Go for firestore, as it will be easier for you to track everything, you can go for more lower designed solutions like your backend after it scales.

Meant to say your own server on cloud, for your backend

Software Engineer

So orders need to be matched along with transaction doc + portfolio add/modify/delete doc. And I'm creating a scheduler function which runs every x mins. Wouldn't this be difficult to implement on ff (since I can't toggle off the scheduler function directly, unlike make.com)

Generalist

I'm building an order matching engine. But it's based on qty bought/sold (and not price). Idea is to fully match buy orders and sell orders (and not partially match) in order to settle 2 or more pa...

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

I'm building an order matching engine. But it's based on qty bought/sold (and not price). Idea is to fully match buy orders and sell orders (and not partially match) in order to settle 2 or more parties.

I'm planning to create it on make.com or firebase functions (whichever is cheaper), using firestore as db. What's the best possible approach?

PS: Open to answering questions for better context via comments or DM

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Welcome to Personal Finance's Private Community

Can someone explain how the price of a stock change *technologically*?

I understand the economics behind it (demand, supply, etc). I want to understand how it functions. Basically how zerodha or coinbase work (order management system, matching engine, execution and settlement etc)

Price Fluctuation in the Stock Market

What kind of side projects can backend engineers include in resume/ work on like during weekends?
I don't wanna know machine learning model and layer of API over it. Thats something I already worked in college.

If someone already working on something and need partners, ping in comment. We can connect.

Backend Engineering side projects

Software Developer

I have made a search for my project using elastic search in which i used synonyms and and fuzziness and basic matching. I want it to work as users feeling, what users want , can you guys help me how to implement it in elastic search, i tried its semantic search but couldn't get its ELSR model.
Help me!!!!

Searching.... Elastic search

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

The immigration industry is run by agents and agencies. It is a highly unorganised industry and presence of agents becomes important due to government regulations.

But these regulations are mostly on paper and there is very little to No scope for negotiation.

Is anyone building an AI tool to solve for this coupled with offline team?
Also is the market big enough to solve for?

Start-ups solving for immigration

Product Manager

I am working on a gaming application. It will contain 4-5 small 1v1 and multiplayer games. The users can add money and play and earn the winnings. 1)What would be the best tech stack like complete frontend,backend, database,clouds and services like Kafka,aws etc that can be used for the purpose. 
2) What all licences, registration needed etc.
3) is it better to build the app in house or give it to a company for development??

Which technologies to use..

Hey guys!
I'm thinking of starting up a product based company, focusing on AI powered administrative and business intelligence tools on the cloud.
I have a small team of 4 developers (including an UI/UX designer), initially we plan on breaking into the inventory management systems market and later on expanding into other fields.
We're planning on using technologies like FastAPI, Flutter and AWS to build this product.
Please feel free to really comment on the idea with respect to the current start up ecosystem of India. Also we're focusing on multi vendor inventory management systems specifically tailored to e-commerce and configurable to suit offline retail based systems.

Another startup?!

What are some ways to do a mobile number login of a user without asking OTP. Apart from these are there any other methods? 

- Truecaller Login
- WhatsApp Login

Please share any jugads if you know !

Ways to login a user?

Hi all,

I am thinking of creating a job board system which

1. scrapes the job data from the company's official pages
2. do not encourage third-party talent acquisition firms to spam with duplicate posts

How do I make money?

1. Selling home page slots to the companies that promotes high visibility

Do you guys think this will work?

I am thinking of creating a job board system that scrapes data from company official career pages

I'm talking about new startups, as a founder who's trying to build an ecommerce platform currently.

I'm still very early, but it feels that the writing is on the wall. 
Flipkart, Myntra, Nykaa, Zomato, Swiggy etc. have all built great products and soon great businesses (I'm sure) 

But it does not make sense to me why we've barely seen anything new in the last 5 years. Even funding wise, if that is something one wants to look at. 

So many people have tried - none of the new ideas have worked. CAC is too high. Current platforms already solve problems. Retention is never there, people may try you out, but will move back to Amazon/Instamart. 

But this is not how things typically work. It's very clear that consumer spending is going to increase, online more so, at an even faster rate. I don't feel the current platforms solve everything, a better version can be built. 

SO, is it the founders of the current era that have failed to make a dent? Is it the fact that VCs have stopped paying attention to this space? Or is it that the current platforms indeed solve everything? 

Would love everybody's thoughts. And also if you have tried building/or have ideas on what potential next eCommerce platforms could loook like. 

Over and out.

Is Indian eCommerce dead? (from a new startup founders' pov)

Data Scientist

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

Title. 

How do you build the comfort and confidence to double down on an idea that might work but sounds like a real hail mary shot?

How do you sell moonshot ideas to Leadership?

I'm working on a fintech B2C idea and need some advice. It's quite a complex idea, in a regulated industry (of course). I'm fairly good at developing apps (self taught web and mobile app dev) and currently working alone on this. I'm planning to use Flutter and GO to create the MVP. I'm experienced in Flutter but have no idea about GO. Currently working remotely (not enough savings to work on the idea full time). Need some suggestions on:

1. Should I learn GO or use ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot?

2. Since it's a fintech product (a highly regulated industry), how scrappy can I be regarding building and launching the MVP asap?

3. I've not worked in fintech, although I was a co-founder before (failed startup). Should I rather focus on building and launching the product by doing it all myself or take some time into looking for a co-founder?

