I'm Vikash.
I'm interested in building things that make people a little more capable than they were yesterday.
I don't believe great products begin with perfect ideas.
They begin with curiosity, conversations, and an unreasonable willingness to keep improving.
Most of my days are spent reading documentation, questioning assumptions, writing code, deleting code, and occasionally getting something right.
I enjoy working with people who care deeply about what they build.
What I've been building
Most of what I've built has come out of Persist, working with a small team, end to end — from the first line of code to the people who actually end up using it.
Right now, nearly all of that energy goes into Startupathon — a hiring platform built for founders and builders. Not resumes, not keyword matching. Just people who are genuinely, unreasonably into building things, and the founders looking for exactly that.
A hiring platform built for founders and builders. Not resumes, not keywords — just people who can't stop building, and the founders looking for exactly that.
startupathon.persist.orgAn AI song generation platform, one of the first things we shipped at Persist. Now used by 380K+ people to make 600K+ songs, with 2L+ downloads across app stores.
songgpt.comOur biggest bet, and the one I think about the most — a small team, with AI as the crew, working toward making entire films start to finish. Not a plugin, not a shortcut. An attempt at where filmmaking goes next.
ascensions.studioA few things I keep coming back to
Hopefully, I always will be.