Building in Public with Karthik 'KP' Puvvada
KP on camera walking through what to share, what to hold back, and why it compounds.
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Does building in public still work in the AI era, and how do founders do it well?
Yes, it remains one of the highest-leverage free channels for founders: honest, specific updates with real numbers, failures, and decisions outperform polished announcements, and personal accounts get 5 to 10x the engagement of brand accounts. AI helps you keep the cadence (drafting threads, recaps, and milestone posts) but the trust comes precisely from the parts AI cannot fake. Pieter Levels and KP's long-running playbooks show the compounding effect.
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18 resources.
Build In Public Podcast
94 episodes with founders and creators (including Gary Vee and Alexis Ohanian) on sharing the journey.
Listen on Apple Podcasts podcasts.apple.com →How to Build in Public Fearlessly and Have Fun While Doing It, with KP
The mindset half: getting past the fear of posting your real numbers.
Open swarm.work →Building in Public, Portfolio Career, Shipping Creative Projects, ft. Karthik Puvvada
An Indian podcast unpacking KP's build-in-public system for an Indian founder audience.
Listen on Spotify open.spotify.com →Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life
Three hours with the most successful build-in-public founder alive, 40+ startups shipped solo.
Open lexfridman.com →Build in Public on Twitter: The Complete Guide for SaaS Founders
The full playbook, including why honest stagnation posts beat milestone posts.
Open opentweet.io →X (Twitter) Marketing for Founders: How to Build Distribution That Actually Converts
Focused on the conversion end: from audience to signups, not just followers.
Open okara.ai →Twitter for Startup Founders: Building in Public Guide
Includes the sustainable weekly cadence: one update, one thread, two or three short posts a day.
Open conbersa.ai →Build in Public on X in 2026: The Complete Guide
The most current read on what build-in-public looks like after the AI content flood.
Open autotweet.io →Can You Build in Public Without Twitter?
Real founders debating the platform question you are probably asking.
Open indiehackers.com →How to Grow on X (Twitter) From Zero Followers
The cold-start problem solved step by step, no existing audience assumed.
Open conbersa.ai →How to Grow on X in 2026: Best Niches, Viral Strategies and 50K Followers
Refreshingly honest about timelines: the 0-to-10K-in-30-days accounts are lying.
Open teract.ai →How to Grow Your Followers on X: What's Actually Working
An individual builder's tested notes, including the 70/30 replies-over-posting rule.
Open grahammann.net →How to Grow on Twitter/X: Complete Growth Strategy Guide
Covers threads (63% more retweets) and the founder-video formats that stop the scroll.
Open socialrails.com →How to Grow From 0 to 1,000 X Followers Fast
The first 1,000 followers broken into a concrete daily routine.
Open founderbrands.io →Conversation on Startups, AI and Indie Hacking
Levels' own notes on the conversation, straight from the source.
Open levels.io →The Founder's Guide to Building in Public (With 20+ Real Examples)
Twenty-plus worked examples so you can pattern-match instead of guessing.
Open ventureradar.gumroad.com →27 Best AI Tools for X (Twitter), Tested and Ranked
The AI tooling layer for keeping a build-in-public cadence without living on the platform.
Open posteverywhere.ai →More in Social & Community
- How do founders run their social presence with AI without becoming spam? 18 →
- What does a one-person AI-assisted social workflow look like (calendar to drafts to publishing)? 18 →
- How do people use AI to engage communities and find conversations that matter? 17 →
- How do founders build a personal brand on LinkedIn with AI doing the heavy lifting? 18 →
- How do founders train AI to write in their own voice? 18 →
- How do founders turn one piece of content into a week of posts across every platform? 18 →
- How are founders making short-form video with AI, without a studio or an editor? 19 →
- Is it OK to automate comments, likes, and DMs with AI? Where is the line? 17 →
- How do founders use Reddit and niche communities to find customers without getting banned? 17 →
- How do founders build and run their own community (Slack, Discord, Skool) with AI help? 19 →
- How do founders measure whether AI-assisted social content is actually working? 18 →
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