Meet Mahati V Singh

We were lucky to catch up with Mahati V Singh recently and have shared our conversation below.

Mahati V, thanks so much for taking the time to share your insights and lessons with us today. We’re particularly interested in hearing about how you became such a resilient person. Where do you get your resilience from?

I get asked this a lot: How do you keep going? How do you do it all?

The truth is, I didn’t wake up one day and decide to be resilient. I never had a choice. It was survival. It was the only way to move forward when nothing around me made sense and when no one believed in me.
I’ve constantly been questioned, doubted, and judged. Growing up, I was told that the best thing a woman can do is be a good daughter, daughter-in-law, wife, and mother. Anything beyond that felt like rebellion. Wanting more wasn’t seen as ambition it was seen as trouble.
But I always had questions.
Why do women have to do it all? Why do we live to please others? Why are we expected to stay quiet and follow the rules?
I had to fight for every small thing education, freedom, my voice. No support. No shortcuts.
At 21, I moved out of my parents home. In India, that was a big deal 10 years ago for someone coming from a pretty conservative family, I worked full-time, pursued my master’s, paid rent, and figured out life on my own. It wasn’t easy. Every step came with resistance. But I knew something had to change. I knew I wanted a different life and no one was going to hand it to me. I had to create it.

In 2019, I moved to the U.S. hoping for a fresh start. It didn’t get easier. I struggled to find jobs, dealt with visa issues, toxic managers, health problems, and constantly had to prove myself in rooms where I felt invisible. Some people didn’t like me just because I was different, did not adapt to a few things or because I asked too many questions. Haha still happens. But it just built my confidence.

During COVID, while I was job searching, I started exploring different things. I learned new skills, eventually landed a job, started creating content in 2022, mentored people in tech, and built startups on the side. That’s how CodiesAlert.com was born a platform that ended up training over 6,000 developers.

Later, I built a social media tool, which we had to shut down after pricing changes at Twitter. Most recently, we launched Nextbunny next.appsbunny.com, a free visual UI builder to help developers and founders save dev time designing UI from scratch, build production ready websites and go from idea to launch 10x faster.

But behind all this were real struggles.

I dealt with self-doubt, I went through weight gain, cornea issues, burnout, and constant criticism. People asked me if I could really manage a startup and a home. Some even said, What will you even achieve? What if you fail? Why even do things you know nothing about.

For years, I tried to prove I belonged. But somewhere along the way, I stopped chasing validation.

In mid 2024, I quit my 9–5 and went all in on my founder journey. It was the hardest and best decision I’ve ever made. I was mentally and physically drained — but for the first time, I felt free and felt accomplished.

The biggest shift wasn’t external. It was in my mindset.
I stopped trying to do everything, focused on what really mattered.
I stopped trying to please people who were never going to be pleased anyway.
I let go of perfection and focused on progress.
I stopped saying I’ll try and started saying I will.

Since then, I’ve bootstrapped two startups, been featured in Times Square, got covered in outlets like Digiday, WorkLife News, and 41mag, mentored over 1,000 people in tech, and built a personal brand just by being myself.\\

Is it easy? No.
Do I still get judged and questioned? Yes a lot.
Do I have hard days? Absolutely.

So, where do I get my resilience from?

It comes from all the times I was told no and had to find another way.
From doors that closed before I even had a chance to knock.
From nights I felt completely alone but still chose to keep going.
From every time someone said, What will you even achieve? and I showed up anyway.

I don’t let those things stop me anymore.
I’m proud of how far I’ve come. And honestly, that’s what matters most to me now.

Resilience isn’t some big inspirational story.
For people like me, it’s how we survive.
When the world keeps questioning you, you learn to keep moving anyway.
You figure things out even when no one shows you how.

I still have a long way to go. But everything I’ve built, everything I’ve overcome it’s mine. And I’m proud of that.

Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?

Hi I’m Mahati V Singh- I’m a tech entrepreneur, content creator, and mentor.
After 11+ years in demanding tech job at Fortune 100 companies, I took the leap in 2024 and left my 9-5 to pursue entrepreneurship full-time. My bootstrapping journey actually began in 2021, and it’s been nothing short of transformative full of challenges, failures, learning curves, and lots of growth.

