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Scaling E-Commerce: The Power of AI and Automation in Product Tagging

Product Tagging plays a key role in enhancing customer experience and driving business success for ecommerce businesses. Here's how we do it at Fynd.

Fine-tuning Meta’s Llama 2 to power Jio Copilot — Part 2

In the second and final part of our series on Llama 2, we will focus on the various fine-tuning experiments we ran, our experience quantizing the model, and some of the limitations we realised along the way

Fine-tuning Meta’s Llama 2 to power Jio Copilot - Part 1

In this two-part series, we cover everything from our fine-tuning experiments to model quantization and the limitations of Meta’s Open Source Large Language Model — Llama 2. This series has been…

Fynd at Meta Connect 2023 — Presenting Jio Copilot to the world

This year at Meta Connect, we got the incredible opportunity to present Jio Copilot to the world. The two-day event was a showcase of the latest innovations in AI, Mixed Reality, and hardware. There…

CogX Conference Insights: The Future of AI with StabilityAI and Beyond

Explore the cutting-edge world of AI and transformational technology at the CogX Festival with me, Rahul Deora. Discover exciting insights into the latest advancements in AI, with notable speakers like Yuval Noah Harari and Jürgen Schmidhuber.

How does AI impact UX Design Process in 2023?

How does AI impact UX design process? — This is the question that I observe on so many UX driven and product driven agencies as they welcome this new era of Artificial Intelligence tools. With AI…

A comprehensive guide to Microservices

Microservices have emerged as a popular architectural style for building complex and scalable applications. The fundamental principle behind microservices is the separation of concerns, where each…

Demystifying Cyber Attacks: A Comprehensive Exploration of Common Threats

In today’s digital landscape, the threat of cyber attacks looms larger than ever before. Understanding the different types of cyber-attacks is essential for individuals and organisations to safeguard…

Unveiling innovation: What’s in store for theme developers?

Themes are an integral part of Fynd Platform and go a long way in extending the services offered and enhancing customer experience. The appearance and functionality of a Fynd Platform website are…

Fynd your tribe: The art of networking for career success

In today’s fast-paced and interconnected world, building meaningful relationships with your teammates is crucial for personal and professional growth. At Fynd, we understand the value of strong work…

Operators in Python

An operator in Python is a symbol that performs a unique operation on one or more operands. These are standard symbols used for the purpose of logical, arithmetic, identity, membership, and bitwise…

How we transformed copy creation using ChatGPT

At Fynd, we believe in staying at the forefront of technological advancements, and artificial intelligence (AI) is no exception. With our innovative approach, we have been actively embracing AI to…

Design Thinking is an everyday superpower

Design thinking has become a buzzword recently, often associated with creative industries and innovation labs. But the truth is, Design Thinking is all around us, and we use it in our daily lives…

Experience the future of gaming with Frolic

Do you ever feel like your passion for gaming doesn’t pay off? That all those hours spent playing just amount to wasted time? Well, what if we told you that your gaming skills could earn you a steady…

Exploring the latest innovations in Computer Vision

The Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP) is the premier conference in computer vision, graphics, image processing, and related fields. The ICVGIP 2022 took…

A walkthrough of PixelBin’s #1 ranking on Product Hunt

After much research, experimenting, building and testing, the time for our most awaited product launch had arrived. PixelBin was released to the market on 1st Dec 2022, a brand new and productive…

Woman Up: Shining the spotlight on change-makers at Fynd with #LeadLikeHer

International Women’s Day has been celebrated for over a century now, with people and organisations all around the world advocating for women’s independence and equality in the workplace and…

Fynd’s Essential Reading List

Are you looking to develop your leadership skills and take your career to the next level? I’m the type of person who’s always excited and curious to see how a new book will change my life! At Fynd…

Experiencing the future of Retail at NRF 2023

Retail in the US has always been about grandeur: big stores, big events, big consumption and big promotions. The United States is known for its love of big things, and there are various factors…

Gearing for a 10x Fynd at the Annual Awards & State of the Firm 2023!

