Sharath Kuruganty has worked with some iconic community led companies like Product Hunt, OnDeck and currently Threado, where he is the Head of Community. A fun fact - Threado’s co-founder, Pramod Rao was guest no. 2 on this show. So this conversation has been a long time coming. What made it happen this time is Sharath's recent win where he sold his side project Shoutout to a UK based product studio. He started building this project about two years ago and reached $30k ARR with it. In this episode: Creating Shoutout How to approach selling when you are not a salesperson Building in public aka Power of the internet Moving to the US Working with Naval Ravikant How to pay bills while working on side projects Rapid fire round --- --- --- Links and Resources: Sharath’s website 👉 https://5harath.com/ Sharath’s Twitter 👉 https://twitter.com/5harath Shoutout 👉 https://shoutout.io/shoutout-new/ The Angel Philosopher 👉 https://theangelphilosopher.com/ --- --- --- Thanks for listening! If you have come this far you’ll love other episodes. Check them out by searching “Beginner Maps” on your podcast player or visit https://beginnermaps.com/