Bhanu
Sharma.
Founder, builder & occasional photographer.
Three decades of products — at Adobe, Macromedia, Sony, and a handful of startups; a couple got acquired. Today I'm founder & CEO of Maker, which lets you make anything for your website with AI. Photos on the side.
What I'm working on
currently
Maker.co
Make anything for your website, with AI.
Maker lets people create anything for their websites with AI — pages, sections, campaigns, and updates that feel native to the site they already have. Day job, decade-long bet, still my favorite product to ship.
Agents & fun
projects with AI.
In the evenings and on weekends I tinker — building agents, small experiments with the new generation of models, and the occasional tool I needed and couldn't find. Mostly to keep up with what's changing.
Mentoring founders.
On the side, at 500 Startups and with a handful of seed-stage companies I particularly care about. Mostly listening.
A short(ish) history
of things I've shipped.
Maker, Inc.
14 years & counting
Sony Mobile
Tokyo · SF
Skyfire
2013
Adobe
Adobe Labs
Macromedia → Adobe
2005
Wanadu, Inc.
→ Cisco, 2007
Selected photos.
Light, form, and quiet places — made with cameras, and increasingly with AI.
Life outside of work.
Now,
Cascais, Portugal · May 2026
- Located
- In Cascais, Portugal, near the Atlantic.
- Making
- Maker.co — make anything for your website with AI.
- Experimenting
- With agents, Claude tooling, small dev workflows.
- Shooting
- A small series on hands at work — makers, mostly.
- Reading
- Annie Dillard, For the Time Being.
- Listening
- Nala Sinephro, Endlessness.
- Avoiding
- Most everything else.
The longer version.
I grew up in India and now live in Cascais, Portugal, after two decades building products in California.
I co-founded Wanadu in 2000 — early web conferencing, before that was a category anyone could name. Latitude bought it, then Cisco bought Latitude.
Product roles followed: Macromedia, shipping Breeze (which became Adobe Acrobat Connect after the Adobe acquisition); Adobe as EIR; Skyfire as Director of Product (acquired by Opera); Sony Mobile as VP of frontier products. In 2012 I started Maker — still my main thing, fourteen years in.
"Most of what I make I don't talk about. This site is the small visible end of a much longer practice."
I studied at Stanford in 2011. I've mentored at 500 Startups since 2009. On the side I make photos — mostly with a Sony RX1 and iPhone, increasingly with AI.
- Based
- Cascais, Portugal
- From
- Chandigarh, India
- Day job
- Maker.co
- Started
- Wanadu · 2000
- Shipped at
- Adobe, Macromedia, Sony
- Studied
- Stanford, Panjab University
- Mentors at
- 500 Startups · since 2009
- Shoots on
- Sony RX1 & iPhone