Building @RefrensApp - market network for B2B service providers.
Invested in some startups.
Founder @FindYogi_IN.
Helped build @Freecharge & @ZipDial.
Apr 25, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
A lot of people looking for a career in Product Management think of it as an idea generation job.
Ideas will be generated by users.
Your work is to analyse the cost-benefit and prioritize. For that, you need a sound understanding of the market and technology.
A good PM can get the right estimates for the cost of development, from idea to production, within 100% error margin - estimated 1 week but it took 2 weeks. A newbie PM would get it wrong by 4-10X.
Apr 9, 2021 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
I have taken 5 products from idea to the first 1000 users over the last 11yrs.
What have I learned?
You cannot get Engineering estimates right. When the team says it's done, it will take as much time after that, as the initial estimate.
Get UAT done as frequently as possible.
Give written instructions and ask the engineering team to explain them back to you.
Jan 29, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Are you making a workflow software or a marketing software?
The skillsets are different.
Workflow software generally has a defined objective and existing motivation from the user.
The developer has to make sure the software works at a certain speed with a bug free experience.
Jul 27, 2020 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
I will tell you a corona story, as told by a doctor and confirmed by a lab owner. I am living this right now.
See if there is a product management lesson here.
Corona cases are being recorded by all authorities world over. From Municipal level adding up to Country level.
So you know exactly which municipal commissioner / collector / CM / PM is responsible for how many cases.
Media has made it a headline and a competing metric.
Jun 9, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The avg. Indian TikTok user doesn't understand difference between, status box / Chat box / Search box / Comment box.
How are you going to design for them?
The avg. user doesn't know the difference between a News/Blog page about a product vs. a website/landing page of that product.
May 6, 2020 • 18 tweets • 2 min read
"Phone utha ke baat Karo. WhatsApp msg pe kabhi sales close nahin hoga."
"Tum log 5min ke call ke liye 10 minute calendar kyun update karto hai. seedha phone kyun nahin karte."
Apr 17, 2020 • 11 tweets • 1 min read
Ban gaya toh product,
Nahin bana toh feature.
Paid hua toh monetization strategy,
Free hua toh user acquisition.