Excitement was in the air as a day of celebration across all the Fynd offices kicked off in style. It was time for the annual State of the Firm (SOF), a yearly update about our progress, culture, and…

Rise of Boltic: Story of a product finding its footing in a fast-evolving world

In the days before Big Data and DataOps were introduced, data was connected, discovered, extracted, transformed and orchestrated using many tools, this was inefficient and time-consuming from both an…

Life beyond Fynd, what do our people do after laptops shut down?

We all know the term work-life balance, this term has been around for some time but how does this balance look like at Fynd? In a study conducted by Deloitte in 2022, the workplace was found as the…

Goa, the unofficial hangout spot for Fynd’s workcations!

Goa trips with friends have a reputation for getting cancelled, but breaking the stereotype, Fynd successfully plans Goa workcations in both large and small groups. Who was it this time? 2 Teams…

The fresh yet not-so-secret sauce for team building in pyjamas

2022 brought us a mix of unique circumstances that worked in favour of this workcation — easing down of covid restrictions, our projects giving us enough leeway to make this plan happen and Fynd…

If not an activist, at least be an LGBTQ+ ally

June is celebrated as Pride Month in various countries across the globe. The big push in India happened in 2018 when homosexuality was decriminalised by repealing section 377 of the constitution. The…

Exploring the bedrock of positive mental health at Fynd

The Fynd family spreads across the country and it is growing by the minute. For a rapidly growing company, managing such huge & diverse talent takes focused effort! And then you add hybrid work to…

7 Great reasons to work at Fynd

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Productivity Hacks from some of Fynd’s finest

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Reinventing office spaces ~ How Fynd became a Hybrid workplace

In a company known for innovation and constant evolution, it is no surprise that the post-covid work model has evolved into a hybrid setup. Taking into account the varying needs of members working in…

How Fynd’s flexible hierarchy improves personal leadership & growth

Fynd as a company is deeply rooted in technology and innovation. It is, therefore, important to have a structure that also reflects a modern approach to internal work hierarchies. Since the…

Wednesday lunch dates & getting to know my Fynd family

People like me who have joined a new company remotely during the pandemic are aware of the difficulties in adjusting and gelling with new team members. You can’t meet them in person, can’t have tea…

How Erase.bg became #2 product of the day on Product Hunt

Securing top positions in all categories i.e product of the day, week & month. We gained massive visibility which resulted in more than 6x increase in erase.bg web traffic and 9x increase in the…

Fynd Perks & Benefits: What do we have in store for our people?

Given the ever-intensifying talent war in India, what companies can do for their people has become a defining factor for attracting the right talent. What does Fynd do for its people? We counter this…

Top 10 Leadership & Life Lessons from Tokyo Olympics 2020

Olympic games are one of the world's biggest sporting events and you can learn a lot from athletes who devote their life to the game.

Translating the Luxury Experience Digitally

Traditionally luxury brands have long shied away from ecommerce, fearing online retail would dilute the luxury brand’s image and reduce its sense of exclusivity. These brands have also avoided…

Why we started Fynd Academy? Behind the scenes of our EdTech Venture

Fynd Academy is an initiative to provide freshly graduated engineers with a practical learning experience and then employing them in Fynd’s core engineering team. We are building a world-class team…

Introducing Amazon SmartConnect: Discover Effortless Selling with Fynd

Current Covid time has accelerated the process of digital adoption. Now the customer is buying almost everything online. In response to this change in customer behavior, more brands are moving…

Perfect your website navigation with Fynd Platform and improve product discovery

Website navigation needs to be crystal clear, easy-to-follow and least ambiguous as it impacts conversions, bounce rates and sales. A visitor should be able to tour around and find exactly what…

How to Equip Team Members For Any Role

Leonardo Da Vinci is the greatest polymath we have ever known. He was an expert in fields as diverse as anatomy, astronomy, botany to cartography, painting and palaeontology. Da Vinci was also active…

EraseBG: Instant Background Removal for Everyone

This blog is intended to introduce the reader to the world of background removal and share some of the learnings and challenges that came our way when creating EraseBG. EraseBG is an entirely…

How We Scaled Our Marketplace Systems

In this blog we talk about scaling our marketplace systems to accommodate growing number of sellers and our solution of using Kafka partitions to parallelize inventory sync for multiple sellers.

