Ashish Kashyap built Pikaicons, an icon library now used by designers and teams globally, starting from a personal project shared publicly online. The talk, moderated by Saptarshi Prakash at Config India 2026, traces exactly how that happened: not through a product launch strategy, but through consistent public output over years.
The core argument is that work kept inside a file has no surface area for opportunity. Kashyap's trajectory changed because his work was visible, iterable, and findable. The fireside format means this is less a polished keynote and more a candid reconstruction of decisions, experiments, and the compounding effect of sharing imperfect work early.
Worth reading in full for the specifics: how Pikaicons scaled from personal use to team adoption, what experiments preceded it, and the concrete career inflection points that came from public sharing. If you work in design and still treat your process as private by default, this is a direct challenge to that habit.
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