Varun Das retweetledi
Varun Das
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Varun Das
@filteredkapi
Building tools for faster eCommerce. Big on experiments, small wins, and keeping things simple. Currently building Brella | Savor | TaskMan
Katılım Aralık 2011
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Varun Das retweetledi
I grew up in a small farming village. And one day my uncle came and told me that he was retiring and going to live near some religious town. And he gave me a few things including some items of jewllery.
But it turned out that one ring in his collection he had stolen from someone many years ago when he used to travel for work.
A few days later a bunch of underworld goonda types came to my village to get the jewellery back. So I had to run away with my friends to save our lives.
We were super upset. Until we met a local ayurvedic doctor who told us that the ring was cursed and we had to go and destroy it if we wanted to be truly safe.
So then I had no choice but to improve my fitness so that I could finally reach the mountainous region and dispose of my uncle's jewellery. It was really painful, and we often had little food, and no sleep. And once or twice I was sure I was dead.
But eventually we managed to do it. So that is my story.
Loop@LoopHealthHQ
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Fashion quick commerce misunderstands that you need to solve for JIT manufacturing for jt to work. multi bin inventory and for mismatch will kill any margins or hope of any.
Swapnil Srivastav@theswapnilsri
🚨 Fashion quick-commerce is dying and honestly, the numbers were always going to catch up. → Klydo shuts consumer ops in <12 months (launched Sept 2025, ex-Udaan founders) → Slikk: $10M raised, 100 orders/day in Bengaluru pilot phase → Zilo: $15.3M raised (Peak XV), still burning to prove the model → Knot: $5M raised for 60-min delivery → Myntra M-Now scaled to 10 cities, still unproven at scale The pitch was seductive: “food delivery speed for fashion.” The math never was. Fashion has 30-40%+ return rates. Reverse logistics at 15-60 min speed costs MORE than the delivery itself. Try-and-buy sounds nice until you’re paying a rider to wait outside someone’s door for a fitting room decision. Not everything needs to be instant. Some things are worth building slow.
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It’s surprising, because these are the two tasks AI is bollocks at.
Both design and research, produced by people who couldn’t do them before, but are now doing with AI, are garbage.
And both design and research, produced by people who could do it well before, but are now doing with AI, are pretty damn good.
Lenny Rachitsky@lennysan
Designers and researchers are at the epicenter of AI anxiety Our large-scale survey of tech workers found that designers and researchers are the most negative across nearly every measure of how they feel about their careers. Amongst user researchers, 51% are “anxious about my job security,” and are the most likely to fear “losing my job to AI” (36%, just behind Data/Analytics at 38%). Among designers, 63% feel “overwhelmed by the pace of change” and 61% feel “tired,” the highest of any role. and designers are the most likely to feel the comp squeeze (61% selected “expected to do more for the same compensation”). Both functions also report the lowest willingness to recommend their field of any role, and designers report the worst-rated managers in the survey. We saw this trend in last year's survey, but it's gotten even worse a year later. Full report here: lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-tech-wor…
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BTW, now that I come to think of it -- what are the best articles you have read on AI and writing? Links, please?
Nilanjana Roy 📚🦊@nilanjanaroy
AI, and language, and possible futures... "When asked to edit formal English from around the world, AI tends to flatten and homogenise towards an Anglo-American standard, in a process researchers have termed “cultural ghosting”. Thus the perfectly acceptable request in Indian professional English to “Kindly do the needful & revert back at the earliest” gets “corrected” to “Please complete the task & respond promptly.” theguardian.com/books/ng-inter…
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@garydowen As far as pants with a linen sport coat, I’d recommend cotton, linen, or a textured fresco such as Spring Ram from @Harrisons1863
Shirts can be either cotton or linen
Sadly, there doesn’t exist a comfortable suit in 100° F and 90% humidity, you just have to power through
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Linen suits for the summer. Zoom into the 4th pic — a soaked shirt in the Florence heat a few weeks ago 🥵
Pic 1 Spier & Mackay MTM
Pics 2-4 I Sarti Italiani bespoke
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@ABiggerSpalash It would be interesting to see Blinkit's numbers not subsidised by interest income.
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Can someone explain in detail why this is the case? What has Blinkit done that others have not?