Never lose a customer again, thanks to this new feature by Fynd Platform!

In a business or trade, not all transactions guarantee customer satisfaction. It might take a while to digest this hard-hitting truth — your business which means everything to you, is perhaps not a…

Discovering our Blue Ocean: How we went from competing against Myntra & Amazon to working with them!

Fynd.com is growing rapidly. We had recently surpassed our growth targets and onboarded over a million customers on the platform in under 6 weeks, when an opportunity presented itself. Ola announced…

How Fynd Platform is driving growth and connectivity through video assistance

Customers are not only loyal to the products and brands but are also devoted to few traditional practices. They prefer the experience of physical shopping and having access to products before…

How to use Digital Coupons for Marketing

Coupons are essentially discounts — and everybody loves feeling like they’ve found a bargain. There are a lot of fun coupon strategies that go beyond simple discounts, and each of them can help you…

Opex Workation 2021 — A rejuvenating retreat for the team

‘Workcation’ — a beautifully coined term that straddles a strange line between holiday, remote work, and sabbatical. This has been the year of COVID-19, a tough year where everyone’s lives have been…

How to use campaigns to build rapport with customers on Fynd Platform?

Campaign is the heart of any marketing strategy — whether you want to sell a product, engage with customers, or increase public awareness. It wouldn’t be an overstatement to say that any marketing…

Remote Onboarding

Fynd was one of the earliest tech companies to take the preventive measure of remote working. The aim was to keep the teams, their families and communities safe. At that time we were hopeful that…

Know how Fynd offers smooth order processing to boost retailer productivity

Order processing can be quite hectic for sellers at times, especially for those who have newly started their eCommerce business. There are several reasons for this task to get troublesome —…

We fixed the “Color” extraction problem for E-Commerce

Whattt on earth did you fix in "Colors"? 🤔🤷🏾‍♂️ "A picture is worth a thousand words." So, here it is a picture; what we fixed 😄 Read more...

Introducing Fynd Academy: Fresher to skilled in 10 weeks!

As a Tech company, engineers are everything. They develop products, decode problems, and go beyond when the situation demands. We are currently a 250+ strong team at Fynd. In 2021, we intend to hire…

Workcation 2020: To Enjoy a Vacation, Take Work With You

We started 2020 on a great note. Our team took a trip to Goa! This was before things took a turn all over the world. Thankfully, we made it back safely in the nick of time before the pandemic…

14 irresistible reasons why sellers love creating products on Fynd Platform

When you’ve got a product to sell, it’s crucial to have a clear go-to-market strategy. As a seller, you’re undoubtedly liable for delivering happiness to your customers. On the other hand, any…

Supply’s 2020: Year In Review

Fynd's Supply Team consults with brands and examines if and how to omnify a brand's customer journey. A look at their struggles, and stellar performance in 2020

Business Perspective of GlamAR

For the past year, we have been busy building our SaaS product — GlamAR, to help beauty brands sell Makeup products online. Brands are well-versed in in-store selling as their customers prefer to try…

Technical Gear of GlamAR

Is it the idea and the right mix of talent and passion? Well, all of those are important ingredients but the most significant is a problem statement. There should be a viable need for the product. At…

21 reasons to create your website on Fynd Platform #2020wonbyFyndPlatform

Fynd Platform allows you to create your online website in a matter of minutes. We spoke to 1000+ brands and realized that the biggest fear in starting an online business is the continued aspect of…

AI-Powered: Fashion in Video

ML workflow, ML models like object detection, tracking, face recognition, fashion attribute models are used to automatically extract unique fashion, demo on Emily in Paris

How to sell online in 2021 — A Quick Overview

Businesses around the world have been drastically impacted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and so has the buyer’s decision-making process. When we study the purchase behaviour over the months we see…

Dear Fynd, You had me at hello!

