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Hey, I’m Nick Khami — an Engineering Manager at Mintlify, where I joined after they acquired Trieve, the search API company I founded. Before that I went through Y Combinator, worked at NelNet Payment Services, and built several startups. I write about the things I learn along the way: AI coding agents, startup marketing, infrastructure, and how to do good work.

AI & Agents

Deep dives on coding agents, LLMs, and how to get more out of AI tools

Startups & Marketing

Lessons learned building and marketing early-stage startups

Engineering

Infrastructure tutorials, VPS setups, and multi-tenant systems

Work & Management

Async work practices, management lessons, and how I think about teams

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Featured posts

Startup Marketing 101

What I wish I knew about marketing as a first-time founder

Prompt the Agent Loop

How to prompt coding agents to actually finish tasks

Git Worktrees + Agents + Tmux

Parallelize AI coding agents for dramatically higher throughput

Replace Standup with a Todo List

A better async standup approach for engineering teams

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About Nick

I received my B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 2022, concentrating in machine learning and doing undergraduate research on GANs. I’ve been through Y Combinator and FUTO’s programs. My favorite hobbies are reading and riding motorcycles. Right to repair and open source matter to me. You can find me on X / Twitter, Bluesky, LinkedIn, and GitHub.

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Featured projects

  • Trieve — All-in-one platform for search, recommendations, RAG, and analytics offered via API
  • Jukebox — Open source alternative to Spotify Collaborative Playlists
  • Patron — Open source alternative to Patreon focused on serialized content