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
The surprising amount of product thinking behind 'Delivering in 10 minutes'
Orange Health Labs collects a blood sample in 15 minutes, and reaches on time 99% of the time. I was on the team that built the customer-facing side of that. This is the Product, Engineering and Design thinking that goes into one small widget most people never look at twice.
14 September 2026Solving MealsOnWheels’ Customer Issues
A product assignment on Meals on Bikes, a food delivery service whose customers were furious about late food and fees they never agreed to. I went through the complaints, the weekly analytics and what the support reps were hearing, and worked out what I would fix first.
15 December 2024Payment Gateway Transactions' Exploratory Data Analysis
A take home exercise on 50,000 payment gateway transactions from a fictional ecommerce app. UPI clears 95% while debit cards and netbanking sit at 47%, which turns out to be a routing and user journey problem rather than a payments one.
30 November 2024Cult Fit <> Feature Requests
A month into Cult I had gone from completely inactive to swimming regularly. These are two things I want as a user: timelapse videos built out of the face recognition check-ins, and a better answer to the no show policy. I wrote proof of concept code for the first one.
17 November 2024Tasting and comparing 17 different Mango varieties to find the best one
A dedication to a Mango Affogato that never came to be. I bought a kilo of every variety I could find, dragged a friend to the Mango Festival at Lalbagh, and then ran an actual scored contest across 17 varieties to settle which one is best.
27 August 2024Building a chrome extension to redact words online that trigger Verbophobia
Verbophobia is a fear of specific words, where reading or even thinking about one can bring on nausea or a panic attack. With diabetes you can control your diet. With this you never know when it will hit you. So I built a Chrome extension that redacts those words before you see them.
27 July 2024Final assignment of Tech for Product Managers Course by HelloPM
The final assignment from HelloPM's Tech for Product Managers course. The brief drops you into the last round of hiring for a PM role at Reddit, in a technical interview with the CTO, and asks you to answer as though you were sitting in the room.
30 June 2024One spreadsheet for everything personal finance | Financial planner for a lifetime
I grew up in a lower middle class house and I still have a very unhealthy equation with money. When I was making 5 LPA I was sure that 15 LPA would fix it. It didn't. So I built a spreadsheet that answers the only question that actually settles the anxiety: will I have enough.
25 June 2024Making a 2000 piece jigsaw puzzle → Meowsterpiece of Western Art -Sistine Chapel ceiling with cats
My manager at Udaan, Harini, is the one who got me into puzzling. It started as a way to spend time with my parents when I moved back home during Covid, and it ended with a 2000 piece Sistine Chapel ceiling painted entirely with cats.
4 February 2024How to choose the best health insurance plan
One of the luckiest things that happened to me is that nothing big hit before I bought health insurance. Health insurances are not investments, they are risk hedges. This is how I thought about which plan to actually buy, and what I would tell anyone starting out.
11 March 2023Helping 250+ MBA applicants get admissions to colleges like Cornell and ISB
In 2018 I worked with Prashant and Saloni to connect MBA applicants with mentors who were already studying at the schools they were applying to. We did essay reviews and mock interviews, priced so that people who would never hire a consultant could afford one. Over 250 sales in three months.
15 May 2019My first patent – Design of a unique forceps for Laparoscopic surgeries
In college I designed a laparoscopic forceps that could grip and do suction irrigation in the same device, so a surgeon would not have to swap instruments partway through. The patent came through years later, long after I had graduated and moved on to other things.
15 August 2018Co-Founded BookMyPainting and grew it to 30L+ ARR in college
In November 2016 I co-founded BookMyPainting with my college batchmate Harshit Soni. You send us a picture of someone you love, one of our artists paints them, and we deliver it wherever that person lives. We went from zero to 30 lakhs ARR inside a year, with over 50 artists across five mediums.
15 March 2018
Upcoming posts
Things I'm planning to write, carried over from the original Notion version of this site.
- My experience at BrightCHAMPS
- My experience at Udaan
- My experience at TeamGraph by Nebulaesoft
- Cool tech we've built at BrightCHAMPS
- UI / UX checklist for pre-release UAT for a product
- Take home assignment for Wishlink's PM hiring process
- How to learn SQL
- How to do job hunting
- Teardown of Atom, a meditation app I've used for over 300 sessions
- Learning to play the guitar and my journey to my first open mic
- BrightBuddy, an AI chatbot for customer issues (work in progress)
- Typical product interview questions and their answers