Gautam Khorana — twelve years, 12,000+ sites, two production directories, and one running podcast

I have been building websites professionally since 2013. The headline number is 12,000+ sites shipped at Seahawk Media, the agency I co-founded, where I run operations as Co-Founder & COO. The numbers that matter more to me personally are the two directory builds I run as the production proof of the patterns I write about: HostList.io (25,000+ web hosting companies, Next.js + Supabase) and a Vedic astrology platform (125,000+ pages across 30 languages, Astro + Supabase). Then there is the podcast — WP Legends — where I interview the people building the WordPress ecosystem.

The work is a mix of three: agency operations at Seahawk, my own production sites for proof, and consulting engagements for clients who specifically want the modern-stack version of agency-grade work. The consulting brief shows up most often as a WordPress-to-Next.js or WordPress-to-Astro migration, a wholesale or B2B ecommerce build (especially the gemstone trade — I have the only public gemstone catalogue at scale), or a GEO / AI SEO programme.

Half the week is Seahawk Media operations — agency systems, hiring, training, and the parts of running a 70-person team that do not show up on any website. The other half is engineering: shipping the production directories, writing the blog you are reading, recording WP Legends episodes, and doing the consulting engagements that come in through this site.

The mix moves with the season. In January 2025 I was 80% Seahawk; in May 2026 I am closer to 50/50, because the modern-stack consulting practice has compounded. The thing that has not changed is the writing — the blog has been the longest-running piece of the picture, and it is the surface where I work out what I think before I sell it as a service.

• Seahawk Media: co-founded 2018, agency that ships WordPress, headless, and modern-stack web work at volume. 70-person team, primarily in India, with operations across the UK and US. Specialised in care plans, large-site WordPress, headless migrations, and high-traffic content sites.
• HostList.io: 25,000+ web hosting companies indexed and ranked by structured comparison data. The proof that programmatic SEO at scale can ship without triggering Google's thin-content patrol when the architecture is honest.
• Vedic astrology platform: 125,000+ pages across 30 languages, including the largest catalogue of structured astrological gemstone content on the public internet (350+ stones with planetary pairing, ratti weight, ascendant recommendations).
• WP Legends: long-form podcast interviewing the people building the WordPress ecosystem. Hosted by me.
• This site: proof of the modern-stack patterns I sell. Astro + Supabase + custom admin + live SEO dashboard. Open in spirit, with the architecture documented in the blog.

• 12,000+Sites shipped at Seahawk Media since 2018
• 125,000+Pages live on the Vedic astrology platform, in 30 languages
• 25,000+Hosting companies indexed on HostList.io
• 350+Astrological gemstones in the Cosmic Gemstone Hub
• 100+Long-form blog posts on this site, all topic-tagged
• 12 yrsContinuously building websites, since 2013

I take on a small number of consulting engagements at any given time. The shape that fits best: an existing business with a serious site (10k+ pages, B2B portal, multi-language, regulated industry, or a brief that has burned out a previous agency) where the modern stack is genuinely the right answer and the budget is real. The work is delivered with senior engineers from Seahawk under my direction; I am the senior on every engagement, the kickoff conversation is with me, and the handover at the end is real code with documentation.

The booking sequence is the simplest possible: book a 30-minute call, describe the brief, and by the end of the call you have a stack pick, a price range, and a delivery window. No sales deck. No qualification screen. If I am not the right person, I will tell you and refer you to someone who is.

• LinkedIn — gautamkhorana
• X / Twitter — @gautamkhorana
• YouTube — Seahawk Media
• GitHub — shk149
• HostList.io
• Seahawk Media — About
• WP Legends — the podcast

I live in Notting Hill, London. I drink filter coffee from Hermanos most weekday mornings. I write about cafes, breakfast spots, and London life occasionally on the blog when something deserves it (the breakfast post is the most-shared example). My typing speed and reading appetite both predate the internet and continue to scale.

If we have not met and you got here from a Google search or a podcast appearance, the easiest way to know whether we should talk is to book the 30-minute call. The worst case is you walk away with a stack recommendation and no further commitment.

You book the 30-min call. You describe your brief. By the end you have a stack pick, a price range, and a delivery window — or an honest "I am not the right person, talk to so-and-so" referral.