In 2017, Government of India's Department of Sciences and Technology, along with FICCI (The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry), had invited applications for Indian companies, especially small and medium scale companies, to provide technological...

A founder comes up with an idea.  He thinks it’s a great idea. It solves a burning problem for a certain set of people and it will make people come back to it again and again. He sees long-term potential. He is excited. So, the founder sets up a team and starts...

In a way, Amazon’s journey is similar to how an MVP’s should be. The multi-billion-dollar behemoth was started in a garage, with just the bare essentials in place, similar to how basic an MVP needs to be to start off. Did you know that Jeff Bezos zeroed in on the name...

Choosing the right technology partner for your business is key to ensure growth and success of your company. But with so many companies out there, how do you zero in on the ONE? How do you figure out which technology partner will be the right fit for your project, for...

At Akrity, we follow three core principles for every project: Don’t build what you don’t needBuild what you need really wellBuild usage, not features In earlier articles, we discussed the first two principles: Don’t build what you don’t need and Build what you...

If you are a CTO embarking on a new project, one of the most important questions you might need to answer is probably, which is better in React vs Angular? Which framework is ideal for your product? Both React and Angular are open-source products and both have been...

Relevance of hospitals today No matter how mild the symptoms are, most hospitals require patients to be present physically. This has been a practice since ages. The patient has to go through long processes such as registration, consultation, testing, and...

So you have the perfect product idea.  You have validated the product market fit, you have the perfect tech team on board and you have all the necessary resources to execute the project.  But have you checked if your product’s design is user-centred? What is...

At Akrity, we follow three core principles for every project: Don’t build what you don’t needBuild what you need really wellBuild usage, not features In an earlier article, we discussed the first principle, Don't build what you don't need. In this article, we take a...

When was the last time you used the Pythagorean Theorem? Do you remember when the first battle of Panipat was fought? Don’t know about you, but my answer to both the questions is the same: “don’t remember”. Here’s the thing -- most of the things we were taught in...

Did you know that Software-as-a-service, or Saas, came into being in the 1960s? The worldwide popularity of SaaS, however, took a while. It witnessed a phenomenal surge in popularity in the 90s. And it has shown no signs of stopping ever since. Surveys have shown that...

Back in April 2020, we had the pleasure of interviewing Francesco Bovoli, the brilliant Product Thinker, at Bending Spoons. Bending Spoons is a multi-award-winning start-up with accolades such as Europe's best places to work and Italy's best place to work for women,...

One of the biggest mistakes many entrepreneurs make is to try and build a replica of an already-successful product. On the surface, it seems logical.  If a similar product is successful, why reinvent the wheel when you can simply create a replica? In their minds,...

LinkedIn is probably the first platform that comes to mind when it comes to business networking.  Hardly a surprise when everybody you know (and their bosses) are on LinkedIn. As of June 2021, LinkedIn had  a whopping 756 million registered members from 200...

With a bunch of real time data streaming tools and technologies available today, businesses are spoilt for choice. Processing huge amounts of data has now become as easy as snapping your fingers. Take Twitter for example: millions of people tweeting, retweeting,...

Be it social media, banking, shopping or daily online transactions, we all depend on our mobile phones these days. We often share our names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card details and several other personal details daily, without thinking twice! It is therefore...

Any product or app interacts  with users through its features.  A feature can either make or break a product. Imagine if Instagram had not made uploading and editing a photo as simple and joyous as it is today . Would Instagram be as popular as it is today?...

React and React Native are two of the most popular technologies used to build web and mobile user interfaces (UI) today. While React is used to build web applications, React Native is used to build mobile applications.

The moment you say a product is made in Japan, what's the perception you have? That it's of a good quality, durable and trustworthy, right? Did you know that this wasn't always the case? Surprising as it may sound, there was a time when most products built in Japan...

Once, when a friend of mine had come to town, I decided to take her to one of the snazziest pubs in Bengaluru: Bier Library. With its avant-garde furniture, chic interiors and cushy setting makes it an obvious choice for a good time. The fact that it has a roomy,...

Imagine building and launching a product based solely on your gut feeling. You have talked to no one about it, you haven’t validated your idea, haven’t taken customer feedback, haven’t conducted any research… Somehow, you knew your product would work. So, you launched...

In the previous article, we discussed the difference between outsourcing and hiring a technology partner for your new business. We talked about how companies such as Uber, SpaceX and Google hired technology partners when starting out and what the benefits are of going...

What did SpaceX, Google and Uber have in common when they started out? They took similar technology decisions in the early days: they brought technology partners on board. Elon Musk, in a public interview, had said he got as many technology partners on board in the...