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Co-founder, CEO at @goClueso (YC W23) | Designer & Developer

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4 months
How we raised our $1.4M seed round (and a step-by-step guide to help you raise yours) 👇 read in thread
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Halfway through our @ycombinator batch, over 60% of the startups in our cohort (including us) were stuck pivoting. That’s when @paulg flew in from England to talk about finding a great startup idea. Here’s what he told us: 1️⃣ Turn off the three ‘bad idea filters’: By turning
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Today, we're thrilled to announce @goClueso 's $1.4M seed round led by @F7Ventures , with participation from @ycombinator ! At Clueso, we’re building the fastest way for companies to create studio-quality product videos and visual documentation for customer education and
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We've raised $500k for our new company @_Clueso from @ycombinator ! I first heard about startups from a talk by @mwseibel and @anuraagn of YC at @iitmadras , back in 2020 when we were in our 2nd year of college. Things have now come full circle, and we have our own YC startup :)
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2 years
Welcome to YC, @PJPrakash747 , @BalarNeel , and @_akashanand ! @_Clueso is the fastest way for customer success teams to create guided tours for their app that never go out of date. Learn more: .
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2 years
More than 1 Million minutes have now been spent reading on Desklamp. And we celebrated with a short ad at the intermission of Saturday's OAT movie at @iitmadras ! A heartfelt thanks to all our early users and believers for making this possible :D
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“Indian companies don’t pay for software.” Yet, we’re doing 6-figure $$ in annual recurring revenue (ARR) from our 🇮🇳 Indian customers alone. While the vast majority of our customers at @goClueso are SaaS companies in the US, many of our early adopters were companies in
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Literally getting better 4G connection on Himalayan camps 18,000 ft above sea level than Himalaya mess at @iitmadras .
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2 years
If you lose track of how many balls you've bowled in an over, just say "last two". Everyone will believe you.
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3 years
Here's half of the reason why you shouldn't show up to the mess after 9 am. (The other half couldn't fit in the frame)
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Taking a dump on a hot Chennai afternoon and washing up with the jet spray right after gives a whole new meaning to lighting a fire under one's ass.
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There are just 20 days left to apply for the next @ycombinator batch. Here are some incredible stories of last-minute startup applications that made it to YC: 1️⃣ A week after the YC W23 application deadline, two friends heard that a third mutual friend had been accepted into
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2 years
@meriumdare And the children were Desklamp babies 😊
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2 years
The doors of Alak are riddled with old artefacts from the past. 7 years ago, @atherenergy presented an early version of their first scooter at #cfiopenhouse in 2015. What's the next big thing to come out of CFI? Open House '22 is today at NAC. Be there!
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We got 45+ demo calls booked after a massively successful @saasboomi conference! Here’s how we did it, and how you can make the most of any conference 👇
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2 years
Shouldn't have played Holi today.
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During our @ycombinator batch, our group partners gave us a controversial piece of advice: productivity tools don’t matter. In fact, they believed in this philosophy so much that they convinced us to abandon our startup, Desklamp (which was a productivity tool), and work on
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At Clueso, we ship so FAST, we had to build our own internal tool to keep customers up-to-speed with all the new features we’re launching! In the early days, sending product updates to customers was straightforward: 1️⃣ Create a stunning feature launch video using @goClueso
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2 years
Don't need @LockPickingLwyr for this one. #lockpicking
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3 years
RIP #LataMangeshkar 🙏 A short tribute to @mangeshkarlata .
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5 months
Last week @shank_hiremath came over to watch #RCBvsRR with some brownies. RCB lost and we didn’t eat them. Yesterday, #RCBvsMI was so bad I stress-ate all the brownies. Each brownie had about 350 calories. So today, I got myself to run 12km to burn off the 1k calories from
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2 years
#Zomato is so confused about their USP that they shipped my lunch with #Swiggy packaging today.
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5 months
What’s the most stressful part of being a startup founder in Bangalore? Being an RCB fan.
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2 years
Prajwal: "Who do you cheer for in an England v. Pakistan match? As an Indian, you're kind of screwed."
