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Vinay Débrou

Spending your 6 months runway building the wrong-product? 

You can build many versions with AI. Fast & Cheap.  The hard part is judging which one will users pay for. How many users have you listened to? 

Vinay Débrou

Vinay Débrou

Founding Product Designer

CS, IIT Kanpur

Focus

product shaping, prototyping & testing

Experience

5 years

Based in

chandigarh / remote

Teams I have worked with

Kernel
Farcaster
Playground
IIT Kanpur
TokenGrade
RARA Social
Peanut Protocol
Mercatus
Mask
DDBJ
Kernel
Farcaster
Playground
IIT Kanpur
TokenGrade
RARA Social
Peanut Protocol
Mercatus
Mask
DDBJ

Founding teams, consumer products, crypto, health, and research.

Right before the build

You & the team are ready to build. The product is still a moving target.

I work best with technical founders who can build or are already building. The question is what should actually get built before a good engineering team turns the wrong assumptions into months of code.

The goal is not a prettier Figma file.

A reality check from your target users. A product decision you can stand behind before you ask the team to build it.

Talk to users
Make the product clear
Test the risky part
See what breaks
Cut what does not matter
Then build
Talk to users
Make the product clear
Test the risky part
See what breaks
Cut what does not matter
Then build

Before the code gets expensive

The decisions I like to make while they are still cheap to change.

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Make the product clear

Turn the idea in your head into a concrete product: who it is for, what they do, and what matters first.

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Test the risky part

Prototype the part you are least sure about, put it in front of people, and see what breaks before engineering does.

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Give engineering a target

Core flow, states, edge cases, priorities, architecture — enough clarity that nobody is guessing what done means.

A few products I have helped figure out

Different products. Same job: make the important decisions before they get expensive.

Start here

Need help iterating to PMF?

Send me the messy version. A deck, a sketch, a Loom, a rough prototype — whatever you have. We can work out what is still unclear before it turns into months of code.

Send me the current version for a free audit→