KAPIL VERMA — PRODUCT BUILDER INDIA / 2026

I AM A BUILDER.

I build things
from zero to shipped.

I spent 702 days chasing a venture-scale startup outcome — building, shipping and killing products across AI, mobile and the web. Now I bring that 0→1 mindset to ambitious products and teams.

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01 / SELECTED WORK

The code is evidence.
The products are the story.

Every project below began with a loose question, then became something people could use. Not all of them survived. That's part of the point.

01 / 2024SUNSET

LLM CHATBOT PLATFORM

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SmartChat

Personalized AI chatbots, grounded in your knowledge.

A web + mobile platform for creating AI chatbots with user-uploadable knowledge.

smartchat.app
How can I help?Ask anything about your documents.
LLM CHATBOT PLATFORMSmartChat
THE PROBLEM
Useful AI assistants need an answer source people can trust—not another empty chat box.
WHAT I BUILT
Independently scoped and shipped the web and mobile product, including a RAG system using MongoDB vector search and OpenAI embeddings.

50+ signups. Real usage. Not enough moat.

LEARNEDCode

Shipping proved demand existed. It also showed me that technical execution alone isn’t a defensible company.

ReactReact NativeNode.jsMongoDBRAGOpenAIAWS
02 / 2025SUNSET

AI RESUME BUILDER

JobOS

Prompt to resume.

AI tooling that tailored a candidate’s resume to the job in front of them.

jobos.app
KAPIL VERMA
Optimize this resume for
Product Engineer →
AI RESUME BUILDERJobOS
THE PROBLEM
Tailoring a strong resume for each role is tedious, repetitive work with meaningful consequences.
WHAT I BUILT
Built a workflow from PDF to structured content to LaTeX to an LLM-optimized resume, plus a LinkedIn-related browser workflow.

Shipped to the App Store. Useful product. Weak monetization.

LEARNEDCode

A product can solve a real problem and still need a clearer reason to pay.

React NativeLLMsLaTeXBrowser extension
03 / 2026SUNSET

VOICE NOTES → MINDMAPS

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Yapwise

Talk it out. See the structure.

An iOS app turning spoken notes into mind maps, action items and reminders.

yapwise.app
Voice note00:43
project ideas
VOICE NOTES → MINDMAPSYapwise
THE PROBLEM
Loose thoughts are easy to capture and surprisingly hard to turn into a next step.
WHAT I BUILT
Built a voice-first iOS experience that transcribed, structured and visualized notes while extracting actions and reminders.

Iterated with live feedback. Limited traction.

LEARNEDCode

People liked the transformation. That didn’t automatically make it a habit.

SwiftLLMsSpeechiOS
04 / 2026PROTOTYPE

AI-NATIVE OPERATING SYSTEM

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DragonOS

An OS for LLMs.

An exploration of what happens when AI agents are native to the operating system—not bolted onto applications.

dragonos.app
dragon@os:~$ Build a brief for tomorrow's meeting_

Opening browser · drafting document · done
AI
AI-NATIVE OPERATING SYSTEMDragonOS
THE PROBLEM
Traditional software makes people translate intent into clicks. Agents should be able to work directly from intent.
WHAT I BUILT
After an investor pitch did not turn into funding, built a working Linux-agent prototype capable of writing documents, interacting with the system and browsing the web from a prompt.

The funding didn’t happen. So I built the prototype anyway.

LEARNED

A compelling direction becomes far more useful once it can be touched, tested and argued with.

LinuxAgentsLLMsBrowser automationSystem APIs

THE GRAVEYARD

Things I killed.

Not every idea deserves another feature.

One of the most useful things I learned during two years of building was when to stop.

  • Vrowser— archived
  • Bro— archived
  • Career Explorer— archived
  • Other early experiments— archived
02 / THE LONG WAY ROUND

702 days.

I skipped placements to see how far I could take my own ideas.

  1. 2024

    Graduated from IIT Hyderabad

  2. 01

    Skipped campus placements

  3. 02

    Started building full-time

  4. 03

    6 products shipped

  5. 04

    50+ early users on SmartChat

  6. 05

    2 apps shipped to the iOS App Store

  7. 06

    Built an AI-native Linux agent

  8. 07

    Some ideas worked. Several didn’t.

  9. 2026

    Returned with two years of scars, code, product judgment and a much better understanding of what people actually use.

YOUTUBE STORY / 2026I chased my dream
for 702 days.0 → 1
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03 / PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Built independently.
Useful on a team.

Startup instinct is only useful if it travels. This is how it translated when the hardware, codebase and requirements weren't mine to begin with.

BRAVE.TECH

Technical Consultant

Feb 2026 — Apr 2026
Remote

A product-building background put to work on a complex Android hardware program—from ambiguous requirements through a working prototype.

  • Configured bare-metal AWS infrastructure and worked with Cuttlefish virtual Android devices.
  • Built and tested AOSP for a 2-in-1 laptop product; unlocked bootloaders and flashed custom ROMs onto physical hardware.
  • Designed and built a pre-installed note-taking app prototype, owning requirements through delivery.
  • The engagement led to full-time role opportunities across Software Developer and Product Manager tracks.
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EDUCATION

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

B.Tech — Chemical Engineering2020 — 2024

04 / CAPABILITIES

What I can own.

The blurry part before a roadmap becomes obvious—the question, the first version, and the work of making it real.

Product

  • Product discovery
  • 0→1 product development
  • MVP scoping
  • User research
  • Closed betas
  • Prioritization
  • Go-to-market thinking

AI

  • LLM product strategy
  • RAG
  • Prompt engineering
  • Embeddings
  • Agent workflows
  • AI-native product design

Engineering

  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • React Native / Expo
  • Swift
  • Express
  • MongoDB
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Docker
  • Linux
  • VMs
  • AOSP
  • Cuttlefish

Execution

  • Customer conversations
  • Cross-functional delivery
  • Investor pitching
  • App Store publishing
  • Play Store publishing
  • Requirements → production
05 / NOTES

Thinking in public.

I'm interested in AI as a new interface for software—not just a feature to put behind an API call.

Elsewhere:Medium X

06 / ABOUT

The path was
not linear.

I'm Kapil Verma, a product builder from India. I studied Chemical Engineering at IIT Hyderabad, but most of what shaped my career happened outside the classroom.

After graduating, I skipped placements and spent two years building startups full-time. I shipped web products, mobile apps and AI systems, talked to users, chased distribution, pitched investors, killed weak ideas and learned how different a product looks once real people touch it.

I like problems where the requirements aren't obvious yet.

Give me ambiguity and something worth building.
IIT HyderabadAWS for StartupsMongoDB for StartupsProducts shipped to the iOS App StoreUCMAS Mental Arithmetic · State Champion / National Runner-up, 2011
07 / CONTACT

Let's build
something

If you're working on a product where the path from idea to reality isn't obvious yet, I'd like to hear about it.

Currently open to building the next hard thing with the right team.

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