Moving this from my twitter pinned thread to here. It is time that I move on, and this is a logical intentional move to ‘get over it’. On July 21, 2020, we announced that Spicejet acq-hired Team @travenues. What a fantastic 2 years that has culminated in this outcome today. Brief history thread with some…
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Empathy and PMs
I have been thinking about this word for quite a bit of time these days. Whenever I am talking to folks and describing my definition of being a Product Manager – almost every trait distills down to this one word – Empathy. Now, let me try and recollect and jot them down here – Stakeholder…
Informational Call for Potential Leadership Hiring
After a recent (particularly depressing) informational call for a Leadership position, I thought, I would pen down my thoughts on how an ‘optimal’ first conversation should be. Some disclaimers: They are in no particular order of importance. These are my opinions. Your mileage may vary – but I would love to hear them, if you…
Food delivery USP
We occasionally order through Swiggy and Freshmenu. I order more frequently when the wife and kid are not in town. So far, I have been pretty happy with the quality of food, and of course, I order only from restaurants that I know, through Swiggy. However, there is one consistent issue with the delivery/logistics. For…
What are we shipping today?
Ask any of the PMs who have worked with me, they will say that this is my favourite statement. I ask this statement at least once a day to them. I was talking about this with one of the PMs who works with me, and I thought I would share some of the conversation highlights…
Affiliate Programs in Travel
This idea just came fleetingly to me today morning. Large ecommerce companies like Amazon and Flipkart have affiliate programs. You become an affiliate, and the platform lets you create a special URL to advertise products on their platform. You make a sale, and based on the product, and current ‘schemes’, you earn a % of…
The Supermarket experience
Ever since the online grocery guys came into the picture (read as bigbasket in our home), one recurrent topic at my place has been – “would we miss the supermarket experience?” Some common points that would typically come up were: It was a nice once a month outing that we may probably miss out on….
UX review of Instamojo website – part 2
Creating a payment link (continued) After you have dragged and dropped the digital goods, it would be nice if you could say that, upload would happen later. Since I did not see any upload status scroll, I assumed, but in perfect design, nothing should be left for assumption. When uploading a preview image, can you…
UX review of Instamojo website – part 1
I recently tried signing up with Instamojo and gave it a spin. Instamojo is a pretty cool payment related startup. Their moto is to democratize payments. It should be dead easy for anyone to be able to sell (start a business) and be able to set up a payment mechanism for customers. Instamojo would do…
Food on Order Direct from Rooms
I was thinking quite a bit about whether to write this as a post or to add on to the previous post, but I guess ‘new post’ won. The one problem that a lot of service apartments face is the lack of a full fledged kitchen. There might be breakfast, but that would still be…