This is what my team at my startup SnapShopr has been working on for some time. We are thrilled to announce the evolution of our popular SnapShopr app into SnapShopr platform powered by state-of-the-art in recognition technology including Deep Learning. This is our flagship product for Visual Search and Image Recognition which will help us disrupt ’ search ’ as we know it across verticals one at a time.

Built for brands, retailers and mobile apps we believe SnapShopr platform will better serve our mission of bringing visual search to the masses.

Starting with fashion retail and with focus on fast growing e-commerce industry we are going to deliver you a part of SnapShopr app’s awesomeness that you already know and love in your favorite mobile apps and websites pretty soon. Stay tuned !

“If you are successful, people will try to copy what you do.It’s just a fact of life.But there is a great way to protect yourself from copycats.Make YOU as part of your product or service.Inject what’s unique about the way you think into what you sell.Decommoditize your product.Make it something no one else can offer.”

This is an excerpt from the book Rework by Jason Fried.I think this is really what should be done by founders instead of worrying too much about the competition and copycats in the market.This worked really well for Zappos where the customer obsession of its iconic CEO Tony Hsieh set the company apart from its competitors and Zappos went on to be a billion dollar company with a huge following from its loyal and happy customers.

We at Aincubate are trying something along this line where our values and beliefs are being married with the product experience we want to...

My last post here was about 6 months back.I wrote a post about the startup I was working on without revealing much.Fast forward 6 months and now I have successfully built an AI startup named Aincubate based in Bangalore and it has one of the best AI teams in India right now.It’s still an early stage to predict what will happen to it and its ambitious plans for the future, but having released its first product SnapShopr to an encouraging response from early adopters it looks like its here to stay for a good deal of time.Even SnapShopr itself can grow really big if executed well over the next few quarters.We can only hope and expect it to do well.

I have realized during these last few months while doing the product management for SnapShopr and managing different R&D efforts at Aincubate that the first thing a founder should do is to find a good cofounder and build a very good...

Well,the reason being i’m starting a company that aims to play in multiple fields like Machine Learning,Computer Vision,Robotics and Internet of Things over time and that’s the primary reason behind having an R&D arm of the company from day one.Exciting times ahead !

I recently took a course titled “A Beginner’s Guide to Irrational Behavior” based on the subject Behavioral Economics on Coursera.It was taught by Prof. Dan Ariely, who is one of the major authorities on the subject and is currently teaching at Duke University.

I must say this was the most fun i had while taking a course on Coursera yet.And he has become one of my favorite teachers of all time due to the enthusiasm and spirit with which he taught.The way the class was organized with sometimes funny and mostly informative short lectures,reading materials,interesting quizzes and guest lectures by amazing people puts it among some of the best available courses on any MOOC platform.In six weeks time he was able to explain very abstract ideas like motivation, dishonesty, psychology on money, self-control and emotions with ease and accessibility.The goal of the course,you may ask? To make us...

Everything is an experiment for me.It wasn’t always like this though.

My experiences with different disciplines of human knowledge like Science,Engineering,Design and Business have given me one very important insight that all these fields connect with each other due to the basic scientific methods each one of them has at their foundation.It may be obvious for first two,but the common observation in modern era is that the latter ones .i.e. Design and Business are also more effective and efficient when they have scientific approaches at their base One of the more important ones among them is experimentation.We regularly do experiments to test our hypotheses in a particular field and the results we get guide us on our path to discovery.

Inspired by this idea i started doing more and more experiments with my regular routine.Absence of any wallet most of the time i’m out of my home compels...

It’s pretty clear to people who know me well how hard it has been for me to try everyday to complete my masters degree of three years.I’m already past two and half years of my degree just shy of just 4 more months to complete and i still really don’t know how i managed to stick around for so long for an education which i knew from the very first semester wasn’t really going to be helpful in my life in any useful way.And now that i’m so tightly coupled with some very important people around me in once way or the other that i just can’t take the extreme step of dropping out of school under my current circumstances even when i know that could be the only way i can take up charge of my destiny and do what i love and show to the world what i stood for.

I wish i had just one person to back me now so that i could take the decision and prove what I can do given a few months off everything to...

They say anger can destroy all good things in life if not controlled well.That is true indeed if you understand the patterns in the way most of the relationships end.Then there are careers that end over heated arguments or disagreements-all unnecessarily super-enhanced by anger.

All this however doesn’t mean anger is all that harmful after all.It’s a very powerful form of emotion and has the power to change the world if channelized in the right direction.Taking my own case,for years i’ve been trying to channelize all my anger- mainly consisting of my complicated childhood and years until the spring of youth-in proper direction and all that effort is gradually helping me to have a sharp focus in my career and life.There are times i still get triggered by some specific type of events but i have found getting angry and speaking your heart out at rare occasions could actually lead to a...

The simplest and most generic definition of a startup which is irrespective of its industry,sector and the size is probably the one by Eric Ries,the author of the bestseller The Lean Startup.Here is how it goes :

“A startup is a human institution designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.”