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1 year
Super excited to launch our @_Clueso <> @loom integration! Get a rich text document with step-by-step instructions and screenshots from every Loom recording! If you'd like to try it, fill out this early access link: #CustomerSuccess #customerservice
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Why did we name our startup Clueso? And how did we design the logo? Last year, @PJPrakash747 , @BalarNeel and I decided to start a new company – an AI-powered tool that would generate user guides for any SaaS app from rough screen recordings. For some reason, the first name
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We can never control our laughter while sending @goClueso product updates to our customers. We have 200+ channels with our customers across @SlackHQ , @discord , @MicrosoftTeams , and @WhatsApp , so it's far too much effort to send updates on each one manually. Instead, we
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2 months
We used @goClueso to transform @goClueso 's customer sales deck into a video! Last week, we launched an #AI -powered PPT-to-Video generator at Clueso. As always, we were the first to use our newest feature. While selling to some of our larger prospects at Clueso, we often send
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2 years
@TeamDesklamp now comes with a brand-new login experience! The new design simultaneously incorporates elements of clean minimalism, as well as sketchy roughness. We wanted to reflect that whether you're organised or messy, Desklamp works the way you do. Go try it out! #uiux
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4 months
1️⃣ 👼 Get your round moving with angels The bulk of your seed round (80%+) will come from 1-3 institutional VCs. VCs, however, will rarely be your first check. The more traction your round has, the more confident a VC will be to invest. To find angels, tap into friends, family,
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11 months
iPhone autocorrecting “omw” to “On my way!” is the most annoying thing on the planet. Yes, it took me four tries to type this post out.
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5️⃣🏃‍♂️Keep at it As technical founders, we love building and talking to users. Running behind investors can be the least enjoyable part of your startup. Still, stick to it. If you can wrap this up now, you won’t have to come back for an extension round later. Even if it takes 2-3
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1 year
How does @LucknowIPL manage to pull off the most ugly-looking jerseys year after year? Tell me that's not the colour of 💩
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9 months
Excited to launch our new offering at Clueso. We’re serving many more use cases! Whether it’s for help guides, SOPs docs or internal training, @_Clueso is the go to place to get high-quality AI-generated videos and articles!
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Y Combinator
9 months
YC W23's @_Clueso helps teams create product documentation using AI. It converts simple screen recordings into comprehensive how-to articles and studio-grade video guides. Congrats on the launch @_akashanand , @BalarNeel , and @PJPrakash747 !
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2️⃣ 🗓 Get meetings with VCs booked Now that your round has traction, talk to VCs. NEVER send cold emails. That makes you look desperate, and VCs only invest in ‘hot’ companies. The BEST way to get investor meetings is through intros from their portfolio companies. Many of our
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6 months
We received roaring applause at @saasboomi in #NammaChennai as @_Clueso AI produced a @HubSpot tutorial video in Tamil! Producing outputs in vernacular Indian languages with accuracy and quality on par with European languages is incredibly challenging. Unlike European
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2 years
Literally just started using @figma again yesterday and it immediately got bought by Adobe for $20B. Give me 5% of your company and I'll start using your app too.
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My trip to 🇯🇵 Japan changed my life. Here are 3 profound lessons any PM, designer, or founder can take from Japanese culture 👇 [A THREAD]
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1 year
Just landed! Thanks for the copy @ycombinator @SurbhiSarnaSF . Can't wait to give this a read.
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Y Combinator
2 years
Surbhi's book is now available everywhere — and to celebrate, we're giving away a free copy to the first 100 people to sign up at
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Last Independence Day, it was nearly impossible to get AI working with Indian languages. This Independence Day, @goClueso AI can create product videos in 10 🇮🇳 Indian languages! Over the last few months, we've seen remarkable growth in the demand for software videos in
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3 years
Pushing v1. 2 was easily one of the hardest challenges for our engineering team this year. Major schema and database upgrades on our backend to reduce cloud costs and increase query efficiency didn't transition seamlessly into the current build. We're finally live though!
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Desklamp
3 years
🔊 A prettier and faster #Desklamp experience has arrived! Here's what's new: ⬇️ Export your notebooks and documents to PDF ⚡ Major UI upgrades to help you find the tools you're looking for faster And we're just getting warmed up! 🚀 Start #reading on
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7 months
I have to honestly confess, I’ve seen our boys lose it so many times from this position, I was preparing myself mentally for another loss. What great nerves from our @RCBTweets girls!
