Author
Akash Kumar
Founder, Quietfield
Akash runs Quietfield, a long-horizon software studio in Delhi. Previously led product design on Tata Neu, India's largest super-app, where he learned what shipping at scale costs in user attention. He writes here about privacy, design, and the work of finishing things.
Posts by Akash
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How to blur WhatsApp Web messages on a shared screen.
WhatsApp Web has no built-in privacy mode. Blur messages, names, and photos in thirty seconds — with hover-to-reveal so you can read without toggling.
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- #privacy
- #shoulder-surfing
- #chat-privacy-screen
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Why we don't have a roadmap.
What it means for work to be finished, why that is incompatible with a public roadmap, and what it costs to ship without one.
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- #studio-thinking
- #product-philosophy
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The screen you share without meaning to.
Apps are designed for a single person in a private room. Most of us use them somewhere else entirely.
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- #design
- #privacy
- #shoulder-surfing
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On naming a software studio.
The reasoning behind the name Quietfield, the rejected candidates, and the rule that decided it.
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- #studio-thinking
- #branding