PhonePe’s App Store: 3+1 questions
Ashish Sinha
PhonePe has announced the launch of its upcoming app store (Indus), which is the result of its earlier acquisition of IndusOS. While this is an important milestone in Indian startup…
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The not so obvious signs of a successful AI startup
A successful AI startup need not have: Instead, a successful AI startup will be:
Behind ISRO’s engineering thinking and some lessons for India’s startup ecosystem
What was Chandrayaan-3’s budget? Well, a mere ₹ 615 crores. What does 615 crores mean in today’s tech economy? Let’s look at some comparables. Here is a quick data point…
5 fake tech trends of the last 3 years and how to spot one
Pandemic brought a lot of opportunities for startup ecosystem, especially given the fact that the Fed literally printed free money and most of it went to the tech ecosystem. Here…
How to train and fine tune your LLM model..in 10 mins
Tom
Training models is hard. You have to collect a dataset, clean it, get it in the right format, select a model, write the training code and train it. And that’s…
Caterpillar and Butterflies
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly. This isn’t about X or whether Twitter is dying because of Elon Musk’s random decisions. But the…
On Oppenheimer, Bhagwat Gita and the Faustian bargain
Ashish Sinha
“The thing had to be done, Circumstances are heavy with misgiving.” (Oppenheimer in a letter to his friend, after the Hiroshima bombing) Oppenheimer is among the most anticipated movie of…
Meta’s Threads: A Google+ in the making?
Remember Google+? The Facebook killer product by Google that …died without anyone missing it? What really happened with Google+ is best explained via this chart Within 4 years of launch, Google+…
Chingari is pivoting to become OnlyFans and is a top grossing app now
The Web3 app from India, Chingari is now pivoting into an adult app, more on the lines of OnlyFans. That is, Chingari app now lets you have 1:1 ‘adult’ conversation…
Indian startup ecosystem feels a lot scammier these days? And yet, it’s time to BUILD
Every other day, we have news of an Indian startup scam being unsurfaced. Some were misreporting sales (Mojocare), some like Gomechanic went to an extent to manufacture numbers which didn’t…
Of Bloody Daddy, Jio Cinema and how to do MVP at scale
Ladies and Gentlemen – this is 2023 and it feels quite weird that JioCinema isn’t really close to Netflix or Amazon Prime experience. If you were hired as a product…
What comes first: Product, Soul or Traction?
Ask any VC or a founder and they will tell you the startup wisdom. Traction trumps everything. While largely true, but maybe not if you are in the early stages…
Of AI and once again, the center of gravity of tech is now with US
As the world becomes increasingly digitized, the development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology has become a global race. In the last 2 years, it almost felt that the center of…
News consumption: This framework will help you decide what to focus on and what to ignore
In today’s world, we are constantly bombarded with news and information from various sources, including social media, news outlets, and online platforms. While some of this information may be relevant…
Twitter Blue: Owner’s Envy. Neighbour’s Pride
Twitter recently launched its subscription-based service, Twitter Blue. The service offers several benefits to paid subscribers, including the coveted blue tick verification, additional customization options, and exclusive access to certain…
How do you plan a product roadmap? #FWDRadio
Editor
How do you plan a product roadmap? Is there a better way? Listen to this perspective from Praful Poddar on his experience workign with different teams – right from product…