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Namaste, I am Aditya
Marketer
who codes.
A CMO who ships the code. I run growth for a product company used by half a million sites, build the agents and MCP servers that do the work, keep the servers under them online, and publish the research that backs all of it.
- 500K+ sites run the plugins I market WordPress.org plugin API, read 4 Sep 2026
- 116 GitHub stars across seven tools I gave away GitHub API, read 4 Sep 2026
- 50+ production servers I keep patched and online Hetzner, AWS and DigitalOcean, ongoing
- 22 things I do, each linked to something you can open Listed in full further down this page
CMO at POSIMYTH. Building Hatch and HostMy.blog at Etica Studio, and a memory layer for agents. Writing Agents in Production weekly.
Built
Thirteen products. Seven tools given away.
Grouped by whose they actually are, because that is the question people are really asking. Mine first, then the studio I run with Raj, then the company where I am CMO and own none of it.
MineProducts I own outright. Built, shipped and run by me.
2025 Karma Jyotisha Vedic astrology, computed properly rather than generated. Its own domain, its own audience, and no part of it borrowed from a language model. 2025own domain Built itPersonal 2025 Grabio A free iPhone shortcut that saves any video and converts any file entirely on device. Nothing is uploaded anywhere, which is the whole point of it. 100%on device Built itPersonal 2026 SproutOS An operations layer for content teams. Early, small, and shipped on the directory rather than described in a deck. 2026early access Built itPersonalEtica StudioThe studio I build and run with Raj. Infrastructure, hosting and the tools around them.
2023 HostMy.blog Managed hosting for people who write. I run the site, the positioning and the business side; Raj and I build it together. 2023building since I run it with RajEtica Studio 2026 Hatch Headless WordPress without the six-week rebuild. A plugin, an Astro starter and a deploy broker: activate, run the wizard, get a live URL in about ninety seconds. 90sto first deploy Built itEtica Studio 2026 RankReady SEO for a web that reads with machines: schema, llms.txt, AEO and GEO. Early: 300 installs, and its first three reviews are all five stars. 100of 100, from 3 reviews Built the positioningEtica Studio 2020 RunCloud operations Fifty-plus production servers on Hetzner, AWS and DigitalOcean. I keep them patched and online, and wrote the MCP server and Telegram agent that manage them. 50+servers managed Server operationsEtica StudioPOSIMYTHWhere I am CMO. I do not own these; I market them, and half a million sites run them.
2021 The Plus Addons for Elementor A hundred thousand sites run it, rated 92 out of 100 across 387 reviews. I run its positioning, its SEO and the content engine behind it. 100,000active installs Marketing leadPOSIMYTH 2021 Sticky Header Effects One small idea, executed well, on three hundred thousand sites. Proof that scope is not the same thing as reach. 300,000active installs Marketing leadPOSIMYTH 2025 Protuno Agents for WordPress that have a job. Hand a site over and they take the backup, run the updates, check it still loads, and roll it back when it does not. 85checks per audit Marketing leadPOSIMYTH 2023 WDesignKit AI templates and a widget builder that spans Elementor and Gutenberg. Launched and grown from zero. 30,000active installs Marketing leadPOSIMYTH 2023 Nexter A theme, a blocks library and a security and performance extension, sold as one system rather than three products. 20,000active installs Marketing leadPOSIMYTH 2024 UiChemy Figma to WordPress in one step. The highest rated thing the company has shipped, and the hardest to compress into a headline. 9,000active installs Marketing leadPOSIMYTHOpen sourceTools I wrote to do my own job, then gave away.
MCP server LibreCrawl An AI-native technical SEO crawler. Audits a site the way an engineer would, not the way a scanner does. 39stars on GitHub Built itPython Agent toolkit YouTube Marketing Skills Twenty-one agent commands plus the research loop behind them. Agent-agnostic. 38stars on GitHub Built itJavaScript Security WordPress Malware Removal Audit, clean and harden end to end, driven by an agent instead of a scanner that says clean. 31stars on GitHub Built itPython MCP server Pickle Audits your ClickUp, Slack and project sprawl locally. Free and MIT, permanently. 3stars on GitHub Built itJavaScript Agent team Orbit A ten-agent WordPress plugin QA team for Claude Code, with runtime-evergreen checks. 2stars on GitHub Built itShell Privacy Shush Strips PII and secrets out of a file before you paste it into an AI tool. 2stars on GitHub Built itPython DevOps Perch Telegram bot plus Claude Code plugin for RunCloud server management. 1star on GitHub Built itJavaScriptThe route
8 years, and nothing was replaced.
Every band below is a job that is still running unless it visibly stops. Four of them overlap on the right, which is the entire argument for hiring one person who holds six disciplines instead of six people who hold one.
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2018 to 2019
Premiere Pro, Photoshop, motion graphics. Where the content instinct started.
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2019 to 2021
A cold DM on Instagram led to running thumbnails and growth for a 300K+ subscriber education channel. Videos that passed 100K views in their first months.
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2020 to 2021
Started during lockdown. Built, broke and rebuilt dozens of sites. Learned debugging, performance, and how to deliver on a date.
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2020, still
AWS, DigitalOcean and Hetzner. Learned server security and performance tuning the expensive way. Fifty-plus production servers under management now.
