Abhinav Saxena
A body of clay, a mind full of play, a moment’s life - that is me!
👋 I’m Abhinav. I am a generalist with interests in entrepreneurship, software engineering, product management, and engineering leadership.
You can read more about me here. I write notes and occasionally blog.
I also write bite-sized stories in Hindi. Please do subscribe to create more social pressure on me 😂
Current Projects
- apicagent NEW
FREE API that extracts browser, OS & device data from user-agent string
- soopr TRY
A new kind of content promotion tool for blogs and marketing websites
- humangous TRY
Create public & private guides about yourself; share them safely with others
- chhoti si kahani HINDI
छोटी सी कहानी - bite-sized stories in Hindi
- cookie
An open source landing website with supporting pages and integrated blog
- moonwalk
A fast & minimalist Jekyll blog theme with clean dark mode
- microrequests
A Python library to consume microservices more efficiently
- blockr
A CLI tool to help you easily block and unblock websites
- scoop
A Sinatra boilerplate project using Corneal, Capistrano, Puma & Nginx
- skillsedge
Online cohort based courses for management research
- apic-og
FREE API that extracts OpenGraph data from a URL
- apic-ip
FREE API that extracts GeoLocation data from an IP address
Blog Posts
09 Oct 2022 » Notes on CBDC
04 Oct 2022 » Data science libraries in Python and Elixir
07 Aug 2022 » Designing Microservices
07 Nov 2021 » Web3 - new yet old
23 May 2021 » Scoop
15 Apr 2021 » Gurgaon
30 Mar 2021 » Growth Debt - Part 2: Tech Debt
28 Mar 2021 » Growth Debt - Part 1
19 Mar 2021 » Why build Static Websites?
12 Mar 2021 » Hierarchy of Employees' Needs
06 Mar 2021 » Cookie
08 Jan 2021 » Moonwalk
30 Dec 2020 » Elixir Plugs
26 Nov 2020 » Peacetime
01 Nov 2020 » Narrative Chasm
18 Aug 2020 » Microrequests
28 Jul 2020 » Blockr
20 Jun 2020 » Slack Etiquette
08 Oct 2018 » How to engineer an MVP
06 Oct 2018 » Speed and Quality
08 Jan 2017 » From a great consumer product to a lasting tech giant
10 Dec 2016 » GCP vs AWS
08 Nov 2016 » Start up vs Big Company
27 Oct 2016 » Inflation
22 Oct 2016 » Digital Colonies
26 Sep 2015 » Game Theory and Public Systems
15 Aug 2015 » Speed
04 Jul 2015 » Ten years
06 Jun 2015 » Growing startups and technical debt
05 May 2015 » The Country of the Blind
26 Apr 2015 » Future of Mobile Apps
23 Jun 2011 » What is your good name?
15 Apr 2011 » Motive Matters
Old Projects
- schedulr
Web service for invoking delayed triggers or jobs through callback
- webhooks
Web service to help you enable webhooks for your system
- mudra
Web service for virtual points and wallet system
- pincodr
A set of FREE JSON APIs for Indian Pincodes
- gupshupy
Unofficial ruby SDK for SMSGupShup's SMS APIs
- gmail-merger
Send personalised emails using gmail to a list of people