whatsapp and I mention that I’m not interested in negotiating or even accepting the offer.

He tries to negotiate says he can go $1.2k per month max but I said no again. But my ethics say if someone undervalues you, YOU NEVER TALK TO THEM OR DO WORK WITH THEM AND YOU CAN NEVER PROVE ANYTHING TO THEM.

He insists on calling me again and again for 3 times then he calls me at 10pm, I BLOCK HIM.

Next Day, His COO calls me. I BLOCK HIM TOO.

moral of this is never do this unless you don’t plan on doing a job in Bangalore, Because words get around but i don’t f*cking care i’d rather die homeless than leave my ethics.

Applied to Y Combinator source with Coldran as a Solo Founder.

Building Ruklist, which i’m planning to launch within some days and SQLBase, hopefully release by the end of this month. After that, I’ll focus on improving these projects and start working on a customer interaction related platform.

I’ve been experiencing poor customer support service over the past week. It’s not entirely their fault but it’s more about the inefficient user flow and how they organize and manage feedback.

Also, five days back I scraped a sf based startup’s Discord server’s channel using a selfbot without hitting the rate limits then fed the data to chatgpt and used its deep research mode to identify the top 50 problems.

An Indian origin CEO reached out to me, impressed by my tweet i think, and wanted to hire me as a founding engineer(full time) for his b2b startup, which had recently received a non-dilutive grant from WTFund by Nikhil Kamath.

I wouldn’t really blame him if I were in his position, I would reach out as well because having creative techie unhinged person is a perfect choice for a high frequency startup. But well the pay was legit lower than my pay from Zerops.

Another reason to complete my own products fast.

I baited the entire tech Twitter community with a tweet about an AI website cloner that was actually just a GoLang reverse proxy backend mapping to localhost ports and reached 1.3M Views. I received a lot of hate, but many CEOs, CTOs, and investors initially believed it was real. However, I had to be honest with them i’m a baiter not a scammer.

Had to delete that tweet because I was reported and temporarily shadowbanned. The conclusion? Don’t bait people LEL

But atleast I got 1.9k+ Followers in 2 days

A friend, a software engineer at an Indian software security company developing codebase related security products, referred me for a dev rel position because that friend admired my work at Zerops. I declined the offer as I’m really not into security and the pay was minimum wage (20,000 INR / $230 approx.).

I feel sad for employees of that company as all of them are cracked asf but they get paid like 30k INR - 50K INR D:

Left Zerops after 11 months to start my own micro products and a bootstrapped Startup.

A friend, a founding engineer at a San Francisco-based company developing AI-powered VS Code extension, referred me for a position. I ditched it because the founder was a bit conservative + low pay. Plus building my own products seems a better idea :D