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I have been a founder leading and building products for ~10 years. Have exited a startup. Built three. Built a viral product used millions of times.

Recent things:

• Muzify — a product where you are shazam; played ~9 million times

• [unnamed] — a product that creates an interactive profile with your github, linkedin, personal websites, and more — so anyone can talk to it

• Linklee (2024) — a link you can redirect anywhere for free

• Pager (2023) — find out when someone is free, without texting them

• Turf (2023) — track football games you play with friends

• Vouch (2023) — collect recommendations from people who loved working with you

• tldrmail (2022) — AI summaries of your unread emails (CASA certified)
  
  

Over the years

2022

• Reko — a social app to share recommendations of things with close friends

• Stak — a chrome extension to create shareable stacks of links you bookmark

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Bantr

• Bantr (last iteration) — back your fav team

• Bantr reacts — react to every important thing that happens in football

2021

• Benchtalk — voice rooms to watch matches together

• Fan Moments — an app for fans to share photos, videos while they are watching their teams play

• Group stream — a chrome extension to watch things together

• Factify — a whatsapp bot to check fake news during Covid

2020

• Quit Resolver India

• COVID break :)

2017 — 2019

• Expertily — an app to hire lawyers in India. Took it to $ six figure revenue with a team of 4. Acquired by Resolver UK.

• CEO, Resolver India — Built and ran Resolver's consumer product for India. A consumer complaint tool to raise complaints with companies and a SaaS product for companies to learn where they could improve their service.
  > Went from 0 to 170,000 users in 1 year.
  > Signed on 3 enterprise customers
  > Hired a team of 10. Worked with the London team.
  
  

2014 - 2017

• YK — a consumer complaint service that helped people filed legal complaints against companies. This pivoted to Expertily.

• Expertily — a tool to find and hire lawyers in India. (acquired by Resolver)

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Notes

— About me

• Born and (currently)based in India

• Ex-founder with product chops

• Built 3 startups. 1 got acquired

• Interested in consumer tech and apps that bring people together

• Started my first co. in my last year of law school (2014)

• Built a tool for Lawyers that got recognised by and acquired API for Supreme Court of India

— Most recently: at Asset, an early stage startup. Shipped a product which went a little viral and was used by 180,000 people in 2 weeks.

— Moonshot: Built a social app - Bantr - for football fans with Rishabh

• Shipped 12+ iterations in about 2 years to 1000s of fans

• Learned how to tactically design a flow for a social product

• Built on different social graphs (1:1, Interest, 1:many)

• Learned how to apply network effects in a real way

• Shut it down in 2022 cause we ran out of mental runway