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Abid Chowdhury

I talk to users, read the data, and build the prototype myself.

I’m an aspiring product manager transferring to NYU SPS to study Information Systems Management. I start every idea by interviewing people about what they do, not what they say they’d do. Then I turn what I hear into metrics I can test and vibecode a working prototype.

New York, NY · Looking for Summer 2027 product management internships

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Where it started

≈6h
a day, where I started
≈2h
about 10 weeks later. It worked.
≈6½h
now. Then I stopped tracking, and it crept back past where I started.

I was doom-scrolling two ways: for fun, and for “work,” refreshing feeds to see what competitors had shipped.

When I started
≈ 6h a day
My rule
25 minutes less, every week
After about 10 weeks
≈ 2h a day
Then
I stopped tracking
Now
≈ 6½h a day

Both of my projects come from trying to get that time back.

Screenshot of my iPhone Screen Time: 4h 26m so far today, with the week’s average line near 6½ hours.
My phone: 4h 26m so far that day, the week’s average near 6½ hours.

The work

Pawsa

Concept + system design · iOS · In progress

Pawsa’s feature connection map in its “What’s related” view: feature boxes colored by layer (teal for data, violet for logic, amber for UI), among them F01 Companion Selection, F05 Boring Activities, and F14 Shield UI, tied together by a thin line for each dependency.

Screen-time budgeting, not screen-time bans.

Most screen-time apps work like telling a heavy smoker to quit cold turkey: strict limits, no learning, and people give up within days. Pawsa treats screen time like a calorie deficit. It reads your real usage, suggests a budget, and steps it down gradually, with a companion to keep you going. I interviewed 10 people, then designed 30 features and mapped every dependency between them before writing app code.

Read the case study: Pawsa →See how it works →

RivalFed

Shipped · SaaS · Stopped June 2026 · still live

The rivalfed.com landing page: the headline "Know what your rivals did, before you open Slack." beside a sample competitor watchlist.

I shipped it, got 5 signups, and stopped.

A daily 8am email briefing on what your competitors shipped, posted, and hired for, plus a weekly SWOT and capped breaking alerts. I built it to stop my own doom-scrolling and launched it with pricing and a free trial. Five friends signed up, but none of them track competitors or build products, so they couldn’t tell me if it was worth paying for. When Claude’s scheduled tasks made the core job easy to do yourself, I stopped building.

Read the case study: RivalFed →

Missing the Express

Concept · NYC subway · Case study · June 2026

The express is one platform away, and nobody on the train can see it coming.

Every morning my F train pulls into Broadway-Lafayette, where the B and D express stop across the platform. There's no signal underground, so I guess whether to jump off. This case study proposes Connecting Trains: the next arrivals of connecting lines, shown on the in-car and platform screens the MTA already controls. Concept only; nothing was built.

Read the case study: Missing the Express →

How I work

  1. Talk

    Interview people about past behavior, not opinions.

    10 people · Pawsa →
    “Slept at 3, shift at 9, I was scrolling and lost track of time.”A coworker, in one of my Pawsa interviews

  2. Measure

    Decide what number would prove me wrong.

    5 signups, then I stopped · RivalFed →The daily brief card from RivalFed’s landing page: “The morning scan,” a two-minute brief of rival moves, category trends, notable replies, and one opportunity to act on.

  3. Build

    Vibecode the smallest thing that tests it.

    30 features, every dependency mapped · Pawsa →Part of the Pawsa feature connection map: logic and UI features linked by their dependencies.

About me

I like talking to people, finding out what their real problem is, and digging in until I find the fix, building it along the way. I didn’t know that was a job until a friend introduced me to a product manager who posts about the work. That’s when I realized it was what I already enjoyed doing.

Building Pawsa and this portfolio, working on a SQL certificate after finishing IBM’s AI Product Manager certificate, and preparing for Summer 2027 PM recruiting.

Based in
New York, NY
Studying
At BMCC through December 2026 · NYU SPS, Information Systems Management, starting 2027, expected 2029
Work
Authorized to work in the US

Abid Chowdhury

Aspiring product manager

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Let’s talk.

Looking for Summer 2027 product management internships, in New York, NY.

abidhossain1889@gmail.comlinkedin.com/in/abid1889github.com/Abid1889