Before You Say Yes to a Startup: What Every Founding Team Member Should Ask
A framework for judging a founding team before you join it.
Crafting tech that matters!
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A product manager’s job is to make the product successful, make users adopt it happily and drive business impact. I’ve done whatever it took to get there.
If my mom can’t use the product on her own, it’s not designed correctly.
A voice-first, agentic work collaboration tool for multilingual frontline teams.
A new domain for me. I’m learning to work with C-level executives, understand their business, and build solutions.
An AI tutor that helps Indians learn workplace-first spoken English
My focus was identifying the core users (ICP), shaping the product, and figuring out the distribution strategy.
A global marketplace for affordable online tutoring.
10,000+tutors, built from scratch
I learnt the fundamentals of product management and marketplace dynamics here. I also learnt how to build systems as users and the team grow.
ERP for schools.
Two naive pre-final-year kids, solving problems for schools.
I start an AI task, and while it's generating results, I wander off and come back late.
Pingback lives on my Windows computer and pings me when an AI answer is ready, across Claude, ChatGPT and other tools.
My founder is blazing fast in guesstimates, and I often get in these discussions with him, and I take time.
A game for chained estimates, like working out a bus service’s yearly revenue. A web app first, a mobile app later.
Add the next project here. The site grows as I build.
300+
members in the largest community of IIT Kharagpur alumni who build products, from group PMs at major tech companies to associate PMs and founders. I’ve run over 30 online events, managed job postings, reviewed resumes and helped people prepare for interviews. Offline meetups are in the works.
Before anything else, I ask: what is the user feeling, and what do they want to get done?
I write the way I’d explain something to a friend who is as non-technical as I am.
It’s about how different controls help apps start their services automatically
A framework for judging a founding team before you join it.
Written at 11 pm on a Thursday, after the ninth meeting of the day.
For anyone who thinks they’re too busy to work out.
Hey, curious soul! I’m glad you came down all the way here.
I like short sentences and prefer points over paragraphs. I speak in memes.
I’m in my late 20s. I have had my “Bunny” phase, but now I am getting used to the “Kabir” phase, IYKWIM.
I’m currently obsessed with my air fryer. You will often find me uploading my air fryer & coffee experiments. I am trying to make my daily protein intake tastier and more fun.
Don’t follow me on Instagram; otherwise, you will become obsessed with getting fit. I aspire to be a mountaineer, to climb Everest, so I spend a good amount of time training every week.



