Harshyt Goel

Engineer · Designer · Operator. Software, hardware, and everything between.

I pull threads to see where they go.

• Present–2024
  Founder at Inkboard Inc.Building hardware and software products that are smart, useful, and joyful.
  • ~$300K in Inku pre‑orders on Kickstarter
  • Running ops, product and engineering as a one‑person, AI‑native company.
  • Running a parallel consumer app doing > $100k/yr in revenue (and growing)
  • Learning a TON (tap to see what I’m learning)

    • Bootstrapping a hardware startup is a great idea to learn a lot of stuff
    • CAD/3D Printing/Pantone colors
    • Firmware development
    • Shipping/Fulfillment and Tariff laws (ask me about procuring my display panels...)
    • Hiring/Firing fast
    • Scaling myself way beyond what I could’ve handled pre-AI by building automated agents for
      • Customer Support
      • Fulfillment handling
      • Special Kickstarter Award deliveries
      • Marketing Creatives (partially)
      • Accounting (rolled back, not a smart move)
    • Bootstrapping a hardware startup is a bad idea for your sanity
• 2023–2017
  Founding Engineer @ Loom, Inc.
  • Built core product and technology (billing systems, integration platforms, experimentation etc.) (pre-AI).
  • Started and grew the Loom growth team.
  • Scaled from thousands → 30m+ users worldwide.
  • Acquired by Atlassian for $975M.
• 2017–2015
  Worked at Meta for a bit.
• Started a successful youtube channel.

  

  • I also sing at my friends’ weddings
  • and at my own

• Things I feel strongly about

  • Family
  • The Dream Machine, by M. Mitchell Waldrop
  • The future should be solarpunk
  • Just keep building/making/creating things.
  • Music and singing
  • Twitter / X
  • Space and Nuclear Energy
  • The constant attempts and futility of trying to balance everything on this list
  • Others…