Lakshya Kaushik

Founder, FounderStack

Building software apps in public, one shipped product at a time.

Mission

I am building FounderStack to give app founders the resources I wished I had when I started: real strategies, honest breakdowns of what's trending, and lessons pulled from actually building. Everything here is free, because the best founder resources shouldn't sit behind a paywall.

Relevant Expertise

→Full-cycle product development - designed, built, and shipped three web applications end to end, from architecture to launch
→Continuous market research - tracks emerging trends and shifts in the app founder space as they happen
→Business model analysis - studies what makes founder-led companies succeed and why others fail
→Tools evaluation - regularly researches and tests free or lower-cost alternatives to expensive paid tools in the founder stack
→Applied AI and entrepreneurship - actively studying how AI is changing what's possible for solo and small-team founders

What I’ve Built

RivallyAI

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A competitor monitoring app that tracks rival products and surfaces what changed.

BlastLaunch

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A launch directory where founders list and discover new app launches.

SaveMeTokens

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A token compressor app that compresses LLM token usage for heavy prompts.

Why Trust This Site

Everything on FounderStack comes from actually building and learning. I have shipped three products end to end, on my own - RivallyAI, a competitor monitoring app that tracks and alerts when rival products change something; BlastLaunch, a launch directory where founders list and discover new apps; and SaveMeTokens, a token compressor built for reducing token usage. All three were functional, live products, not side-project screenshots or half-finished demos. That hands-on experience of designing the architecture, building the product, and marketing it on X and reddit- is what shapes everything I publish here.

I started FounderStack because most of what I was learning as a solo founder was scattered across forums, X threads, and paid newsletters, while I was already doing that research for myself, one product at a time. Turning it into a free resource made sense: I'm still actively learning what works and what doesn't, and I'd rather share that in real time, mistakes included, than wait until I have it all figured out.

Outside of building, I spend a lot of time studying entrepreneurship directly - reading about what made large companies successful, picking apart the decisions that worked and the ones that didn't, and figuring out which of those lessons actually apply to a solo founder's day-to-day. FounderStack is where that ongoing education turns into something useful for other people building the same kind of thing

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