Episode 109
How to Turn a Civic Frustration Into a Viral Product (NammaKasa Bangalore Founder POV) - w/ Jyothish

You spend a few weekends building a small web app to track garbage piles in your city. You wake up to 250,000 users and your local government quietly using your tool to clean the streets.
Who this is for
- You are trying to get hired without sounding like everybody else in the pile.
- You would rather hear Jyothish's version while the mess is still fresh than get another polished hindsight sermon.
Key takeaways
- Turn a Civic Frustration Into a Viral Product (NammaKasa Bangalore Founder POV) - w/ Jyothish
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You spend a few weekends building a small web app to track garbage piles in your city. You wake up to 250,000 users and your local government quietly using your tool to clean the streets. It does one thing — lets Bangalore residents drop a pin on a map when they spot uncollected trash, then routes it to the people who can actually pick it up. No login walls, no gamification, no pretending it's a "platform." Just a map and a civic problem.
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