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Royal Challengers Bengaluru
7 months
Not gonna lie, t̶h̶e̶y̶ we had them in the first half and the second 😬 First home game 🤝 First W for the season! #PlayBold #SheIsBold #ನಮ್ಮRCB #WPL2024 #RCBvUPW
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WATCH: #AngeloMathews and #ShakibAlHasan explain how to view the #CricketWorldCup2023 points table on @cricbuzz 🏆 Even their #ai avatars have no love lost! Create how-to videos for your software with @_Clueso , in any voice in under 10 minutes! Never get timed out 😉
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We reused Desklamp’s codebase to launch the @_Clueso web app in less than a week! Can you spot the similarities between the two platforms? Read more:
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Haudu, ee sala 🏆 😭😭
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4 months
4️⃣🤝Take money from whoever offers it to you Do NOT act smart and wait to hear back from the ‘top’ VCs before accepting offers on the table. Don’t try to schedule the meetings such that the “best” funds are first and the “worse” ones are later. Take money from whoever gives it
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3 years
1% of conflicts are due to differences in opinion. 9% are due to delivery and tone of voice. The remaining 90% are due to git being a git. #javascript
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One of the hardest parts of being a perfectionist startup founder is convincing yourself that it's okay to ship features before you think they're ready. We recently expanded our design & dev teams and the control freak in me is having a hard time making sure that everything
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3️⃣👩‍💼 Pitch! Make your pitch conversational. It should NOT be a one-sided presentation. Your slide deck should be <15 mins. Communicate that your market is large. Sometimes tweaks in positioning can make a big difference. For eg, expanding our target audience from just customer
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We fixed @goClueso 's export flow using the first law of UX. This led to an 80% cut in support tickets about how to share videos. In a previous post, I shared the First Law of #UX : A user should know what a button will do before they click on it. In this post, I'll explain how we
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We didn’t design the first version of @goClueso 's AI-powered video editor on @figma . We drew it by hand on a whiteboard. Why? To prevent time wasted by context switching. When you’re designing a new product on #Figma , you don’t want to be thinking about a million things all
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🚀 We launched a brand new website for Clueso, and our calendar has been booked out ever since! Two weeks before our big fundraising announcement, we decided to completely revamp @goClueso 's landing page. The project paid off since we saw a massive spike
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Every once in a while, the time comes for a product to scrap its entire UI and launch a new design from scratch. For @goClueso , that time is now. Over the course of the last two weeks, we redesigned our AI-powered video editor from the ground up based on usage analytics and
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The First Law of UI/UX: A user should know what a button will do before they click on it. Recently, we upgraded the entire @goClueso UI to make the experience more intuitive for our users. This simple rule made a world of difference. 🔴 THE #DESIGN PROBLEM: A marquee feature
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3 months
Had a great time chatting with @Inc42 ! We spoke about the potential for AI to automate content creation for customer education and employee training, and how we’re achieving this with @goClueso . If you’re interested to learn more about our journey, how we came up with the
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In April, the startup raised $1.4 Mn (about INR 11.6 Cr) in its seed funding round led by f7 ventures. The round also saw participation from existing backer Y Combinator. 🔗 To read more in detail, click here 👇 #startups #funding #SaaS (3/3)
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We recently launched a Wall of Love on our new website: As founders, we’re extremely privileged to have such an incredible set of early customers to keep learning from and building @goClueso for. See what some of them had to say below!
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It might look like I'm having fun, but narrating launch videos drove me crazy at my last startup. This led us to build @goClueso . For each video, I would write out the perfect script, set up our mic and recording system, and then read the script aloud. While recording, I would
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O’ captain my captain @mandhana_smriti how did we win that! Outstanding bowling from Shreyanka and Molineux. Incredible accuracy bowling yorker after yorker. Ellyse Perry saved us again with the bat. On to the finals. Don’t want to count any chickens but if we win
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7 months
At @_Clueso , our ARR has been growing 📈 . See if you can spot it in this video of our bank account! For many companies, sharing screen recordings with customers or sales prospects is a nightmare. Sensitive customer information makes it necessary to create dummy environments
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2 years
Man, who knew Kashmir was so hot! 🥵 The sun is blazing and there's not a cloud in the sky. Staying home in Bangalore is a better option for a retreat from the Chennai heat.
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1 year
I need a new way to stay on top of all my WA messages. Is anyone building @Superhuman for @WhatsApp ?
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Akash Anand
11 months
These #ICCCricketWorldCup matches are no longer about whether #india will win. They’re about whether @imVkohli will get his 💯 or miss out because the opposition hasn’t put enough runs on the board. #INDvsNZ
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2 years
P.S: Many of you have rightly been asking for Google sign-in. We hear you loud and clear and we're actively working on building it.
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11 months
Friday night when the lights are low 🕺 @_Clueso night out
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2 years
I've always dissed @hampiholey for his so called "easy runs". I finally tried one today, and I've noticed that more profound ideas strike on an easy run than in the shower or even on the toilet. However, I maintain that these easy runs do nothing to improve your actual running.
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I ran 200 km (124 miles) in 20 weeks this year! Here’s how I fell in love with running to keep myself fit as a full-time startup founder 👇 (A thread )
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2 years
Buying a new mac. Brand new airpods that I absolutely don't need worth ₹14k come free. I'll sell them for ₹10k, DM if you're interested. I can get your name engraved on the case as well.
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Akash Anand
3 years
In these changing times, the only constant is that the folks distributing code-signing certificates still can't get around to confirming our phone number. For all those waiting for the @TeamDesklamp app for Windows, please bear with us a little longer 🙏 #bureaucracy
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6 months
There’s a new pandemic in Bangalore. All @Uber_India cabs have been hit by a mysterious illness that has caused their AC’s to stop working.
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4 months
👨‍🎨 Design: Design is a core competency within the founding team at Clueso, so we built the site ourselves. No design agencies or contractors were involved. Our landing page is the first step in closing deals, so it was well worth the effort to handle it internally. We wanted
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Akash Anand
2 years
We want to give a huge shoutout to @kevinwdavid for hunting us!
