Shreyas Prakash
I'm a designer turned entrepreneur, now a product manager.
I like creating things (writing, designing, coding, startups). Startups are cool because they're positive sum & impactful.
Throughout my work, I've helped support the navigation of difficult lives through tech— high-risk mothers, alzheimers patients, healthcare workers, deaf-blind runners, rural artisans, tribal children etc.
In my spare time, I love tinkering online. I'm also a self-taught developer that's topped Product Hunt a few times. Ask me anything about online-first friendships, internet tools, juggling side projects, learning to code, or anything in between :)
Some questions I'm pondering upon
- How might we make 1:1 mentorship scalable?
- How might we redesign cities to eradicate loneliness?
- How might we make human-in-the-loop AI healthcare solutions accurate, reliable and scalable?
- What's the goldilocks zone of social-media consumption for teenagers? How much is too much?
- What would the tech-stack for a one-person billion dollar business look like?
Recent essays
- Obsessing over personal websites — How I arrived at the v7.2 of my personal website
- English is the hot new programming language — How ChatGPT improved my programming skills
- The role of taste in building products — Should you A/B test design decisions, or leave it to taste?
- World's most ancient public health problem — Why maternal mortality rates are stubbornly static
- Dear enterprises, we're tired of your subscriptions — How we're fatigued by the SaaS model of monthly subscriptions
- Products need not be user centered (always) — User centered design is one of the approaches when it comes to building products
- Pluginisation of modern software — How modern software is being built as modular composable blocks
- Let's make every work strategic — Work made better through 'strategic wrappers'
- Making Nielsen's heuristics more digestible — Rule of thumb heuristics for UX
- Startups as a fertile ground for risk taking — Grit and resilience is better learnt on the battlefield
- Insights are not just a salad of facts — The right format of an insight
- Minimum Lovable Products — Minimum Viable Prototypes don't fly anymore
- Methods are life jackets, not straight jackets — Stop the blind obsession with frameworks
- Digital artisanal products — Why digital products need a craft-oriented mindset
- How to arrive at on-brand colours? — Shortcut to arrive at on-brand colors
- Importance of why? — Questions as pickaxes
- Quality ideas trump execution — Quality eats execution for breakfast
- Why I prefer indie softwares — Virtues of embodied software
- Use code only if no code fails — Answers to the code/no-code dilemma
- Participating > Marketing — Participation-led marketing for indie software
- Napkin SEO for Indiehackers — SEO 101 for indie projects
- Rapid questioning to supercharge process — Going deeper through questions
For essays covering various other topics, view my infinite-scroll blog here.