Sharing a quick self-promo post for a project we launched today.
AskIndra is an early experiment in translating environmental data (air quality, weather, local conditions) into clear, everyday guidance rather than dashboards and numeric indices. The goal is to help people move from information to decisions without needing to interpret charts or scales.
Before building Triloka, we kept running into the same problem: too many tabs, conflicting advice, and a lot of effort just to feel confident about a plan.
Many people install weather or air-quality apps, but over time their usage patterns change: some check them daily, others only during extreme conditions, and many ignore notifications altogether.
As we worked on AskIndra, we tried to understand these real usage behaviors rather than ideal ones.
Many tools today surface environmental information (air quality, weather alerts, heat, UV levels) through dashboards, indices, and numeric scores. While this data is accurate, people often struggle to translate it into concrete decisions in daily life (when to go outside, whether to exercise, what precautions to take).
As we prepare to launch AskIndra, we re thinking deeply about this translation layer between data and action.
From your experience building or using products that deal with environmental, health, or real-world data:
We ve worked in two other eco-systems (India & France), and each has clear strengths and trade-offs in terms of talent density, cost of building, access to capital, speed of decision-making, and openness to risk all vary a lot.
Curious to hear from founders and operators who ve built outside the US:
Which ecosystem punches the most above its weight today?
Where do you see the best balance between talent, capital, and customer access?
Are there cities/countries that are especially strong for specific stages (0 1 vs scaling) or specific verticals (AI, fintech, climate, SaaS, deep tech)?
AskIndra turns real-time weather and air-quality data into clear, actionable guidance for everyday decisions. Instead of dashboards and indices, you ask simple questions and get human-readable answers you can actually use.
Built at Bhaskar Labs, AskIndra is one of the first Indic AI projects focused on making environmental data understandable, local, and decision-ready.
🛠️ Built With:
Environmental data APIs • Normalized AQI pipelines • AI-powered interpretation layer • Conversational UX
As the year wraps up, I ve been thinking about how most founders know reflection is useful, but rarely do it properly. Either it s too vague ( we ll grow more next year ) or too heavy to finish.
Inspired by Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole s Yearly Review, I adapted a short 10 15 minute version specifically for founders, builders, and Product Hunt community members:
Here s the structure if you want to try it quickly:
When someone asks me, "Are you a technical founder?" I don't have a great answer. First, I have a degree in humanities, not CS. I've self-taught code to be able to manage products and work with developers. I also design low to mid-fidelity wireframes, mockups, and prototypes, while driving growth with marketers to hit those business metrics. What's your definition of a non-technical founder? Do you think CS degree is a must?
Was it on accident or did you plan it all along? Was the first choice disappoint you more or the other choice was more attractive? Or have you, for whatever reason, as a person changed? And if you could give advice to a person that hasn't found their "true" career path yet or already have one but is afraid to make the change, what would it be? Really appreciate for any story and insigt Toodaloo!
Someone told me a line, which I thought would be good for a discussion to have: Accept it - "If you can't trust your team to work from home; you don't trust them at all." Ps: I like to work from the office Please share your comments and views on the same.
I ve tried Udemy, Coursera, Skillshare and Youtube. Just hear your thoughts on which you think is the best and if you know any other good ones you can recommend!
I've noticed Product Hunt has added a few gamification features like the "streak" on the landing page as well as badges for the profile pages. I think they are well done because they encourage the behaviour the platform wants to see and at the same time they aren't in your way. The "core" experience of Product Hunt always had a strong game-loop thanks to the upvoting and daily ranking dynamics but it is interesting to see these core ideas still being fleshed out more and more over time. Well done! Question: have you come across other apps or platforms that do gamification really well? Where it feels like part of the thing and not just like a gimmick? Any pointers appreciated!
For most of us here, working means looking at the screen for at least 6 - 8 hours a day by the end of which a brain freeze is likely, that s okay, that s work, we need to make things happen . Question is things you like to do after that to relax, please share with us
Hey PH community, would love some recommendations on this! With all the various legal documentation required to cover our backs while building a product, what are your affordable (free) solutions for these documents at an MVP stage, when a startup doesn't really have the budgets for this stuff?
As a female founder who is the non-tech co-founder of the team, I find myself sitting in a super minority group and get serious anxiety on certain days. Would love to connect with other non-tech / female founders and support the community in any way I can!
