Kunal Mishra

Manicule (YC P26)

We're a team of 5 cracked engineers who write technical documentation for DevTool companies. We have helped Greptile, Supermemory, Reducto, Xpander and more get more product adoption, less support tickets and sign enterprise deals.

Indoor Positioning System

I'm building a wifi-based hi-precision indoor positioning system as a GPS alternative indoors. Supported by gradCapital and BITS SIRE.

SLM Inference on Edge Devices

A lot of mobile devices come with Neural Processing Units but they're underutilised for Small Language Model (SLM) inference processes. We're building an inference engine that solves this.

ServiceSetu Higher-Ed Job Portal

Built a jobs and announcements portal for ServiceSetu, a higher ed job portal that a PhD at my college is running with her husband. They have a large following and routinely get 45-60k views a month.

CSI Based Activity Recognition

A paper I worked on under Prof Sougata Sen where we're trying to train a model on CSI value plots of a WIFi network in a room to recognise what's going on between the sender and receiver.

Telescope Webportal

I lead a team building a webportal for an automated telescope setup at SEDS Celestia, our college astronomy club's motorised telescope, so anybody could request a live image from it of the night sky.

Smart Space at DaSH Lab

A research project I lead under Prof Arnab Paul at DaSH lab, BITS Goa. We're set up raspberry pis and cameras in a classroom to monitor student attention and help improve teaching pedagogy. It's been a wild ride getting hardware, ML, and real classrooms to play nice together.

Full Stack at Buttondown

I built a few features with Django and Vue.js. I've been generally interested in the email industry. It was a dream working with Justin.

BioCompute Research

Researched and wrote scripts for BioCompute — Bacterial DNA can store digital data thousands of times more densely than Seagate's current best tech. We're working on a device which would bring this in a form you can plug into your PC.

Dump.ink (now defunct)

Dump is a minimal micro-blogging platform I built for Deta Space which lets anybody create and host their own microblogs for free for ever. It is completely decentralised. Deta offered to buy it from me if I turned it into a decentralised social media protocol which I couldn't work on as life got in the way. I may continue this in the future.

Marketing Consulting at Deta.space

For a brief stint, Deta hired me to help them think new marketing strategies for their personal cloud product. About an year later, they pivoted to building a browser. They recently shut down.

Twift.xyz (now defunct)

Now defunct, Twift helped creators run "reply with an 👋" giveaways on Twitter, handling sending thousands of DMs without being marked as spam. I built and designed the whole web-app and DM-ing engine while Prado (@pradologue) helped me with growing it to hundreds of users. We had to eventually shut down when the Twitter API pricing change made this too expensive to continue ($40k/month to be exact).

Socialscri.be

I built a SaaS tool that lets newsletter creators add social sign-up buttons (sign-up with google) to their websites without coding. I designed and built the entire thing up and grew it to a few thousand dollars in profits.

Content Marketing at HelloMeets

Did SEO for HelloMeets — I handled the entire publishing process for the HelloMeets blog while growing it from 600 to over 45k visits a month, in 8 months on a strict budget.

Back of my Head (now defunct)

I ran an email newsletter rounding up cool stuff I found throughout the week. It went on the get over a thousand subscribers but I couldn't be consistent and decided to drop it. It did lead me to build Socialscribe though.

Design for The Morning Context

I designed the infographic template for an newly launched, independent, subscription-based news publication from the cofounders of The Ken. Thanks Ashish K Mishra and Harveen Ahluwalia for this gig.

Right Click (now defunct)

I used to write a blog called Theciva about tech news and stuff like what would happen if Apple bought DuckDuckGo, flaws of India's COVID-times contact tracing app or what Google being carbon neutral meant. I also got a little bit of readers through SEO though most readers came through repost (w canonical urls) on Medium (unfortunately their partner program wasn't in India then) and HackerNoon (where I won me 3 Noonies prizes!). Theciva evolved into Right Click (had to change the name!) which I tried to turn into Morning Brew for tech (also inspired by Filter Coffee). Later, I shut it down and sold the coolest twitter username I have ever owned yet—@rightclick—to rc.xyz, an NFT art platform for the easiest $1000 of my life.

Freelance Content Writing

Did Freelance Content Writing — In 2018-19, I wrote a bunch of articles for Mobisium, a blog that later turned into a content platform. They paid me peanuts (between ₹180-300 per 1000-2000 words) but it was my first time working for someone else and I loved it. I even pitched them a video that I did alongside a blog post. I also did a few gigs on Fiverr for their minimum $5.