Modernizing Processes

16/05/2026

I know Harsh since we were 4 year old, we went to playschool, primary school, secondary school together and then he's been the 2nd employee who joined the company full time.

And the funny part is, for the majority of our life together, Harsh has been a bully to me.
He was always the funny guy in the room while I was always the timid one. Till school days, I had a love-hate relationship with Harsh.

But while he was a bully to me, he always had a big heart. He would trouble me enough to enjoy it himself but then stop when it got to a point where I would get disturbed by it.

Somehow he was always around in everything! I remember he was the first person in our group to start making money.

He would play CS Go for 12-14 hours a day and every other week win some gaming tournament and make a bunch of money and then spend it all on a treat when the group met.

Also, if Harsh is on the table, nobody would need to open the menu card. It was assumed that Harsh would place the order always!

I remember clearly that right before the Covid lockdown, Harsh decided to come back home from San Francisco after a 4 year long stay for his game design course. I had picked him up from the airport. Back then I was pursuing my MBA and MP was just conceived.

Covid lockdown extended indefinitely and Harsh couldn't go back and fate would have it that I need trustworthy people with me and Harsh joined MP - not with a role, not with any direction. Just with a strong work ethic and motivation to do something big together!

Over the years, he wore so many hats at MP, I can't even count. He tried many things, failed in some, excelled in others and eventually figured out what he does best! Harsh literally mirrored my thought process and helped me build the culture, the SOPs, the core operating systems etc. He would be my first call always when we had to tweak anything for the internal system.

In the last year, he stepped up even further. He internalized MP to be his company and with such passion and rigour chose to fully replace me while I could focus on my family business.

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29/12/2023

Here are the top 5 myths about NoCode and their counterfacts.

Myth #1: NoCode cannot scale. ❌

Fact: NoCode has opportunities for you to build a lot of complex stuff already and then you can scale it up by using custom code on top of it. You just need to choose the right direction ✔️

Myth #2: NoCode is for just validating ideas. You will eventually have to build using custom code.❌

Fact: There are so many small businesses which do not need the complexity of code to run their small operations. For them, NoCode can be easily used to build the end product. Using code for them is like using a canon when you can do the job with a small gun. ✔️

Myth #3: NoCode is for beginners. ❌

Fact: The people who can leverage the most out of NoCode are coders. We have a few coders in the team who can do fantastically well with NoCode platforms. They save their redundant time of building simple stuff using NoCode and they do only the complex stuff with code. ✔️

Myth #4: NoCode is only for building simple apps or simple websites. ❌

Fact: NoCode can do multiple different things such as create a back end, create a strong website, create a very powerful internal system using multiple apps, create a lot of automation etc. ✔️

Myth #5: NoCode does not include code. ❌

Fact: NoCode platforms are built by super-strong developers using code. So the back-end technology is code only. ✔️

We hope this clears all the misconceptions around NoCode.

If you still have more doubts about NoCode, drop them in the comments. We shall answer all of them.

25/12/2023

Numbers that speak for themselves. 🔥🚀

Helping our clients save MILLIONS of USD and thousands of hours in app development every month by leveraging Glide & NoCode.

Result?

- A validated idea by quick MVP.
- Actual users and early revenue in weeks.
- Successful fund raise to fuel growth and develop a native app to expand features.

hashtag & hashtag for the win!

20/12/2023

NoCode serves two distinct groups of people the best.

1️⃣ Individuals with innovative ideas.
2️⃣ Business owners, CxOs & management-level professionals.

The carousel covers the following:

- different levels in which individuals come in from two distinct groups.
- the dream outcome they want.
- the problems they face.
- how NoCode solutions like Glide can help.

NoCode allows users from both groups to efficiently implement technological solutions without needing extensive coding knowledge.

P.S. Book a call with us if you fall into any of the 2 groups & need help to build your MVP or streamline your everyday operations using NoCode.
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07/12/2023

Proudly presenting the case study of our work with YourStory Media for their Pitch Fest: an audience engagement app used in TechSparks Bengaluru.

YourStory is India's biggest and definitive platform for startup and entrepreneur-related stories, resources, and research reports.

The PitchFest is a founder-first program by YourStory. It provides:

- a large-scale platform for startup founders to present their business ideas to a live audience, investors and a jury.
- get funding, advice, outreach, growth and more.

The YS Platform wanted to introduce more active & real-time engagement opportunities for the audience with their live pitch format.

Founders, potential investors, and potential customers were the key personas. All of them were looking for the converging signals of confidence and trust.

The challenge was to build an easy interaction format that delivers value to all three personas in less than 10 days of the event.

We rapidly prototyped a fantasy investing league using Glide in a few hours:

- everyone in the audience can be an Angel Investor
- preloaded Investment Wallets with INR 1Cr.
- they can build a portfolio by investing in multiple companies
- like the real world, allocation is not easy, so min 5L and max 20L - once the round is filled, they can oversubscribe.
- apart from investing, they can explicitly mark interest in becoming a customer or investor.

