A workbench with too many half-finished things on it.

On the bench

• Shipped

  InstaWP

  WordPress sites in seconds — sandboxes, staging, migrations. Started it in 2021; Automattic put seed money in.

  Roughly 5 out of 5 done.
• Shipped

  ExpressTech

  Began in 2017 by buying one security plugin. Now thirty-odd people and a shelf of WordPress plugins, Quiz and Survey Master among them.

  Roughly 5 out of 5 done.
• Shipped

  InstaPods

  Deploy any app with one command. No YAML, no dashboard tour. It is what ships this blog.

  Roughly 4 out of 5 done.
• Shipped

  Walkie

  P2P comms for AI agents. No signup, no server — open a terminal on any machine and start typing, and agents on different continents find each other on the same channel name.

  Roughly 4 out of 5 done.
• Shipped

  vik.blog

  This site. Astro, deployed to an InstaPods pod with one command.

  Roughly 4 out of 5 done.

Build log

• 22 Jul

  vik.blog is live. Astro scaffold, workshop theme, deployed to a pod and pointed at the domain.

• 22 Jul

  Learned that instapods deploy syncs but never prunes. Deleted files kept serving 200 until I removed them on the pod. Noted for next time.

Notes from the bench

• Aug 4, 2026The share card I never looked atdesignops
• Aug 4, 2026I built one door for my agents to act through. Then I found two ways around it.agentsops
• Aug 3, 2026The signup form is a skill nowagentsmarketing
• Jul 27, 2026I took a laptop to fifteen cafes in HSR Layout. Four of them are actually good.bangalorecoffee
• Jul 22, 2026Fifty agent startups in one building: notes from Agentic Summit BLReventsagents