Harshit Lata

The startup ecosystem at IIT Madras is just insane 🔥 Met some incredible people here…their journeys, hustle & wins are nothing short of inspiring.

Me and tango, Game lock in. after successfully shipping

@e2e_developer Agree

@Harshit_Lata I like to see what other people are doing and I like to interact with people struggling with the same issues. I think, what most people get wrong is, that this is not a customer base.

everyone says do it but what's the actual leverage you've seen? is it talent acquisition, customer feedback, or just signaling? or am I missing the real benefit here completely

@e2e_developer “Build in Public”

@Harshit_Lata What exactly are you talking about?

Heard its better than Microsoft’s Markitdown 👀

@signalscopeweb interesting problem space but built on base44 means the moat is zero right now who’s the customer that pays before Semrush ships this natively that’s the only question that matters here

@Harshit_Lata Hi everyone! Im building signalscope.base44.app - It tracks brand mentions across different AI models and helps you optimize your website for AI search.

Drop your startup idea in 30 words max, if its relevant and good I’ll help you to build with IIT’s ecosystem

Anyone from India who tired geospy ai Is it working here?

@PrajwalTomar_ Skipping data provenance for base models too That's where the real bias scales at 500M users Legal is one layer, data quality is the deeper one

Vibe coders are getting sued. People are launching apps with real users but skipping the boring stuff that can actually kill the product. A developer with 20+ years of experience just shared the pre-launch checklist every AI builder should run: → privacy policy if you collect user data → know where user data is stored → check security headers → scan against OWASP basics → look for SQL injection / XSS / auth issues → make sure .env values are not leaking → check API responses for sensitive data → remove secrets from logs → never expose API keys in frontend code → move keys server-side or behind a proxy → add rate limits before someone burns your API bill This is what most vibe coders are missing. AI can help you build the app. But if you launch without security, privacy, and abuse checks... you didn't ship a product. you shipped a liability. (full breakdown in the article)

@sflorimm The market doesn't care how it was built it only cares if the thing works and who pays for it

Can you call yourself a founder if your entire product was built by AI like GPT or CLAUDE ?

the AI gold rush is mostly about the shovels not about finding gold nobody is talking about who actually mines the data x.com/i/web/status/2…

AI search isn't a headwind for platforms like Shiksha it's a structural shift where the value moved from discovery to direct answers

@Nithin0dha Nitrogen fertiliser production relies heavily on imported natural gas another layer of energy dependency baked in

India spends $20+ billion on imported fertiliser and raw materials for fertiliser production. Just like oil, this is another critical import dependency, especially given agriculture's centrality to the Indian economy. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has brutally exposed this vulnerability. Energy prices have risen, fertiliser supply routes have been disrupted, and urea prices have shot up. The pain will eventually reach already beleaguered Indian farmers. To make things worse, there’s a reasonable probability of a weak monsoon. So the question I have is: what can we do to reduce this dependency? Can we scale sustainable farming practices? Can we reduce excessive fertiliser use without hurting yields? Can we help farmers use more organic manure generated on their own farms? Can we build alternatives around bio-inputs, green hydrogen, ammonia, biogas, and other decentralised systems? I’m not an expert, but I’ve been wondering about these things as I've been reading more about El Niño and the worsening energy crisis. Some of our portfolio companies are already working on bits and pieces of this. Akshayakalpa, for example, is doing a lot of work to educate farmers on sustainable farming practices, including the use of organic manure generated on their farms. Many of their farms also use biogas systems, which become even more relevant during times like this, when gas prices rise, and natural gas supply chains become fragile. Ossus is working on green hydrogen, which could reduce emissions in ammonia production, one of the most carbon-intensive parts of the fertiliser value chain. Marin elixir is working on organic, sustainably produced seaweed extracts and biostimulants. Fertiliser is one of those boring but critical areas where India needs more founders, more experiments, and more patient capital. Self-sufficiency is not optional here. If there are entrepreneurs working to reduce India’s fertiliser dependency, improve soil health, develop better bio-inputs, green ammonia, biogas, or other serious alternatives, we’d love to back them through @Rainmatterin.

For some of us, this is not a hypothetical It's the blueprint for DPI The plumbing became the policy

@refsrc The 30% post-harvest loss in many agri-commodities tells a clearer story than any LPI ranking digital gains haven't touched the cold chain gaps yet

While India has made progress on infra and logistics, it still trails leading manufacturing destinations on overall logistics efficiency

@elonmusk Sounds fancy

SpaceX has almost finished writing V1.0 of an in-house AI training stack in C that exact-maps to 220k GB300s with 800G NICs, making heavy use of pipeline parallelism and getting as close to bare metal as possible. The potential speed improvement vs JAX for large training runs is over an order of magnitude.

everyone has a take on LLMs and autonomous agents but ask what database they're running in prod and it's almost always PostgreSQL 12 or maybe Oracle 11g the future runs on decades-old plumbing not just new APIs

Met lot of defence folks last few months, every guy wants to built Palantir in India C’mon humans, be creative. No replica

@_sankyy @thisiskp_ Would love to see some standard templates for themes and style where people can explore their story and creativity rather than spending time on prompt engineering

New Kid from @thisiskp_ reflects the world we are in!

Just built an insane new agent skill. It can perfectly extract slides from YT videos, then write notes, images, transcripts, and slides into Obsidian vaults. An HTML artifact allows me to navigate and add more notes as I listen. Should I release the skill?

Everyone says investors want deep tech and defensible moats. But the funded rounds often look like excellent distribution machines and aggressive growth plays. Is this just what building a startup *actually* is now? Or is the public narrative completely out of sync with what gets funded?