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I start by listening
Ten honest conversations with users beat a hundred competitor reviews. Before I build anything, I try to find the real job people want the product to do. It is usually not the feature they asked for.
01Product & Growth · AI Products · Career Mentoring
Hi, my name is Adarsh. I'm a product guy.
I love working at the intersection of building product, operations, and growth. Five-plus years in data analytics and product management. I'm on a journey to become an entrepreneur.
This is where I share what I've learned, in every format I use to teach it. Go to Resources for anything product. Go to Work to see what I've shipped.
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01 What you'll get
A whole product education. All free.
No paywall, no fluff. Everything I learn shipping real products — written and filmed so you can actually use it. One new thing most days.
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297 deep-dive guides
Product, business analysis, Agile, metrics, AI — one proper post per topic. Plain language, real examples.
🎬Short video breakdowns
30+ shorts taking apart real products and the calls behind them. Made for the commute.
🗂️Free templates
PRDs, BRDs, GTM and roadmap docs — the exact files I use, cleaned up for you.
🧭Frameworks, decoded
RICE, JTBD, AARRR, WSJF and more — what they are, and when to actually reach for them.
✉️A daily-ish note
The one thing I learned that day, straight to your inbox. Short, skimmable, unsubscribe anytime.
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A new product lesson most days — free. No spam, leave whenever you like.
02 My story
One step at a time, from analyst to product manager.
I did not come from a top college or a big-city network. My B.Com is from a Tier-3 college. I learned everything by doing the work, one year at a time. Here is the growth, plotted.
2021
Business Data Analyst
Netlink Software, Bhopal
This is where it started. I built dashboards, Excel models, and ML pipelines. I learned to read data before I ever wrote a single product spec.
2023
Associate Product Manager
Netlink Software
My first real step into product. I worked on a low-code ETL tool and a natural-language analytics module, and ran demos for C-suites and government officials.
↑ Promoted2024
Product Manager
Netlink Software
I led a team of 25 and shipped an AI SaaS platform from scratch in six months. We lifted free-to-paid conversion by 50 percent.
↑ Promoted2025
Product Manager
Crayon Data, for HDFC and ADIB
Two live banking platforms. 1.6M+ users a month across India and the UAE. Cut campaign publishing from 24 hours to 15 minutes.
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The fuller story
What I've actually built. I started on Lumenore, a self-service BI platform — shaping the low-code app builder, analytics dashboards, and data modeling workflows. Then a self-service ETL module powered by Spark, so teams could clean and transform data without needing engineering support. I also led connectors and data onboarding — pulling in CRMs, payment systems, and external APIs — which is where I learned how messy real-world data actually is, and how thoughtful product design reduces friction for an entire team.
Why I do this. I picked up product management by doing the work, not by following a playbook someone else wrote. I read certifications the same way — each one a marker of something I actually finished, not a badge for the wall. Outside of work, I'm on a journey to become an entrepreneur. I'm still figuring out what that looks like, and I'd rather say that plainly than pretend I have it mapped out.
03 The toolkit
Things I picked up along the way.
None of this came from a course. I learned it by shipping, breaking things, and fixing them. Here is most of it, grouped the way I actually use it.
Product VisionProduct-Led GrowthSprint PlanningUser InterviewsAgentic AIJiraRoadmappingRetentionPRDsJTBDPower BIProduct VisionProduct-Led GrowthSprint PlanningUser InterviewsAgentic AIJiraRoadmappingRetentionPRDsJTBDPower BI
GTM StrategyA/B TestingRICE / MoSCoWCustomer DiscoveryLLMsFigma0→1 BuildingChurn ReductionAgile & ScrumPersonasSQLGTM StrategyA/B TestingRICE / MoSCoWCustomer DiscoveryLLMsFigma0→1 BuildingChurn ReductionAgile & ScrumPersonasSQL
Product-Market FitAcquisition FunnelBacklog MgmtUsability TestingRAGNotionNorth Star MetricPricingOKRs & KPIsStakeholder MgmtETLProduct-Market FitAcquisition FunnelBacklog MgmtUsability TestingRAGNotionNorth Star MetricPricingOKRs & KPIsStakeholder MgmtETL
MVPNPS / CSATStorytellingData PipelinesClaudeICP ValidationLow-Code / No-CodeNLQ / Conversational AIGA & ClarityAI AgentsProduct DiscoveryMVPNPS / CSATStorytellingData PipelinesClaudeICP ValidationLow-Code / No-CodeNLQ / Conversational AIGA & ClarityAI AgentsProduct Discovery
Strategy
Growth
Execution
Research
AI & Tech
Tools
04 How I work
How a product goes from idea to shipped.
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I build the smallest real thing
I strip the idea down to the one piece that proves it or kills it. A fake landing page. A rough low-code version. The cheapest test that gives me a real answer.
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I build the story around it
Why this, and not that. I say it plainly, to engineers and to leadership. The doc lines everyone up. But the story is what actually gets people to move.
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I ship, then keep going
Going live is the start, not the finish. I watch the one number that matters, run the next test, and keep smoothing the rough edges people actually touch.
0405 What I work on
Most of my days sit between three things.
Building product. Operations. Growth. I move between all three, most weeks. Here is what each one really means for me.
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Operations
This is where I spend most of my time. Getting things shipped. Keeping a team moving in one direction. I once took a campaign flow that needed 24 hours and got it down to 15 minutes. It is not glamorous. It is the work that makes everything else real.
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Growth
Getting people to find a product, use it, and come back. On a live banking marketplace, the offer and campaign loops I worked on pushed repeat use to 35 percent. Small changes, run again and again, until the numbers move.
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Strategy
Deciding what to build, and why. Then saying it out loud, not just writing it in a doc. I like the messy start. The blank page. Working out the first version of something that does not exist yet.
0306 Certifications
Things I actually finished.
These are not badges for the wall. Each one is something I sat down and completed while doing the job.
Scrum Alliance
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO®)
Active through May 2028
Scaled Agile
SAFe 6 AI-Empowered Product Owner / PM (POPM®)
Active through May 2027
Anthropic
Claude Certified Architect, Foundations
Valid through Oct 2026
07 The library, on a shelf
Pull a book off the shelf.
Three shelves, one subject each. Every spine is a real guide — click it to read.
08 Selected work
A few things I shipped that people use.
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HDFC MyOffers
AI personalization platform · Banking
1M+monthly visitors
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ADIB SmartDeals
Digital marketplace · UAE banking
35%repeat engagement
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Campaign Management Tool
Self-serve, low-code product
94%faster publishing
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Enterprise Analytics SaaS
B2B analytics · NLQ and ETL builder
3new geographies
Tier-3 college. No network. No head start. I picked up all of this by doing the work. So I write down what actually helped, so the next person like me doesn't have to start from zero.
— Adarsh, on why this exists
09 Field notes
Truths I keep on the board.
Nobody wants your feature. They want their problem gone.— discovery
If you can't say it in one line, you don't understand it yet.— strategy
Ship the smallest thing that can teach you something real.— MVP
A roadmap is a set of bets, not a set of promises.— planning
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