4. I know that this is something that just cannot be bootstrapped (navigating in the grey areas of regulations, lobbying etc). Should I just put my head down and hustle it out till product launch or do I start looking to raise capital? Any angels or VCs that will actually fund an idea (especially in these times)?

Just looking to make better decisions by getting some opinions/suggestions/advice!

Questions and thread discussions are most welcome! 

Grapevine, do your thing 😤

Need Suggestions/Advice

I am trying to build software as a service. What do you wish existed in the world? Or would you have made your job easier and ready to pay for it?

Anyone is free to use the ideas but let's discuss in detail

What ideas do you wish existed in the world?

1. Novel/new business idea 
2. Degrees/MBAs
3. Experience/reputation
4. Money (hardly 20-30k to register company)
5. CTO
6. Employees/Co-founders
7. External investment
8. Website/app
9. Social media accounts
10. Office location (register home as office)

Far too many people focus on needing xyz before starting up. Most of them are excuses and self-imposed roadblocks from what I've seen in my conversations with people.

I'm currently working on 2 ventures that still have many items missing from this list. Doesn't really stop me from making revenue and profit.

Sure, there may be some things required from this list for specific businesses and at diff stages. But they are mostly an extra, good to have but not required.

What is required in copious amounts is courage and will power, willingness to face rejections and ability to withstand multiple failures only to get back up and try again. Also, a healthy enough risk appetite.

I hope to see more young and talented folks (especially MBA grads) start their own thing some day. Best time is in your twenties and early thirties, when you have little to lose. 

If you have any business ideas you want help with, I'd be happy to discuss and share contacts and resources if required.

Good luck soldiers, see you in the arena 🪖

What you DON'T NEED to run a business/startup/side hustle

Product Owner

Hi

Many developers have dream of starting side hustle but its hard for them to do productisation and sales at the same time. Like myself has many ideas but hard to do everything by myself.

Wondering if anyone is doing side hustle and want to group up and collaborate then comment here.

Any Product people / sales people looking for side hustle?

Engineering Manager

I started working on a quiz solution when my daughter had managed to fracture her right hand.

It worked well for her and definitely helped her with her learning outcomes. Seeing the potential I extended the solution which can be used by school students. The main idea is to merge a quiz based learning app with school ERP. I don't see this happening in the current scenario even in reputed schools in metros, while I am thinking to market my app in tier 2/3 cities for schools where they don't have any thing at all.

The cost is next to nothing, hence the solution can be offered very cheaply.

Unfortunately I am unable to break the sales puzzle. 

Partly because, I am working full time and don't want to create issues of dual employment or conflict of interest and hence can't work on the sales side full time.

Let me thank you first for reading this long post. 

Now, any suggestions how to approach this?

Unable to sell

Project Manager

Hi folks, 

I'm Aadit, Co-Founder & CEO at Zepto. We're one of India's fastest growing consumer internet companies and are today present across 10+ cities in the country. 

I'd love to chat with you folks about my journey in building Zepto, my thoughts on the quick commerce space, organization building, amongst other things.

Ask away!

I'm Aadit Palicha, Co-Founder & CEO at Zepto. Ask me anything!

Hey @Aadit  
I’m @salt  
  
Some questions from my side: 
1. As companies scale there are many diverging opinions on how things should run. How do you ensure that the best ideas drive the company even though they might be in direct conflict with your point of view?  
  
2. What kind of impact have you seen via use of Machine Learning to streamline operational efficiency wrt initial benchmarks? 
  
3. What is the key focus area that you are currently working on? 
  
4. How do you balance creating shareholder value versus customer value?

Founder

Dear all, ( I am non tech guy) question out of curiosity. 

Does DM functions based on Chat API or DM ka kuch alag structure hota hai ? 

For ex >> Twitter or Grapevine, DM chalane k liye are they using Chat API or what ?

DM and Chat API Question

They were backed by Elevation and Accel, had raised ~$7mn
Seems like getting transactions to happen was too tough, despite building a network. Getting money out of Indian SMBs, a consistently tough model.

Link to post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/so-long-anar-farewell-reflection-nishank-jain-oifxf?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&utm_campaign=share_via

B2B network Anar shuts down

Investment Associate

So I have been unemployed for ~2 months now and wanting to do something on my own that is fun, fulfilling and has a scope for monetization

I realised during my job hunt that most recruiters (3P) are clueless about the hiring requirements of the job and usually cold call/ randomly generate leads through basic LinkedIn search. Most of the folks eventually don't hear from them later because they profile didn't fit the need( obviously!)

While not doubting their skills, I realised head hunting could be much more targeted through better classification of JDs and candidates and recruiters could save time both for them and candidates through better screening while improving conversions...

I'm planning to build a marketplace of sorts aimed at matching jr to mid level tech talent  with JDs( you know how generic and open ended they can be!)
I want to start this entire service as free for the current yr at least given the job scenario and later monetize through recruiters and TAs

I have mostly figured out most of the workflows and can get the MVP ready in a couple of days worth of dev work but what I'm skeptical is whether candidates might feel data security as an issue( something that leads to a shrinking candidate pool to pick from)

Feel free to leave your thoughts/ critiques/ feedbacks; good or bad both are welcome

Thanks for your time and double thanks if you took time to comment :)

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