Manish Kumar

Builder · Context Engineer · Trail Leader

Building at Machine Speed.

TrekMeet went from an idea to a Google Play beta in three months. I'm the only human on the team.

I spent 18 years shipping enterprise software. Now I'm building TrekMeet with AI agents.

Months from concept to Google Play beta

The beta is in the hands of OZ Outdoors, the 3,000-member Sydney hiking community I've run since 2020.

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How I build

Context engineering, in practice

trekmeet — sprint 11

$ /start

Reading project state... Schema v51

✓ All caught up.

$ /architect BL-FEAT-IOS-NOTIFCENTER

Architect maps context → scopes plan

# HARD STOP — awaiting approval

$ /engineer --approved

Engineer executes → state tracked

✓ Build passed. Commit ready.

GitHub

Supabase

Firebase

PowerSync

Phase 11-H · Level 4.2 → Target: Level 6 Founder OS

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Live product

TrekMeet

Beta Live

Android + iPhone

Flutter

PowerSync + Supabase

Claude Code + MCP

An offline-first app for outdoor groups. You can find a hike nearby, check the trail and elevation before committing, navigate without signal, and keep the group chat in one place. Safety tracking and a three-second SOS sit underneath everything.

Discover

TrekMeet trail detail screen — the Harbour Bridge to Manly coastal trek showing distance, elevation gain, intensity and duration, with an 'Add this trail to my plans' button.

Plan

Navigate

TrekMeet Messages screen — group chats for upcoming adventures with a 'Next Adventure' banner linking to the Blue Mountains Waterfalls hike.

Connect

Belong

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Origin

Four hundred hikes with the wrong tools

+ members

400+

hikes led

years running

I started OZ Outdoors during the 2020 lockdowns. It's now among the top-rated outdoor Meetup groups in Sydney. Planning any group hike meant juggling five apps, and everyone felt the friction. The people beta-testing TrekMeet today are the same people who kept showing up for the trails.

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Behind the build

CEO Dashboard

A snapshot of the build: missions shipped, phase progress, open blockers. An agent regenerates it from the repo after every chore sweep, so it stays honest. I never write it by hand.

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The years before

Before the Build

+ years in complex domains

Six years running Soprano Design’s global messaging roadmap, with a Chairman’s Award along the way. Before that: US government healthcare at Optum, and gig-worker mobile at Swipejobs. That grounding is why a one-person build can ship at this pace.

Current Chapter

June 2026

Closed Beta Round 2 is live. Invites shipped across Android + iPhone, and the wider community is now testing.

Operating at Level 4.2, Phase 11-H. The agent team owns its slices: /Architect plans, /Engineer builds, /CTO signs off, /UX Partner specs. Next up is removing the founder as the heartbeat.

The Untethered Soul— Michael A. Singer. On the difference between the self that observes and the self that reacts.

Trail season: winter walks are on, and the Coastal Epic, an unofficial 35km “Bloody Long Walk” challenge, is coming in July.

Latest Insight

Jun 2026

The Engine Behind the App

TrekMeet's Round 2 beta is in the community's hands — Android and iPhone. Behind it sits a CEO dashboard, regenerated by a sequence of agents every time a chore sweep closes, pulled straight from the repo: the backlog, the decisions log, the mission state.

The same system that produced the dashboard produced the app. If the last post showed the app, this one shows the engine behind it.

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