Anshuman Dhar on Designing at Beyond

We often spend too much time in the “beauty parlor”… and end up missing the party. This is exactly what happens with many founders. They spend months (sometimes years) perfecting: UI/UX Architecture Features But by the time they launch… ❌ The market has moved on ❌ Competitors have already shipped ❌ The opportunity is gone The truth is simple: 👉 The market rewards speed, not perfection. 👉 Users care about value, not polish. Build fast. Ship early. Learn faster. Because in startups: Done > Perfect. Always.

🚀 This launch hits different when you’ve built every pixel of it. And honestly— This wasn’t a “ship a feature and move on” kind of project. It felt like breaking everything… and rebuilding how work should feel from the ground up. For months, one question kept coming back: 👉 Why does work still feel so messy, even with so many tools? Too many tabs. Too much context switching. Too much “where did that go?” So instead of stacking more UI on top… We reimagined the experience itself. Here’s what we brought to life: ✨ Infinite Memory — nothing gets lost ⚡ Infinite Orchestration — everything actually connects 🧠 One Intelligent System — not 10 tools duct-taped together From a frontend perspective, the real challenge wasn’t just building screens— It was crafting flow. → Reducing friction at every step → Making complex systems feel simple → Designing interactions that just make sense Every pixel. Every transition. Every state — intentional. Because great products aren’t just built on logic… They’re felt through experience. Seeing it all come together and go live today— That feeling is hard to describe. Kroolo 2.0 is here 🔥 Proud to have built this. 👇 Watch the demo & tell me honestly — what stands out? #Kroolo2 #FrontendDevelopment #BuildInPublic #DeveloperLife #UIUX #ProductLaunch #AI #Startups #Tech

A small shift I often suggest to founders:  Stop thinking in features. Start thinking in user Moments. Not screens to look at, not modules to work with, not endless to-do lists of features to build. Moments - The exact moment when a user interacts with your product and expects something to work… effortlessly. For example:  - The moment a user signs up for the first time  - The moment they try to get value from your product  - The moment they decide if this is worth coming back to If these moments are clear and make them easy to use, your product feels intuitive. And if you don't, then a bunch of extra features isn't going to fix it. In early-stage product development, it’s easy to drift toward building more than what truly matters. But that's not how users actually experience your product. They don't see it as a list of features. They see it as a series of small moments that add up. And it's those moments - a few well-crafted ones - that can end up creating way more impact than some half-done list of "nice to have's. Founders who get this right aren't just building functionality -they're curating memorable experiences that people return to, rely on and actually care about. That's when real product momentum really starts to build. #StartupFounders #ProductThinking #UserExperience #MVPDevelopment #StartupJourney #ProductStrategy

The #1 mistake I see founders make when building their first MVP? It's not the tech stack. It's not the team. It's not even the budget. It's trying to build the final product on day one. I know, because I did it myself. February 2008. The first thing I built was a product. And instead of shipping something small and learning from real users, we kept adding features. "Just one more thing before we launch." Then another. Then another. By the time we were ready to "go live," the market had moved and we had learned almost nothing from actual customers. That lesson cost me years. I've been trying to save founders from it ever since. Last year, a founder came to us with a 20-page spec. Authentication, payments, dashboards, admin panel, notifications, analytics, a referral system, and "just a small AI feature." For an MVP. We asked one question: "If you could only prove ONE thing to your first 10 users, what would it be?" He went quiet for a minute. Then said: "That they'd actually pay for this." So we built that. Nothing else. A landing page. A checkout. A Monday.com workflow behind the scenes to handle fulfilment manually. 6 weeks later, he had 8 paying customers — and a list of what they actually wanted next. That list looked nothing like his original spec. The lesson I keep coming back to after 18 years of this: An MVP isn't a small version of your product. It's the smallest experiment that teaches you whether your product should exist at all. Ship ugly. Learn fast. Build what the market tells you — not what the spec tells you. What's the smallest version of your idea you could test this month? #StartupAcceleration #MVP #ProductDevelopment #TechLeadership #Emvigotech

What if 70% of startups fail not because of bad code , but because they never tested their core idea with real users? Most founders waste months building feature-rich products nobody asked for. A true MVP strategy isn’t about cutting corners , it’s about running the most efficient experiment possible to prove your value proposition *before* you spend your runway. It starts with a razor-sharp problem statement, targets your riskiest assumption, and maps just one user journey , nothing more, nothing less. The fastest path to validation? Ditch the six-month dev cycle. No-code tools like Bubble.io let you ship a live, functional MVP in weeks , not months , so you can learn, iterate, and pivot with confidence. At SA Solutions, we help founders cut their spec down to the vital 10% and launch faster than they thought possible. #MVP #StartupStrategy #NoCode #ProductValidation #Founders 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dkZ8M8HK

