A note from the author
Hey, nice to meet you. I'm Sanket, a product builder at heart who loves creating tools that empower developers and designers. I co-founded GeekyAnts and served as CEO for over a decade, helping scale it into a global design and development powerhouse. Today, my co-founder Pratik leads as CEO while I continue to support the team as a board member and evangelist.
My main focus right now is RapidNative, which I'm building at my new company Shaper Studio Inc. It's a prototyping tool for mobile apps, designed for builders, founders, product managers, and UX designers.
On the side, I build and maintain open-source tools: Lifo, a Linux-like OS in the browser; reactnative.run, the fastest way to run React Native / Expo apps in the browser; and Life OS, a weekend project for documenting your life in markdown. I'm also writing Junior2Senior.dev, a first-principles playbook for developers leveling up in the AI era.
Whether it's building companies, speaking at events, or designing systems, I love solving high-leverage problems that make teams faster and products better.
Main focus
A prototyping tool for mobile apps
My main focus right now. A prototyping tool designed for builders, founders, product managers, and UX designers. Built at Shaper Studio Inc, RapidNative helps quickly scaffold mobile apps and streamline the design-to-code workflow.
Community
Speaking
Keynote introducing the explosive growth of React Native and GeekyAnts' contributions to the ecosystem.
Join me on my journey of creating the Next.js WordPress-like Plugin System, an experiment that enhances Next.js applications by allowing easy installation and customization of plugins for features like Google Analytics, Social Login, and E-commerce.
Mentions
A viral tweet showing a group working from a café with a full desktop setup during Bengaluru floods. The post sparked widespread discussion about hustle culture, resilience, and remote work during challenging conditions.
Sanket's self-designed, fully equipped off-grid caravan that serves as a mobile office and home. The caravan features solar panels, work setup, and everything needed for the geeky nomadic lifestyle. Frequently featured on @thegeekvan account.
Beliefs
Building in public and contributing to the community creates trust, accelerates learning, and helps everyone move faster.
Creating environments where teams can thrive leads to better products and sustainable growth.
Leveraging AI for design-to-code workflows lets us focus on high-leverage problems that make teams faster.
Experimenting with unconventional architectures leads to new perspectives and better solutions.
Chronology
Found love for computers and technology at a young age.
Early experiments with QBasic, learning the fundamentals of programming and building small projects.
Co-founded GeekyAnts as a freelancer, building a global design and development company from the ground up.
Created NativeBase, a React Native component library that transformed GeekyAnts from a web shop to a mobile-plus-web powerhouse.
Built BuilderX, a design-to-code platform that unifies design and development workflows with live collaboration features.
Grew GeekyAnts into a 400-500 person company through strong culture, open-source contributions, and focus on problem-solving.
NativeBase surpassed 20,000 GitHub stars with approximately 100,000 weekly downloads, becoming one of the most popular React Native libraries.
Designed and built a self-contained off-grid caravan for digital nomad lifestyle, complete with solar power and full work setup.
Released gluestack as the successor to NativeBase, a universal accessible component library and full-stack framework.
Started new company Shaper Studio Inc, focusing on building RapidNative and other developer tools.
Currently building RapidNative, a prototyping tool for mobile apps designed for builders, founders, and UX designers.
Stepped back from CEO role as co-founder Pratik took over, continuing as board member and evangelist while focusing on new ventures.
Today
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