# All Posts

> Every essay by Vir Sanghavi, newest first.

## 2026

- [What I've been up to: a few months of building Ravioli in the open](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/building-ravioli-in-the-open) — 31 May: Anti-cheat forensics, cold-emailing billionaires, surviving a YC rejection, and running my startup between AP exams. Some lessons from a chaotic stretch.
- [My experience attending two YC hackathons back-to-back](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/2-yc-hackathons-in-a-row) — 02 Mar: Feeling super blessed. Attended Browser-Use and Manufact hackathons in the span of two weeks and learned a lot.
- [What I learned from WAC's Academic WorldQuest 2026](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/academic-worldquest-2026) — 17 Feb: Today was a rough day. High expectations met a lack of sufficient preparation.
- [Being Fifteen and Building Anyway](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/being-fifteen-and-building-anyway) — 16 Feb: Starting early changes the slope.
- [What Getting Rejected from YC Twice Actually Feels Like](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/yc-rejection-and-building-stronger) — 16 Feb: Nobody talks about how it actually feels. So I will.
- [Axis and Coordinated Intelligence](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/axis-and-coordinated-intelligence) — 12 Feb: Intelligence scales when coordination scales.
- [Just Talk To It](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/just-talk-to-it) — 08 Feb: The best interface is often no interface.
- [Ravioli and the Discipline of Incentives](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/tilt-and-the-discipline-of-incentives) — 28 Jan: If you design incentives wrong, you don't have a platform. You have chaos.
- [Ravioli and the Cost of Fairness](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/ravioli-and-the-cost-of-fairness) — 14 Jan: Fairness is not a feature. It's infrastructure.
- [Building in Public](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/building-in-public) — 02 Jan: What I'm working on and why I write about it.

## 2025

- [Finding My Spark](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/finding-my-spark) — 05 Nov: How I went from messing around with code to Antler, YC, and building real products.
- [YC Agent Jam and Building with AI](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/yc-agent-jam-and-ai) — 03 Nov: What I learned applying to YC three times and finally making it to Agent Jam.
- [Why Real-Time Debate Matters](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/why-realtime-debate-matters) — 18 Oct: Moving from static polls to live, structured debate changes how groups decide.
- [Antler and Texas Truancy Law](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/antler-zero-to-one) — 14 Aug: I got into Antler. Then I found out I couldn't go.
- [What We're Building at Ravioli (Tilt)](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/what-were-building-at-ravioli) — 20 Jun: A product overview of Ravioli—a real-time logic market and prediction economy.
- [Shipping Fast and Staying Focused](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/shipping-fast) — 01 Mar: Speed is about cutting scope, not moving faster.

## 2024

- [Access and Leverage](https://www.virsanghavi.com/posts/up-the-ratios-and-leverage) — 15 Dec: Talent is evenly distributed. Infrastructure isn't.

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