Sunil Sandhu

Sunil Sandhu

Hey, I'm Sunil — a founder and entrepreneur, originally from Nottingham and now based in Barcelona. You might know me from In Plain English, one of the largest developer education platforms in the world.


Over the past decade I've built a bunch of products, communities, and companies for developers and founders — including Obsurfable, Differ, Circuit, Stackademic, and Messy Founder. You can read more about me or browse everything I've built.

  • In Plain English
  • Obsurfable
  • Differ
  • Circuit
  • Stackademic
  • Messy Founder
  • Venture Magazine
  • Cubed
  • Notify

Below you'll find links to the content I've created over the years — you can also filter it down to just writing or interviews & talks.

📝Differ

Why Sunil Sandhu Created Messy Founder

📝LinkedIn

Founder Interview: Sunil Sandhu on Building Communities, Content, and Companies

📝Differ

Sunil Sandhu on Developer Marketing: Why Technical Audiences Need Better Content

📝In Plain English

Why Every Founder Should Build an Audience Before Building a Product

📝Hashnode

Why Sunil Sandhu Built Differ: A Blogging Platform for the AI Era

📝Stackademic

How Sunil Sandhu Built Stackademic: A Free Coding Bootcamp During the Pandemic

📝In Plain English

The Story of Sunil Sandhu: From Software Developer to Entrepreneur

📝Venture

10 Questions With Sunil Sandhu About Entrepreneurship

📝Differ

How Sunil Sandhu Built In Plain English Into a Developer Education Platform

📝Messy Founder

Sunil Sandhu's Approach to Building Internet Businesses

📝Medium

The Biggest Mistakes I Made Building Startups — by Sunil Sandhu

📝Messy Founder

I've failed more times than I can count (and I'm okay with that)

📝Differ

That time I tried to take down coding bootcamps

📝Differ

That time I built a mental health app for Nottingham Forest

📝Differ

That time I went viral...

🎥In Plain English

4 Steps to Improve the Quality of Your Writing

📝Livecycle Blog

Interview for Dev-X Project

📝Bits and Pieces

9 JavaScript Console Tips That Will Improve Your Debugging Skills

📝Bits and Pieces

State of JS 2021-2022: What We Learned About JavaScript in 2022

🎥Notts TV

Interview for Notts TV