Svapnil's Articles

The Bold Case for Zohran Mamdani

What if it all goes according to plan?

Nov 4 • 

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February 2025

Stablecoins Will Not Be Enough..

Rebuilding the world economy will take more than crypto. Fiat money movement will matter more.

Feb 26 • 

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August 2024

Where Bank APIs Fall Short

Why it's been so painful to integrate with banks as a software engineer.

Aug 12, 2024 • 

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June 2024

Do You Deserve Work Life Balance?

What does it take to build something important?

Jun 5, 2024 • 

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March 2024

Values of Great Engineers

Values that I've seen in practice from the engineers that I've worked with at Meta and other tech companies

Mar 20, 2024 • 

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Building a Profitable, Bootstrapped AI App to over 50,000 Users

How I took a side project to 50,000 users and hundreds of paying customers and how to grow a business on the internet

Mar 7, 2024 • 

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February 2024

What I've Learned Working in Fintech So Far

Four things I've learned over the last four years in fintech

Feb 20, 2024 • 

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January 2024

Why I'm Moving to New York

Moving from SF to NYC as a someone who has lived in SF for three years

Jan 29, 2024 • 

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July 2022

Poems about SF

A collection of poems I've written about living in San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area.

Jul 31, 2022 • 

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April 2022

How $181M Worth of Internet Beans Were Stolen

How Beanstalk Protocol works and the decentralized finance tactics used to exploit it

Apr 18, 2022 • 

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March 2022

Understanding Sales as an Engineer

It’s easy to see Silicon Valleys’ success solely from the perspective as an engineer: the willingness to build useful things singlehandedly explain the…

Mar 28, 2022 • 

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January 2022

What's Going On In Miami

What talented people are working on in Miami, and why it matters to us.

Jan 31, 2022 • 

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