Summary
Sahil Kapoor is CEO of Hawk MarTech and Lunarbounds, where he is building a live score platform, prediction market apps, fantasy gaming, chess gaming, news portals, a chat application, and consumer platforms in ecommerce and travel. He also founded CarInfo, one of India’s most downloaded auto apps with over 80M installs, and previously scaled ixigo trains to 30M+ MAUs and built product experiences at Gojek’s GoFood. Collectively, his products have been used by more than 200M people.
Full Story
I started coding at 12 and never stopped building. Over the years I’ve launched products from scratch, scaled teams across functions, and shipped systems that millions rely on daily. My career has spanned gaming, travel, e-commerce, mar-tech, logistics and more; but the common thread is designing high-velocity systems that scale cleanly.
At Hawk MarTech we’re pushing into real-time sports and consumer experiences. From live scores and prediction markets to multiplayer gaming, news, chat, ecommerce, and travel platforms, the focus is always speed, scale, and delight.
CarInfo started as a simple number-plate lookup and grew into India’s go-to auto app. Drivers could check ownership, insurance, challans, and PUC instantly, later adding resale value, loans, reminders, and RC management. Growth was organic, driven by product loops and SEO, with partnerships from CarDekho, Acko, and Spinny extending reach and monetization.
At ixigo, I helped build the trains app into one of India’s most used travel products, adding IRCTC booking, real-time delay tracking, and smart alerts. At Gojek, I worked on GoFood, redesigning ordering, improving search and filters, and shipping secure payments at scale.
I stay close to systems, logs, and product flows. From infra to UX, my focus is on making things run fast and feel clean. I work across Node.js, Flutter, Redis, Kafka, MongoDB, SSE, HPA, GitHub Actions, and Cloudflare.
I also write about systems, scale, and lessons from shipping at sahilkapoor.com. Recent essays include The Illusion of Having It, Why Building a Startup Is Like Compound Interest, How My Mind Learned to Ship, Hiring Is Broken, Startups, Cortisol, and the Quiet Cost of Doing Too Much, and The Art of Breaking Things on Purpose.
