I'm seeing alot of nextJs starter kits and they are expensive   I guess we just need to make them open source , any thoughts on what technologies to include ?

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I'm seeing alot of nextJs starter kits and they are expensive 

I guess we just need to make them open source , any thoughts on what technologies to include ?

Thoughts ?

Thoughts ?- Grapevine

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want to build my startup with small team of 4,5 peoples
, I am a fullstack developer 1Yoe suggestions/Guidelines please .

Want to build my startup vs job.

Software Developer

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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

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Open sourcing my small startup pros and cons .Need some guidance.

What will be best architecture/tech stack for designing a notification microservice that will send push notification, in app notification accoross mobile or web... this service may use by multiple service...may 100s of users

Hi all, for a quick background, I graduated from a Tier 1 college this year. My offer got deferred and finally revoked. I have joined a wfh company for 40% of the previous package. Work here is not very hectic and I definitely want to switch from here in a year or so. 

I think it's a good time for making a good personal project to learn new tech ( non circuital branch with not much dev experience). I was thinking of a full stack microservices based project in node as I have done a mern stack project before. I won't be able to make end to end from scratch. 

Can someone suggest a resource, for eg any course, from where I can get theoretical as well as implementation knowledge.  Or, if any other suggestions that would be appreciated.

Suggestions regarding dev project

Software Engineer

If you have time and interest, steal these ideas -

Aggregator platform for AI content generation (imagine topping up 3-5 USD in a wallet to use for a week, multiple models with their APIs to choose from for output).

Tech literacy and on demand online+offline troubleshooting platform

AI Research institute working on intersection of tech, humanities, biology and law (BCI/CBI development and regulation is the next frontier for coming 20-30 years imo)

Online white hat background check service/trust scoring for people and personalities

Artisanal food and culture experience resorts

Gamified leaderboard for verifiable positive deeds

Standup comedy and events venue chain in tier 2 and 3 cities 

Real world literacy platform preparing 15-25 yr olds for life (taxes, personal finance, Excel, law)

NFT store for purchasing advertising spaces (online/offline) 

Modular and modernized electric carts for hawkers with financing options

Modular budget friendly homes for low/mid income families


Happy to chat and help if anyone's interested in working on them. Also open to collaborating and actively working on any of them, provided you are serious and dedicated. 

I would personally recommend starting solo/2 person team max for faster execution. 

Cheers ✌️

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Product Owner

Indian SDEs on LinkedIn & Twitter are some of the worst engineers you will ever find across the real world. Their typical value lies around:

- Cracking a FAANG/MAANG or Product company.
- Make an announcement on LinkedIn & Twitter and accumulating followers.
- Starting YouTube channel, Topmate links, affiliate marketing channels, and more.
- Rant DSA, System Design, Interview resources all day long. 
- Post daily of their office, their colleagues, candid shots, and barely getting any work done.

While this is expected out of early career professionals, it pains to see senior SDEs doing the same shit over and over again. Things don't end here — Everyone talks about creating a revolution. And the revolution is teaching DSA. 

If you are an experienced SDE and still ranting DSA, it just means that you have barely learnt anything that is of worth any value. You are atmost a "Ticket Engineer". You get assigned a Jira ticket, you bust your ass solving it, and that's it. That's your entire value. 

Its high time that these "Bhaiya", "Didis", "Bhabhis" stop ranting DSA and System Design over and over, and build something of real value. You would barely see any credible open-source projects coming out of India (but hey, we have some many contributors!), barely any Indie dev project, or anything that captures the attention of the world. 

Literally every popular SDE you might follow or see over your social media is the same. Their entire community game is a farce and designed to capture gullible college students and shill thousands of rupees out of them. You might be featured on Times Square ($40 ka showoff), but no one would remember you for anything that you built.

<Rant Over. Peace>

Indian SDEs will do all DSA and System Design chatter but cannot create any real value

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..

I’m sure all of us have thought of something exciting to start at some point, but choose to continue with corporate life.

Would love to hear ideas from this community, and understand what stopped people from building out.

What’s a business/startup idea that you never got around to building?

Corporate Strategist

I taught 2-3 semesters for a college's online degree education course for MBA students. Subjects included fintech, intro to blockchain, NFTs.

Stopped teaching for the college because they were paying peanuts for all the effort, wasn't worth it. Still have the material I made, that I can repurpose.

Can't really sell the course standalone because can't offer a degree as such, only certificate max. Plus the material is also mostly available for free online on different websites and sources, I just aggregated and organized it.

Would have loved to make a monetizable edtech project out of it, but it will require rewriting the content to some extent and I'm not a coder that can spin up an LMS or customise an existing one well enough. Making it free/open source is also an option since people don't want to pay for something they can find online for free (albeit after searching around).

Any thoughts/ideas/suggestions?

I have educational material I want to utilise/monetize

Looking for the best possible combination of cheapest deployment and closest deployment to the customers. Just a normal discussion I wanted to have

How do you host your SSR stack (next/sveltekit/remix)?