What makes a company great place to work? My first 90 days and the positive experiences since, make Fynd a workplace where I can see myself grow and contribute.

Introducing Fynd Plug-in for Shopify

With the unprecedented effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the country’s retail sector, retailers who want to find synergies within the existing retail structure often hear this buzz word —…

How to boost object detection accuracy by understanding data

How to improve object detection model accuracy to 0.8 mAP on cctv videos by collecting and modifying dataset. Mean Average precision and TIDE analysis. Various COCO pretrained SOTA Object detection (OD) models like YOLO v5, CenterNet etc. Collect public dataset for person detection and various data augmentations.

How we broke into the top 1% of the AWS DeepRacer Virtual Circuit

Part-2 of our AWS DeepRacer presents the ingredients of our high-performance model that got us into the Top 1 percentile ranking in the AWS DeepRacer Time Trial competition for August 2020. We cover how we developed and trained our RL model for time trial racing

How we broke into the top 1% of the AWS DeepRacer Virtual Circuit

This guide covers the important aspects of setting up the AWS DeepRacer environment. Learn how Fynd entered the top 1% global ranking in the AWS DeepRacer

Blitz-Hiring: Scaling our Team Size for Explosive Growth

In April 2019, the talks between Reliance Jio and Fynd were in the final stages. To match the pace, we needed to scale up our team size. I was the sole recruiter in Fynd at that time. And the…

Building a DQN in PyTorch: Balancing Cart Pole with Deep RL

Hi Geeks, welcome to Part-3 of our Reinforcement Learning Series. In the last two blogs, we covered some basic concepts in RL and also studied the multi-armed bandit problem and its solution methods…

How are we building the fastest B2B marketplace of the country?

Uniket bridges the gap between brands & retailers in Tier-2,3 cities for smart wholesale. Improved operational strategies have helped us deliver the fastest B2B marketplace in India.

Introducing Flipkart Assured for Fynd Partner Brands

We are excited to announce a partnership with Flipkart, one of the largest e-commerce platforms in India, to help brands add another marketplace in their arsenal. If you are a Fynd partner brand, you can start selling your products on Flipkart in a few easy steps

Multi-Armed Bandit: Solution Methods

In this blog, we will discuss Multi-Armed Bandits and we will also see how to set up a testbed for experimentation. Multi-Armed Bandit helps us to understand the key idea behind RL in very simplistic…

Reinforcement Learning — A Quick Overview

Reinforcement Learning or RL is learning “What to Do” and how to map situations to actions — to maximise a numerical Reward Signal instead of trying to find hidden structures (as in Machine Learning) however these can be used to maximize the reward.

Fynd Store-More than an Endless Aisle Solution

Omnichannel has emerged as the top arsenal in every brand’s ammunition. Discussions in the retail world are now fixated on the lack of store walk-ins and its impact on the industry. And every…

Fynding Myself: A Journey towards Utopia

This summer, I got the opportunity to work with Fynd as an HR intern. This journey of two months has been an extremely rewarding experience for me. In the wake of a global pandemic where companies…

How Fynd Store Powers Customer-Driven Solutions for Omnichannel?

In December 2016, Fynd launched the ‘Fynd Store’ application to reduce the loss of in-store sales for brands by centralizing the cross-store inventory in a single application and streamlining the…

Launching GlamAR: AR-Driven Virtual Try-On Solution

GlamAR is a live try-on AR solution to help consumers make an informed purchase decision by letting them virtually try out different beauty products right from their mobile phones.

How we Reduced our ML Training Costs by 78%!!

