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AI Built Alex's Travel Site
A professional travel website for a Bali guide built in one hour using AI tools including ChatGPT for design and bolt.new for development, deployed for free on Cloudflare Pages.
From 2012 to 2025: Blog Revival with AI
My last blog post was in 2012. Thirteen years of digital silence—not because I had nothing to say, but because the friction of maintaining a blog had worn me down. The endless cycle of researching frameworks, debugging deployment issues, and wrestling with themes had turned creative expression into a technical chore. Fast forward to 2025, and I decided it was time for a revival. But this time, I…
About Me
I’m a technologist, architect, and entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience building technology products and companies. An IIT Delhi graduate, I’ve worked at Google and founded Kuvera , a bootstrapped wealth management platform that helps people invest smarter. Currently at Amagi Media , I lead the AI initiative and architect cloud-based products that transform how media…
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AI Buddy and Me: A Developer's Renaissance
My first blog post in 13 years. The world has changed quite a bit—especially in the last couple of years. The entire landscape of coding and development has transformed in this AI era. All of us, whether in product development, engineering, or any other function, are rediscovering how we work. People are questioning if this means the end for junior developers, or wondering how it boosts individual…
Happy Birthday Ola
The other day I wrote a blog post about how Olacabs is going about ensuring a good customer service . Little did I know how well Olacabs would respond to that simple gesture of sharing my insights. Olacabs turns 2 years old today. And they decided to celebrate it a little differently. They chose about 5 customers each from Delhi/Bangalore/Mumbai who have shown some love to them in the last couple…
Go OlaCabs! Go
So finally I booked a Ola cab in Delhi. Well technically I booked it on my mobile (mobile internet, they don’t have a Windows app) while sitting in Orcha . A small town close to another small city Jhansi. The booking was for the next day 4:30 AM for my family to be picked up from railway station to airport. Last time the Taxi I picked up outside the station fleeced me by charging 500/-. This…
Amagi Here I Come
I join Amagi today. Amagi is a wonderful startup (a second one) by Baskar, Vidhya and Kas. The trio had earlier successfully sold their first startup Impulsesoft to SiRF. I was part of their first startup. I am quite excited to join my old friends. The company itself is rocking and making a lot of good noise in the startup space. It is doing good business in Indian market and is poised to start…
Leaving ONZE
Leaving a company is never easy. Particulary when you have nurtured it with your blood and sweat. But sometimes, Time just runs out. Nirvana seems just around the corner, but you realize that personally you cannot survive til then. And so with a heavy heart you call it quits. I leave ONZE today, but will never leave the amazing Sud, Ever optimist Rahul and other folks at ONZE.
Lokasi Presentation @ Cartonama
Location is something I am quite passionate about. I have worked for sometime at a GPS semiconductor company and for 2 years I worked at ONZE developing and running a SMS direction service. This is the time when we came up with Lokasi . A unique, India specefic way of representing location that is understood by everyone. Cartonama provided me an opportunity to showcase Lokasi. This was also my…
Why Meditation?
Is meditation only for elderly folks? Is it only for religiously or spiritually inclined folks? Is it so esoteric that you and I cannot do it? Very simply put, Meditation is an exercise that you undertake to keep your mind fit and relaxed. The way you go to Gym or that early morning walk to keep your body healthy. Mediation keeps your Mind healthy. Mind is a very complex entity. If your body gets…
ONZE in Times of India
Helping you find your way through sms - Onze featured in today's Times of India.
