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• email (agarwalkush27@gmail.com)
• twitter / x
• github
• substack
• vibes

what i'm reading and what's on the shelf.

currently reading

• The Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen
• The Innovators by Walter Isaacson

read

• The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick
• Zero to One by Peter Thiel
• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson
• Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant
• Read Write Own by Chris Dixon
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• The McKinsey Way by Ethan Rasiel
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson

things i've built or am building.

• vibewtf. Scrapbook-style social app for collecting what you love. Personal walls for images, music, and media, with no likes, feeds, or followers. (Active, 2026)
• GasPack. Cylinder-tracking and inventory-management SaaS for medical and industrial gas distributors. An event-sourcing platform where every bill is an immutable event. Grew out of a 2020 medical inventory system. (Active)
• Edith AI. Proactive macOS assistant. Hyper-personal, on-device AI that acts before you ask. (2025)
• Edith Telegram Assistant. On-device AI for chat prioritization. 50 users, 50% faster turnaround. (2025)
• Provenance. Snap a photo of any object and trace its full history, every invention and breakthrough required to make it exist. (2025)
• Cartman AI. Prompt-to-South Park episode generator.
• Mother AI. Agent-to-agent coordination protocol and network. A marketplace where agents hire other agents. (2025)
• Samudai. Linear for DAOs. Privacy-focused governance for 1K+ members across 4 DAOs. Raised $2.5M. (Founder, 2021-2024)
• Samudai Points OS. Plug-and-play on-chain loyalty points. 30-35% engagement lift across 3K+ events. (2023-2024)

blogs and links worth your time.

• vibes. my curated collection

design and product inspiration. sites i pull references from.

• Refero. Real-world UI/UX reference library
• SaaSframe. SaaS marketing pages and product UI inspiration
• SaaSShots. Curated SaaS UI screenshots
• Maxibestof. Curated gallery of standout websites and portfolios
• One Page Love (Brutalism). Single-page site inspiration, brutalist cut

random thoughts and notes.

short films and videos i keep coming back to.

• nothing, except everything. (Wesley Wang)
• I am a mosaic of everyone I've ever loved. (Halle Hogan)
• Trappers of Time (Sony Alpha short film)

things i've written. subscribe on Substack

• 27 (Mar 26, 2026). I turn 27 tomorrow and I don’t know what to do with that.…
• privacy is dead (Sep 30, 2025). I spent my last three mornings raising disputes for 80+ fraudulent transactions amounting ~ $3k, because my card details appeared in some on…