Personal Blog by Mayank Pokharna
From building a coaching institute for 70 students in Udaipur to bootstrapping SimplyGuest to $1M ARR, consulting 60+ coliving operators across 15+ countries, and living out of a backpack across 100+ cities, I write about the messy, beautiful journey of building things, chasing curiosity, and figuring life out along the way.
An engineer from Udaipur turned serial entrepreneur. I co-founded SimplyGuest and bootstrapped it to $1M ARR with 500+ tenants in Bangalore, built JumboTiger (coliving PMS), and now run Everything Coliving — helping operators worldwide through consulting, marketing, podcast, and the Coliving Founders Community. I've consulted with 60+ operators across 15+ countries and am on a mission to live from 100+ cities as a digital nomad.
Fresh thoughts and recent writings
An anonymous email. 4,200 beds across 11 cities. An operator nobody has ever heard of. Two dead engineers. And a USB drive in an empty coliving room that changes everything. A fictional thriller set in the world I know best — where the real danger is not the market, but the people inside the building.
197 commits. $500. Zero coding knowledge. One month. A non-technical coliving founder's honest take on vibecoding; what I built, what broke, and why the hard part isn't building anymore.
The Journey from Adulting to Marriage I want to talk about something that’s been on my mind lately: the journey from adulting to marriage. This is a transition I’ve personally gone through over the last 10 years—five years as a bachelor and now almost four and a half years of married life. Looking back, it’s […]
Growing Up as a People Pleaser For my whole life, I kind of focused on making other people happy while I was growing up. What meant a lot to me was if any of my actions would make my mother, my father, my grandparents happy. That became a norm because that’s what shaped my childhood, […]
So today I want to share some of my thoughts on expectations. This word has been used and abused a lot by this generation, but also by the way I was raised over the last 20 years as the only son in a very traditional family. I grew up in a household where expectations were […]