Before starting, let’s get to know each other. I am a Data Scientist turned MLOps Engineer, currently working at Fynd in the AML domain. I love writing code, being around animals, traveling, and…

How we Built Corona Striker: A Game for a Cause

A non-profit initiative by Fynd to build social awareness about COVID-19 in an engaging way. Save the world and Stop the Spread. Play Corona Striker.

How to Build Well-Being in Remote Workplace

The past couple of weeks have been difficult. But hope keeps all of us going. Before the lockdown started, we had released our Remote Work Action plan to establish a baseline for working remotely at…

Introducing Fynd Platform: Supporting Entrepreneurs on their Omnichannel Journey!

Coronavirus hit us at a time when the world was unprepared for such a big adversity. We took the hit together and are trying to steady ourselves. The economy is at a standstill and business…

How to Improve Cash Flows in the Coming Months | Fynd Voices — Ep. 6

COVID-19 has brought most businesses to a standstill. We spoke to 2 of India's biggest retailers, Bata & Soch, for strategies brands can implement to come out stronger from this worldwide crisis

Building a Stronger & Engaged Fynd

We were one of the few companies in India who switched to remote work before it was mandated by the government. Our focus was on keeping our people safe. Since then, we have been updating our habits…

MediaPipe with custom tflite model

Before we get started, here’s a little something about me. I am an ML Engineer who has been working with Fynd for close to 1 year now, and I have worked on quite a bunch of things ranging from Data…

GlamAR — How we built a Real-time Try-on App

We recently released a product GlamAR. It is a live try-on app powered by the Augmented Reality technology of Fynd. With GlamAR, you can give yourself a full virtual makeover to find a look you love…

Workcation: A Mantra To Build A Happy-Team

Travel is on your mind? But, so is work? Then why not travel with your work? Or, how about a “Workcation,” a perfect mix of a fun business trip and inspirational adventure holiday. Workcation is a…

How to Transition to Remote Work in the Face of Coronavirus Outbreak

Shifting to remote work can be disrupting for companies that do not have a remote working policy. In light of COVID-19, companies across the globe are turning to remote work to keep their people…

Driven by Design: Taking Fynd’s Open Learning Culture to the World

The year 2019 ended on an exciting note for us. On December 21st, 2019, we organised our first design meet-up — Driven by Design (D/D) in our office in Mumbai. We received a massive response from…

Introducing Flex Conclave: Sharing Knowledge at Scale

We’re at a pivotal stage of our growth. Our team strength will grow to 300+ this year and we will continue to hire great talent in the future. At Fynd, we pride ourselves on being as flat as…

Introducing FLEX: Fynd Learning Experiences

Success may come overnight but does not depend on chance. To sustain growth, we need to upgrade our knowledge and skills according to changing times. Not once or twice. But constantly! The question…

Relying on this deck to get found (Reliance + Fynd): Discipline & Process Setting for founders

For Fynd, this is the beginning of the next chapter in our lives. What excites us is that, with this investment, not only do we continue with our independence, existing product roadmap, clients and…

How Celio grew their store sales by 12% through Fynd’s Omnichannel solutions

A little over 2 years ago, we launched Fynd Store to help brands plug-in loss of sale at their stores. Fynd Store not only provides product information and availability of inventory at the store…

Making Of Fynd’s Culture Video

In October 2018, during our monthly review meeting for the Open Learning Team where we discuss what skill development session is taken already and make plans for the upcoming months. During the…

What is it like being an Engineer at Fynd

In February 2015, while I was looking to make a move to a full time engineering role and utilise my Python skills better, I was serendipitously introduced to a startup called Shopsense by Ankur…

2 Most Critical Optimisations for Image based Machine Learning

Problems solved using neural networks (Software 2.0) differs from traditional coding style (Software 1.0) in a fundamental manner that the…

Recommending Products that Look Similar

End-to-end deep learning based visual product recommendation, allows one to quickly train in 20 mins various state-of-the-art models in Google Colab.

