How Kavir Can Be Useful | Startup Advisor

Hi! 👋 I'm Kavir — an experienced product manager, writer, and builder based in Bombay, India. Welcome to my tiny corner of the internet! I’ve led product management for Tier 1 VC (Accel, Sequoia) funded startups including CarDekho and Hashnode. And worked across B2B and B2C in auto, fintech, AI, collaboration tools, and media. Ex-founder of an HR-tech startup. ISB and On Deck alum. I built the car loans platform for CarDekho from scratch leading to $12M in annual disbursals, now operating at $1B disbursals annually. At Hashnode, I led the product roadmap to achieve an 80% increase in new sign-up growth rate and a 52% increase in retention of monthly active registered users. Currently, I am a product builder, creating apps with AI. And advise/consult with startups. I also write a newsletter on product and AI with 5K+ subs. Currently exploring something new ✨ Outside of work, I enjoy pickleball, football, gaming, FIFA, word games, standup comedy, and exploring new places to eat good food.

I love helping with:

🛣️ Product strategy and roadmap

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8+ years experience being a product manager with a founder stint. Most recently drove the roadmap for Hashnode (Series A startup) for Q2 and Q3.

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What I can help with: - Product Specs review, prioritization support, metrics tracking, planning - Guide to set up minimum viable processes - Access to all the product management content I’ve written on The Discourse

🤖 AI Strategy, Prompts, Prototyping

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Created a compilation of ChatGPT prompts for PMs downloaded by 4000+ people and a bunch of AI work at Hashnode, and I have created many live and functioning web apps using AI coding. Here is the list of apps created with live links or demos

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What I can help with: - Insights on overall AI strategy for the product - Help with prompt engineering - Creating live AI-enabled prototypes of new features to get more rich feedback from users, customers, and stakeholders

🎨 Product design review

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Extensive product design knowledge and insights: (example, example, example, example). Experience with web apps, mobile apps, chrome extensions

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What I can help with: - Reviews and advice on customer journey maps, user research, UX, usability testing, high-fidelity mockups and prototypes

🚀 Product marketing + GTM

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Marketing on social: (example), demo videos (example), and PH launch (example, example)

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What I can help with: - Launch/distribution strategy + Product Hunt launch - Community building strategy - GTM strategy - Distribution to audience of 15,000+ (Twitter + LinkedIn + Newsletter) - Distribution to ISB alums - 14,000+ (if in target market)

🛠️ No-code

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Program director of The Product Folks no-code cohort program, no-code app builder (examples), and writer of No-code Shots weekly newsletter

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What I can help with: - Connect with No-code experts/builders to build MVPs in Bubble/Softr/Glide/Webflow/Framer - Help select tools/platforms depending on use case