Ramlal Thakur's profile on Product Hunt

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. Results-driven FMCG Sales Professional with 25+ years of progressive experience in sales management, distribution operations, business development, and team leadership. Proven expertise in delivering outstanding sales growth, expanding market penetration, managing large sales teams, and building strong distributor relationships. Strong analytical, leadership, and execution capabilities with a consistent record of exceeding business objectives and driving organizational growth. Working With leading Organizations – VFI, AFI, Hilal foods (Pvt.) Ltd., Lotte Kolson (Pvt.) Ltd., IIL (Bisconni), Millac foods (Pvt) Ltd., & Branchless Banking Business – UBL Omni.

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2d ago

At what point does running your own AI model become worth the extra work?

API costs can get surprisingly high as an app grows so self-hosting open-source models starts to look attractive. But cheaper inference doesn't always mean cheaper overall. You still have to think about GPU costs server maintenance traffic spikes and whether the model gives users the same quality of results. For a small app paying per request feels easier. But once usage grows I wonder if managing your own infrastructure becomes the better option or just creates another problem to maintain. For those who have tried both what made you switch and did self-hosting actually reduce your total costs?

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3d ago

When should a startup say no to its biggest customer?

A customer offers to pay for a feature. The money would help, but the feature only fits their workflow.

Saying yes could fund the next few months. It could also leave you maintaining a second product inside the first one.

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14d ago

How do you decide which customer feedback is actually worth acting on?

We ve had customers suggest completely different things and sometimes the loudest request isn t necessarily the most important one. If you try to build everything people ask for the product can quickly become messy. I m starting to think repeated feedback from different types of users is a much stronger signal than one customer asking for something very specific. How do you separate useful product feedback from requests that only make sense for one person?