— Bengaluru, India

Gaurav Patwardhan

Product Manager. I find underserved user problems, make the product calls, and ship the solution myself — because building is the fastest way to test product judgment. Four products below, each starting from a real user problem.

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Consumer Product

BLR Neighborhood Explorer

One place to decide where to live in Bengaluru — before signing a lease

Who

People relocating to Bengaluru — new joiners, transferees, anyone choosing a neighborhood in a city they don't know yet.

Why

Choosing where to live in an unfamiliar city is a high-stakes decision made with terrible information. Renters juggle five browser tabs of outdated listings, paywalled livability reports, and word-of-mouth — then commit to a 12-month lease anyway. The job to be done: compare neighborhoods on what actually matters (rent, commute, amenities, weather) in one trustworthy view.

What

A map-first comparison engine that scores 100+ Bengaluru neighborhoods on rent, livability, amenities, and commute — refreshed nightly from live sources, free and open.

  • Interactive map of 100+ scored neighborhoods — click any area to drill into rentals, amenities, and scores
  • Transparent livability scoring across schools, hospitals, supermarkets, and commute zones — you can see why an area scores what it does
  • Live rental listings, weather, and commute estimates aggregated from 4+ sources
  • Nightly automated data refresh — nothing on the map is stale

Impact

100+neighborhoods scored
4+live data sources
Nightlydata refresh
Livedeployed on Vercel

Peaked at around 400 visitors in its launch week, and friends used it to shortlist neighborhoods when relocating to Bengaluru.

How — architecture

NoBroker
OpenWeatherMap
Overpass (OSM)

live sources

Python pipeline

nightly cron

Supabase

PostgreSQL

Next.js API

REST

MapLibre

frontend

Built with

FrontendNext.js, React, MapLibre GL, Tailwind CSS
BackendNode.js API routes, Supabase PostgreSQL
DataPython scraping, Overpass API, OpenWeatherMap
OpsGitHub Actions (nightly refresh), Vercel
AI Product · Accessibility

Inclusive Certification Coach

Certification prep that adapts to how you learn — built for employees the standard training path leaves behind

Who

Employees with accessibility needs (neurodivergent, cognitive, low-vision) preparing for certifications — plus their managers, who need progress visibility without violating the learner's privacy.

Why

Enterprise certification training treats every learner identically. For employees with accessibility needs, that means plans that ignore cognitive load, calendars with no realistic study time, multiple-choice tests that measure recognition instead of understanding, and forgetting curves nobody accounts for. Certifications stall — and the learner gets blamed.

What

An 8-agent AI coach that builds accommodation-aware study plans around real calendars, grades understanding through teach-back instead of multiple choice, and shares progress with managers only on the learner's terms.

  • Day-by-day study plans that respect your accommodations and real calendar gaps — with honest pushback when a deadline is infeasible
  • Practice with cited questions, or explain concepts in your own words (teach-back)
  • Spaced refreshers timed to your forgetting curve
  • You control exactly what your manager sees — redaction enforced in code
  • Screen-reader-friendly narrator for every output

Impact

8cooperative agents
72evaluation checks
decision verification
MS Agents Leaguereasoning track entry

How — architecture

Learner

Streamlit + narrator

Curator
Study Plan
Calendar Negotiator

plan

Assess → Remediate

bounded loop

Orchestrator

advance / loop / escalate

Manager Insights
Advocate

consent-redacted

Built with

Agents8 cooperative agents, hybrid symbolic + LLM reasoning
AIAzure AI o4-mini, Azure AI Search grounding with citations
Quality72 gold-set checks across 8 suites, decisions verified 3×
InterfaceStreamlit + screen-reader-friendly Accessibility Narrator
DataFully synthetic — privacy by design, no PII
AI Product

Fitness Progress Coach

An AI coach that knows your training history — inside the app you already use daily

Who

Lifters following a structured programme who want coaching feedback grounded in their own history, not generic fitness-app advice.

Why

Fitness apps fail at two moments: logging (tedious forms kill the habit) and coaching (generic tips that ignore what you did last week). The user need is a coach with memory — one that references your actual last four sessions, spots your plateau, and tells you what to change. No mainstream app connects logging friction and contextual feedback.

What

A Telegram coach: text one keyword to get your workout template, reply with your numbers, and get feedback grounded in your last four sessions — plateaus and PRs included.

  • Text a keyword (chest · back · shoulder · legs) and get your workout template instantly
  • Reply with sets, reps, weight, RPE — logged automatically, one row per exercise
  • Coaching feedback that references your last 4 sessions — plateaus and PRs flagged
Fitness Progress Coach step 1
Fitness Progress Coach step 2
Fitness Progress Coach step 3

Impact

1keyword to log a workout
4sessions of context per exercise
Dailyreal usage
Liveactive on Telegram

I use it daily to log workouts and get coaching grounded in my own training history.

How — architecture

Telegram

trigger

Router

webhook + switch

Template Sender
Log & Coach

keyword / workout

OpenAI parse
Google Sheets

extract + log

"Marcus" Coach

GPT-4o-mini

Telegram reply

feedback

Built with

Automationn8n (3-workflow agent architecture)
AIOpenAI GPT-4o-mini (parse + coaching)
InterfaceTelegram Bot API (input + output)
StorageGoogle Sheets (one row per exercise per session)
Automation Product

For Job Hunt

Give job seekers their 2–3 hours a day back

Who

Job seekers in India hunting HR/talent roles across fragmented job boards — starting with one very motivated user: me.

Why

Job hunting in India means manually checking Naukri, LinkedIn, Indeed, SmartRecruiters, and Workday every single day. That's 2–3 hours of repetitive scanning before a single application is written — and the cost of missing a fresh posting is real. The job to be done: see only the relevant new openings, twice a day, with zero effort.

What

An automated scout that scrapes 5+ job boards, deduplicates and ranks openings against your resume, and lands a color-coded digest in your inbox twice a day.

  • Curated job digest in your inbox at 9 AM and 6 PM IST — no boards to check
  • Openings ranked by fit: resume keyword match blended with GPT semantic scoring
  • Color-coded relevance for 10-second triage; duplicates removed across a 3-day window
For Job Hunt

Impact

2–3 hrssaved per user per day
5+job boards covered
daily digest
3-daydedup window

How — architecture

Naukri
LinkedIn
Indeed
Workday

job boards

Selenium / BS4

scraping

Dedup + Filter

Supabase + GPT-3.5

Top Matches
Other Openings

ranked by relevance

Email alert

9 AM + 6 PM IST

Built with

ScrapingSelenium, BeautifulSoup4, LXML
IntelligenceOpenAI GPT-3.5 (semantic re-ranking)
DataSupabase PostgreSQL (dedup + retention)
DeliveryGitHub Actions schedule, HTML email via Gmail

About

How I work as a PM

Every product above started the same way: a user with a problem that existing tools ignored. Someone relocating with no trustworthy neighborhood data. A learner the standard certification path was never designed for. A job seeker losing three hours a day to browser tabs. I start from the user, define what success looks like, and make the tradeoffs explicit — then I ship it.

I build my own specs deliberately. Shipping end-to-end is the fastest feedback loop on product judgment: you find out within days whether the scoping was right, whether the friction you dismissed actually kills retention, whether users trust the output. A PM who has felt those consequences writes better specs and makes sharper calls.

I'm most useful where product decisions and execution meet — teams that need someone who can talk to users, define the solution, prioritize honestly, and work shoulder-to-shoulder with engineering because they've done the work themselves.