A WORK IN CURIOSITY THE PERSONAL COLLECTION / 2026

Yash Shah.

I make things.
And make sense of things.

Products, a book-sharing community, a classroom,
a camera. Different ways of following a good question.

START WITH A QUESTION

Questions I turned into products.

Every project here began with something I couldn't leave alone. Pick one and see where it led.

SWITCHON / PRODUCT MANAGEMENT01 / 04
DeepInspect's public product imageA PUBLIC VIEW OF THE PRODUCT
THE FEATURE QUESTION

I changed a technical feature by starting with the operator's next decision.

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THE SURFACE CHANGES WITH THE QUESTION.Scroll for the full stories
ENGINEER BY TRAINING. BUILDER BY INSTINCT.A few things I've put into the world
01 / PRODUCT WORK

Work I did
with people.

Customer conversations, product decisions, and the work of getting an idea shipped with a team.

SWITCHON / ASSOCIATE PRODUCT MANAGERSHIPPED

Product work at
SwitchOn.

SwitchOn builds AI-powered quality inspection software for manufacturers and recently raised an $8M pre-Series B. I worked in product management there, partnering with customers, sales, design, engineering, and AI teams.

I took features from the customer problem and PRD through to a shipped product, including a new dimensional measurement tool for factory operators.

WHAT CHANGED

Easier training. Clearer mistakes. Less time setting up.

Observed in use, not a measured percentage.
BOOKCHANGE / FOUNDERPERSONAL PROJECT

Bookchange:
people before
the platform.

Bookchange was a peer-to-peer book-sharing platform for passing books between readers. I built the product, listed books, and organised Books & Brews, a readers' meetup that brought the idea out of the screen and into a room.

The project also reached the final audition stage of Shark Tank India. The experience taught me that a marketplace needs a committed community first, and that the strongest part of Bookchange was the moment readers met each other.

If I built it again, I'd begin with that community and let the product grow around what brought them back.

02 / WEBSITES I'VE MADE

Things I made
for fun.

Three live products, each built from a question I wanted to explore.

The actual Accept website
01 / LOCAL COMMERCELIVE

Accept

Buy and sell locally. Let an AI agent handle the back-and-forth.

The question behind it

Can the negotiation happen without the endless messages? Accept handles offers and counteroffers within your limits. You make the final call.

The actual Access website
02 / SHARED MEMORIESLIVE

Access

One night. Everyone's camera roll. Finally in the same place.

The question behind it

Why should the photos from one event stay scattered across everyone's phones? A host creates an album, guests join with a PIN, and everyone contributes.

My actual Fitness dashboard, with weight trends and workout logs
03 / MY DAILY DRIVERLIVE

Fitness

A training log built around how I actually train. I use it every day.

The question behind it

What would a tracker look like if I made it for my own routine? Weight trends, workouts, steps, and personal records, together in one dashboard.

03 / THE PERSON

A few different worlds.
One curious person.

I've worked in software and product, started a book-sharing platform, taught English and maths, and taken a camera along for the ride.

PRODUCT MANAGEMENTSwitchOn

At SwitchOn, I worked across customers, sales, design, engineering, and AI teams to take product problems from discovery to launch.

The story above
ENGINEERINGJohn Deere

I worked as a software engineer at John Deere. That technical foundation stays with me when I work through product decisions with engineering teams.

TEACHINGTeach For India

At Teach For India, I taught English and maths. A different kind of work, with understanding at the centre of it.

LEARNINGIvey Business School

My MBA chapter at Ivey Business School, Western University, adds a business lens to my experience in engineering, product, and founding.

SOMETHING I'M TAKING WITH ME

A marketplace starts with people.
Not a marketplace.

FROM BOOKCHANGE
04 / OFF SCREEN. ON CAMERA.

Taking the
scenic route.

Travel films, small adventures, and a different view of the world.

My YouTube / @yvs272
The thumbnail for my Udaipur travel film

A change of scene.

UDAIPUR / RAJASTHAN
The thumbnail for my Pattaya Highlights travel film

A little further out.

PATTAYA / THAILAND
The thumbnail for my Kasol travel film

A change of altitude.

KASOL / HIMACHAL PRADESH
05 / IN WORDS

Essays.

Nothing published yet.

THE DECISION / SWITCHON
SWITCHON / PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

A product chapter
in manufacturing AI.

SwitchOn builds AI-powered quality inspection software for manufacturers and recently raised an $8M pre-Series B. I worked there as an Associate Product Manager, helping turn customer problems into shipped features.

How I worked

I spoke with customers and sales and marketing teams to understand the problem, wrote the PRD, and worked with designers, developers, and AI engineers to get the product built.

A feature I owned

One project was a new dimensional measurement tool for factory operators. The product had to help them prepare images, classify good and bad examples, and test whether a model could spot defects before cameras were deployed on an assembly line.

The product decision

Experienced operators were comfortable with the existing anomaly-detection tool, so changing the interface created a real learning curve. We made the flow step by step, added guidance and responsive feedback, and let operators go back to find mistakes.

What happened

It shipped. Customers eventually liked the new flow. I observed that new operators were easier to train, mistakes were easier to find, and the overall process took less time as accuracy improved.

These are qualitative observations, not measured before-and-after metrics. The linked product image is public material from SwitchOn.

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THE LESSON / BOOKCHANGE
BOOKCHANGE

People before
the platform.

I founded a peer-to-peer book-sharing platform and learned that the community is the product's first foundation.

What worked

Books and Brews showed me how much better the idea felt when readers were actually together. It was a genuinely good experience. Bookchange also reached the final audition stage of Shark Tank India.

What I learned

The clearest lesson was sequencing: bring a committed community together on one side of the marketplace first, then build around the behaviour that keeps people coming back.

What I'd change

I'd bring a small, specific community together first. Make it easy for those people to exchange books, learn what keeps them coming back, then build around that behaviour.

Final audition stage means an audition milestone, not a televised pitch or finalist placement.