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Sharath Kuruganty

Uncategorized · November 18, 2020

Sharath is a creative that embodies the no-code philosophy. He is very community focused and shares the bulk on his insights at his Twitter account.

He decided to identify as a creative after reading Atomic Habits by James Clear in October, 2018. He joined the Makerpad community and has since shipped multiple projects.

He currently works as a product evangelist at Draftbit.

Projects

Tools for Makers

Tools for Makers is a hand-curated directory of tools for makers to use. It became the #3 Product of the day at Product Hunt.

3 weeks after launch, 100 tools had been added and he’d received 90 typeform responses.

He shared the lessons he learned launching this product in this Twitter thread.

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The Angel Philosopher

Sharath build a site that curated content relating to Naval Ravikant. Naval had shared a lot of knowledge and wisdom online but there was no central place for fans discover this information.

He shared the story behind the website at Makerpad: How I made a site for all Naval Ravikant’s content without code

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Request for Product

Request for Product is a crowdsourced directory of product ideas that people wish existed. It got the runners-up spot at Product Hunt’s Makers Festival.

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Productivize

Productivize is weekly newsletter based on the interesting research and products Sharath discovers.

He launched the newsletter on Twitter in early July, 2020. By the end of launch day, he had 20 subscribers and 80+ views on posts. He hit 100 subscribers in week three.

He shared the stats for week two, week three and week four on Twitter.

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View the Archive

Shoutout

Shoutout is a website that collects positive twitter testimonials in the one spot.

Sharath launched the landing page for Shoutout in early September. 100 signed up to the mailing list within 24 hours of it launching. By the end of the first month, Shoutout had crossed 300 signups on the beta waitlist and made it to top 10 finalists Makerpad’s t30 challenge.

His first technical co-founder was Dan Rowden. Dan left in October due to his other commitments. Shortly after, Sharath tweeted that he was looking for a technical co-founder. In November, Curtis Cummings joined Shoutout. Sharath created a Twitter thread about why Curtis was the perfect fit.

He created a Twitter thread about building Shoutout in public.

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WFH Manual

WFH Manual was launched in March, 2020, in response to the global spread of Covid-100. It is a guide that curates some of the best tips/hacks, resources and best practices shared by pro #WFH workers around the Internet.

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Check out the launch on Product Hunt


Twitter Threads

Sharath’s creative master-plan

How to focus on your dream despite having a 9-5 job

A thread on the routines I follow

Here’s how to ship a landing page in less than 24hrs

Ways you can invest in yourself

Favorite commencement speeches of all time

Lessons Learned

Sharath has shipped all of his products in public. Here are the lessons he learned from the #buildinpublic experience.

Some lessons I learned from being a startup operator

2019 year in review

Side projects

Why you need to focus on doing and stop dwelling especially when you are working on a side project.

How you can ship a side project over a weekend 

Practical advice and lessons from his experience as a maker and a community builder

Twitter

Specific tactics/strategies that helped me in growing my Twitter following

Here are five things that I learned from twitter about community building.

Features

Interviews

How Sharath went from being a prolific maker to a startup operator by building in public

Sharath Kuruganty on Consistency By Design, Meditation, and Building Excellence with No-Code via The Penguin Latte Podcast

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