Pepperfry Fiasco
Earlier this year a brand new ecommerce store made splashing headlines fresh with a big funding and claiming unimaginable signups . Soon people started dishing out this venture with it's unscalable tactic of acquiring customers. This business was pepperfry. Last week after getting spammed every week with crazy discounts I decided to test how much water it could hold. I had a fresh newsletter from…
Lets talk about Inhibition
When you were in school, you knew each and every person in your class. Did some teacher take the initiative of introducing you all? When you were in your college or university, How many of your batchmates did you actually know? And then you joined a job and knew how many people? Today when you are working how many friends do you think you have? Not the facebook one. They won't turn up when you…
Strong vs Weak Person
Are you a strong person or a weak person? Strength as in mental strength. A person with strong mental strength is bound to do things which may qualify as success, happiness and contentment. You are driving on a highway and you see two sign boards. One says This way the other says That way . Which one do you choose? This way. Why? because it is easier . because it is convenient . because I feel…
Art of happiness
3 years ago I started on a journey with no idea as to where it would take me. For a long time I have been working with startup and big companies and so had an idea of what not to do. But what would my startup would be like, who will I be working with, I had no idea. There was this tiny fear of failure, rejection losing my 'domain expertise'. But with a little confidence (or a lot of…
Startup landscape in local space
A couple of days ago a friend showed me pluggdin forums . He suggested I start a discussion and being in the Local space for so long, decided to explore the Hyper-Local space. I started the discussion , but then got too busy to come back to it. Yesterday came back to it and was quite surprised to see the number of discussions. Now Local and Hyper-Local are two different terms and I don't claim to…
Startup's out of Impulsesoft and SiRF
Reading about the Burrp mafia by my friend Avlesh took me back to the time when I started my own startup journey. One of the awesome thing that a startup does to (most) of us is that it implants the seed (keeda) of entrepreneurship in you. Be it a large company like Google, Yahoo or even Infosys, or small companies like Burrp. They give birth to even more startups. Implulsesoft did not become as…
You TRAI we Double TRAI
Necessity is mother of all innovation they say. I agree, But innovating in a highly constrained manner is what really amazes me. And so after a much delay TRAI finally got around to forcing it’s draconian NCPR guidelines on us. Bulk SMS industry almost got wiped out and all the other innovative companies who were using SMS as a primary channel of communication suffered a major blow. We…
Bubbles, startup fundings and poor Flipkart
Eer kahein chalo Flipkart ki maare, Bir kahein chalo Flipkart ki maare, Hamao kahein chalo ham’o Flipkart ki maare. Jokes apart. There have been a flurry of blogs predicting the bubble and how insane the whole valuation of flipkart is. Insane or not, someone with a deep pocket and insights into the company which you and me are not privy to has made the bold decision to invest in Flipkart.…
From DINKs to DKNI
Roma made this observation the other day. When we got married, both of us were earning more than we could spend. Had no kids. And no responsibilities as such. Fast forward by six years, and here we are with two lovely princess (Raina and Trisha). Roma has left her job and is taking care of the kids and pursuing her interest in cooking and photography. And myself, taken the plunge in…
Hasta La Vista Revu
Exactly a year ago I bounced off this idea with Jai about being able to review any restaurant by sending a SMS, and that review getting published on the users twitter page, facebook page and a dedicated page for that restaurant if it had one. Well that was just the start of the idea. Jai, Ishwar and myself thought we could pull something out of it and we just jumped.
Roma and Mona in gauri's ladies sangeet
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Hiring in Startups
Startup ecosystem in India is almost growing like a hockey stick curve. The number of startup events happening here in Bangalore in a month and the number of incubator (companies) mushrooming is a clear indication of that. Though a lot of companies are starting, a lot of people are becoming entrepreneurs, a lot of people are willing to be angels, one aspect of this ecosystem which is not growing…
Mobile Loyalty is here to stay
I am becoming a fan of Zoomin . Every other week they come up with a fab discount on some nice prints. Moreover when you have a 3 year old and a 2 month old kid in the house, you feel like printing photos every other day. I have already got a collage printed, missed the customized mug by a day and now just ordered a flip book for just 99/-. But what stuck me, was soon after completing my order I…
Airtel Rebranding - A case of fine execution
Rebranding an existing brand for any reason is one of the toughest thing a business goes through. Airtel recently spent obscene amount of money to rebrand itself with a different logo and tune. There was a huge uproar in the blogger community regarding this move( here ). Various tweets were floating around about how AR Rehman has lost it, and how funny and stupid the logo looks. But all said and…
Want to run a Startup? Do Sales for a year
My younger brother says that everyone wanting to run a startup should do sales atleast for a year. Having done sales for most of his working life and running a 2 person Legal BPO for more than a year, I think he walk’s that talk when he says that. Running a startup makes you do all kind of things, some of which you think you were ^ not made to do ^. Even when you are doing everything right,…
Rails App Deployment using Heroku
My first public presentation at the first barcamp that I attended ## Deploying Rails App View more presentations from mayank78 .
