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, programming, product management, and engineering leadership.
In my 17+ years of engineering experience, I have worked at companies like Yahoo!, Urban Company, Hike Messenger and have built large scale data products, payments platforms, messaging systems, platform services, e-commerce systems, logistics management systems and social games.
You can read more about me here.
Current Projects
- apicagent NEW
FREE API that extracts browser, OS, and other device details from user-agent string
- apic-og NEW
FREE API that extracts OpenGraph data from a URL
- apic-ip NEW
FREE API that extracts GeoLocation from an IP address
- soopr TRY
A new kind of content promotion tool for blogs and marketing websites
- humangous
Create public and private guides about yourself; share them safely with others
- cookie
An open source landing website with supporting pages and integrated blog
- moonwalk
A fast & minimalist Jekyll blog theme with clean dark mode
- pincodr
A set of FREE JSON APIs for Indian Pincodes
- 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
- eduwrite
High-quality copy editing service for researchers at an affordable price
- skillsedge
Online cohort based courses for management research
Blog Posts
07 Aug 2022» Designing Microservices
07 Nov 2021» Web3 - old yet new
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
- gupshupy
Unofficial ruby SDK for SMSGupShup's SMS APIs
- gmail-merger
Send personalised emails using gmail to a list of people