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Rajesh Raghavan

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Notes on Product, Startups & Psychology. Building @regain_app

Reflection: Word of mouth works when two things click: people love the product enough to talk about it, and the folks who hear about it feel the urgency to try it right away. Products with strong retention earn the love, but they often miss the urgency.


Great story! Huge network effects don't just happen by chance, needs powerful forces (known or unknown) to establish the network.

OK. I will tell the Whatapp story. Remember success has many fathers and we are talking about events 16 years past. Events that did not seems to extraordinary when they are happening. This is the memory of memories, and a lot of detail of that time is now lost. As I remember it…



Product differentiation is no longer needed (and harder to achieve) All one needs is differentiate marketing and going all in on the narrative that works. If product differentiation helps in marketing, great. But not needed, like the seekho example.

Seekho is a short form video app. Format: Reels but for education Makes 4M monthly revenue Zero ads. All subscription. Guess whats their popular course? . . . 'How to update your aadhaar details?'



insane stuff! The last few films have been magical

Leonardo DiCaprio is the rare movie star who never needed a franchise. He’s delivered the biggest openings of Tarantino, Scorsese, and now Paul Thomas Anderson’s careers. A one-man box office event.



Often the biggest growth, both personal and professional, happens when I talk more to myself. I wish I did this more. But it rarely happens.


"You can only meet people as deeply as they've met themselves." Matt Kahn


Bold attempt and right timing when whatsapp is overflowing with marketing spam. Still going to be very hard to establish the network, when whatsapp just works..

Update on our Arattai messenger app: It is another example of our patient engineering approach at work. We have taken the time because we have to make it work in low end phones, low bandwidth networks (we test down to 8 kilobits/sec), offer outstanding privacy and security, and…



This is definitely slop, low taste launch. But why didn't Elon's sex chat avatar recieve the hate it deserved? It just passed by like a meme... so weird. I feel that's even worse.

Excited to share Vibes — a new feed in the Meta AI app for short-form, AI-generated videos.



Highest insight per word on building consumer apps by @scottbelsky , worth listening multiple times. Mirrors a lot of our learnings from building @regain_app , still a long way to go. youtu.be/XYMvtmPGcmU?si…

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most annoying thing about chatgpt right now

ChatGPT voice mode has started taking my custom instructions a lil too seriously. I liked it when it was not parroting them back to me.



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Every few months a post on social media pops up about how "Where is my Train" is a GOAT'ed app. 100M monthly users • Acquired by Google within 2 years of launch. An underdog Indian success story. Documented for the first time on 'The India Notes'. Link 👇


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the last living client of frank lloyd wright, roland reisley, is 101 and has lived in his flw house for 73 years. this quote from him about it made me cry

zoeloveshouses's tweet image. the last living client of frank lloyd wright, roland reisley, is 101 and has lived in his flw house for 73 years. this quote from him about it made me cry
zoeloveshouses's tweet image. the last living client of frank lloyd wright, roland reisley, is 101 and has lived in his flw house for 73 years. this quote from him about it made me cry
zoeloveshouses's tweet image. the last living client of frank lloyd wright, roland reisley, is 101 and has lived in his flw house for 73 years. this quote from him about it made me cry
zoeloveshouses's tweet image. the last living client of frank lloyd wright, roland reisley, is 101 and has lived in his flw house for 73 years. this quote from him about it made me cry


Regain helping a student clear JEE exam with air 443? Never expected in my wildest dreams I guess it's time to run Regain ads like FITJEE or Aakash :P

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I guess it's time to run Regain ads like FITJEE or Aakash  :P

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Many say how respect for craft or etc as important things. I find truely transformative designers focus on the essence of the product over pixels or animation curve it. Why should it exist? How that shapes the underlying interface mental model?

People are finally starting to realise how few truly great designers there are, and how disproportionately valuable they are.



Regain 2.0 is shaping up well ❤️

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Rest up, Lofi Girl. We’ve got everything covered for you. Regain 2.0 is in the works—stay tuned!

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Regain 2.0 is in the works—stay tuned!

girl i just graduado 🎓



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A really important concept to understand in work & life: the Antithesis Principle. It is best explained through some examples, so that’s where I will start this thread. (1/18)


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“A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.” ― Winston Churchill


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