Hey! Aakrit here.
I’m currently a Product Manager at Orange Health Labs, with a Major in Mechanical Engineering and a Minors in Finance from BITS Pilani (Hyd Campus).
Outside of work, I’m interested in these things
– Playing games (Board games, PC games and Dungeons and Dragons)
– Writing
– Swimming
– Solving jigsaw puzzles
– Entrepreneurship (Preferably in personal finance, dating, gaming or health)
If I can help you in any way at all, feel free to reach out to me on LinkedIn here.
Recent Blog Posts
Tasting and comparing 17 different Mango varieties to find the best one
Story behind the idea This project is a dedication to a Mango Affogato that never came to be. Growing up, my parents would bring Mangoes when returning from work and I’d eat one almost daily during summers. Every day, the Mangoes would taste different and I’d wait in excitement to eat them. I guess while…
13 July 2025Making a 2000 piece jigsaw puzzle → Meowsterpiece of Western Art -Sistine Chapel ceiling with cats
Fin. The complete puzzle. How I got introduced to puzzling My adventure with jigsaw puzzles began quite unexpectedly, thanks to my manager at Udaan, Harini. She introduced me to the world of puzzling, and it wasn’t long before I found myself completely immersed in this fascinating hobby. The First Puzzle My first puzzle experience was…
13 July 2025How to choose the best health insurance plan
One of the luckiest things to happen with me, is that I wasn’t hit with anything big before I made a health insurance purchase. Thankfully, nothing has happened ever since. Why buy health insurance? The idea is simple, we’re hedging against risk. Health insurances are not investments. They’re risk hedges. Imagine if you were a…
13 July 2025One spreadsheet for everything personal finance | Financial planner for a lifetime
Why am I doing this project? I grew up in a lower middle class house. I’ve seen my parents struggle to give us a house to live in, an education and I’ve seen them struggle during the days when Dal prices soared during Congress rule. There are some benefits of growing up this way. I…
13 July 2025Solving MealsOnWheels’ Customer Issues
Problem Statement Background This task is all about improving an existing product, Meals on Bikes, a food delivery service where people can order from a choice of restaurants online and have the food delivered to their home. Comments from our feedback form “I’ve tried Meals on Bikes three times now and every time my food…
13 July 2025Cult Fit <> Feature Requests
After a month with Cult, I’ve discovered a love for swimming and fitness—transforming from inactive to actively pursuing health. This blog shares suggestions I believe will benefit both me and fellow Cult users. #1 Timelapse Video for Weight Loss Idea: Leverage Cult’s face-recognition check-in/out system to create timelapse videos showcasing users’ weight loss through facial…
13 July 2025Final assignment of Tech for Product Managers Course by HelloPM
The complete playlist of all the lectures can be found here: Here’s the question given for the assignment: You are in the final round of the shortlisting process for the product manager position at Reddit So far you have cracked the product sense, metrics, and behavioral round well and the team is impressed with your…
13 July 2025My first patent – Design of a unique forceps for Laparoscopic surgeries
In college, I worked on the design, analysis and manufacturing of a Forceps device for Laparoscopic surgery. The forceps was unique because it combined the capability of gripping and doing suction – irrigation into a single device I also got granted a patent for this work recently, years after college ended. The complete repository of…
13 July 2025Building a chrome extension to redact words online that trigger Verbophobia
Why this project: Verbophobia – It’s the fear of specific trigger words. In this condition, hearing, reading or thinking about these words or the mental images associated with these words may cause physical and mental symptoms such as fainting, nausea and panic attacks. Often diseases can be controlled with care. For example, if you have…
13 July 2025Co-Founded BookMyPainting and grew it to 30L+ ARR in college
Introduction In November 2016, I co-founded BookMyPainting with my close friend and then college batchmate, Harshit Soni and scaled it to 30+ Lakhs ARR within a year. This is the story of that journey. The idea was simple: You send us a picture of someone you love, and one of our talented artists will create…
13 July 2025Helping 250+ MBA applicants get admissions to colleges like Cornell and ISB
Introduction In 2018, I partnered with Prashant and Saloni to create a platform that helped MBA applicants secure admissions to top business schools worldwide. In just three months, we facilitated over 250 sales, offering essay reviews and mock interviews. This is the story of that journey. The concept was straightforward: We connected applicants with mentors…
12 July 2025