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Founder and product leader building new products from customer discovery to first paying customers. Enterprise cloud, AI systems and marketplaces.
Author

B. Talvinder

Founder · Product builder · Bengaluru

I build new products and get them to their first customers.

I find the customer problem, build the first useful version, and stay close to the people using it. My work spans marketplaces, education, enterprise cloud and AI.

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Selected work

From an idea to people using it.

Early customers, product decisions and what happened next.

Education · YC W21Pragmatic Leaders

Started with 21 paying students across three countries. Built the learning experience around where they struggled.

First paying customers ↗ Marketplace · 500 StartupsTushky

150+ experiences listed in six months. Real bookings, and a hard lesson about getting customers to return.

Supply, demand and repeat use ↗ Developer product · Public alphaElsewhere

Built from running coding agents on a crowded laptop. Moves workloads to cloud compute with visible source and cost boundaries.

Problem, first build and proof ↗
What I built, what I owned, what I learned.Read the selected work ↗

Now

What I’m building

Companies I run and products I’m putting into people’s hands.

Companies

01Zopdev

Cloud software for engineering teams.

Company · Current↗ 02Ostronaut

Turns conversations on the floor into evidence a business can use.

Company · Building↗ 03Pragmatic Leaders

Helps people build the judgment to lead products well.

Company · YC W21 · Coming soon↗

Products

04Pomelo

A recorder that helps you remember what mattered.

Private beta · iPhoneSoon
05Diagrams for Agents

Helps AI agents explain things visually.

Agent tool · Live↗ 06P.I.G.E.O.N.

Sends you somewhere worth seeing on the open web.

Internet discovery · Live↗ 07PlateLicker

Find the meal worth choosing and get a useful site for every restaurant it recommends.

Food discovery · Live↗ 08Elsewhere

Lets work move beyond the machine in front of you.

Open source · Alpha↗ 09SourceFoundry

Keeps sources fresh for agents and applications.

Open source · Live↗ 10Hukam

A private daily Gurbani reading and reflection practice.

Mac + iPhone · Early release↗ 11Side B

A place for people who listen to music with intent.

Music · Shaping↗
There is more, including smaller projects and experiments.See the complete work index ↗

Before

Things I built before

Education · First companyDigital PACEPast Travel · 500 StartupsTushky2011—2015 Travel · Product chapterOYOPast

Writing

Evidence from building AI systems

New collection · Applied AI systemsAI Systems Need an Evidence Layer

How to separate what a system observed, inferred, proposed and was allowed to do.

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Release disciplineA Green Build Is Not a Working AI Product↗ Controlled evaluationWhy I Refused to Ship a Better Average↗ Product architectureWhat Changes When Judgment Moves Into the System↗
Frameworks, build logs and field notes.Browse all writing ↗