My Machine Learning Internship at Fynd

This question was not answered immediately, but eventually. I actually realized my learnings from the internships after a few weeks of returning back to the university. The practical experiences gave…

Machine Learning Internship Challenge 2019

Fynd is the world’s first inventory less omnichannel e-commerce company. Since we directly get the content catalog from brand’s stores, we have to validate and often classify many attributes of a…

Your Trust is All We’ve Got!

A few days back some people started a malicious campaign claiming that the Fynd App is phishing your banking information from your phone. This is a blatantly false campaign, orchestrated to spoil…

How we built Workbench Infra from Scratch — Do it once, do it right.

Workbench (WB) is a suite of products designed from the grounds up for the data community. A place to build, share and manage Data and ML projects at any scale. For more info, go through the below…

Recommending Products that Look Similar

Part 1 describes how we equipped our E-commerce platform Fynd with an impressive visual product recommendation feature in just a week’s span with no handcrafted feature or data. The result can…

Building Fynd — A look-back at how our journey evolved

This month Fynd completes 3 years. On October 20, 2015 we released the first version of our App and started operations of fulfilling orders from fashion stores in Mumbai. We have come a long way…

One Data Platform to Rule Them All — Introducing Workbench by Fynd

Today we are releasing the public beta of Workbench — our home-grown tool to help every organization of any size in the world to make better and faster decisions using data. At Fynd, data plays a…

What we learned from Chinese Companies & Consumers — A week of Fynding inspiration in China

The points written here are purely our opinions and observations based on our conversations and experiences from our one week in Beijing and Shanghai. They no way reflect the company’s opinion. We…

What no one tells you about selling online in India

In today’s growing e-commerce space, a marketplace and seller relationship is such that they are busy listing products to drive sales. But selling online is not just listing products and waiting for…

13 Reasons Why You Should Join Fynd

Yes I am talking about the corporate growth, yes I am talking about you — all the employees out there working in xyz company. Don’t you feel a change in the way a corporate treats you. I do! Who…

How to Build your Omni-channel E- commerce Site in 2 Weeks?

Ideally, as a brand, your e-commerce website goals should be an extension of your main offline channel and in-line with your omni-channel strategy. The goal should be able to setup operations by…

Why we stopped supporting Cash On Delivery and are loving it!

COD (Cash on Delivery) is the lifeline of an e-commerce business. Or wait, at least that’s what the e-commerce giants and analysts claim it to be. In this article, we will take you through our…

Scaling Fynd’s Inventory Platform

Being in the e-retail business, I can’t emphasize enough on the importance of inventory. Honestly, I needed more coffee to write this than we needed to build our scalable system. So this blog is all…

Why we sell the way we do?

Vilfredo Pareto, an economist, had made an observation back in the 1900s, that 20% of the Italian population owned 80% of the property. This groundbreaking observation was later adapted to most…

Fresh Fashion Fiesta’18 : Bollywood Inspired-Led Campaign

Bollywood has a huge impact on the daily life and culture in India since decades now. In fact, movies are the mainstay of entertainment and almost a religion in the nation. Attend any Indian wedding…

How to drive additional footfalls to your brand store? | Fynd Voices Ep. 3

While more than 90% of the retail sales in India still happen in-store, retailers are complaining of a sharp decline in store visits year over year. As more and more shoppers continue to research…

Fynd Voices Episode 2: How AND & Global Desi Implemented Omni-channel Retailing

House of Anita Dongre(HOAD) is one of the few organisations who have been able to surpass the traditional norms of retailing. They have incorporated some of the best technologies in their stores to…

Fynd Hackxagon — How we Open-sourced 13 projects in a day!

A few months back we had launched gofynd.io as an initiative to contribute back to the Open-source community. We showcased the product based on machine learning, infrastructure and on few other…

Open Sharing our Pitch Deck for our investment from Google

Earlier this week, we announced the closure of our Series C round of investing led by Google, with participation from our existing investors. Among these structures, each of them have very different…