Portfolio
I wrote about how I used Lex (an AI writing tool) to rewrite titles of 58 of my newsletter editions and here's what I learnt: https://thediscourse.co/p/gpt3-ai-title-rewriting
Helped build a donation website visited by 3M users to raise $500K+ over a period of 2 months to assist verified charities helping out during India's second wave Covid crisis. Got Indian film stars...
India had a devastating second wave caused by the Delta variant in April, May where we reached a peak of 400,000 new cases a day with 4,000 deaths a day. There was a severe shortage of life-saving ...
As part of Makerpad's T-30 challenge we had to build and monetize a no-code product. We built a platform that would help designers (and non-designers) build their portfolio site using a Notion temp...
I used no-code tools like Bubble to build tools to help people with their job search: - Cover Letter Builder - Thank You Letter - Follow up Letter 3300+ letters created so far since Sep 2018. https...
Published few learnings on how to conduct remote meetings. https://thediscourse.substack.com/p/remote-meetings
Launched a newsletter to cover topics on product management, design, no-code and startups. I am using this as a vehicle for learning and exploration. The posts are a mix of tactical posts of skills...
Updated the https://showw.work landing page
Thought about the last year and how I have sought to build my online credentials. Explained my thinking in this piece: https://thediscourse.substack.com/p/online-credentials
I write about Polywork and how it's creating a new professional social network for the multi-faceted lives we now live on the internet. https://thediscourse.substack.com/p/polywork
Experimenting with posting my newsletter articles on Instagram. So far the response has been tepid, but if I can be consistent for a year then I can expect to hit a target follower count. https://w...
Launched an app to help people improve their mental health by challenging their negative thinking patterns. Built with no-code. https://kavirkaycee.com/mind-health
I migrated my companys' old blog from WordPress to Jamstack and shared the steps how I did it without code. https://kavirkaycee.com/set-up-jamstack-with-no-code-publii
How prototyping helps and how you can do it right! https://thediscourse.substack.com/p/prototyping
When should startups publish manifestos, how does it help, and how to do it well? https://thediscourse.substack.com/p/rise-of-the-manifesto
EdTech opportunities to classify assessment questions according to Bloom's Taxonomy https://thediscourse.substack.com/p/blooms-taxonomy
I went crazy giving feedback on 60+ landing pages. I then compiled the 7 most common mistakes I saw: https://thediscourse.substack.com/p/landing-page-feedback
After spending 2 months on Clubhouse, reflecting on the content, product, and ecosystem factors driving its growth to 8M users. https://thediscourse.substack.com/p/clubhouse
What are feedback tools you can use at every stage of your startup? https://thediscourse.substack.com/p/feedback-tools
How do you qualify early customers and target your product to them. https://thediscourse.substack.com/p/shape-market-product
Tell your product's story to make it appealing. Products are not just bundles of features — they solve problems for real people and make their lives easier. But who are these people and what are th...
Are you empathizing with your users? Empathy mapping is a framework that puts yourself in the user's shoes by capturing what they Think, Say, Feel, and Do. Let's explore how: https://thediscourse.s...
I created a remote job board in 45 minutes with No-code tools: RemoteOK → Zapier → Airtable → Pory Here’s how I went about it. https://thediscourse.substack.com/p/no-code-mvp
I hosted KP in a meetup about 'Build in Public' Here are some thoughts on what is BIP about, what are the upsides, and how to deal with the downsides — with excerpts from the meetup. https://thedis...
I wrote 29 posts in 2020 for my newsletter ‘The Discourse’. Here are 10 of my most popular posts: https://thediscourse.substack.com/p/2020-review
Is your design, good design? Dieter Rams answered this question with his 10 Commandments of Good Design. Here’s how you can apply them to software products: https://thediscourse.substack.com/p/is-y...
I wrote about how the meditation app space has grown to a $1B+ industry in 2020 est. $5B in 2025 How are Calm, Headspace, Insight Timer competing on: - Content - Product features - Marketing and di...
Color hits us before any other visual element, because we are hardwired to observe color first. I wrote about color theory, combinations, and its use in brand logos. https://thediscourse.substack.c...
People aren’t exercising much post lockdown. Fitbit says that there’s a 7-38% decline in physical activity globally. I ran a thought exercise to see how to build a product to solve the fitness prob...
Process user feedback into: - Observations - Insights - Actions Whether it’s car dealers, job seekers, office workers, or remote workers, I've always used the OIA Framework when conducting user res...
A Product Manager's weapon of choice is the Product Specs. It expresses the needs of the user, ideates on the solution, and aligns the team. Here’s what’s in my latest template https://thediscourse...
