Kirill So — product manager, builder, and occasional writer.https://www.kirillso.com/https://www.kirillso.com/posts/2022/https://www.kirillso.com/posts/2022/Landing in Big Tech, getting engaged, seeing family after three years, and wrestling with the question of what comes next.Sat, 31 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.kirillso.com/posts/2023/https://www.kirillso.com/posts/2023/Getting married in Singapore, traveling across Southeast Asia, and learning to embrace the simple rhythms of life.Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.kirillso.com/posts/2024/https://www.kirillso.com/posts/2024/A wedding in Italy, four months with family, digital nomad life across 10 cities, and the burnout that came with it all.Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.kirillso.com/posts/2025/https://www.kirillso.com/posts/2025/Quitting my job, attending my first silent retreat, establishing a routine and navigating the tension between uncertainty and safety.Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.kirillso.com/posts/google-clone/https://www.kirillso.com/posts/google-clone/A Google clone that I've built for learning purpose which replicates the homepage functionality and is built with Next.js, Tailwind, Google Search APITue, 26 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.kirillso.com/posts/notes-on-how-to-do-great-work/https://www.kirillso.com/posts/notes-on-how-to-do-great-work/A paraphrased summary and thoughts on the prolific essay about doing life's great work by Paul Graham, Y Combinator. Thu, 07 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.kirillso.com/posts/avoiding-zombie-apocalypse/https://www.kirillso.com/posts/avoiding-zombie-apocalypse/A short essay about feelings, presence, cordyceps and escaping the epicenter of attention epidemic that is causing the world to be blurred.Sun, 11 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.kirillso.com/posts/app-retargeting-vs-user-acquisition/https://www.kirillso.com/posts/app-retargeting-vs-user-acquisition/This article outlines how mobile app retargeting compares to user acquisition in terms of benefits, segmentation.Thu, 08 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.kirillso.com/posts/2021/https://www.kirillso.com/posts/2021/Surviving a nightmare job, shipping my first Solana project, quitting smoking, and finding stability in an upside-down world.Wed, 12 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.kirillso.com/posts/stuff-i-learned-at-delivery-hero/https://www.kirillso.com/posts/stuff-i-learned-at-delivery-hero/Lessons from 4 years of product management at Delivery Hero such as importance of details, engineering partnerships, and the value of caring deeply about your work.Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.kirillso.com/posts/vercel-to-cloudflare-migration/https://www.kirillso.com/posts/vercel-to-cloudflare-migration/A practical guide to migrating an Astro site with server-side rendering from Vercel to Cloudflare Pages, including all the gotchas I encountered along the way.Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.kirillso.com/posts/ai-chat-svelte-astro/https://www.kirillso.com/posts/ai-chat-svelte-astro/Implementing a Svelte-based chat component with OpenAI integration, Supabase for data storage, and streaming responses in an Astro blog.Sun, 07 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT