Smilu Varghese's profile on Product Hunt

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I've been building software for over 20 years, growing from corporate trainer to architect, technical lead and project manager. Most of my career has been on large public-sector digital services: secure sign-in, system integrations and award-winning payment platforms. I've led onsite and offshore teams across time zones and cultures, and helped teams modernise legacy systems. That's where KaamGrid came from. On every big project, the real plan lived in a scheduling tool only one person could read, while the team worked from a task board that couldn't say when we'd finish. I built KaamGrid to close that gap: real scheduling the whole team can use. I still love mentoring, so if you're building something too, say hello.

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1d ago

Is Reddit collapsing? Downhill of stocks

After reporting earnings, its stock collapsed 30% in a single day.
It's down 44% in 2 weeks.

Some users started saying that they are fed up with strict moderation rules and user toxicity + AI results directly in LLMs reduce platform traffic.

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5d ago

Board, timeline, or spreadsheet? what does your team actually plan in?

I keep hearing two opposite opinions from teams:

"Gantt charts are outdated. Nobody plans six months ahead anymore. We just work from a board."

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"We tried going board-only, and six weeks later nobody could say when anything would be done."

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6d ago

What do you think project management software's lack these days?

I've been working on project planning tools for a while, and I keep running into the same gap.

On one side are simple task apps. They're easy to use, the whole team adopts them, and they look great. But ask them "when will this project actually finish?" and they can't tell you. They track to-dos but don't schedule anything. If one task slips, nothing else moves.

On the other side is traditional scheduling software. It has real dependencies, critical paths and resource planning. But it's expensive, takes weeks to learn, and usually only the project manager opens it. Everyone else works from an exported PDF that's out of date by Tuesday.

Most teams I've talked to end up with a messy middle ground: a task board for the team, a spreadsheet for the timeline, and a manager quietly re-doing dates by hand every Friday.