About
Hi 👋, I'm Akash Hadagali
Founder @ OneMana · Engineer · Builder of things people hopefully use
Let me save you the LinkedIn “Open to work” energy. Here’s the actual story.
What I do now 🏗️
I’m the founder of OneMana - a tiny one-person company on a mission to kill subscription fatigue.
Teams today pay for Slack. Then Jira. Then Notion. Then Zoom. Then some calendar thing. None of them talk to each other. You end up doing 40% of your job just switching tabs.
I built OneCamp - a self-hosted, all-in-one workspace with real-time chat, tasks, docs, video calls, calendar, and a local AI assistant. Runs on your own server. One-time payment. No per-seat pricing. No vendor lock-in.
I launched OneCamp on March 9th, 2026. The mission is simple: break the cycle of endless subscriptions. 🚀
The frontend is fully open source on GitHub. The backend ships as a single binary you can set up with one command. Because life is too short for 47-step installation guides.
What I actually know 🛠️
- GoLang
- My primary language now. OneCamp’s entire backend is Go. - Next.js / React
- OneCamp FE is Next.js. - NodeJS
- Where it all started. - Ethereum / Blockchain
- Built ERC-721 tokens and supply chain apps.
Also: Docker, Redis, PostgreSQL, Minio, LiveKit, Ollama, AWS (Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB), Kubernetes fundamentals.
The nerd credentials 🎓
- B.Tech Computer Science - Reva University (2017–2021), CGPA 8.75
- Ex-GitHub Campus Expert
- Used to run hackathons, mentor students, and give talks at national and international level events. It was a good era. - Research Paper Copyright - My team holds a copyright on a paper about server health monitoring using the Raft Algorithm. Check it out
Things I believe in 💭
- Distribution > Code. Everyone says it. Nobody believes it until launch day. I am now a believer.
- Self-hosted software doesn’t have to be painful. One command. That’s the bar.
- Subscription fatigue is real and someone has to do something about it. That someone is apparently me.
Find me on Twitter · GitHub · LinkedIn · [email protected]
Latest from Akash Hadagali
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Threads to follow, docs on the web, and a security update to install today
Since the last post, OneCamp has had four releases, with AI and without. The biggest brings chat threads you follow, with a tab of their own in the Inbox, and mentions that ask before they notify a whole channel. Spli...
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Projects with roles, tables with undo, events that repeat
Everyone in a project now has a role, and its members add and change its tasks without waiting for an admin. Tables keep every change, so you can undo it, read a row's history and bring back what was deleted, and a ro...
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Docs for the whole team, and a security update to install today
Since the chat post, OneCamp has had four releases, with AI and without. The biggest gives docs room for a whole team: pages in a tree, comments on the exact words, sharing by person or team until a date you choose, v...
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A close look at OneCamp's chat found more than fifty things wrong
I set out to compare OneCamp's chat with Slack, one part at a time. Before I got to anything Slack has, the review found more than fifty things our chat got wrong by its own rules: thread replies that told the wrong p...
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Docs on the demo now: toggles, tables, equations, find and replace
OneCamp's docs have the blocks people who write in Notion reach for without thinking: toggles that each reader opens for themselves, simple tables, equations, callouts, a table of contents, code blocks that draw Merma...
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A workspace with nothing in the way
OneCamp's third look: no top bar, one sidebar that holds the workspace, search and you, a single command palette that can also answer, and every screen rebuilt to one standard. Typing in a message box does a third of ...