Satpal Singh@vsvicky_
Zepto Processes 21 Cr Orders A Quarter & Makes an average loss of ₹78.75 per order. Swiggy Instamart Processes 11.26 Cr Orders A Quarter & Makes a loss of ₹76.20 per order. Flipkart Minutes making an estimated loss of ₹12 to ₹20 per order. Blinkit Processes 27.4 Cr Orders A Quarter & Makes a PROFIT of ₹2 per order. Albinder Dhindsa’s Blinkit has built an absolute cash-printing machine under the Zomato ecosystem. Undisputed king of unit economics. 🔥
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Creta makes you feel like home with a near perfect cabin
Reliability, Network, Good Support, Engine Options, Parts & Mod ecosystem and Resale value only helps
It has shortcomings but as a product, only Seltos has an edge right now.
PureVikram@_vikramch
Did you know that the Creta has faced seven solid rivals in the last nine months, and yet it remains the largest-selling SUV in the segment? What's the reason for its absolute dominance? @vangaal_gaurav @harishbijoor #HyundaiCreta #Creta
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@GurpriyaSidhu Rainbows were such a normal part of childhood. Seeing one yesterday brought back so many memories.
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@amankrai28 Even so, 48 LPA seems to be on the higher side.
Especially if there are 2 sources of income.
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Took 10 LPA ($12K / Year) for 3 years after raising ~$1M
Bad decision.
Random sacrifices are glorified in entrepreneurship, whereas taking a slightly higher salary does no harm onto the startup’s health but can make a world of a change in the founder’s personal life.
kuldeep@ku1deep
If you are in India your number is 36lpa rising to 48lpa where it should stay until you are able to raise a Series B. I promise you those numbers are very specifically calculated.
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@DanielLockyer It is not always that having high agency will ensure that you fix the problem.
In most cases, folks who are further down the experience latter end up making things worse, especially in manufacturing.
But yes, agency is always important.
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High agency always wins
Alex Lieberman@businessbarista
I stole this idea and now use it with every single employee. It’s the best illustration I’ve seen of teaching someone to be high agency. It says there are 5 levels of work: Level 1: “There is a problem.” Level 2: “There is a problem, and I’ve found some causes.” Level 3: “Here’s the problem, here are some possible causes, and here are some possible solutions.” Level 4: “Here’s the problem, here’s what I think caused it, here are some possible solutions, and here’s the one I think we should pick.” Level 5: “I identified a problem, figured out what caused it, researched how to fix it, and I fixed it. Just wanted to keep you in the loop.” Using this framework, here’s what I say to every new employee… You will live at Level 4 from Day 1 and as we build trust you will rise to Level 5. Being high agency doesn’t just mean tackling problems in this way. It means your entire way of working should be oriented to being a Level 4+ employee. Plz feel free to steal it as well. And ty @stephsmithio for the framework!
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@bharatunnithan I thought I was the only one irritated by its positioning.
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Every time I go the Blr airport I'm a bit baffled by the placement of the Kempegowda statue. When you're going towards the airport the back of the statue is visible. When you're coming from the airport towards the city, the statue isn't visible at all cos it's on the opposite lane.
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@theliverdoc Thanks!
I meant post this step. I just use the liquor and add hot water to it. No milk or sugar.
I would have thought black coffee made from dissolving instant coffee in hot water would be way down the list, but apparently not.
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A note on types of black coffee
Best to worst (lowest to highest impact on cholesterol)
Instant coffee
Paper-filtered drip = Pour-over
South-Indian filter
Percolator coffee
Moka Pot coffee
Espresso = Americano
French Press
Turkish=Greek=Scandinavian (boiled coffee)
An additional note
If you are looking for the black coffee with the lowest levels of natural diterpenes - which is what increases cholesterol - the optimal choice is a dark-roasted Robusta bean.
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@championswimmer Yo!!
But all engineers have 100x'd, right?
What's happening??
/s
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Every piece of software I use which used to be originally produced with a lot of care has gotten shitty. Just to make a list from top of my head...
1. Starting with this site. I used to give an example of how the Twitter mobile app was epitome of saving list scroll state across app lifecycle and even app death, all the way back in 2016 when teaching mobile development to my students. Today, most tweets > 2 day old if I open, the replies do not load, I don't get notifications for DMs, and random parts of it don't work at random times.
2. MacOS which was once more polished than Windows on the UI and as hackable as Linux from inside out - now randomly freezes, has kernel panics, needs disabling needless safety features all they way from safe mode to get basics working or toning down the horrible glass UIs.
3. Spotify used to be one of my favourite products, having great offline-first experiences, seamless sync across devices, handover of songs midway between phone, desktop, car, etc. Now the app can't even load offline downloaded playlists properly when internet is down, sync almost never works, UI glitches, watch app can't figure out how to play on headphone, or when to sync from phone to watch.
4. Whatsapp - one of the most performant apps, with solid delivery rates even with as slow as 2G/EDGE internet, now actually has dead-end UI flows (when sending photos, trying to edit it can lead to an unknown state), message deliveries often don't work even on solid internet, and media uploads frequently need retries.
5. Microsoft's entire office suite which used to be a workhorse product - something so reliable, that non-tech people would never touch Google Sheets with a 10-foot pole and threaten to resign if they didn't have a proper desktop app license of MS Office. Now they push you towards the cloud versions which work way worse than Google Workspace, and have add tons of React UI elements in the Desktop apps that makes then visibly slow and janky and large Excel sheets even crash sometimes.
Most of these were on the trajectory of enshittification before wide-scale agentic coding or Claude-driven development was even all that common.
The entire industry is in a phase where everyone is just building things because it is their job, and the era of care, and sincere craftsmanship of products has mostly come to an end.
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@paraschopra chromewebstore.google.com/detail/minimal…
A minimalist task manager with Pomodoro timers, and a Meditation Zone to enhance focus and productivity.
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What software have you built for yourself (and yourself *only*) using Claude Code / Codex / etc.?
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Good fucking lord, you all haven’t opened the app in years and used it and it shows…
CC bill payments, reward coins, sexy UI (not UX) — they were the hook. They sell mktg, insurance, quick non-predatory loans. One of the highest UPI volumes.
Jeez.
The India Talkies@TheIndiaTalkies
People keep asking why we won’t celebrate Kunal Shah heading WhatsApp or Meta throwing $900M at CRED. Because the lesson isn’t inspiring. CRED proved you can hand out fake rewards nobody wants, build features nobody asked for, and still become a billionaire darling. The points were mostly worthless, the value proposition was fuzzy, and yet investors kept lining up. Why? Because the real product was never bill payments. It was a live dashboard of India’s wealthiest spenders: their income signals, spending habits, repayment behaviour, lifestyle choices, and purchasing power. Build a bill-pay app. Hand out rewards worth less than the electricity used to display them. Convince investors it’s revolutionary. Use the hype to aggregate one of the most valuable consumer datasets in the country and then sell it to an unethical immoral big tech conglomerate like Meta. That’s not a startup success story. It’s a masterclass in turning con hype into a business model. Meta didn’t invest $900M because of cred points, cashback, or digital scratch cards. They invested in knowing who has money, how they spend it, and what they’re most likely to buy next. The app was the bait. The data was the business. Meta didn’t buy the points. They bought the people behind them. The rewards were the advertisement. The users were the inventory.
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Apart from performative empathy, there is nothing that most journalists have offered in their understanding of the world of competitive examinations. Most of them have never been exposed to the rigours of preparing for and facing such exams, and come across as clueless while discussing them.
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People keep asking why we won’t celebrate Kunal Shah heading WhatsApp or Meta throwing $900M at CRED.
Because the lesson isn’t inspiring. CRED proved you can hand out fake rewards nobody wants, build features nobody asked for, and still become a billionaire darling. The points were mostly worthless, the value proposition was fuzzy, and yet investors kept lining up.
Why? Because the real product was never bill payments. It was a live dashboard of India’s wealthiest spenders: their income signals, spending habits, repayment behaviour, lifestyle choices, and purchasing power.
Build a bill-pay app. Hand out rewards worth less than the electricity used to display them. Convince investors it’s revolutionary. Use the hype to aggregate one of the most valuable consumer datasets in the country and then sell it to an unethical immoral big tech conglomerate like Meta.
That’s not a startup success story. It’s a masterclass in turning con hype into a business model.
Meta didn’t invest $900M because of cred points, cashback, or digital scratch cards. They invested in knowing who has money, how they spend it, and what they’re most likely to buy next.
The app was the bait. The data was the business. Meta didn’t buy the points. They bought the people behind them. The rewards were the advertisement. The users were the inventory.
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@viraj_sheth What % of all fund raising/investing is plowed back into Meta/Google Ads, I wonder?
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100 mil in meta ad credits is the highlight of this deal.
𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐡𝐚 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐚@samidhas
More deal details Deal is $500 million in primary capital at $4 billion pre- money $400 million in-secondary sale of shares by existing shareholders. And $100 million in ad credits— IMP 🚨🚨
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