Solo by choice, sharp by practice.
I’m Akash. I take messy briefs, ask the right three questions, and ship work that outlives the engagement. No team handoffs, no telephone-game, no agency overhead. One brain, end to end — and that’s the feature.
Started with typos in HTML, ended up shipping software.
I started where most builders start: fixing a friend’s WordPress site at 2 a.m. Then another friend’s. Then a paying one. Somewhere in there I realized I wasn’t actually faster at coding than the next person — I was faster at untangling the mess around the code. The handoffs, the missed specs, the “wait, who’s doing this?” emails.
So I leaned in. I learned project management not from a textbook but from screwing up enough projects to understand where the leaks were. I spent two years inside an agency watching the same telephone-game break the same projects in the same ways. Eventually it was easier to just answer the emails myself.
Today the studio is one brain — mine — running the kit end-to-end. WordPress builds, n8n automation, SEO audits, hosting migrations. The clients keep coming back because nothing gets dropped between people. Because there are no other people.
Four things, non-negotiable.
Ship beats perfect
Working software ships. The other kind is just expensive opinions in a Notion doc. We launch the version that works, then we make it sharper.
Scope is a promise
Fixed price, fixed scope, written down. New things become line items, not surprises. No “we’ll see how it goes” energy. Ever.
Direct beats polite
If your idea is broken, you’ll hear it on the call — not buried in a slide deck two weeks later. Same when something I’m building isn’t working.
The work outlives the engagement
Documentation, handover, optional retainer. Nothing held hostage. If I get hit by a bus, you can still run the thing.
The tools in the kit.
People who've paid me money.
Six years, compressed.
Fixed a friend's WordPress. They paid me.
The site was broken. I fixed it. Got paid in pizza and a small invoice. Realized this was a thing people would pay for. Kept going.
First client outside India.
A hosting company in Australia found me through a forum thread. They needed migration help. We’re still working together.
Realized PM was the real leverage.
Started charging for project management on top of builds. Clients said yes. Doubled effective rate without writing more code.
Went deep on n8n and AI workflows.
Built first cold-outreach engine for a SaaS client. Saved them 40 hours a week. Most of my work since has involved automation in some way.
Shipped project #40. Still 0 missed deadlines.
Forty projects in. The repeat-client rate is north of 70%. The “no missed deadlines” record is held together with discipline and one very organized Linear board.
akashjoshi.me v3 · open for Q2.
You’re reading it. New site, same operator. Booking projects for Q2 — usually 2 to 6 weeks per engagement. Email or book below.
If you’ve got something half-built, half-broken, or just half-an-idea, send it my way. We’ll see if I can help. No deck required.