Junior engineers should do more code reviews
June 21, 2022Senior engineers tend to spend time reviewing more than junior engineers. I’ve seen this in many places. I think it is fairly common not…
I joined a startup
February 15, 2021It’s been a while since the last post. A lot happened since then. But I guess the most important thing is, I quit my company and joined a…
The number game
December 27, 2020There’s a saying that ”Ideas are easy, execution is everything.” While I believe that is true, the context behind it is “when you have a…
Accepting the failure
December 17, 2020“The greatest teacher, failure is.” -Master Yoda Challenges come with failures. If you don’t make mistakes, you are not learning. There’s no…
Thesis Plan
December 14, 2020There are some steps you should take when validating a new business idea. Some popular validation methods are out there, and those are…
Direct support won’t work for OSS
December 08, 2020Open source is a unique system that exists in the developer community. The number of open source components in the codebase of proprietary…
Thinking in probabilistic
December 05, 2020Life is full of uncertainties. In this accelerated world, nothing is sure what’s going to happen even in the next year. One effective way to…
Finish your work
November 27, 2020Many companies fail because there’s no market need. Pivoting to another idea is a tough choice, especially when you have outside funding…
Patience
November 16, 2020Play the long game, they say. Being able to wait long is a competitive advantage. People love instant gratifications. People seek an easy…
Minimum Viable Market
November 03, 2020Making money on the internet Let me start with a simple math. If you want to make a million dollar in your business, your business is either…
Classic Audience First Companies
October 09, 2020Two classic examples would be Nike and Apple Steve Jobs got this very well. In his talk at Apple when announcing a new advertisement to the…
No niche is too small
September 27, 2020Successful startups rarely start in a large market. But no one had seen “search” as a valid market until Google exists. They created…
Turning the cube
September 14, 2020After running three months of beta testing, I decided to stop working on Tailor. It was an incredibly tough decision. But it was full of…
How not to fail your startup miserably
September 01, 2020Invest in relationships and make things public as much as possible. The relationship opportunities you get when you are building a company…
Why building another no-code tool
July 30, 2020We are building a no-code platform where you can develop mobile apps. There are literally a bunch of tools out there. But I believe they are…
What "optimism" does to "apollo-cache-inmemory"
September 06, 2019apollo-cache-inmemory(InMemoryCache) is the recommended cache implementation for Apollo Client. It caches your GraphQL response by breaking…