Product builder and entrepreneur with 13+ years across engineering, SaaS, product, and GTM. Currently building Snezzi.https://nikunjthakkar.com/https://nikunjthakkar.com/posts/dishonesty-business-model/https://nikunjthakkar.com/posts/dishonesty-business-model/We live in a capitalist world, and every man has the right to explore and exploit opportunities.Fri, 28 Feb 2025 09:16:00 GMTstartupsbusinesshttps://nikunjthakkar.com/posts/Navigating-startup-exits/https://nikunjthakkar.com/posts/Navigating-startup-exits/Embarking on the entrepreneurial journey is a thrilling yet challenging path. While statistics indicate that the majority of startups fail, it's essential to remember that failures can lead to valuable lessons and future successes. Recently, I had the opportunity to discuss…Thu, 01 Jun 2023 05:48:00 GMTexperienceentrepreneurshiphttps://nikunjthakkar.com/posts/future-analytics-no-codelow-code/https://nikunjthakkar.com/posts/future-analytics-no-codelow-code/When it comes to analyzing data, many of us struggle. Working with data is messy in more ways than one can count. And one of the reasons that it’s considered messy is that traditionally most data…Mon, 29 Aug 2022 14:34:00 GMTproductanalyticssaasno-codehttps://nikunjthakkar.com/posts/feeling-void-or-filling-the-void/https://nikunjthakkar.com/posts/feeling-void-or-filling-the-void/It’s 4 A.M, and something doesn't let you sleep. And in this state, you stumble upon the story of a founder who is doing really well but is not satisfied with what he has. (Link below). I don't want to be a founder anymore I have seen many kinds of people but mostly they fall…Thu, 02 Jul 2020 22:55:00 GMTexperienceentrepreneurshiphttps://nikunjthakkar.com/posts/presenting-dataone/https://nikunjthakkar.com/posts/presenting-dataone/Hello world! I'm feeling extremely delighted to unveil “DataOne – The Company and The Platform”. Background This is about the journey that I've started few months back after leaving my job and today I'm presenting it to the world as “DataOne”. For those who're here for the first…Wed, 10 Aug 2016 12:38:00 GMTdataonebig dataanalyticsannouncementhttps://nikunjthakkar.com/posts/carving-your-own-path/https://nikunjthakkar.com/posts/carving-your-own-path/Image Credits: https://bestcoverphoto.com/handbag-grass-blurred-path-rural-landscape-twitter-cover-photos/ "When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor." - Elon Musk Struggle Passion Hard work Focus Goals Failure Success These are few…Wed, 20 Apr 2016 13:30:00 GMTexperiencehttps://nikunjthakkar.com/posts/google-code-in-with-fossasia/https://nikunjthakkar.com/posts/google-code-in-with-fossasia/Hello all, Today I'm so excited to introduce Google Code-in, a program from Google to make pre-university students aware with open source software development. What is Google Code-in? Google Code-in is an initiative from Google to provide a platform to pre-university students to…Sun, 29 Nov 2015 14:16:00 GMTgoogle code-infossasiamentorshipopen sourcehttps://nikunjthakkar.com/posts/fossasia-2015-experience-unveiled/https://nikunjthakkar.com/posts/fossasia-2015-experience-unveiled/Howdy? It's strange that I am writing another blog post in such a short time. I along with my colleagues @yourfrienddhruv and @priyankit from Ishi Systems attended Fossasia 2015 and we would like to share our learning with all of you. About Fossasia 2015 If you haven't already…Wed, 01 Apr 2015 12:05:00 GMTfossasiasingaporetravelexperiencehttps://nikunjthakkar.com/posts/fossasia-2015-three-days-smart-city/https://nikunjthakkar.com/posts/fossasia-2015-three-days-smart-city/A lazy programmer like me needs lots of inspiration to write a whole blog post. Fossasia 2015 happened to be one of them. So here I am sharing my experience of attending asia's premier open source event. Fossasia 2015 Fossasia is one of the premier open source event organized…Mon, 23 Mar 2015 20:28:00 GMTfossasiasingaporetechnologyconferencetravelhttps://nikunjthakkar.com/posts/working-as-a-devops-intern-ishisystems/https://nikunjthakkar.com/posts/working-as-a-devops-intern-ishisystems/So it's been so long and I was wondering what should I write? Past few months were full of learning as I was working as a DevOps intern at Ishi Systems so I thought to share my experience on "I can call it hottest buzz word we are listening now a days" - DevOps . I will also talk…Fri, 06 Jun 2014 05:47:00 GMTexperienceinternshipdevopshttps://nikunjthakkar.com/posts/fossasia-2014-greet-meet-and-code/https://nikunjthakkar.com/posts/fossasia-2014-greet-meet-and-code/Today I am gonna tell you about my experience of international open source community meet up. It was Jan 15, when I received email from the organizer that my proposal for the Fossasia 2014 is accepted and I can attend the event. It was Hakuna matata moment for me. The event was…Thu, 17 Apr 2014 19:41:00 GMTfossasiaopen sourcetravelcambodiahttps://nikunjthakkar.com/posts/building-java-framework-the-gsoc-journey-part-ii/https://nikunjthakkar.com/posts/building-java-framework-the-gsoc-journey-part-ii/After a long break I would like to present the second part of our GSoC 2013 journey for the project MOST. After tackling the design issue the second major part was to build the Java framework which handle the Data Migration and provide the interface to access the newly created…Sat, 21 Dec 2013 11:42:00 GMTmostgsochttps://nikunjthakkar.com/posts/tackling-the-design-issue-using-cassandra-the-gsoc-journey-part-i/https://nikunjthakkar.com/posts/tackling-the-design-issue-using-cassandra-the-gsoc-journey-part-i/We often travel across the places and these journeys often teach us valuable lessons which we never want to forget. The word journey not only relates to the journeys we do across the places but it also involves the journeys we do across the time. The time is great teacher but…Wed, 16 Oct 2013 08:17:00 GMTapache cassandradatastaxhttps://nikunjthakkar.com/posts/gsoc-2013-project-proposal/https://nikunjthakkar.com/posts/gsoc-2013-project-proposal/As I promised in my earlier blog post to share my GSoC proposal, you can see the proposal below. Few points to note about writing proposal : Write only relevant information Describe your solution precisely and in brief Express your self. Show your positive points. If you are…Sun, 06 Oct 2013 13:19:00 GMTgsocmostnosqlproposalhttps://nikunjthakkar.com/posts/grabbing-the-tag-of-gsocer/https://nikunjthakkar.com/posts/grabbing-the-tag-of-gsocer/“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it." ― Bruce Lee On one very beautiful morning my friend came to me and started talking about GSoC. Oops :P, I am not a story teller and this is not…Thu, 11 Jul 2013 07:34:00 GMTgsocgoogle summer of codevienna universitydaiicthttps://nikunjthakkar.com/posts/Introduction-to-apache-cassandra/https://nikunjthakkar.com/posts/Introduction-to-apache-cassandra/Apache Cassanrda, simply it is a " massively scalable, decentralized, structured datastore (aka database)". Being an open source high performance database designed for real time transaction and analysis, it provides faster read and write operations which takes just sub…Sat, 22 Jun 2013 17:34:00 GMTdatabaseapache cassandranosql