We had a baby girl
Roma delivered a sweet baby girl yesterday and now we are proud parents of two little angels.
EO - Private Entertainment Capsule
</object> EO is a unique entertainment capsule which provides a true private home theater experience. You can watch movies or play incredible 3D games in a unique experience. Sachin (my co-brother) has created this and it is live in lower ground floor Mantri Square. Do experience it when you are there and share your thoughts. More information at Sacona
Raina's Dance show
Once in a Raina gets in a mood to dance whereever and whatever she likes. This one was captured while we were having dinner at a local pizza hut.
We believe your account was recently accessed from: China
Got this scary screen on my gmail today morning. Very thoughtful of google to have mapped my access pattern and brought this anomaly to my attention. I very well may have lost my gmail account, or worse would have been subjected to a proxy attack.
Are you thinking about your product while taking the shower?
Paul Grahm’s articles never cease to amaze me with their powerful insights. It’s because they connect with me at a meta level where I am not able to verbalize my own thoughts. And when I read his essay, it’s like that’s what I was meaning to say !! I think most people have one top idea in their mind at any given time. That's the idea their thoughts will drift toward when…
A heap of broken drops
Ever since I broke a thermometer when I was about 5 years old and got severely reprimanded for it, I always wanted to break one and play around with mercury drops coagulating and breaking on its own. But the grown up side of me always stopped me from doing it whenever I got hold of a thermometer. Today morning my daughter presented me that opportunity by breaking one. Ofcourse it was her turn to…
Beware the Incubator Bubble is about to Burst
The startup ecosystem in india is quite interestingly poised today. Fred Wilson has written a good post which explains quite succinctly how a startup ecosystem evolves in a certain geography. You can roughly set the age of startup ecosystem in India to 10 years (starting from 2000 - IT revolution). During this first decade there have been quite a few successful startups created and exited. Two…
Weird Captcha
If ever there be a competition of the weirdest captcha's this one gonna win hands down !!
The story of bottled water
(via @mixdev )
Operation Dogmatix - mQuote
When you realize that you have hit on a very innovative method to retrieve real time information without the need of internet right on your mobile phone, your imagination runs wild. cricket scores, santa-banta jokes, train/bus status lookup come to your mind. One category that emerged in my mind out of this noise was stock quotes lookup.
Operation Cacofonix - mobile classifieds
The third mobile phone based idea, code named Cacofonix centered around classifieds. What really appealed to me about using mobile phone for classifieds is that the size of the classifieds is invariably around 160 characters.
Operation Botanix - Mobile Coupons
Operation Botanix started of as a corollary to operation Asterix . Again the idea was quite simple. ##Idea I remember in my childhood days, Pepsi used to come out with a full page newspaper advertisement with half a page of coupon. You were supposed to tear the coupon, take it to the shop and claim your free pepsi (7UP I think it was). Fast forward to today. I see an advertisement which promises…
Asterix - Mobile Gift Cards
Even before I was introduced to the term ‘code repository’ or cvs in my college, I was using names of characters to represent the version of my assignment codes. They will start with Alice, Betty etc.. Somehow I find it quite amusing to name a project (in this case an idea) with a character of my liking. It gives life to the idea and you can relate to the attributes of the idea as its…
Ideas are Dime a Dozen
I have heard and lived that phrase a hundred times in the past 6 odd months. Being on my own during these times carefully juggling between a revenue positive business targeted idea to consumer focused no business model idea, I have learned a lot. However the most important lesson I have learnt is that it is impossible to run a business on your own. Yes that is a generic statement, and I am not…
Free to Fly
Close your eye, take a deep breath and imagine you are flying like that free bird. Entrepreneurship is not easy as they say it is. You need to find your own courage, flap your wings and take a plunge. Only then you will know you can fly