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2 months
#1 startup idea for founders in pivot hell: Sell popcorn and Doritos outside the gym.
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2 years
@ShwetaKukreja_ YT and podcasts are good for touching the surface of a topic. To really dive deep into a subject and understand it thoroughly, books are a better option. However, it's easy to zone out and forget what you read. That's why we built @TeamDesklamp !
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@goClueso 's new video embedding option makes it incredibly easy to showcase your product on your website. For eg, we used it to create this interactive demo of our video translation feature: Here’s how we did it: 1️⃣ We used Clueso to make a demo video of Google Docs in English.
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Akash Anand
7 months
@sowmyarao_ Hey @sowmyarao_ , we’re working on similar lines at . If you upload a video walkthrough of your SaaS dashboard, Clueso generates step-by-step documentation and studio-quality video tutorials for your product. Happy to chat if this is what you’re looking
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Akash Anand
7 months
How @vidyoai used @_Clueso to create a playlist of 50+ product tutorials in under 2 months! 🚀 Check out the detailed case study here👇 is an AI-powered content repurposing platform that turns lengthy videos into short,
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@ayushpranav3 @goClueso @F7Ventures @ycombinator Hahah thanks so much! Had to draw the meme on the right by hand 😛
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Akash Anand
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5️⃣ 🧠 Learn: Attend the conference sessions; they offer valuable insights. At SaaSBoomi, I found the sessions on building the optimal landing page by Shruti Kapoor and @Ashwinizer , and Wardley map strategizing by @prasanna_says , especially enlightening. Not to mention the
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Akash Anand
3 years
@judedautre @pranavcondur4 For those looking for a great new digital reading experience, do checkout this app called Desklamp @TeamDesklamp (). Desklamp offers a great way to take notes as you read and collaborate to share your insights with friends reading the same book.
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Akash Anand
4 months
Here are some amazing SaaS websites we took inspiration from: @linear : @LatticeHQ : Senja: @VoiceflowHQ : Our website is still a work in progress. As a startup, our aim is to build
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Akash Anand
9 months
🚫 STOP spending hours of valuable time writing product documentation! Our new AI-powered docs generator writes user guides for you. It even automatically inserts zoomed-in screenshots to make docs more visual! Watch @_Clueso make a how-to guide in the video below ⬇️
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@cmehta85 @saasboomi Haha, definitely huge shoutout to @iimcomic !
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Akash Anand
2 months
1/3 🚽 Design your product like a Japanese bathroom: Japanese bathrooms have buttons everywhere. There are buttons to run the shower, buttons to heat up a bubble bath, and not to mention five different ways to clean your butt after you poop. Despite all the labels being in
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Akash Anand
3 years
Hiring alert 🚨 @keerthanskumar is onto something at Blood51
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Akash Anand
11 months
Today, SaaS companies can leverage AI more easily than ever before to personalize content for their customers. Watch how @_Clueso can create help videos in multiple accents from just one screen recording! Personalizing videos this way fosters brand loyalty and boosts retention.
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Who doesn’t love GIFs? On  @_Clueso , you can now convert screenshots in your documentation into animated GIFs at the click of a button! Here's how: 1️⃣ Upload a screen-recording of any flow/process. 2️⃣ Instantly get a how-to article with screenshots explaining the process. 3️⃣
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Akash Anand
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@sanghvian @ycombinator @paulg @BalarNeel @danielkivatinos @goClueso Ten on ten line. It’s stupidly simple, but hits so hard. Crowd went nuts when he said that.
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2/3 🚍 Serve your customers like a Japanese bus driver: The bus drivers in Japan are amongst the most polite people I have ever met. I don’t think I have friends who get as happy to see me. When you get on, they greet you with a smile, and when you get off, they say a most
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3️⃣ Don’t feel self-conscious on the road: For some reason, everyone feels self-conscious while running, even though no one’s judging. Initially, I did too. The weirdest trick that helped me overcome my self-consciousness was running on the road one day with my shirt off. Once
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If you're thinking of visiting Japan, stop thinking. Go! 🙂
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Akash Anand
3 months
4️⃣ Running on the treadmill is not boring: You can’t always run outside. Sometimes the roads are too busy or the weather isn’t great. Stop telling yourself that the treadmill is boring and find a way to enjoy it. Listen to music, or watch something on your phone while you run.
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@burcs Our new team members are going to love this.
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@realAkashAnand
Akash Anand
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@AnvithReddyN @Superhuman @WhatsApp Wow this looks great! Do you have an invite? Just love the UI and experience of Superhuman. The keyboard shortcuts on laptop and gestures on mobile make it super fast to run through. Gmail is clunky and slow. The different chrome extensions are paid too right?
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