https://kdpisda.in/tag/mvp/Recent content in Mvp on Kuldeep PisdaHugoen-usWed, 28 Jan 2026 10:00:00 +0530https://kdpisda.in/the-video-we-chose-not-to-fix/Wed, 28 Jan 2026 10:00:00 +0530https://kdpisda.in/the-video-we-chose-not-to-fix/<p>The FastAPI proxy had done exactly what I built it to do. It kept the course screen fast, bolted CCAvenue payments onto the edge, and carried us from 2,000 users to roughly 6,000 in three months with about one in ten paying. But the proxy fixed the wrong end of the pipe. It made the <em>metadata</em> fast. It did nothing for the thing users actually came for: the video. And the video had a problem I could not cache my way out of.</p>https://kdpisda.in/ship-first-directus-mvp-happy-thoughts/Thu, 08 Jan 2026 10:00:00 +0530https://kdpisda.in/ship-first-directus-mvp-happy-thoughts/<p>The uncertainty that started this whole thing was not technical. It was a business question wearing an engineering costume: <em>would anyone actually pay to take spiritual-education courses online?</em></p> <p>Tejgyan Foundation is a non-profit. Its teachers had spent years running courses, recording audios, and filming long-form video sessions, consumed mostly on phones, mostly in India, in Hindi and English. The content existed and the audience existed. What did not exist was any evidence that the audience would pull out a card and pay for that content packaged as an online platform. Nobody in the room knew. Including me.</p>