Koushith Amin

After 3 years at @ReclaimProtocol, January marks the end of a chapter that shaped me deeply. I joined Reclaim with a design background, before the AI/agentic coding era. Things at Reclaim were scrappy, messy, and very much a research project. I learned to code here by owning things end-to-end, shipping systems used by real customers. I loved building at the intersection of product, frontend, and core systems, where details actually matter. A few highlights from the journey: - Worked on v1 and v2 of our DevTools, now used by 4,000+ users and 50+ paying customers, powering a business doing close to $1M ARR. - ⁠Built the initial logging & observability infrastructure, collecting critical events that later became the backbone for session tracking and customer billing. - Contributed to our JavaScript SDK, which processes 1M+ proofs. - ⁠Built a gamified testing platform for community-built providers, incentivizing users to test while we focused on serving paying customers. - ⁠Played a key role in enterprise solutions, leading an integration for one of the largest airline clients for status-match. One campaign alone drove 5,800+ verifications in just 3 days with more pilots on the way. What’s next? I’m taking a short break to build more Products and I’m also open to joining an interesting company or project with a meaningful use case. If you’re looking for a Product Engineer with taste, who obsesses over details and actually ships , let’s talk. my DM's are open. sharing my portfolio below for anyone interested (has all of my side projects too) -> koushith.in PS: not just vibe-coding 😉 I can write code maniacally like a psychopath when needed.

Using Linear + Cursor from Slack for all the random engineering chores now. Cleanup, repo housekeeping, tiny fixes. Keeps me out of context-switching hell.☠️

This video is made using @Remotion 👽👾

v0.3.0 May 2026 updates: Added support for : Mermaid diagrams, image + PDF viewer, todo notes with progress, virtual Year/Month grouping for daily notes, and a hard fix for an external-edit data-loss path. 
Todo notes, files under any /todos/ folder (or named todos.md) get a dedicated header with live task counts, progress bar, and an Add task affordance

Daily notes auto-group by Y
Carbon · dark is now the default theme on fresh installs Try the beta here : sidenotes.me Works for windows, Mac users might have to allow the security warnings. App is unsigned for now. Iam still waiting for my AppStore approval.

Had a life is a circle moment 3 days back. Was taking an interview. Interview didn't go well as expected, but the candidate later mailed asking for one more shot. I felt like intent is everything. Sent her an assignment. I remembered my own early days. Walking out of interviews knowing I messed up. rejections, follow up messages. Funny how some moments bring back old versions of you. Also wrote this in SideNotes 😄 Been building it as a simple notes app for daily notes, random thoughts, and second brain stuff. Slowly becoming my own space to think and write. try the beta here: sidenotes.me

@kunalvg MBA isn’t for everyone. Some people build startups. Some scale global companies. Some do both. Mature professionals understand that different paths work for different goals.

If you are committing to an MBA in 2026, then you are committing career suicide.

We’re hiring strong SSEs, especially folks with solid data engineering / core infra backgrounds. If you were impacted by layoffs recently, happy to chat and see if there’s a fit. Please DM me. we move fast.

I don’t know whether to be happy about the site traffic or cry about my App Store verification rejection. I just got an email from Apple Support saying that my account couldn’t be verified 🥲 Btw, sidenotes.me got 5.04k visitors in the last week.

This video was made using @playwrightweb and @Remotion :)

New Updates to sidenotes.me  Fixed the graph view, new vault design, and now available for all 3 operating systems. Iam still waiting for my App Store approval 😢

@czarcatambing Thanks. Not at the moment. These are just md files on your file system. To use sync either you can point to iCloud or drive or at the worst case you can use git. I just kept it local first on purpose. Will revisit sync once I have enough product validation:)

@KoushithAmin Looks interesting. Does it sync with apple notes or something that can be used on laptop?

I tried convincing my non-dev friends to use Obsidian. Nobody wanted to deal with Markdown, plugins, or setup. So I built SideNotes instead, a simpler thinking space that normal people actually use. It’s unsigned for now while I wait for App Store approval, but you can still go ahead and try it out. The app is open source btw. sidenotes.me

I tried convincing my non dev friends to use @Obsidian and they didn’t.😿

@chinmaysmhatre @wojakcodes This is huge. Go build this🚀🧨

@wojakcodes 🥀

I wanted Antigravity to do a code review, not to glaze me like JJk characters glaze Satoru Goju lmfao.

