Shubhi’s Substack

I write about building products, spirituality, relationships and some life hacks.

The hottest Substack posts of Shubhi’s Substack

And their main takeaways
2 HN points 17 Mar 24
  1. AI will empower individuals to perform tasks beyond their previous scope by shifting work left, prompting reconsideration of user personas and role evolution.
  2. Innovative solutions can enhance workflows, like blending AI copilots with support agents to streamline tech support and improve developer productivity.
  3. Building products with a focus on entire workflows, rather than individual users, can uncover root problems and provide opportunities for improvement and differentiation.
0 implied HN points 13 Apr 23
  1. The importance and excitement of sales in converting prospects, understanding pain points, and delivering magical demos to create value.
  2. The satisfaction and learning in ambitiously building products, overcoming challenges, and evolving with customer feedback.
  3. The power of taking action, owning situations, setting aggressive goals, and focusing on solving problems to drive productivity and success.
0 implied HN points 05 Sep 20
  1. Knowledge management is crucial for large enterprises to maintain a competitive edge and prevent knowledge debt.
  2. Traditional chatbots face challenges like slow time-to-market, lack of domain knowledge, and difficulty in managing multilingual and international content.
  3. The KODA stack addresses issues like time to market, internationalization, domain knowledge modeling, and scalability for large enterprises seeking efficient knowledge management solutions.
0 implied HN points 17 Aug 20
  1. Identify and highlight your unique skills and experiences to stand out as a Product Manager candidate.
  2. Create a strong portfolio with visual examples to showcase your work and effectively communicate your qualifications.
  3. Select companies that align with your values, vision, and unique advantage to increase your chances of landing the right Product Manager role.
0 implied HN points 17 Nov 18
  1. Open Science Hardware focuses on creating accessible tools for research and experimentation, promoting collaboration and knowledge sharing.
  2. Gathering for Open Science Hardware (GOSH) events bring together diverse professionals to discuss open hardware issues and solutions, aiming for global impact.
  3. GOSH 2018 resulted in action items like organizing regional open hardware movements, creating maps of makerspaces, and offering programs with local universities, all to support the open science community.
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0 implied HN points 17 Mar 19
  1. Built a domain-specific language (AXL) to help domain experts write logic, reducing codebase size by 80% and time taken to write code from several days to 2-3 hours.
  2. Focused on creating a DSL with simple, English-like syntax, built-in domain knowledge, and extensibility to allow importing libraries and reusing components.
  3. Implemented the language using Python, with modules for Lexer, Parser, and Interpreter, and developed a UI called 'The AXL Playground' for easier usage by non-technical users.
0 implied HN points 17 Mar 18
  1. Building a news scraper involved challenges like writing crawlers, applying machine learning concepts, and using Natural Language Processing.
  2. Collaborating with others and seeking help when needed led to valuable insights and the discovery of useful resources and libraries like NLTK and Naive Bayes Classifier.
  3. The project's outcome included the development of a Smart News Scraper, with room for improvement in accuracy, filters, multithreading, and expansion to cover news relevant to more colleges.
0 implied HN points 17 Mar 15
  1. All essential life lessons are taught in kindergarten: be fair, apologize when needed, and look out for each other.
  2. Understand yourself better to make a significant impact: know what evokes emotions in you and what issues you want to tackle.
  3. Persevere like the Japanese Bamboo Tree: grow steadily despite slow progress, then surge ahead with determination.
0 implied HN points 19 Jul 20
  1. A Product Manager's role is to define and drive the success of a product by impacting critical business metrics.
  2. Product Managers need a mix of hard skills like analytical abilities and soft skills like influential communication to excel.
  3. Product Management is not about coding, requires continuous motivation, and involves owning criticism without always receiving direct credit.