Empathetic Hacking: Building software products for human beings
Collaboration needs a cartographer
Every project needs some one to think it through to the end -- identifying use-cases, charting journeys, and carefully evaluating the solution. This is not a responsibility that can be distributed.
January 13, 2025
Do not kill your ego
Ego is misunderstood, killing it is not in your best interest
October 29, 2024
Why Your North Star Metric Needs Dimensions
Dimensions of your North Star metric make it actionable. Without dimensions, you have a great measure of your business, that you can't really do anything with.
October 6, 2024
Building Taskie, an AI-powered project manager
An essay on automating knowledge work by plugging intelligence in deterministic paths, and using AI-agents. Also, say hello to a Taskie.
May 20, 2024
Finding patterns in bugs using AI
How I built an AI to system to find patterns in our bug reports and help prioritise improvements to the right sub-systems.
February 24, 2024
I created a virtual hiring assistant using AI
Recruiting an APM from more than a thousand applicants, here's how I leveraged AI and simple automation to create a virtual hiring assistant and saved time.
December 10, 2023
GPT4 explains key product growth terms through an example
Acquisition, Activation, Engagement, Stickiness, Retention, Resurrection, and more -- explained through a dead-simple example by GPT4.
November 5, 2023
The future is multi-modal, and needs your attention right now
The combination of computer vision with analytical and creative AI is revolutionary. Multi-modal LLMs are going to change everything. Here are some very real reasons why you should be paying attention
October 15, 2023
On the Ability to See and Build the Future
Ironically, this might be the most important skill to build, yet it's rarely ever taught. Those who do it best, end up building the world.
June 18, 2023
How to Prepare for a User Interview
The Why, The Who, The Script and discovering actual user problems
May 16, 2023
Can you measure Product Market Fit?
Quantifying and measuring product-market-fit for better iterations
April 29, 2023
Move Towards Ambiguity
How to live long and prosper in a world with AGI
April 2, 2023
Blocked on code reviews? Let’s fix the process.
How to reduce code-review time in a lean team of exceptional engineers
February 18, 2023
What really is Golang’s context?
Google’s guidelines on Go specify that the first argument of a function in GoLang should be Go’s context.Context type.
June 26, 2022
Using Google Sheets as a Source of Dynamic Data for your Static Website
Static websites are fantastic.
December 25, 2021
Generating Recommendations in a Real World Job Market
When you’re a job board catering to employers and job-seekers, the recommendations you generate on both ends become critical differentiators for your product.
October 4, 2021
Ultimate Rust Crash Course — Short Notes
Ultimate Rust Crash Course — Short Notes
August 16, 2021
Create a Notification Service using AWS, Twilio, Docker and Node.js
How to Create a Scalable, Reliable Notification Service using AWS, Twilio, Docker and Node.js
July 30, 2021
Deploying a MERN Web-App to Heroku
This post builds upon the guide to developing projects in MERN stack that I posted a while back, you can find it here.
June 15, 2021
Guide to Deploying a Flask app on Heroku
Heroku is a popular application deployment platform with a functional free tier of services, and Flask is populalar application development micro-framework in Python.
June 15, 2021
