r_singh

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by r_singh 8y ago
I wonder if this has anything to do with Jeff Bezos being from Wall Street?
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by r_singh 8y ago
Gitlab
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Election Commission of India Applies Political Ad Rules to Social Media(economictimes.indiatimes.com)
1 points by r_singh 8y ago|0 comments
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by r_singh 8y ago
Fore sure soulchild, I agree with you. Being from India, I think it's my first instinct to just try and compete on the price. I'm gonna keep what you said it mind, it also reminds me of SmugMug's story. I'm gonna try and
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Learning to Learn(css-tricks.com)
19 points by r_singh 8y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How does builtwith.com estimate a website's tech spend?
2 points by r_singh 8y ago|0 comments
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by r_singh 8y ago
Yup, I agree, and that's a smart move by these international cos. The average Indian street food in Mumbai for 1 person is half a dollar.
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by r_singh 8y ago
You're right, it's just that their sign up is so complicated / glitchy / buggy, that I've never been able to get it and as a result completely forgot about their existence.
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by r_singh 8y ago
Didn't know about them, thanks!
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by r_singh 8y ago
Sure, you're right. But let's be fair, if you're a software engineer who downright doesn't want to take a job and doesn't want to do down the VC route and doesn't want to be a freelancer. What options does he&
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by r_singh 8y ago
With the 28 day month cycle and mb / gb data packs, India was still the cheapest for telecom services (and hence had the lowest ARPU). I know that you want to defend Jio because you love the fact that you save few hundred rupees on you
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by r_singh 8y ago
Hahaha, one look at the world's telecom ARPUs should give you a better clue about whether you can say that Airtel was 'looting Indian customers' or not. Also I never said that Jio is corrupt because it's cheaper. Just tr
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by r_singh 8y ago
Exactly, and this is what the broadband and cable industry was hoping for. However, for the moment, Jio's launch remains successful, and the major difference between then and now being data and the new ways to monetise it. I do not hop
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by r_singh 8y ago
I couldn’t find latest hip hop albums from Atlanta on Spotify. They’re on Apple Music tho.
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by r_singh 8y ago
Please enquire about the competition in the world's markets before make a judgement about the competitiveness of the Indian telecom industry. > There was no enough competition before jio appeared. India was the world's most com
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by r_singh 8y ago
Thanks for these two answers, I was hoping this would get more upvotes!
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by r_singh 8y ago
This is just positive PR now that Spotify is publicly traded. It's not a serious indication of their success in this market. This truly just means that 1 million people in India "downloaded" the app: a good share who were wai
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by r_singh 8y ago
JIOSaavn, Gaana, Amazon Prime Music, Apple Music (which is much cheaper as a family account), Hungama, Wynk. All the above currently have more songs (except Prime) on them than Spotify in India does.
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by r_singh 8y ago
Keeping in mind the current collection available through Spotify, the more appropriate way to state the first sentence would be: > Pretty sure a high percentage of these listeners have downloaded and tried the free tier. Because most of
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by r_singh 8y ago
I have Spotify India on my phone, so I guess I'm a part of the 1 million that was waiting for this. I was about to pay for it even thought it's offered as a free service as well. However, once I gave it a go, I realised the collec
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by r_singh 8y ago
Jio does have a positive impact on India for sure. It has increased data consumption in India and made Indians more aware. However, Gopal, just look at data prices world wide. India was already the cheapest in the world for telecom, and now
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by r_singh 8y ago
FB/Google rose on merit, becoming bigger with equity dilution. Now there's a community aware about the ills that come with monopolies, (i.e. power to lobby, throw weight around on users and the government) and so choose to dislike
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by r_singh 8y ago
The company I work for is going through its worst year because of JIO. It just feels good to read this here on HN. We know the truth even if the general public / consumers ignore because of disinterest, media ignores because of fear, a
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by r_singh 8y ago
You'd be more interested in knowing that Apple Music's family offering (for 6 users) is for $2.54/mo in India. Yes that's correct, $2.54 for 6 users!!!
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by r_singh 8y ago
Apple Music's family subscription costs on Rs.180 for 6 users. That's an order of magnitude cheaper than Spotify, which to me seems super hyped. There can't be 1 single best way to discover music, people tell me that they fin
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Ask HN: What software products do you find expensive?
6 points by r_singh 8y ago|20 comments
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by r_singh 8y ago
This is a topic that has had a huge impact on the company I work for. We sell BSS software for SME ISPs, have a 30% market share in India, and have seen all our customers looks subscribers after JIO's launch, which benefits from endles
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Trai’s decisions over past two years have hurt all barring Jio: Vodafone CEO(economictimes.indiatimes.com)
1 points by r_singh 8y ago|1 comments
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by r_singh 8y ago
This question has been on my mind too and I'm glad someone thought of asking on HN. Google has been returning really obvious results that one expects to get based on search history, other internet usage, etc (much like Netflix's m
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by r_singh 8y ago
Even though Microsoft is funding this project, the government is definitely still involved. The credit will (& should) obviously go to Microsoft since they're shelling out $500M, but there's definitely a lot of hard working ho

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