@heynavtoor Hi, it’s not about pricing. It’s about compliance and legal binding, anyone can ship OSS alternatives, but is it compliant? Legally bind?

DocuSign Personal: $10 to $15 per month. DocuSign Standard: $25 to $45 per user per month. DocuSign Business Pro: $40 to $65 per user per month. A 10-person team on Business Pro pays $4,800 to $7,800 a year. To put signatures on PDFs. A team of 50 pays $24,000 to $39,000 a year. And there is a 100-envelopes-per-year cap on most plans. Send more contracts and you pay extra. Need SMS delivery? $0.40 per send. Need ID verification? $2.50 per attempt. Need premium support? $5,000 to $50,000 per year add-on. You are rationing digital signatures in 2026. DocuSign is a $10 billion company built entirely on this pricing model. Now meet DocuSeal. A free and open source alternative to DocuSign. Created in 2023 by a Ruby developer named Alex who was simply trying to sign one document and realised every solution online was overpriced or required a subscription. Three weeks later he had a working alternative. He pushed it to GitHub under the AGPL-3.0 license. Today it has 11,800+ stars and over 1,000 forks. Bootstrapped. No VCs. No paywalls. Here is what DocuSeal does: - Upload any PDF and turn it into a fillable, signable form - Drag and drop signature fields, dates, checkboxes, file uploads, and 13 field types - Send to multiple signers with custom signing order - Automated email reminders - Mobile signing on any device - PDF signature verification built in - Audit trail for every document - Bulk send and templates - Full API access - Self-host with one Docker command Here is what DocuSeal costs: Zero. Forever. Unlimited documents. Unlimited signers. Unlimited storage. DocuSign limits envelopes. DocuSeal doesn't. DocuSign charges per SMS. DocuSeal doesn't. DocuSign charges for ID checks. DocuSeal doesn't. DocuSign sees your contracts on their servers. DocuSeal doesn't. Here is the wildest part: The median DocuSign contract per Vendr is $17,250 per year. One Reddit thread has people saying "they want me to pay $4.80 per e-signature." Self-host DocuSeal on a $5 cloud server and a 50-person team can sign as many contracts as they want without paying a single dollar. Your contracts never leave your server. Your client lists. Your NDAs. Your employment agreements. None of it touches a third-party company. For individuals who only sign a few contracts a year, you save $180. For small teams of 10, you save up to $7,800 a year. For a 50-person company, you save up to $39,000 a year. Your documents. Your signatures. Your server. 100% Open Source. (Link in the comments)

Claude Design 🐐 I’d happily pay the premium for this. Please remove the weekly limit😿 @claudeai

How do I convince non-devs to use Obsidian?😿

Did some frontend work after a long time. Designed it using Claude Design and then fed it into Claude code. Development has changed so rapidly. you just need to be descriptive and clearly visualize what you want, and AI agents can fast-track the entire process. What a time to be alive.

We’re hiring a Lead Backend Engineer at Consuma. ConsumaAI is building the intelligence layer for modern brands. We help enterprises make data-driven decisions. Product-first, fast-moving, and already profitable. You’ll work directly with me. We’re 4 people right now, scaling from 1 to 10. Already processing around 4TB of data every week, and the systems need to keep up with what’s coming next. You’ll be: - building and scaling backend systems and data pipelines - owning infra decisions across compute, storage, and streaming - working with Kubernetes and cloud-native services - handling real-time and batch pipelines - improving reliability, performance, and cost - taking systems from idea to production and keeping them stable Min Requirements: - 4+ years in backend, systems, or platform engineering - experience in a 0 to 1 setup or as a founding engineer - have built distributed systems in production - hands-on with Kafka or similar - experience with data pipelines like Spark - comfortable with AWS, GCP, or Azure - strong system design and performance fundamentals Budget up to 50L+ESOPs Location: Bangalore (WFO)* Send resumes to koushith@consuma.ai

I fixed my sleep schedule lol. Big W🚀🧨

Hate to admit it, but it’s true: after 5.5 years of remote work, I took an in-office role last month, and it’s 100% worth it. All the iterations and brainstorming feel different in person. If you’re set on remote, try in-office for heavy engineering work. You might love it.