Spring in Kashmir - Build in Public Campaign by Mehran Shahmiri in Kashmir
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Spring 2026.

30 Days Build-in-Public Campaign.

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Day 27: The Big Vision

Campaign Day 27
Day 27: The Big Vision - Build in Public Campaign by Mehran Shahmiri in Kashmir

I'm 21. I run a fiber ISP and a software agency in Kashmir. And I think we're sitting on something much bigger than both.

Kashmir sits at the geographic heart of North India.

Himalayan winters that make natural cooling effortless, the kind data centers in Delhi and Mumbai spend crores achieving artificially.

Strategic position for peering infrastructure. The natural backbone for a region urbanizing faster than its digital infrastructure can keep up with.

Nobody is building this here yet.

That's not an observation. That's the opportunity.

ViberNet started as a fiber ISP. But fiber is just the foundation.

The same infrastructure delivering internet to homes in Srinagar can anchor data centers serving the entire north. The same network connecting our subscribers today can become the peering point every serious operator in the region needs tomorrow.

And the software we're building at OpenLoop, AI monitoring, self-healing network intelligence, that's not just agency work.

That's the operating system for the next generation of regional internet infrastructure.

Two years ago this was a vision in a room nobody was watching.

today it's fiber in the ground, software in production, and a product being used by ISPs across India.

The foundation is real.

What gets built on top of it is what keeps me up at night, in the best possible way.

If you see what I see, you know where to find me.

Day 27 of my 30-day build-in-public series.

Marketer's tip of the day: Vision without proof is just talk. Proof without vision is just execution.
The combination of both, in the same person at the same time, is what stops people mid-scroll.