Building lean and delightful products at scale. Thoughts on product management, AI, programming, and life.https://shirishkadam.com/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/vibe-coding-with-cursor-how-to-build-a-ios-android-app-without-writing-a-single-line-of-code/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/vibe-coding-with-cursor-how-to-build-a-ios-android-app-without-writing-a-single-line-of-code/I haven’t written a single line of code in over six months. And somehow, I’ve shipped more apps and AI agents than ever before.Fri, 06 Mar 2026 08:04:18 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/im-an-overthinker-journaling-never-helpedso-i-built-something-that-journals-back/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/im-an-overthinker-journaling-never-helpedso-i-built-something-that-journals-back/I’ve tried journaling at least six times. Always quit within two weeks. Not because I’m lazy - but because talking to yourself in silence doesn’t actually help.Thu, 05 Mar 2026 01:51:27 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/pattern-recognition-a-tool-in-your-go-to-market-strategy-planning-pm-notes/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/pattern-recognition-a-tool-in-your-go-to-market-strategy-planning-pm-notes/For the majority of my professional career I have been a builder. Never carried how things were sold, just focused on building them.Sun, 25 Apr 2021 05:08:00 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/how-to-create-document-user-personas-a-framework-pm-notes/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/how-to-create-document-user-personas-a-framework-pm-notes/Building empathy with your target users and identifying exactly what they need from the product you’re designing.Tue, 06 Apr 2021 18:04:26 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/a-week-long-road-trip-in-meghalaya/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/a-week-long-road-trip-in-meghalaya/This December first week I visited Meghalaya for 7 days, initially, it wasn't supposed to be a road trip, but since this would be my first solo trip and I...Sat, 22 Dec 2018 18:41:16 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/lets-catch-up-it-has-been-a-while/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/lets-catch-up-it-has-been-a-while/My last blog post was on 3rd July 17, it has been a long time since I have posted anything here.Sun, 17 Jun 2018 07:53:18 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/nlp-question-classification-using-support-vector-machines-spacyscikit-learnpandas/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/nlp-question-classification-using-support-vector-machines-spacyscikit-learnpandas/Past couple of months I have been working on a Question Answering System and in my upcoming blog posts, I would like to share some things I learnt in the whole...Mon, 03 Jul 2017 11:48:14 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/why-natural-language-processing-can-be-hard/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/why-natural-language-processing-can-be-hard/Following are my notes for the video lectures of IIT-K, NPTEL, NLP course. (Not orgnanized properly, will do them soon.Mon, 13 Feb 2017 09:10:14 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/dependency-parsing-in-nlp/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/dependency-parsing-in-nlp/Syntactic Parsing or Dependency Parsing is the task of recognizing a sentence and assigning a syntactic structure to it.Fri, 23 Dec 2016 08:01:20 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/the-process-of-information-retrieval/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/the-process-of-information-retrieval/A friend of mine published this realy great post about Information Retrieval . I have reblogged it here.Sat, 26 Nov 2016 19:41:04 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/what-are-some-of-the-little-things-your-parents-did-for-you-that-made-the-biggest-impact/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/what-are-some-of-the-little-things-your-parents-did-for-you-that-made-the-biggest-impact/This answer was originally published by me on Quora , answering the question : " What are some of the little things your parents did for you that made the...Sat, 19 Nov 2016 23:00:55 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/a-cognitive-study-of-lexicons-in-natural-language-processing/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/a-cognitive-study-of-lexicons-in-natural-language-processing/What are Lexicons ? A word in any language is made of a root or stem word and an affix.Tue, 01 Nov 2016 19:01:40 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/configuring-intellij-idea-for-electron/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/configuring-intellij-idea-for-electron/In the last blog post on Setting Up Electron Framework for Desktop Apps , we talked about Electron framework and its installation, we also tried a "Hello...Sat, 29 Oct 2016 14:18:17 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/setting-up-electron-framework-for-desktop-apps/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/setting-up-electron-framework-for-desktop-apps/So, I recently came across a bunch beautifully designed and developed desktop apps on my Linux.Sat, 29 Oct 2016 11:14:50 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/setting-up-natural-language-processing-environment-with-python/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/setting-up-natural-language-processing-environment-with-python/In this blog post, I will be discussing all the tools of Natural Language Processing pertaining to Linux environment, although most of them would also apply to...Wed, 05 Oct 2016 19:00:48 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/naive-bayes-classifier-in-python/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/naive-bayes-classifier-in-python/Naive Bayes Classifier is probably the most widely used text classifier, it's a supervised learning algorithm.Sat, 23 Apr 2016 10:50:25 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/flickr-wallpapers-daily-for-linux-mint-ubuntu/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/flickr-wallpapers-daily-for-linux-mint-ubuntu/Linux has very few options for 'Automatic Wallpaper Setter'. Variety is at the top.Fri, 15 Apr 2016 02:37:49 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/dealing-with-compatibility-issues/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/dealing-with-compatibility-issues/Today I was searching for an Ubuntu app called Cuttlefish . But later found out that even though it was such an important utility it was no longer maintained.Sun, 10 Apr 2016 22:27:10 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/insertion-sort/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/insertion-sort/Insertion Sort merely means that we insert one number at a time into its correct position comparing with the numbers to the left of it.Sun, 10 Apr 2016 11:40:02 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/wordcamp-at-mumbai-2016/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/wordcamp-at-mumbai-2016/A blog post by Shirish Kadam.Thu, 10 Mar 2016 07:21:29 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/2015-in-review/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/2015-in-review/The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for my blog.Wed, 30 Dec 2015 15:40:34 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/android-spinner/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/android-spinner/What to do when you have a list and want the user to select one item amongst it. Spinners make this task simpler.Fri, 02 Jan 2015 11:52:42 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/android-intents-and-shared-preferences/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/android-intents-and-shared-preferences/In this example, we are particularly going to learn three things.Fri, 02 Jan 2015 11:38:57 