And then refined it over the next few days with multiple features like Admin Console, Analytics, Graphical Charts, Onboarding Guide Reviews etc. (Check the pdf for all features).

And it worked:

- 603 Unique Investors
- 1164 Investments
- INR 152.2 Cr Raised in Virtual Investments
- INR 4.77 Cr - Avg Money Raised
- INR 25.2 Cr – Highest Investment Raised

We built a quick MVP from an idea and helped the YourStory team find PMF and test their thesis all within 14 days.

Drop me a DM if you are quickly looking to build your MVP & validate your idea just like the YourStory team.

P.S. Our Pitchfest app was used in TechSparks Delhi as well on 29th-30th November & the feedback was great again from audience, founders & investors.

P.S.S. The app was built together with Dishank Gandhi under the close advisory of Ksh*tij Shah in our new joint venture Accomplice.

Proudly presenting the case study of our work with YourStory Media for their Pitch Fest: an audience engagement app used in TechSparks Bengaluru. YourStory is…

30/11/2023

Our Founder Manan Mehta, on what kind of clients we have worked with in the past.

27/11/2023

Rechelle Balanzat is one of our topmost clients at Modernizing Processes and the face of the laundry & dry cleaning industry in NYC. Top 5 learnings I had while working with Rechelle in the last 2.5 years:

1️⃣ The art of relationship building:

From the get-go, Rechelle was very clear that she wanted a long-term relationship.

- Many clients say that, but very few believe in building a relationship.
- A relationship has to go beyond transactional benefits.
- A relationship is always two-sided.

Rechelle always made sure that it happened.

- She would go out of the way to give us shoutouts.
- She would go out of the way to include us in her magazines.
- She hosted me when I was in the USA for a grand dinner, and the same thing with Shantanu.

It always kept us highly motivated to work with her.

2️⃣ Perseverance:

We've heard Rachelle's story, and I've seen her work.

We've seen her work really hard to get where she is right now.

She wakes up at 05:00 a.m. to do a meeting with us in Indian time because she wants to make sure that we are fully focused.

It inspires us to keep doing hard work because there's no alternative to hard work.

3️⃣ Out of the box thinking:

To stand out from the crowd and compete with the bigger players, you need to think out of the box.

- Rechelle and JULIETTE have a very out-of-the-box branding for the laundry industry.
- We have not seen any other laundromat promote themselves like Rechelle.
- The kind of graphics & designs she uses are really attention-grabbing.

We have also done something out of the box like that with our project Baarah.

4️⃣ Grit:

Rechelle is a minority in the field of work she is in.

It needs sheer grit and determination to keep making an impact when you are a minority.

And she has always been on top of her work to showcase what the American dream truly is.

5️⃣ The team building & management skills:

Rechelle, just like us, holds her team very closely.

She has had people working with her for years and a very low attrition rate because of her strong team-building skills.

And we've seen the people she works with and they all truly respect Rachelle and the brand, Juliette.

We're sure it's a two-way street and gives us validation to continue doing what we are doing here as well.

With these five learnings from her, we implemented many things in our business as well.

Thank you, Rechelle, for trusting us when we were just beginning and to keep trusting us while we are growing together. I am endlessly grateful.

It's been a fantastic journey, and this is just the beginning.

23/11/2023

Let's hear from our founder about our process!

22/11/2023

Our founder explains why you should use NoCode to build your MVP?

Why should you use NoCode to build your MVP?

21/11/2023

What database should I be using for my Glide app? We get this question very often from our clients, and hence we made this quick post.

Here's a list of databases that Glide currently offers and 1 pro and 1 con for each:

1️⃣ Google Sheets:

Pro: The easiest to adapt and super flexible for all kinds of integrations and triggers.
Con: Becomes slow after scaling beyond 20k records.

2️⃣ Glide Tables:
Pro: Native to Glide. Fastest and most robust database to build if starting from scratch.
Con: Time-based triggers cannot be created. (possible with Google Sheets)

3️⃣ Glide Big Tables:
Pro: Can scale up to 10M records of data.
Con: Limitations with computed columns. Good enough for "read only" apps that don't need summarized info.

4️⃣ Airtable:
Pro: Much better interface than the rest.
Con: Expensive (should choose this only if you are already using Airtable somewhere.)

5️⃣ Microsoft Excel:
Pro: Universal database, easy to adopt.
Con: Microsoft ecosystem is a little more difficult to integrate with. (personal opinion)

6️⃣ SQL (newly introduced):
Pro: The real "software" database.
Con: Higher complexity

That being said, this is a fantastic variety of backend databases to use with Glide to build super powerful internal apps from your existing databases.

Are you still using an Excel interface for your operations in this day and age?