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Koo's Web UI has been refreshed. Pretty decent right now. Their android app would get updated next

Nice. They should move up in the value chain. An Indian version of DigitalOcean would be a nice stepping stone before providing AWS level features

This is a big round. They can now start hiring heavy hitters in Engg/Design/PM "Koo raises $30 million funding led by Tiger Global" https://indianexpress.com/article/business/companies/koo-raises-usd-30-million-funding-led-by-tiger-global-7330787/

Koo hasn't died out btw https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/prominent-valley-investors-naval-ravikant-and-balaji-srinivasan-invest-in-koo-tiger-global-likely-to-lead-next-round-6721561.html

Bengaluru has huge density of talent, they can throw money (which they now have) at the problem and get better engineering. Also, we sometimes over-index for code quality. Remember Slack outsourced their engineering when they started, their code was a hot mess of PHP. They fixed it much later...

So, I did a bit of digging. Turns out Koo's android app is pretty decent in terms of UX polish, much much better than the website. Their founder said that they'll focus on Android, then iOS and finally web which makes complete sense

Nah. It'll mostly destroy the tech industry. This is like saying GoI should ban Intel to spur semiconductor fabrication in India. Very simplistic assumptions btw India already has pretty shitty laws for business. Banning of AWS will ensure that more startups register themselves in Singapore...

And also destroy the tech industry in India

Koo app founding team doesn't look that impressive. Their claim to fame was Taxiforsure which was a shitty app. They're also MBAwallahs who have historically not been impressive in India's startup ecosystem Hopefully they have matured compared to their previous venture and can hire good...

Chalo, enough of blackpills. Some hopeful stuff GoI can ban a few social networks and heavily incentivize the alternatives. Let a thousand "Koos" bloom :p Get rid of CDAC and similar depts. Seriously. All they do is slap Sanskrit names on opensource projects and call it Indian. Get into big...

Exactly ! People saying "Ambani + Adani + GoI can do it" are not entirely correct. You need a working super high scale product first. Could Jio platform be that ? Maybe. I'll bet on companies like Swiggy, inMobi etc though. Jio's tech initiatives have historically sucked. The "trader attitude"...

To put it mildly: ROFL :rofl: Its just using OpenStack. As I said before, you can't rely on sarkaar for software. Instead govt should have the right incentives to create 3-4 private tech companies running at high scale. That'll automatically get you such infra. Blackpill time: what is the...

Billions of dollars probably. But, like I said we have the capability. Flipkart already does most of this inhouse (not at AWS quality). But there's no incentive for them to provide this to external customers. Rajiv Malhotra is actually wrong here. IT services has served as the seed of the...

@shade Has answered most of it. But the data center piece needs expansion - Data centers while important aren't enough. To build a high scale app you need ready made services and infra running on top of hardware. Only a handful of providers have such wide capabilities - AWS (Amazon), Azure...

Just use Electron

Native apps have separate kits for different platforms. Cross platform kits like tkinter are not very nice. If you want to make a cross platform app the best choice is good ol JS+CSS+HTML. It'll work for Mobile web and you can wrap it in Electron for desktop app (like Slack). Later when your...

A really good writeup on the Indian Software ecosystem which is now exploding (in a good way) 🔥 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/indus-valley-playbook-sajith-pai Indian gov needs to reduce compliance and make IPOing easy for tech startups. Ease of access to funds will be a huge multiplier...

Valuation is very high (too high?). But leaving that aside, Postman is a great example of Indians making global products. Unlike Zoho/Freshdesk, Postman is the #1 product in its segment. PS: We need to simplify laws & taxes so companies don't have to register outside India...

Sure mate. You're entitled to your opinions. I for one would never want any kind of worker protections in the Software Industry. If a company is really that bad, the individual has the option to choose something better provided he/she has the right skills. Possibly move to your "true blue...

I belong to the same yeevil software industry. But I've not had the same experience. In fact salaries have grown to astronomical levels for ICs (individual contributors) Just to be clear are you talking about IT Services or Software Engineering (Product) companies ? Since you're talking about...