What's your opinion on Ola's nationifacation of their products.

Ola is just doing big cost cutting. If cards played well they can be selling this as an API, cheaper alternatives to the big giants. Not the best but get the job down at a lower price. I am feeling optimistic about this for the only reason is Ola can switch back to the maps or chat gpt anytime they want. They are just building cheaper alternatives not something new.

It's called nationalization. Did you study English or Hindi medium?

Dekhne par hi scam lagta Hai Bro, will stay away from Ola and it's products.

It has become much worse now. Many places I can’t find on Ola are available on Uber and Google maps.

Their maps in the initial days were 🤡🤡. I once booked an auto and the auto was coming in the reverse direction to my location according to the map. I even asked the auto driver whether he was driving with his reverse on.

Bhavish is simply the Kangana Ranaut of Entrepreneurs.

The app experience has drastically gone down. It now takes longer to find places and 90% of the time the map captures incorrect pins. There is a reason why Google maps excelled and nobody has been able to beat them at tech. Ola has just stepped on a big nail themselves by removing Google maps.

I feel like it's similar to how Unacademy went about many different products I feel like they're trying too many big markets at the same time and trying to see if anything lands Tough to see anything good coming about

As a customer, I should be able to do the bookings like before but that's not happening. I can't find a lot of places on the new map.

Just insert tiles on open street maps and voila u have Ola maps 😀

It’s just sad the PR that Ola does

Uber has a lot of money and they are heavily invested in tech compared to Ola, they have a massive scale and still rely on Google Maps (atleast in India) While the idea to build things inhouse is exciting and challenging, I would take it this with a pinch of salt as Ola leadership doesn't present any numbers around UX improvement or accuracy difference between Google Maps and their inhouse stacks.

While I understand the India card that some B2C companies play, does it really matter for B2B products?

It is not nationalisation. Rapido has changed the game by subscription model, due to this driver commission are going to reduce drastically. They need to move out from USD priced products.

Search results are also always inaccurate in ola. This becomes very bad when you want to book ride for someone else.

We crib about lack of India products and we ourselves don't support Indian products. Google Maps wasn't built in a day. And Google Maps has used quite a bit of Indian data to fine tune their product. Give Ola Maps a chance. They aren't asking Google maps to be banned. They are only asking for customer support and love. If they use Indian flag to get that done then so be it.

How is it a nationalist move when you use software language & compiler that's invented by a foreign national, the compute, networking & storage designed and manufactured elsewhere, semiconductors are still manufactured by only a handful of companies for worldwide supply, and then the internet that's required is not fully an Indian invention. I think this guy is trying to scam everyone by putting an truely desi outlook. He will use all underlying foreign technology to build a product and then stick a nationalist badge to it and call for not using other foreign products. Shouldn't he in first place stop using foreign tech that's underlying what ever they are building? Btw, OLA when it was created itself an original copy of UBER. Sigh .. I hate this era of nationalism. Fully fake.

"Scam" Bhavish is running at scale because he has money and resources to fund managed offerings and make noise around it. I would be pleasantly surprised if Ola Cloud succeeds, but a cloud requires community support, good Sdks, reliability, transparency, and a great support team to manage issues. Which I dont believe they can pull off. I feel by making Ola all about India and nationalism he is working very hard to make the IPO successful.

Marwari baniya saving money. Period. Dont need to be an IITian to figure that out

Looks like an elon musk fanboy. But if these products like map or cloud work out it will be good for the company.