I wrote about how to take a product idea, built with no-code, monetize it, and learn. No-code stack: - Carrd - Zapier - Gumroad - MailerLite - NotionHQ https://thediscourse.substack.com/p/showw-work
Keep an eye on the competition, but don’t obsess over them. So, how do we do competitor analysis the right way? https://thediscourse.substack.com/p/competitor-research
Come for the speed, stay for the workflow. @Superhuman has ushered in an era of ‘Speed as a feature’. Why does speed matter, what enables speed, and what workflows can you optimize? https://thedisc...
Writing scales, talking doesn’t. If you're not writing, you're not making use of the simplest forms of leverage. Why is writing important within companies, and how to do it well? https://thediscour...
I've worked on an ML product for 1.5 years as a Product Manager. If you're new to being an ML PM, here are a few good questions you can ask your ML team. https://thediscourse.substack.com/p/what-sh...
I listened to this much talked about podcast of Rahul Vohra of Superhuman with Patrick OShaughnessy. They spoke about game design, product-market fit, positioning and growth. Here is a quick summar...
No-code democratizes creation of software. Just like the Gutenberg press did for publishing. What can no-code apps be used for and how to get started? https://thediscourse.substack.com/p/why-the-no...
Typography is the design of words. Sure, it has subtleties and nuances that you and I might not be able to decipher. But knowing the basics will make you more informed. https://thediscourse.substac...
Create line relationships, not dots. Mark Suster wrote about how to "Invest in Lines, not Dots” This works not only for founder-investor relationships but many other relationships too. How does thi...
When behavioral psychology meets product building. ‘Atomic Habits’ by JamesClear helped me establish healthy habits. Let’s see how we can use the four laws of behavior change to create (positive) h...
Whiteboarding. One of the things I miss most from a physical office as a PM. How do you translate this experience to remote? Let’s explore: https://thediscourse.substack.com/p/brainstorming-in-a-re...
How do you use cognitive biases to design a better onboarding flow? https://thediscourse.substack.com/p/the-psychology-of-onboarding
Prioritize well to avoid high opportunity costs. Every product decision involves a tradeoff between what we do now and later. Momentum is lost when new features don’t hit the mark. Here’s answering...
Single-player apps are dead. Long live multiplayer apps. I wrote about the product stack to take you towards remote work nirvana. https://thediscourse.substack.com/p/the-remote-product-stack
Listen to your customers. David Cancel talks about its importance in his Mind The Product talk in 2016. How can you do it wrong? what's the right way? and how often should you get feedback? https:/...
Standup comedy is an act of creation; and so is Product Management! My interest in these two seemingly disparate crafts has made me to think about the similarities and draw parallels between them. ...
Not all remote work is the same. Some remote work is better than others. Here are the 5 levels of Remote Work according to Matt Mullenweg. https://thediscourse.substack.com/p/levels-of-remote-work
Our brains use shortcuts to make sense of the visual world. By knowing the principles of visual perception, you’ll have a better eye for design in a few minutes. https://thediscourse.substack.com/p...
It's better to learn lessons from the mistakes of others than through experience. Dave Wascha gave an informational and entertaining talk on '20 Years of Product Management’ at the Mind the Product...
While trying to get feedback from early users, if you demo the product and ask questions – you may not get a lot of insights. Use a research tool called Thinking Aloud. https://thediscourse.substac...
Design Heuristics ensures you're designing interfaces for the best user experience. Here's explaining what they are with a reusable template in Figma. https://thediscourse.substack.com/p/design-heu...
Creating a community is like running a new country. Insights from Musically's (TikTok) Founder on Product and Community Growth. https://thediscourse.substack.com/p/the-discourse-2-product-growth-and
I read this post on Product Management back in 2015 and I found it to be a foundational article into the multi-faceted nature of the role. Here's the summary of “Product Manager you are…”: https://...
I published a piece about Equity Crowdfunding and what kind of startups are most suited to this type of fundraising. https://thediscourse.substack.com/p/equity-crowdfunding
Published my newsletter piece arguing for the need to create public roadmaps. It fits in with the theme of "Showing your work" and with Polywork's general ethos of a timeline of promised and shippe...
To file a loan application, users needed to capture images of various documents including the loan application form, ID proof, etc - mostly numbering upto 20 pages. When car dealers and sales execu...
Launched a 0-1 product to streamline the loan application process for used cars. Defined the product roadmap for the Used Car Loans business unit across mobile (Android and iOS) and web. - Launched...