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Raghavendra Bhagavan

VLSI Engineer with lots of SOLO Software, Web & now App Projects

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Hello Fam!

Great to post here. I've been lurking around in PH from 2015.

I'm a passionate engineer. My corporate day job is in VLSI & Semiconductors (electronic chips) - So feel free to AMA in that domain as well!

However, software and web have always been close to my heart. I've been doing side projects in B2B markets from long. Founded an events B2B software company 8 years ago, running SOLO in weekends. Have had mediocre success financially - not so good, not bad either.

I've always been a product hacker (stitching together multiple systems, integrations etc.,) to make sure i'm able to SOLO this with a day job and a family.

(SOLO dev's should always focus more on High Level Design than Low Level Design - Do you agree?)

Thanks to genAI, I feel that SOLO dev's now have the courage to enter B2C.

I took the dive a year ago into B2C apps. Been an incredible journey of learning, re-learning, starting and re-starting. Looking forward to share my experiences here, especially around training my own A.I models from scratch, trying to design & bring to life my own GPU from scratch while scratching my head more times than I’d have liked.

Looking forward to connecting with the community and launching here soon!

Cheers & Lots of Love from

Bengaluru, India. 

~Raghavendra Bhagavan

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Aaron Hill
Great to meet you, Raghavendra! I agree that genAI has unlocked a ton of new opportunities for devs to go out on their own. I’m wondering how the chip and hardware market lately has impacted your day job.
Raghavendra Bhagavan

@proaifounder Hi Aaron,

Good to hear from you.

Just my personal opinions and observations:

The chip and hardware market, is doing incredible from the past 7-8 years. It continues to be good today. There were some hiccups in covid timeframe, but the overall growth has been phenomenal.

Now is a really incredible time for anyone to start a hardware company.

Previously hardware was hard. Both R & D and Profits. Now the opportunity is plentiful. In every single industry. Product, Service and everything in between.

News talks about particular "big companies" for example to be at loss in stock market etc., it's just the 'top of the cream' loss. The pockets and the strong IP rights are deep in hardware. In my personal opinion, this industry is going to show incredible growth (in terms of employment and profits) for atleast the next 3-5 years.

GenA.I has started it's waves, but at the outset, doesn't seem to be having too much of an impact in the short term atleast. I'm sure it will at some point. Many hardware companies deploy their own private A.I infra & that's how it will be for sometime more. :)