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/android-read-and-display-data/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/android-read-and-display-data/I have been doing Android programming for about a month now and I thought it would be cool to share this experience along with you.Tue, 30 Dec 2014 17:23:14 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/android-development-introduction/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/android-development-introduction/So, you have decided to develop an Android app. Here is how you would start this operation. This post is a kind of a linking one.Tue, 02 Dec 2014 16:53:00 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/linux-mint-17-over-windows-7/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/linux-mint-17-over-windows-7/So, Before I had used Linux I always wondered why people who use Linux go for the hard things when Windows is so simple.Sat, 04 Oct 2014 18:35:23 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/artificial-intelligent-personal-assistant-program-in-c/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/artificial-intelligent-personal-assistant-program-in-c/Lately I have been working on a simple C++ AI project about personal assistant and I am excited to discuss it with you today.Wed, 03 Sep 2014 20:41:10 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/java-swing-guicurrency-converter/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/java-swing-guicurrency-converter/This is a Java Swing GUI program for currency conversion. So basically here we convert one currency to other or vise versa.Mon, 21 Apr 2014 13:57:00 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/java-swing-gui/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/java-swing-gui/In one of my previous posts, I made a C program , which would find the atomic number of an element from a text file and display it.Wed, 12 Mar 2014 10:08:00 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/css-overflow-property/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/css-overflow-property/A few days ago I was working on the design of a website when I faced a problem.Thu, 27 Feb 2014 17:15:00 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/java-math-example-resultant-of-two-forces/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/java-math-example-resultant-of-two-forces/The program below shows how Java can be implemented in math for several applications.Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:59:00 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/how-convert-an-array-to-string/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/how-convert-an-array-to-string/I probably searched the internet a lot to know how to convert an array to string but wasn’t satisfied with the solution.Mon, 03 Feb 2014 16:18:00 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/how-to-convert-a-string-to-an-array/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/how-to-convert-a-string-to-an-array/At times, we need to convert a string in to an array in order to use it in our program so how do we do that.Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:39:00 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/periodic-table-c-program/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/periodic-table-c-program/Hey, I am happy to upload my first program on the internet. This program is written in C language. It is a program to find Atomic numbers of certain elements.Tue, 14 Jan 2014 05:31:00 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/time-difference-calculator-c-program/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/time-difference-calculator-c-program/Using Call by reference I have made a C program to calculate time difference between start time and end time.Sat, 04 Jan 2014 10:56:00 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/how-to-install-c-ide/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/how-to-install-c-ide/The best available Integrated Development Environment for C and C++ is Eclipse CDT. It has all those features you need in your IDE.Sun, 03 Nov 2013 16:17:00 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/how-to-buy-a-wordpress-theme/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/how-to-buy-a-wordpress-theme/Wordpress almost has about 200 to 300 themes for its users. Selecting the appropriate theme is quite important for our blog.Sun, 03 Nov 2013 14:20:00 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/warning-headers-already-sent-solving-the-issue/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/warning-headers-already-sent-solving-the-issue/From last few days, I was pretty upset about a problem I was having with my website Kadam Group .Fri, 31 May 2013 10:57:00 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/hostgator-review/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/hostgator-review/Hostgator is a Web hosting company founded in 2002 by Brent Oxley. In 2006, they were hosting more than 200,000 registered domains.Sat, 11 May 2013 15:45:00 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/how-to-deal-with-spam-comments/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/how-to-deal-with-spam-comments/no spam! Here is the story of my blog a few days ago. I had a half dozen of good posts on it and I was feeling like a star blogger as I was getting almost 30...Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:12:00 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/blogging-tips-for-beginners/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/blogging-tips-for-beginners/I am not a Blogging Guru although I would like to share some of the tips I learnt over past days while blogging and today I am going to share them with you.Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:27:00 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/how-to-add-your-wordpress-website-to-dreamweaver-cs6/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/how-to-add-your-wordpress-website-to-dreamweaver-cs6/Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 is a HTML editor, web development, and designing software by Adobe system released in 21 st April 2012.Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:14:00 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/recommended-wordpress-plugins/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/recommended-wordpress-plugins/Wordpress has lakhs of plugins and it quite hard to select few plugins that suite our requirements.Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:04:00 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/a-guide-to-write-a-best-post/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/a-guide-to-write-a-best-post/Image via CrunchBase Hi Guys, today I will be sharing all that I learnt through Internet, all these days about, How to write a top quality post.Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:25:00 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/designing-a-website-with-css/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/designing-a-website-with-css/A graphical depiction of a very simple css document (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Yup… I know I didn’t blogged recently, I was designing the website www.Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:23:00 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/setting-up-wordpress-on-hostgator/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/setting-up-wordpress-on-hostgator/English: The logo of the blogging software WordPress. Deutsch: WordPress Logo 中文: WordPress Logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia) As I had posted yesterday I...Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:01:20 GMThttps://shirishkadam.com/posts/moving-to-a-new-blog/https://shirishkadam.com/posts/moving-to-a-new-blog/HostGator (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This is the only blog from now on I will be updating regularly as I will be pretty busy with my new website.Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:07:55 GMT