• Humans are inefficient

    Humans are a lot inefficient when it comes to decision making. Some of the things that used to use humans are now automated. Yet there is a vast amount of work that can be better suited and efficiently managed using AI (or primitive forms of it). Yet the building...

  • Captions for online videos

    Online video sharing is a big thing! Unfortunately, hard of hearing people cannot follow these videos clearly and are closed out of the whole system. Youtube has auto-generation of caption by analysing the video, but it is crappy.

  • Gift cards & Vouchers that expire

    Lot of people get gift cards with many online retailers or even some offline stores like Dominos, LifeStyle, BigBazaar etc. Most of them have an expiry date which makes them wasted when not used. There has to be some platform which connects the buyers at these stores with the...

  • Post Disposal of E-Commerce Packaging

    With the rise of e-commerce in India, the packaging industry is also growing with it, as all the products are delivered either in plastic packets or corrugated boxes. But what happens to these packaging materials after the product has been delivered to the customer? What does the customer do...

  • Dealing with Grief

    In our culture there is an elaborate ritual around Death and the grieving process. Most of the tradition around it, also had a purpose - sometimes as simple as ensuring that none of the family members are left alone to grieve, and they are taken care of. A generation...

  • Caring for Pets

    Increasingly a lot of professionals are starting to get pets. There is an inflow of pedigree pets - be it dogs, cats (sometimes birds) or some setting up aquariums that are becoming common place. However living in metro areas, there are some complications to having a pet. First of...

  • Customer Acquisition Channels for SaaS

    One quick look at Product Hunt - or sites like Beta list - and you realize that there are tons of SaaS products getting launched everyday. Discovery (as you’d notice from the thread where someone talks about a problem and someone is suggesting a product) is difficult. Thats problem...

  • Managing Long Distance Relationships

    With quite a few affluent couples in the city, both work in high profile jobs - often they find themselves in different cities, and at sometimes different countries for a period of time. We are also seeing a lot of younger generation relationships being long distance (and not lasting...

  • Infrastructure for the Indian Web

    If you take a market like India, the web is predominantly in English. Part of the agenda, that perhaps very few are talking about but is much needed, is building the building blocks that make the creation of the regional language web possible (not a force fit but something...

  • Business metrics via a single Email (Everyday)

    After starting a new business, there are a host of other services which one uses. Be it Facebook for Social media, Freshdesk for customer service, Mixpanel for Analytics and WordPress for Blog. There is no single dashboard where all these metrics can be viewed.

  • Managing your kitchen

    Making food involves lot of ingredients, Some of them are frequently used and some are not, Each one has an expiry date and edible products often come in a plastic packing which is then stored in containers after buying, so there is no way of knowing the expiry date...

  • Wedding Planning in Modern India

    Weddings are rather stressful, it is the time when one tries to bridge the generation gap and fails miserably at it. Between the traditions that the parents want to keep and the “fun” and memorable moments that the couple want, there is always a fair bit of friction going...

  • Interactive Customer Service

    Things are fast today. Everyone faces with some problem or the other. What if there was a Customer Service tool integrated with Whatsapp. Things can be done in real-time. No more waiting for Email Replies. No more listening to the Automated voices.

  • Accessing Casting Talent in the Movie Industry

    The Movie industry today works in Silos. New Talent arrives everyday, with aspirations, dreams (and quite a few with talent). Most of them go around by hearing word-of-mouth, meeting different people who act as connectors. Landing a role is mostly a case of luck, and being in the good-will...

  • Pre-Evaluating Movies before Release

    The Indian movie industry is big - Tamil Movie Industry produces roughly around 350 - 400 movies a year. Bollywood produces slightly more than that. Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada are the runner-up movie industries. The problem right now seems to be that while the director has shot the movie...

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