“Let’s move fast and launch as soon as possible.” We hear this in almost every early conversation. And we understand it - speed matters. Markets move, competitors appear, and no one wants to be late. But after years working with teams at Sky-High, we’ve seen the other side: Speed without validation doesn’t save time - it multiplies waste. 🔍 What Happens When You Rush to Launch At first, everything feels productive: - features are being built quickly - timelines look aggressive (in a good way) - the team is busy and motivated But then reality hits: ❌ Users don’t understand the product ❌ Key features go unused ❌ Retention is low ❌ Feedback is unclear or contradictory ❌ Teams start guessing what to fix next And suddenly, you’re not moving fast anymore - you’re rebuilding. 💡 What “Smart Speed” Looks Like Instead The best teams we’ve worked with don’t slow down. They just validate earlier. Before going all-in on development, they: ✅ Test core assumptions with simple prototypes ✅ Validate user flows before writing code ✅ Launch focused MVPs instead of full-feature products ✅ Use early feedback to shape the roadmap ✅ Treat the first version as a learning tool, not a final product This approach doesn’t delay progress - it protects it. 🚀 How We Approach It at Sky-High We always try to balance speed with certainty: 🔹 Rapid prototyping and UX validation 🔹 Clear MVP definition (what’s essential vs optional) 🔹 Early-stage testing with real users 🔹 Iterative releases instead of “big bang” launches The goal is simple: Move fast - but in the right direction. 🧠 A Thought for Founders If you’re planning to launch quickly, ask yourself: “Are we building fast… or learning fast?” The second one is what actually leads to success. 📩 DM us or email skyhigh.sales@skyhighapps.com 📞 Happy to discuss how to validate your idea before investing heavily in development. #SkyHigh #AppDevelopment #MVP #StartupSupport #MobileApps #ProductStrategy #BuildSmart #TechPartner #LeanStartup

Your idea deserves to see the light of day — not sit on a whiteboard gathering dust. We turn concepts into real, usable products in just 30 days. No endless development cycles. No bloated budgets. Just a focused sprint to get your MVP live, in front of real users, and gathering the feedback that matters. From first idea to first user — we help you bridge that gap, faster. If you've been sitting on an idea, let's talk. Your product is waiting. #ProductDevelopment #FromIdeaToImpact #30DayMVP #StartupJourney #TechFounder #BuildFast #MVP #Tecwor

Your competitor just shipped their MVP in 2 weeks. You're still in design reviews from 3 months ago. The gap between 'having an idea' and 'proving it works' is where most startups die. We built AarisX to close that gap. AI handles the repetitive parts (wireframes, layouts, assets). Our team handles what matters—strategy, user psychology, whether it'll actually work. Result? Clickable prototypes. In 5 days. Ready for investors, users, or the market. If you're a founder building something and need proof of concept this week—that's what we do. Let's ship it. 🚀

𝐀 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬 — "𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑓 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑚 𝑖𝑛 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 2 𝑡𝑎𝑝𝑠?" No pitch deck. No fancy roadmap. Just clarity about the problem. Instead of jumping straight into building a full product, we slowed things down. We asked questions. We challenged assumptions. We removed the “𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑒-𝑡𝑜-ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑠.” Together, we shaped a simple MVP — something small, focused, but meaningful. Not perfect, but real. In a few weeks, that idea turned into something people could actually use. Early users came in. Feedback started flowing. Some things worked. Some didn’t and that was the point. Because the goal wasn’t to launch big. It was to learn fast. Today, that same MVP is evolving into a full-scale product — backed by real user insights, not guesses. And honestly, that’s what we love being part of — not just building apps but helping ideas find their first breath. Sometimes, all it takes is starting small… the right way. #MVP #StartupJourney #BuildInPublic #ProductDevelopment #Founders #TechStories #LeanStartup #AppDevelopment #UserFirst #Innovation

When I first came across this corporate innovation stat it didn't surprise me: ~80% of innovation experiments never ship to customers. The thing is, it's not really because they don't work. It's simply because they can't integrate. To me that means integration is the FIRST step, not the last. It totally changes your perspective. Before you start any innovation experiment, answer: 1. "What existing system does this need to talk to?" 2. "Who has to maintain this after we build it?" 3. "What would break if this plugged into our current infrastructure?" If you can't answer all three, you're probably not ready to experiment. I think the Embedded Team Model is one of the best ways of thinking about this. One corporate I talked to ended their innovation lab. They put innovation teams inside business units instead. You can imagine the results: Integration time: 6 months → 3 weeks Experiments that shipped: 12% → 67% Core team resistance: high → almost zero To me, it's obvious why it worked: core teams helped build it, so they helped ship it. If your experiment can't use your company's existing API on day one, you're building in parallel. What parallel means is that it will probably never integrate. Innovation teams optimize for speed of experimentation. Core teams optimize for stability of production. If you haven't been paying attention, these goals conflict. So innovation builds super fast in isolation. Then hits core teams at the end. Then Core teams say something like "this doesn't work, this is breaking our systems." Then the story becomes innovation doesn't work at this company. But that's not quite right. The teams who successfully ship flip this dynamic. They move slower in experiments but integrate continuously. What they build is boring, yes, but at the end of the day it ships. There's a B2B marketing guru called, Chris Walker who talked about "revenue-first marketing." I think the same principle applies here: integration-first innovation. If it can't integrate, it can't ship. If it can't ship, it's not innovation. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it's just an expensive science project. Curious to hear what integration- first would mean to you. #innovation #digitaltransformation #UX #Humancentreddesign #startups #hackhathons