TL;DR — THE STACK IN 60 SECONDS Don't collect tools. Assign them jobs. Seven jobs cover a growth team: thinking, research, writing, visuals, video, automation, and data. Pick ONE primary LLM (ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini) and learn it deeply. Depth beats variety. The starter stack: one LLM + Perplexity + Zapier or Make + Canva + one specialist for your biggest bottleneck. Roughly $150–200/month. AI compresses execution, not judgment. It makes a good growth process faster. It cannot replace one.
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The Growth Hacking Framework I’ve Used for 18 Years (2026 Edition): North Star + ICE + Weekly Loop
My first startup sold furniture online. We tried every growth trick going — and most worked exactly once. What finally moved the needle wasn’t a hack. It was a system. Here’s the North Star + ICE + Weekly Loop framework I’ve rebuilt across 18 years, cut to two parts you can stand up in 30 days. TL;DR — THE WHOLE FRAMEWORK IN 60 SECONDS My first startup was MebelKart, a furniture marketplace. In the early days, I did growth on instinct. One week it was a flash sale. The next, a referral offer. Then influencer seeding. Then a discount. Then whatever a competitor had just tried. Some of it worked.…
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Growth Skills: Free Open-Source AI Tools for Founders
Growth Skills: Free Open-Source AI Tools for Founders Growth Skills is a free collection of AI agent skills for founders who think in bets, not tactics. Install them into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or any agent on the Skills spec — and get a brutally honest co-founder in your terminal. → github.com/ranjeeetvimal/growth-skills
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Bhutan Trip from Bangalore: 9-Day Itinerary, Costs & Travel Guide (Part 1)
In May 2026, my wife and I finally made a trip that had been on our bucket list for years — Bhutan. Before travelling, I spent time going through blogs, YouTube videos, and travel forums. Most of the information available online is actually quite accurate and helpful, especially around routes, permits, and planning.
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Turned 40, Restarting My Writing Journey
I turned 40 this year. It’s one of those moments that make you stop and look back. Almost 18 years in this industry now — building products, working with different startups, some small, some bigger, all of them teaching me something. It’s been a good ride, honestly. But somewhere in all this, I stopped doing something I really loved — writing. Back in my 20s, I used to write a lot, and not just for myself. I had a real audience back then. I was one of the top bloggers in my niche, good traffic, good SEO, the whole thing. I knew how to write stuff that ranked and that…