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2021, still
Growth for a plugin ecosystem used by half a million sites. SEO, content strategy, product marketing, community. Built the engine from zero.
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2023, still
HostMy.blog with Raj, then Hatch, RankReady, Grabio, Karma Jyotisha, and the agents and MCP servers underneath all of it.
2023 to nowOwnership
Products of my ownEtica Studio and personal
HostMy.blog with Raj, then Hatch, RankReady, Grabio, Karma Jyotisha, and the agents and MCP servers underneath all of it.
Six disciplines, stacked rather than swapped: Craft, Audience, Building, Infrastructure, Leadership, Ownership.
The spread
Twenty-two things, each with a receipt.
I could give you a bar chart of numbers I made up about myself. Instead here is everything I claim to do, and next to each one something that exists and that you can open.
Marketing
Product marketing at scaleSix plugins, half a million sites Positioning and messagingEvery product page above is mine Technical SEOBuilt RankReady: 100 of 100 across its first 3 reviews LLM-facing SEO, AEO and GEORankReady ships llms.txt and answer schema Schema and structured dataThis page carries its own, hand written Content operations at volume88 researched pieces here, plus a 350-post Jyotisha and tools archive Newsletter and lifecycleAgents in Production, weekly, since 2026 YouTube and videoRan a 300K-subscriber channel before I ran marketing Engineering
AI agents in productionLibreCrawl, Orbit and Pickle, on real client data MCP serversThree of my seven open source tools are MCP Python crawlers and pipelinesLibreCrawl, 39 stars WordPress at depthHatch: a plugin, an Astro starter and a deploy broker Headless and modern front endHatch renders on Cloudflare, Vercel or your own VPS Front end without a frameworkThis theme: one stylesheet, one script, no framework Security workWordPress Malware Removal, 31 stars Privacy toolingShush strips secrets before you paste into an AI Operating
Server managementFifty-plus servers on Hetzner, AWS and DigitalOcean Performance and Core Web VitalsMeasured and published, including when it was bad Running a businessHostMy.blog, built and run with Raj Release and QA managementOrbit: a ten-agent plugin QA team Donation operationsFive years running a charitable trust's giving Vedic JyotishaKarma Jyotisha, computed properly rather than generated
Product marketing at scale
Six plugins, half a million sites
Where the method comes from
I do not have a work self and a spiritual self.
The Vedic side of my life is not an interest I keep in a separate folder. It is why I work the way I do, and it shows up in the method rather than in the vocabulary. Four ideas carry the load.
अद्वैतAdvaita, not two
Non-duality is not a mood. It is the claim that there is no second thing, which means the server, the spreadsheet and the shrine are one field and there is nowhere in it to be careless. I do not get to be rigorous at work and vague about the rest of my life.
शक्तिShakti, energy
The tantric reading does not ask you to withdraw from the world to arrive anywhere. It asks you to engage it completely. So I am not looking for balance, I am looking for full involvement in whatever is actually in front of me. It is a harder standard than moderation, and it is the honest description of how I work.
प्रमाणPramāṇa, valid knowing
The tradition is unusually strict about how a claim is allowed to be made at all: what you perceived, what you inferred, what you were told, each with its own limits. Naming the source and the date is not an SEO habit I picked up. It is the older one, applied to a newer job.
कर्मKarma, the act itself
You own the effort, not the result. In practice that is small and unglamorous: I check the thing before I claim it, and I publish the check even when it goes against me. One piece here has a section titled "Three things I could not verify, so I am not claiming them."
None of that makes me a teacher of anything. It makes me someone who will not hand you a number he did not verify.
Writing
I checked the thing everyone trusts.
Every number carries a named source and a date. Where something is correlation I say correlation, and when the finding makes my own work look worse it goes out anyway.
- 01 Building a Gutenberg block in 2026: the current, correct way What create-block generates now, why register_block_type left the bootstrap, and the 7.1 change that makes apiVersion 3 mean something else.
- 02 The Plugin That Is Slowing Your Site, and How to Find It Without Guessing Query Monitor names the plugin in one page load because of a db.php symlink that runs before WordPress boots. The method, and what the numbers mean.
- 03 WordPress Caching Layers, and Which One Your Problem Is Actually In My page cache says HIT and Cloudflare says DYNAMIC on the same response. Four caches, four mechanisms, and one command that tells you which one is…
- 04 WooCommerce Performance: The Queries That Actually Cost You Admin product search runs five leading-wildcard LIKEs with no LIMIT. That is why a big catalogue slows wp-admin long before it slows the shop.
- 05 The WooCommerce REST API for Automation: What Is Safe to Script Setting 500 orders to completed sends 500 emails. Real endpoints, real limits, and the four writes that have no undo.
On camera
Shown, rather than described.
One video a week from here, on whatever the newsletter covered. Nothing loads from YouTube until you press play.
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Agents in Production
Everyone is shipping AI.
Almost nobody shows it
doing real work.
The demos are impressive. Then you point the same thing at a client site with ten years of plugins on it and it falls over, and nobody writes that part down. I write that part down. One researched piece a week.
Connect
If any of this is useful, say hello.
Agents that have a job, growth for a technical product, SEO that survives an update, or servers that stop falling over. Tell me what you need. I reply within 24 hours.