Hey everyone, I am a Junior FE Dev (from my prev work title coz my exp is 1YoE). Have been working extensively on React.JS and Redux. My previous company was great. I was loving it. Sadly a few months ago, I was laid off. I still don't know the reason behind why I was one of the laid off people. Anyway, I moved on from that depression and started searching for a new job from last month. Made it to final rounds in pretty much every interview I sat for. But then got rejected in final round for crazy reasons including "we currently don't have funds to hire you". One of them even said they are on hiring freeze, literally in the final round 🥲. 

Haven't been able to get a job anywhere. I don't know if my skills aren't enough to be hired or is it something else. "What's hot in FE right now ? Like what skills can fetch me a job ?" - Started asking this myself as well as some of my good friends, but they say don't learn skills for getting job, learn it for yourself. Though it's true, I don't have much savings to support myself for atleast a month. So, I have to get into a job to keep myself from going bonkers under the financial crunch that I can clearly see ahead of myself if I stay unemployed in the next 20 days.

Yes, the tech market is in its winter season. I understand that, but I still see there are so many openings in the market for ppl with 1YoE like me and skillset that matches mine, yet I never hear back from them or just get rejected in final rounds 😕.

I'm absolutely clueless on what to do right now. Any suggestions would be really helpful.

Finding it very hard to get a job 😶

I last did a full fledged PM Role 5 years ago at an early stage startup (B2B SaaS). Post that moved on to building my own startup, spent the early years exclusively hands on the product (0-1) but last 28 months or so since my cofounder joined, I let him manage the product strategy and lifecycle since I had to take the lead on Sales and other aspects 

My current work with regards to product is more or less product vision and feedback. I feel I need to up my game in building my product skills to a higher level now as the product is getting mature and we are aiming to go global soon. I unfortunately don’t have anyone to mentor at the moment. 

How should I go about doing this ? Do you think going back to something like a product school for a 15 week Program could help ?  The outcome I hope is set myself on the path to become a good Product Strategy leader with reasonable acumen on processes and systems and at the same time translate the learning to help scale the product better.  

Would be happy to take some ideas or places to look at for one. TIA

How to polish PM Skills ? Founder (B2B SaaS)

Founder

I am a React.js Developer & have 2 YOE (6 months at a consultancy startup + 1.5 years in a service based MNC).

I do not like working with React.js for multiple reasons & do not wish to pursue working with this further. 

I want to know what are some alternative career paths or technologies that are as much in demand & feasible to switch towards? Ideally, towards a more stable, battle-tested technology or tech stack and something that is as well paying too. 

(..continued from my original post) Some technologies that I considering are JAVA , ASP.NET & Laravel as unlike React.js, they are not loosely opinionated and don't have a constantly changing API where the way of writing code itself changes (e.g - redux and/or using data fetching libraries) . There is no standardised best practice to conform to.

But, the problem is that I find Laravel jobs are not in use in corporates or large tech companies but apparently ASP.net core jobs are not as well paying for equivalent years of experience as that of a front-end React.js developer. 

TC - 8.6 LPA (2 YOE)

Suggestions requested! Want to change career path from React.js/Front end

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Just saw this entrepreneur bootcamp program by Inc42

Thoughts?

Generalist

First of all that event with sam altman was embarrassing. The aftermath was even more embarassing, leading the embarrassment squad was https://twitter.com/C_P_Gurnani/status/1667140990413537284?t=dei0Qm2UKg8SZNb4fHEAmA&s=19 

Dude accepted the challenge while paying his engineers 2.5LPA, running a service based company. After this he wants to compete with a proper product. 

His following tweets are just BS inspirational quotes and generic tweet about ramping investment in R&D. But how are you going to compete with open ai? Nothing has been said.


As Indians we have a very big ego, instead of accepting something as feedback why do we always go all out and try to match the other person by words and not action. Then these leaders will go and say action matters a lot more than words.

Admittedly, Sam didn't even mean that indian companies are hopeless. It's just that with 10M he said it's hopeless to compete on foundational models of open ai.


We don't have a tech leader or an ecosystem where we can say that we can take on open ai. We don't even have a global product that competes with big tech. So why are we full of anger if somebody points out a fact.

In comments, can we discuss a solution to the tech ecosystem being shit so we build the foundation on which we can eventually compete on a global level?

Embarrassed with our CEOs

Hear me out here,

Starting up is much more than idea PMF MVP CAC capital etc
There are so many basic paperwork questions - how to register company, GST, what all funds can government help with, how to get them, what startup programs 
Or behavioral questions - friends coming to build business, insecurity, anxiety, non - business backgrounds, job to business journey 

The top customers are here 
Many founders too, people who have built companies from scratch 
Founders who have failed and yet not given up
First time founders who built it big, navigating inevitable issues 

These basic questions could be very helpful

[Rough Idea] Grapevine community can be helpful to those looking to start their own

Consultant

I am ready to put more than 70 hours to start and run my own business. Looking for some ideas with certain criteria I have in my mind 

1. Scalability - Biz should be scalable enough to reach 100 cr annual turnover, fine if takes mid to long term
2. Margin - should have healthy margin, not looking for VC money to run it
3. Location - setup and operation can be done from anywhere
4. Non-tech - I am not a tech person, so the Biz should be done without hightech IT infra as I want to run the show on my own.

Sourcing ideas for myself, because I want to start something my own
And for other non-tech people, who are also in the same boat as I am.

Let’s see if we get some good ideas here!

Thoughts ?

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