Preethi Rajan is a bootstrapped founder based in Chennai who has built and shipped four software products as a solo founder over the past 5 years, three of them profitable, one open sourced with 900+ GitHub stars. She builds using a vibe coding workflow: Cursor for code generation, Replit for rapid prototyping, and Kuberns for deployment, a stack that lets her go from idea to live product in days rather than weeks without hiring engineers. Preethi has been part of the indie hacker community since before it had a name in India. She has documented her building process publicly on X and in developer communities, covering everything from idea validation to hitting first MRR to the specific technical decisions that a non-traditional founder makes when they are building alone and need things to just work. At Kuberns, Preethi writes about building and shipping products as a founder who codes, the tools, the workflows, the deployment decisions, and the mindset. Her content speaks directly to indie hackers, solo founders, and non-traditional builders who are using AI to close the gap between idea and product.