No, I don’t earn $$$ yet ’m still in my early-stage era, and that’s totally okay 🐥
Right now, I wear a few hats and work closely with both founders and jobseekers:

⚡ Co-founder of CodiesAlert.com and Next.AppsBunny.com
⚡ Sharing insights on SaaS, startups, and marketing through content
⚡ Supporting jobseekers via CodiesAlert and 1:1 mentoring
⚡ Running a free founder focused newsletter: 360foundersguide.substack.com

CodiesAlert is an e-learning platform I started during the early days of my startup journey. It was born out of my own curiosity during COVID, when I was trying to upskill while job-hunting. I realized there weren’t many accessible, beginner-friendly resources for developers especially in modern technologies like Blockchain, AWS, AI. So, I built something that could help them with project based courses, career tips and mentoring. We’ve now trained over 6,000+ developers through the platform, and seeing that kind of impact has been incredibly fulfilling.

Most recently, I co-founded Nextbunny next.appsbunny.com a free Next.js visual UI builder. We saw how hard and time consuming it was for developers and founders to go from idea to launch especially if design isn’t their strong suit. So we built a tool to speed that up. With NextBunny, people can visually build clean, production-ready Next.js UIs without spending weeks on design or hiring freelancers. We launched it in March 2025, and the response has been amazing.

Beyond building products, I’m also passionate about creating content, mentorship and community. I’ve mentored over 1,000 people in tech, I actively create content on LinkedIn and X, where I talk about the realities of being a founder not just the wins, but the failures, burnout, self doubt, and learning curves too.

If there’s one thing I want people to take away from my story and my work, it’s this: You don’t need permission to start. You don’t have to have it all figured out. Just begin. Build. Learn. And keep going.

There’s a lot more coming soon new features for NextBunny, more community driven learning and content at CodiesAlert, and continued focus on making tech more inclusive and accessible. I’m super pumped.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

love this question.

1. Self-belief – even when no one else believed in me: There were so many moments where I was questioned as a woman as someone who took an unconventional path. People doubted my choices, judged my ambition, and often asked, What will you even achieve? Why do you even want to do? What if you fail? Why get into things where you wont have time to focus on family, home as they are the only things you must focus on. But I kept going. I wasn’t always confident, but I believed in my curiosity, in my ability to figure things out.

2. Learning how to learn and unlearn: When I transitioned from a 9-5 to full-time entrepreneurship, I realized quickly that what got me here wouldn’t take me forward. I had to unlearn habits from corporate life and teach myself how to build, market, sell, and adapt fast. From tech to marketing to content to leadership, I had to become a constant learner.

3. . Resilience & Driven especially when things don’t go as planned: There were visa issues, failed products, health problems, and a lot of figuring things out alone. Nothing went in a straight line. But I showed up anyway. Whether it was launching CodiesAlert or shutting down my social media tool or starting over with NextBunny I didn’t stop.

One thing I’ve learned and my advice is this, you don’t need the perfect plan, the right timing, or everyone’s approval to start. What you need is belief in yourself, the willingness to keep learning, and the resilience to keep going even when things fall apart. Start messy, stay curious, and don’t quit on yourself. That’s how you grow and succeed.

Be like a bird you might not know how to fly yet, but jump anyway. Learn on the way down, flap your wings like hell, and trust that your wings will get stronger every time you try again and again. You might get hurt but never stop trying.

What’s been one of your main areas of growth this year?

Honestly, the biggest area of growth for me in the past year has been mindset learning to let go of perfection, stop trying to do it all, and focus on what really matters.

For years, I was juggling a 9-5, building startups, creating content, mentoring all this managing home and other responsibilities and trying to prove I could handle it all even when I was burnt out. In late 2023 and early 2024, I hit a point where I had to pause and ask myself, Why am I doing this? Are you happy this way? That’s when I made the hardest but best decision: I quit my job to go all in on my startup.

Since then, I’ve had to unlearn old patterns, set boundaries, and shift from people pleasing to being intentional with my time and energy. I stopped saying “I’ll try” and started saying “I will.” I learned to say no. I started focusing on progress over perfection.

This mindset shift changed everything not just how I work, but how I feel. I’ve become more focused, more self-aware, and more confident in choosing my path, even if it doesn’t look like everyone else’s.

That’s been the real growth.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://next.appsbunny.com/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahativ/
• Twitter: https://x.com/MahatiSingh