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Blog posts, videos, and unfiltered experience-sharing from running 16+ ventures in parallel. What worked, what broke, what I'd do differently. No agency theatre โ€” just receipts from the trenches.

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10 AI
startups
at once.
a year of building โ†’
BLOG POST ยท 14 MIN READ ยท MAY 2026

Shipping 10 AI startups in parallel โ€” what worked, what broke.

A full year of running ORBIX, Kothalipi, NOBBYO, Pannakhata, VoiceBridge, GiftNao, ShadGhor and three more โ€” all in parallel. The unsexy systems that made it possible, the assumptions that didn't survive, and the one rule I'd never break again.

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RAG vs.
fine-tune
APR 28, 2026 ยท 8 MIN READ

When to RAG, when to fine-tune โ€” a decision matrix.

After 30+ AI projects we have a clear answer for which approach fits which problem. The matrix, plus three cases where we got it wrong.

AIRAGLLM ops
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ORBIX
demo
14:22
APR 22, 2026 ยท WALKTHROUGH

Building ORBIX v4 โ€” from idea to live in 8 weeks.

A full screen-recording walkthrough of how we built the latest ORBIX release โ€” stack, architecture decisions, and the bug that almost broke launch day.

ORBIXBuild log
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The first
BD client
APR 18, 2026 ยท STORY

The $30 client who taught me how to price.

In 2011 I built a logo for $30 and lost money on the file transfer. Here's the exact lesson I took from it that doubled my rate every year for six years straight.

PricingLessons
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Bangla
NLP gap
APR 10, 2026 ยท 11 MIN READ

The Bangla NLP gap nobody is closing.

Why building Kothalipi meant building 60% of the data infrastructure from scratch โ€” and the open-source pieces I think the community should ship together.

NLPBanglaKothalipi
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Claude
+ Virlo
9:47
APR 04, 2026 ยท TUTORIAL

Claude + Virlo = viral Instagram carousels in minutes.

A live demo of the prompt + workflow we use to produce carousel content for Promo Content Studio clients in under 10 minutes per asset.

ClaudeContent
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Almost
quit. Twice.
MAR 28, 2026 ยท STORY

I almost quit NextBangla twice โ€” here's what stopped me.

Two real moments โ€” 2014 and 2019 โ€” when I was a month from shutting the studio. The thing that pulled me back wasn't grit. It was a system.

Founder lifeMental health
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SOPs that
scale
MAR 21, 2026 ยท 7 MIN READ

The five SOPs every studio needs by year two.

From client onboarding to handover โ€” the exact templates I now wish I'd written in 2011. Free copy at the bottom.

OpsTemplates
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4 Claude
SKILLS
12:08
MAR 15, 2026 ยท TUTORIAL

4 Claude Skills I built for marketers โ€” free download.

Walkthrough of the four custom Claude Code Skills I use weekly for marketing ops. Code, prompts, and install instructions all open-sourced.

ClaudeSkillsFree
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Hiring
in BD
MAR 08, 2026 ยท 9 MIN READ

Hiring senior engineers in Bangladesh โ€” what actually works.

After 80+ technical hires across NextBangla and the AI startups, the three channels that consistently produce A-players, and the one that wastes time.

HiringTeam
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London
2024
FEB 28, 2026 ยท STORY

Opening London โ€” the cultural lessons nobody warned me about.

Hiring our first UK team, dealing with timezone politics, and the one cultural mistake that cost us our biggest enterprise pilot. The fix took six months.

ExpansionCulture
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๐ŸŽ™ Podcast
FoundersBD
EP 42
FEB 20, 2026 ยท INTERVIEW

I talked to FoundersBD about building 16 ventures from Nilphamari.

A 50-minute conversation on how to operate a multi-venture studio from a tier-2 city, the unfair advantages it gives, and why I'd never move HQ to Dhaka.

PodcastFoundersBD
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From $30
to $30k
FEB 14, 2026 ยท 6 MIN READ

How I priced from $30 to $30k per project โ€” a 15-year ladder.

Every doubling decision I made on pricing, the resistance I felt, and the specific repositioning moment that unlocked the next tier. Six rungs total.

PricingGrowth
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