one merge conflict away from enlightenment | growth @quarqlabs | building @askbro_io
Joined August 2023
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the road outside our office has been dug up for so long i'm starting to think they're looking for the spark we had back in the summer of 2016
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production budget for @askbro_io's latest ad:
moustache: ₹40
balaclava: borrowed
handcuffs: a gamcha
cop: unpaid (@hrsh_ok)
criminal: unpaid, still tied up
used @askbro_io to buy my first TV.
55” Mini LED. 4K. 144Hz.
₹46,000.
apparently the app I work on can also stop me from making a financially questionable TV purchase.
we love product-market fit 📺
about half our new users @askbro_io ghost the AI chat and go straight to search.
valid. nobody wants a heart-to-heart to buy butter.
but when people do chat, messages run 2.3x longer than their searches.
know the item → search
know the problem → ask
know nothing → doomscroll
ALT Poster on Bro green. Headline: it's not chat vs search. it's how sure you are. A small telescope view with crosshairs locked on one star labelled amul butter 500g, captioned: know the item, one point, search it. A dashed line runs to a star map 2.3 times its size, where stars labelled butter, vanilla, maida, sugar, eggs, milk and candles are joined into a two-tier cake, captioned: know the problem, connect the dots, ask Bro.
day 1 → day 100.
10,000 users.
first 1,000 took us over a month. the last 1,000 took 2 days.
50k+ messages sent. 740k+ products pulled up. 7.3k+ clicks to buy.
team’s growing, @askbro_io's learning, and we’re very quickly running out of table.
the table did not scale. bro did. 🫡
someone told claude "waste the rest of my weekly limit on something ridiculous, you have 10 minutes"
it built an enterprise monitoring dashboard for one (1) rock. uptime: 100% since 4.5B years ago.
escalation path ends at Jeff. Jeff is a pebble.
claude.ai/artifact/LdrzxwUe6…
found via u/AlexiGingerov on r/ClaudeAI 😭🙏
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Spent last week turning @askbro_io's marketing ops into a pipeline instead of a to-do list.
Every system we run - ad platform, product analytics, push, chat - now answers questions in the same place. What changes when you do this isn't speed. It's what you're willing to check.
When an audit costs a day, you audit quarterly and you audit the thing you already suspect. When it costs ten minutes, you check the boring stuff too - and the boring stuff is where the actual problems live.
Built solo. Screenshots are real dashboards, not templates.
→ Meta Ads MCP - campaign audits, placement breakdowns, spend diagnostics
→ PostHog MCP - activation funnels, retention cohorts, latency traces
→ OneSignal - lifecycle push, behaviour-triggered
→ ManyChat - conversational capture
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turned my fingers into a synth
raise a hand → pitch. pinch → filter.
tilt → reverb. all live, all in the browser, no MIDI controller.
open source 👇
github.com/yashx420/palmbeat
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took Bistro by @letsblinkit offline at IIM Bangalore + a WeWork office.
games, free food, fun rewards, and a couple hundred new customers later.
now taking everything I learned about getting people to stop, engage and convert into what we’re building at @askbro_io
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I think most recommendation apps have the wrong idea.
You ask “best places near me” and get 20 options. Now you have a new problem: deciding between 20 options.
Bro (@askbro_io) is meant to work differently.
Tell it your budget, who you’re with, how much time you have, what you’re in the mood for, etc. Then actually talk to it until you find something you want to do.
Basically, stop asking “what’s good?”
Tell Bro what your situation is.
we didn't build @askbro_io to flip it. we built it because we were sick of checking 5 apps and 40 tabs to buy one thing. few days till the rest of you get to stop too
this is the calm before we let bro loose on bangalore
