Harsha Halvi's Blog

I was an avid gamer growing up.

title: My Notes from Getting Real date: 2025-09-30 I know I’m late to the party, but I recently read Getting Real by Basecamp.

title: Scale of Things That Don’t Scale date: 2025-09-30 Doing things that don't scale One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned — in life, in startups, in anything serious — is the value of doing things that don’t scale in the beginning.

title: Making Productivity Work date: 2025-09-30 Productivity After years of trial and error, I’ve found the trifecta that drives my personal productivity: Prioritization, OKRs, and Progress Tracking.

title: A Year of Writing date: 2025-09-30 A Year of Writing I remember it as if it were yesterday when I was still trying to find a good WordPress theme.

title: Obvious Lessons I Have Learned Over the Years date: 2025-09-30 Lessons Learned As I write this, I realize that in less than 2 months I’ll turn 23.

title: The One That Never Was date: 2025-09-30 The One That Never Was Naval Ravikant often talks about living in the present.

title: 30 Day Challenges: One Month at a Time!

title: Curious Case of Smartphone Addiction date: 2025-09-30 Smartphone Addiction About a year ago, I bought an Apple Watch on sale — no real reason, just an early birthday gift.

Superhuman If conversations in 2014 were all about Slack and its clones, come 2019 and the talk is all about an email client.

The best product marketing campaigns follow a very simple road map: “Show it, sell it; hide them, keep them” Show it : Optimize your marketing to get to the “Aha, i knew this was a problem i have and this thing solves/improves it.”

Always add a touch of madness Recently I was talking to a friend of mine and recounted my startup experiences, this time there was a slight difference: I was proud of all of the things I had done instead of being embarrassed about it.

I was talking to a friend and recounting my experiences building multiple SaaS startups and why SaaS is generally a tough nut to break into.

title: Start, Stop and Improve date: 2025-09-30 Perspective can change everything Back when I was running Contactz, I faced chaos: too much to do, too little time, and no outsourcing options.

I have started a couple of SaaS startups, consulted and worked with a few more over the better part of the decade and most of my learnings come from running SaaS products.

Checking off the checklist It doesn’t matter if joined a new workplace, took on the responsibilities as a Product Manager for the first time or are joining another team in the same org as a PM.

Be a broken record!

Its hard to admit a couple of things for me but one of the things I have come to terms with is acknowledging the flaw of me taking the first step and then not looking back.

The iPhone XR I recently picked up an iPhone XR and I just realised that I have been using it for nearly 2 month now as my Primary Device.

It was drizzling in an evening sometime this June or July where i found myself in a rather peculiar situation of sorts.

Don't sweat it out yet “Being a founder isn’t easy” is something that I heard a million times but did not completely understand the sentiment before I actually became one.

2019 is just a few days away and I ended up retrospecting my life, goals and the events that have got me through the year.

I still remember asking my physics teacher as to why can’t I throw my pencil into space when I was in 6th grade: That day I learnt something called Escape Velocity.

An interesting conversation is around app discovery and is one I ended up having with some friends of mine post Mac OS Mojave’s release.

It’s almost a year since I have been using Xbox Games Pass and lord knows how much I have saved over the course by paying 10$ over buying 25-50$ worth individual games and I think the present selection is really good.

Andrew Chen recently talked about “The One That Didn’t Work Out” on Twitter and the whole thread hit me.