Vikram Dimba

Product Manager | NBA Enthusiast | Interested in All Things Startups | Hiking/Outdoors

About Me

Hey I’m Vikram, a Product Manager with over 8 years of experience. Over the past year, I took time off to travel, challenge myself, and focus on personal growth—summiting Kilimanjaro, backpacking Vietnam, volunteering in Thailand, and exploring the digital nomad life in Colombia.During this time, I pursued passion projects like building an NBA fantasy basketball app from scratch, launching a curated NBA newsletter for 400+ subscribers (including coaches and executives), and connecting sports fans through a matchmaking platform. These projects reignited my drive for solving meaningful problems and creating impactful products.Now, I’m eager to bring my expertise and entrepreneurial spirit to a startup or team where I can innovate, build, and make an impact.

Currently:

  • Founder of TheAssist — a web app helping fans and creators host in-person sports watch parties. Built product from 0→1, launched 20+ events, onboarded partners + influencers, and scaled to new cities for the NBA Playoffs.

Previous Experience:

  • Senior PM at Digitizing

  • Technical Product Manager at SquareTrade (an Allstate company)

  • Product Manager at National MI

  • Product Manager at Verizon

Hoop'd Fantasy

  • Built an NBA Weekly Pick ‘Em fantasy basketball game from scratch using Next.js, Python and Supabase, with 50+ active users.

  • Developed a custom NBA Live Stats API to provide real-time player data, powering the lineup builder, team creation, and live dashboard updates.

  • Optimized the platform for both browser and mobile use, with a mobile-friendly interface that emulates FanDuel’s lineup builder for seamless usability.

The NBA Librarian Weekly

  • Curates and summarizes the best NBA content each week, focusing on obscure stats, insightful game analysis, and underreported stories beyond mainstream media coverage.

  • Grown to over 400+ subscribers, including NBA coaches, executives, and media professionals!

TheAssist

  • Founder, TheAssist — a web app for organizing in-person watch parties with fellow sports fans. Anyone can host events—creators, superfans, or casual organizers—and build real communities around game day.

  • Since launch, we’ve run 20+ events with 150+ signups and 30%+ repeat attendance. The platform supports RSVPs, group chats, paid events, QR code check-ins, game talking points and a host dashboard with attendee analytics and payments.

  • Partners include creators like GreenRunsDeep (Celtics, 90k+ followers) and sponsors like Sports Reference. Now expanding to new cities for the NBA Playoffs.

Favorites

  • Podcasts: My First Million

  • Book: When Breath Becomes Air, How to Change Your Mind, Project Hail Mary, Overstory, Leaders Eat Last

  • Movies: Interstellar, Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception, anything Nolan.

Contact Me!

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© Vikram Dimba