Narain Jashanmal

Narain Jashanmal has spent the last two decades at the intersection of technology, product and creativity. His career spans senior product roles at Meta — the Facebook Pixel, Instagram Shopping, the Meta hardware store — through to VP of Product at MUBI, where his team won Apple’s App of the Year in 2023.

Today he works independently as a fractional CPO and product advisor, building software platforms and guiding Series A–B companies on product strategy, data infrastructure and go-to-market.

Without a full engineering team behind him, making product changes or “shipping” new features is now different. An idea is only worth as much as the feedback it can attract, and feedback only starts once someone else can open view it. Narain needed a quick way of sharing his projects online.

The obvious options didn’t quite get there. GitHub Pages and Cloudflare Pages were both viable, but each one asked him to maintain local folders, manage sync, and work through setup steps first. None of that is hard. It’s friction between an idea and going live — and paid for by the wasted hours out he could have spent building.

Tiiny Host gave him the lightweight deployment layer he was looking for, and not much else — which was the point. “You just zip a folder, upload it, and you’re good to go.”

Custom domains, instant redeployment and SSL come as standard, so there was no infrastructure left to think about. For static sites and single-page web apps it became his default.

One of his earliest projects hosted on Tiiny Host was Photo Prompts, a tool he built in the early days of generative AI to help non-photographers write better image prompts. Back when prompt engineering was still genuinely fiddly, he abstracted the technical variables — lens type, aspect ratio, style — behind simple sliders that generated reusable prompts for tools like Midjourney. He built it with ChatGPT and had it live within minutes.

More recently he’s used it to pressure-test product concepts before taking them to teams. A film recommendation explorer, built and hosted in a single afternoon, gave his collaborators something functional and interactive to react to rather than a static wireframe — and the quality of the feedback moved accordingly.

His personal site, narain.io, is still hosted on Tiiny Host for the least dramatic reason there is: it does exactly what it needs to, so there’s no reason to move it.

The loop that used to span days now fits inside an afternoon. “It took me a couple of hours to build, 30 seconds to host on Tiiny, and a couple of hours later I had the feedback I needed.”

Having worked inside organisations like Meta and Google, Narain has a clear reference point for what real product velocity looks like: fast feedback loops, tight iteration cycles, and the ability to test a hypothesis before investing heavily in it. That, he argues, is what separates high-performing teams from slower ones — and it’s a form of speed that independent builders and small teams are usually locked out of.

“What Tiiny does is remove so much of the friction. It gets you on the track to enable that type of velocity — faster decision making, getting sharper with your hypothesis the next time you want to build something.”