I failed 3 times as an engineer and built my own startup
Hrishikesh Pardeshi I am a CS grad and worked as a software engineer for 3+ yrs at Adobe & Amazon before I went on to build my own startup, Flexiple. This is…
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Rapid Prototyping with Utility-First CSS
I am the co-founder of Flexiple and Remote Tools. In this post, I describe why I chose to use a utility-first CSS framework to build my website’s UI in a…
How game design can inform product design
Emotion is very powerful and products that create emotional experiences, make users fall in love with them, play with them and talk about them. Game design is intriguing. Games are…
The hype and mystery that is Superhuman Email (Part 1)
“I want to take on Gmail and build the fastest email experience ever”, Rahul Vohra (CEO, Superhuman) said to Jason Calacanis (famed entrepreneur & angel investor). “That’s great,” said Jason,…
A practical way of building your first Uber-like app
We glanced through Uber’s engineering and deliberated on using tech to solve a business problem. Let’s now actually delve into writing down how exactly the first version of our Uber-like…
Understanding what you should (and should not) be building
In the previous post, we spoke at great lengths about Uber’s tech and it truly is mammoth (now). But you might wonder why this should concern you as an early-stage…
Making sense of Uber engineering
If I have to breakdown Uber engineering in the most simplistic way, I would probably include the following pieces: A user-facing mobile app on iOS and Android A lean informative…