Yash Kumar Gupta

cs undergrad at assam down town university. i co-founded Anethix Labs — a software company we incorporated with four founders. i lead the technical side and most of the product thinking. we do client work and build our own products.

both products are early, but the company is real, the clients are real, and i'm learning a lot.


what we're building
Troql a semantic code navigation layer that helps developers actually understand large codebases.
Anethings a local discovery platform built for tier-2 and tier-3 markets in india.

some things i think about — inspired by nat

speed compounds.

the faster you ship, the faster you figure out what's wrong. early on, inaction costs more than a bad decision — at least a bad decision teaches you something. i try to recalibrate our pace every week, because every acceleration eventually becomes a constant.

on startups right now

building software is easier than it's ever been, which means pure technical execution is less of a moat than it used to be. the interesting opportunities are in places that are hard to index — weird markets, underserved geographies, problems that don't look like venture bets on the surface. that's partly why i'm building what i'm building.

on people

be kind, be direct. don't gatekeep — it's a bad long-term strategy and it just makes things slower for everyone. moments are fleeting, people endure.

what actually motivates me

i think a lot about cognition and intelligence — not in an abstract way, but in the sense that understanding how intelligence works feels like one of the more important problems anyone can work on right now. my projects are small bets in that direction.


also, building a startup is probably the fastest way i know to work with people smarter than me and get humbled regularly. that's worth a lot.