karthikvellanki

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by karthikvellanki 5y ago
I'd throw Snap in the mix as well. Spectacles were not really a failure because it was never meant to be a mass market success. I think they're iterating in public. It's much better to do that, than stay secretive for years t
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by karthikvellanki 6y ago
Built a basic plug and play developer portal and API gateway at the beginning of the lockdown. You can expose your APIs to third party developers by adding your endpoints, choosing the type of authentication and setting rate limits. The app
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Show HN: Tunnel – minimal plug and play API gateway and developer portal(github.com)
1 points by karthikvellanki 6y ago|0 comments
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by karthikvellanki 7y ago
For compute intensive applications, doesn't compute time far exceed the network latency? If compute time is what makes up the bulk of the response time, moving the server to the edge won't really reduce the response time significa
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by karthikvellanki 7y ago
Your co-worker's observation is actually more obvious than we think it is. Since states in India are essentially divided based on linguistic grounds, he would have been exposed to two Indian languages at best - the regional language in
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by karthikvellanki 7y ago
There are specific use cases for which chatbots are great. Lemonade insurance is great application of a chatbot. What could have been a traditional application form has been made significantly better by a contextual chatbot. It's also
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by karthikvellanki 8y ago
I've never understood the Venezuala argument about Bitcoin. When someone is buying Bitcoin with a volatile currency (like the Bolivar), it means someone else now has that volatile currency. The volatile currency doesn't suddenly d
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by karthikvellanki 8y ago
Texting being more common than calls is a pretty bad example. Texting is more popular because it allows asynchronous communication. Calls require both participants to be connected at the same time, which is a big hassle.
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Show HN: B2B ecommerce solution that supports multiple stores as subdomains(github.com)
3 points by karthikvellanki 8y ago|0 comments
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by karthikvellanki 8y ago
Thanks so much for the elaborate response. We have the product on a live server now, so we'll probably keep it up and running for people to get a feel of it without having to put in the effort to set it up.
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Ask HN: What are the guidelines to follow while opensourcing a project
3 points by karthikvellanki 8y ago|2 comments
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by karthikvellanki 8y ago
Gobble went through various iterations/pivots in their seven years of existence. One of the iteration was an Etsy for food - which didn't work. As you said, they are currently operating on the Ikea for food model.
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by karthikvellanki 8y ago
Can't find the thread, but Segment started after the ShowHN post got a great response.
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by karthikvellanki 8y ago
Wouldn't gaming and e-sports be a decent application of AR?
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by karthikvellanki 8y ago
Anyone know why Apple hasn't acquired one of the existing self driving car startups. If a company known to be old and slow like GM could overpay and snap up Cruise, what's stopping Apple from opening their warchest to acquire one
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by karthikvellanki 8y ago
I don't think Zipcar owns the cars. Their model may not be as low touch as Turo or Getaround where you can just list your car. But the cars on the Zipcar platform are owned by other people that have lent it out to Zipcar through a more
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by karthikvellanki 9y ago
Shipbob seems to be alive and kicking. They switched their focus to businesses early on. I don't know if they operate in wherever you're located.
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by karthikvellanki 9y ago
This may be semantics but technically Lyft was the first to come up with the Uberx model of anyone becoming a driver.
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by karthikvellanki 9y ago
Could you elaborate on the other ways that 'nerds' could be wrong?
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by karthikvellanki 9y ago
I think it boils down to tradeoffs. For example- The best option (custom solution) may cost you 100k and drives max productivity. But if Asana (a more one size fits all product) costs you 20k and drives about 70% of max productivity - Asan
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by karthikvellanki 9y ago
If you lived in a deflationary regime, what incentive would you have to work? You'd rather just sit on your wealth and do nothing. There would be no economic output.
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by karthikvellanki 9y ago
My guess is assuming Airbnb takes 10% of the total booking cost - the additional 3% spread would mean a 43% increase in revenue