Gaurav Kumar

Architected and launched Launchyourgem solo: a product launch platform and discovery directory for indie makers and AI tools, with SEO-ready launch pages, dofollow backlinks, upvotes, comments, and analytics, built on Next.js, tRPC, Drizzle, and Neon Postgres.
Built a "Fill with AI" launch flow: Firecrawl scrapes the 5 most important pages of a product's website, metadata is extracted alongside, and an LLM auto-fills the complete launch listing in one click. Added AI-powered product blog generation on the same pipeline.
Optimized the platform end to end for SEO, GEO, and AEO, shipping llms.txt, llms-full.txt, ai.txt, an AI snapshot, RSS, an OpenAPI spec, an API catalog, and MCP discovery so search engines and AI agents can read and cite every listing.
Shipped monetization with Dodo Payments webhooks: one-time Premium launches, monthly sidebar and center ad slots, and a pay-to-rank "Rank Your Gem" leaderboard that needs no account.
Designed a private Cloudflare R2 media pipeline with automatic cleanup and a lightweight counter-based analytics system (no raw event rows) for page views and clicks.

Founded Launchyourgem, a launch platform and directory that gives makers an SEO-ready, AI-readable product page, a dofollow backlink, and paid visibility options like ads and Rank Your Gem.
Sole decision-maker across product, engineering, design, pricing, and go-to-market strategy.

Architected and launched WidgIq solo: an embeddable AI support widget (one script tag, 11+ platform integrations) built on Next.js, tRPC, Drizzle, and Neon Postgres.
Engineered a hybrid RAG pipeline (pgvector + keyword search, Voyage reranking, SHA-256 dedup) with Standard, Smart, and Advanced agentic modes, streaming multilingual answers in real time.
Built a lightweight Preact widget SDK with dashboard-driven, zero-redeploy customization.
Shipped credit-based billing with Dodo Payments webhooks, plus Inngest-powered weekly AI analytics and thumbs-down feedback functionality to fill knowledge gaps.
Secured the platform with origin-bound HMAC session tokens and Upstash Redis rate limiting.

Founded WidgIq, a B2B SaaS platform enabling businesses to embed AI-powered customer support layer for any website via a single script tag.
Sole decision-maker across product, engineering, design, and go-to-market strategy.

Contributed to open-source full-stack web applications and developer tools.
Developed new features, fixed bugs, and improved application performance.
Collaborated with maintainers and contributors through pull requests and code reviews.
Worked with modern web technologies, APIs, databases, and authentication systems.
Improved code quality, documentation, and overall user experience.

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