# Rahul Maurya

> Personal website of Rahul Maurya — founder turned product manager with 8+ years building and scaling products. Open to full-time Product Manager roles, with a focus on AI product roles.

## About

- Name: Rahul Maurya
- Role: Product Manager
- Location: Delhi, India
- Building since: 2016
- Status: Open to PM roles
- Education: BSc, Applied Physical Sciences (Computer Science), Rajdhani College, University of Delhi
- Summary: Founder turned product manager with a knack for building simpler solutions to complex problems. Over the past 8+ years, built and scaled products like Neusearch AI, Crumblyy, CaptionPlus and more, reaching over 5 million users globally.
- Principles: Keeping communication simple; accept and adapt to changes
- Quote: "Keep communication simple. Course correct fast when proven wrong."

## Selected work

### Neusearch AI
- Co-founder, AI search and GEO
- Acquired within 10 months of founding
- AI search, GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) and agentic growth tools for D2C brands
- Led product from 0 to 1; discovery calls, workflow design, Shopify chatbots, product data optimization
- https://www.neusearch.ai/

### CaptionPlus
- Co-founder, TNine Innovations
- Creator app that turns pictures into stories with captions and hashtags
- 3M+ installs; D-7 retention up 35% through AI-powered personalization
- Best App in entertainment at the Prime Minister's AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge
- https://yourstory.com/2020/08/captionplus-app-aatmanirbhar-bharat-challenge-images-hashtag-ai

### Crumblyy
- Co-founder, TNine Innovations
- Mobile app for useful life hacks
- Part of TNine portfolio reaching 5 million+ collective users
- https://bwdisrupt.businessworld.in/article/Crumblyy-An-App-That-Let-You-Learn-Useful-Life-Hacks/24-01-2018-138212/

### AthletiQ
- Personal project, Jan 2025 to Apr 2025
- Solo end-to-end product build
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNCENg3Br2g

### Indian Science Blog
- Personal project, Aug 2014 to Jul 2016
- Community platform for science in India; 1600+ followers
- https://www.facebook.com/IndianScienceBlog

### DU Stack
- Personal project, May 2015 to Feb 2016 (discontinued)
- Study-help site for Delhi University students
- https://yourstory.com/2016/01/art-humanities-students-startup

## Experience

- Website Designer, Finch Technologies (2014–2016): 80+ client projects starting at age 18
- Co-founder, TNine Innovations (Sep 2016–Dec 2022): CaptionPlus, Crumblyy and more; 5M+ users; bootstrapped 6 years; Rs. 35 Lac in awards
- Associate Product Manager, Coding Ninjas (Jan 2023–Feb 2024): Classroom experience; reduced course-extension tickets 31% to 15%; 17% increase in learning goal setting
- Product Consultant, Fabrento (Mar 2024–Present): Furniture rental platform; 23% order conversion lift; Rent AutoPay cutting missed payments by 15%; customer referral program adding 2% new orders
- Co-founder, Neusearch AI (latest): AI search and GEO for D2C brands; acquired within 10 months

## Learning

- AI Engineering Fellowship, Outskill (Apr 2025–Nov 2025): LLMs, RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, AI agents
- General Management Program, Stoa (May 2022–Oct 2022): User research, product marketing, venture creation
- Jagriti Yatra (2016): 15-day, 8000 km entrepreneurship journey; selected from 3000+ applications
- Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp, Bangkok (2019)

## Skills

- Product: Product discovery, customer interviews, A/B testing, funnel optimization, retention design, product marketing
- Growth: ASO, SEO, GEO, email automation, gamification
- Data: Mixpanel, WebEngage, Metabase, SQL
- Design: Figma, Photoshop, HTML, CSS
- AI: RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, vector embeddings, LLM evaluation, AI agents, vector databases
- Platforms: Shopify, WooCommerce, WordPress

## Achievements

- 5M+ collective users across TNine apps (near-zero ad spend, ASO and SEO)
- #1 Best App, Entertainment — PM's AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge (CaptionPlus)
- Top 10 at RBL Bank The Big Pitch 2.0
- Rs. 35 Lac in awards while bootstrapping TNine
- 80+ client projects delivered at Finch Technologies
- 1600+ followers for Indian Science Blog

## Contact

- Email: maurya.rahul111@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/imauryarahul/
- GitHub: https://github.com/imauryarahul
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/imauryarahul
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/buildwrahul
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BuildwRahul

## Site

- URL: https://rahulmaurya.xyz
- Sections: About, Skills, Work, Learning, Experience, Achievements, Contact