Pradeep Kumar Kandala

Pradeep Kumar Kandala

Software engineer & builder
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Software engineer by profession, curious builder by habit. I build things, question them, occasionally overthink them, and learn from what survives. Currently experimenting with Maitri. 😄

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  • Mandala by Maitri
    Mandala by MaitriA calmer social space for meaningful connections
    Aug 2026
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    Joined Product HuntAugust 17th, 2026

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8h ago

Mandala by Maitri - A calmer social space for meaningful connections

Maitri explores a calmer approach to social media: public conversations, private circles, chat, polls, quizzes, and curated companions without designing everything around endless scrolling. It’s an early product, available on web and Android, built to explore whether a smaller, quieter social space can give people a reason to connect without competing constantly for attention.
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1d ago

Founders who rebuilt their app from scratch — was it worth it?

About eighteen months into our product, we hit a wall that wasn't a feature problem. Every new thing we shipped took roughly three times longer than the last comparable one. Bug fixes kept reopening. Two engineers had built quiet, undocumented workarounds around the same broken assumption in our data model, and neither knew the other had done it.

The obvious answer was a rewrite. We didn't do it not immediately. We spent a month arguing about it instead, which in hindsight was the most useful month we spent that year, because it forced us to name the actual problem: it wasn't the codebase. It was one early decision about how we modeled user accounts that everything else had been built to work around.

We ended up doing a partial rebuild. Roughly 40% of the code, the part that touched that assumption. Took four months instead of the fourteen a full rewrite would have taken. Shipping slowed but never stopped.

I still don't know if that was the right call. A full rewrite might have cleared out debt we're still paying for. Or it might have killed us the graveyard of startups that spent a year rebuilding while a competitor shipped is not small.

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