Anand Chowdhary

Netherlands

I'm a technology entrepreneur, engineer, designer, and GitHub Star. I'm currently building FirstQuadrant, an all-in-one AI sales platform funded by Y Combinator, and contributing to open source. Previously, I founded rent-to-own furniture with interior design startup Pabio and accessibility technology company Oswald Labs that started as an open source hackathon project. I use open source code as a way of scratching my own itch; most of my 100+ repositories are tools to solve problems or experiments with new ideas, including Upptime, an uptime monitor and status page built on top of GitHub Actions. it has 15k+ stars and was one of the first projects that mentored students under the GitHub Externship.

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Move Fast and Save Things

I wrote Move Fast and Save Things as the third chapter of my five-year retrospective, capturing the moment Pabio’s reality finally collided with the mathematics we had been ignoring. After convincing YC that sofas were SaaS and even building an apartment inside Zurich’s main train station, we were forced to confront unit economics that didn’t care about our optimism. In this chapter I reflect on the quirks of our culture - including Carlo’s XX:59 meeting rule, where being “on time” meant you were late - and how that mix of chaos, discipline and denial shaped the chapter before our eventual pivot.

Blogpost / 11-25-2025

The Life of Pabio

I wrote The Life of Pabio as the second chapter of my five-year retrospective, picking up from the chaos of accidentally founding Koj and somehow convincing Y Combinator to admit a furniture-subscription startup into their batch. In this chapter I revisit the surreal experience of pitching sofas like they were SaaS, navigating the most intense operational rollercoaster of my life, and learning firsthand what happens when idealistic design vision meets real-world logistics. It’s a candid look at the mistakes, improvisation and relentless execution that defined Pabio before it ultimately became the foundation for our pivot into AI.

Blogpost / 11-24-2025

Accidentally founding Koj

I wrote Accidentally Founding Koj as the first chapter of a five-year retrospective on building a company that started as a furniture-subscription idea and somehow led two founders who’d never met in person all the way to Y Combinator. In the essay, I revisit how Carlo and I stumbled into our “meet-cute” Slack workspace, how we learned we were losing money on every sofa, and how that forced a 48-hour pivot into AI that ultimately became the first AI SDR. It’s a personal post-mortem meant to capture the chaos, mistakes and luck that shaped Koj before we eventually sold everything.

Blogpost / 11-23-2025

Continuous Claude

I created Continuous Claude as an experiment in continuous AI workflows, letting Claude Code run in an autonomous loop that opens pull requests, waits for CI checks, and merges its own changes. What began as a weekend project quickly became one of my most widely adopted open-source tools, crossing 600+ stars in days and sparking a broader conversation about “continuous AI” in development workflows. I designed it to be simple, shell-based, and repo-agnostic so developers can drop it into any project and instantly prototype agentic coding loops. It continues to evolve through community feedback, issues and contributions.

Open source project / 11-15-2025

Running Claude Code in a Loop

I wrote Running Claude Code in a Loop to document how a real-world problem pushed me to explore continuous AI development. I had a contract that required taking a massive legacy codebase from 0 to over 80 percent test coverage in just a few weeks, which felt like exactly the kind of repetitive, context-heavy work Claude Code should handle. That led me to build Continuous Claude, a CLI that runs Claude Code in an autonomous loop with persistent context across iterations. In the post, I share the reasoning, architecture and early results, and how this experiment shaped my thinking on continuous AI workflows.

Blogpost / 11-15-2025

Anchor

I launched the “Anchor” version of my personal website, a redesign that honours the power of the HTML <a> tag by anchoring together all of my digital presence in one place. I shaped it as a dynamic, living dashboard that not only shows my current location, age, theme for the year, coding activity and fitness stats, but also acts as a hub linking to my blog, open-source work, projects, events and life. I rebuilt the site from the ground up with Next.js 15, React (with TypeScript) and Tailwind, using Incremental Static Regeneration and async components to keep things fast, clean and future-proof.

Open source project / 08-28-2025

AnandChowdhary/claude-code-slack-bot

I launched the open-source project “claude-code-slack-bot”, a TypeScript bot for Claude Code integration inside Slack, built using Cloudflare Workers and GitHub Actions. The bot lets Slack users send prompts which are forwarded to Claude Code via the Claude Code Action, then returns responses in Slack. It’s designed for developer workflows - enabling code generation, review, or query directly inside Slack - reducing context-switching and making AI-assisted coding accessible to teams.

Open source project / 07-14-2025

AnandChowdhary/mintlify-slack-assistant

I launched the open-source project “mintlify-slack-assistant”, a TypeScript Slack bot that connects to your Mintlify documentation site’s built-in AI assistant and lets team members ask questions right from Slack. This streamlines knowledge access by bringing doc-search and AI assistance into everyday chat. Users can send a query in their Slack workspace and the bot will query the Mintlify AI layer and return context-aware answers, reducing context-switching between docs and chat.

Open source project / 07-13-2025

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