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by nish1500 11y ago
I grew up other side of the world, amazing by what I heard in the news - that there existed a world beyond mine where smart people with smart ideas built great companies overnight. I am smart. I have merit. I dropped out at 19, taught my se
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Ask HN: Would a Canadian startup sponsor my work visa?
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I grew up and spent most of my life in Madhya Pradesh. I know some of the people mentioned in the article. I never thought things would get out in the open, and arrests will be made. That was a good sign. There is more to it. I doubt the pr
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by nish1500 11y ago
Indian here. I wanted to try for H1B, but after studying the waiting period, conditions under H1B employment, it makes so much sense to go to Canada instead.
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by nish1500 11y ago
Wow! I was using the WiFi at the Bangalore or Mumbai airport one day when I realised that half of the websites appeared broken in some way. I looked into the code and realised that the WiFi provider was injecting JavaScript ad codes in all
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by nish1500 11y ago
I am biased towards fiction. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. The timeless beauty and innocence of the book remains unparalleled. Light in August, by William Faulkner. It is the opposite of the above, dealing with complex emotions. Fau
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by nish1500 11y ago
Either the proportion of people with a WSJ subscription, or who up vote the title, is unusually high here.
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by nish1500 11y ago
As someone who is new to understand the process, it baffles me to see how incredibly hard it is to immigrate to the US, as an entrepreneur. Some of the biggest new tech companies are founded by immigrants. I often wonder how they got into t
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by nish1500 11y ago
Stripe isn't available in my country.
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by nish1500 11y ago
I am paying my payment processor 10% - 15% of each transaction in processing and cross border fee, because, I am told: 1. They are small, and don't get good exchange rates 2. My location makes for a long money route, so I pay between 4
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by nish1500 11y ago
UX of Housing.com is only matched by Cleartrip in India. I have been using their since since years, and do it almost every 1 - 2 months. It's amazing just how much they iterate. I haven't come across a single bug to date. If anyth
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by nish1500 11y ago
Agreed. The only reason I have ever downloaded and used a mobile app for ordering anything was for the mobile-only offer.
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TRAI website attacked after million net neutrality email addresses were revealed(hindustantimes.com)
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by nish1500 11y ago
The bike looks ugly, hence no pics, I think. Perfect sales pitch.
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by nish1500 12y ago
I was working as an accounting intern, making $80 a month in a third-world country. I taught myself how to code, dropped out of college, and make a good 6-figure living. Before the age of 22, I earned my freedom, and discovered what I truly
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by nish1500 12y ago
Making 30k a week, is very different from saying he made 30k some weeks. 120k in Profit is hardly something I would call an 'Empire'. I appreciate the sentiments of this community, its unquestioning reverence towards Patrick, but
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Worldwide DNS Performance(dnsperf.com)
129 points by nish1500 12y ago|61 comments
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by nish1500 12y ago
Not sure if relevant, but when I was in 10th Grade, the teachers helped all of us in the exams. They didn't want to tarnish the image of the school by having a low-pass result. Yes, India.
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by nish1500 12y ago
There are tons of WordPress site builders out there. WPMUDEV released one yesterday, calling it 'the future of WordPress'. Everyone is hell bent on turning WP from a CMS to an app platform. This is what results in 5mb sites and gi
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Web API Reviews(formcrafts.com)
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by nish1500 12y ago
It is. Plivo and TapToLearn are two others.
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by nish1500 12y ago
I was in this space for some time. The competition is very high, buyers are not aware, the industry isn't organised and is very much dependant on whimsical tax laws, product pricing is very low, and pretty much all companies are giving
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by nish1500 12y ago
Your story is mostly about you not getting a VISA, getting back-stabbed by people, spending 2 months fund-raising, media coverage, personal issues, your age, your gender. There is hardly anything about why the startup failed. But maybe the
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Show HN: Simple Live Chat Plugin for WordPress(ncrafts.net)
2 points by nish1500 12y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: A New Generation of Web Forms(formcrafts.com)
2 points by nish1500 13y ago|1 comments
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by nish1500 13y ago
I dropped out when I was 20. It was one of the best decisions of my life; I can't imagine an alternate life. When people ask me if it's okay to drop out, I tell them that it's a bad decision, in most cases. Unlike others, I d
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by nish1500 13y ago
I had my last product on the front page for a while. Show HN can be a good source of traffic, but it was quite useless for getting users, or even quality feedback. I suggest you look for niches in your industry.
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by nish1500 13y ago
A rather intuitive question would be - would you use your own product? I have been working on form building solutions since over a year. For the first 6 months or so, I made custom forms when I needed them. Lately, I've started using m
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by nish1500 13y ago
I started learning Shell last week. This couldn't have been better timed :)
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by nish1500 13y ago
It is the Indian mindset to solve every problem by hiring more people. Thanks to the shitload of cheap, unskilled engineers, this dream is economical. A friend had contracted one such company to overhaul his website. He has been co-ordinati

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