In the cult classic Indian, a corrupt official smugly asks Kamal Haasan: "Don’t they take bribes in other countries?"
Kamal’s legendary reply hits like a thunderbolt:
"In other countries, they demand money to break the rules.
In India, they demand money to do the job they’re already paid for."
(Dialogues by Tamil Nadu’s legendary writer, the late Sujatha.)
Been exactly a year since we launched water purifiers
We now have TDS data from tens of thousands of Atomberg water purifiers installed across the country
And we combined that with publicly available data from different government sources like central pollution control board, jal jeevan mission and central ground water board
And built a free tool where you can enter your pincode and check your water quality- TDS levels, TDS variance, chemicals present etc
I swear people go to Starbucks and just say random words...
"Lemme get a grande iced mocha no foam quad soy hexagon vortex hypothesis with steamed ice"
*Shark Tank India*
Product: “Healthy mithai for fit India”
*Fun, whimsical background music*
“Zara apna entrepreneurship journey ke baare mein batana…”
*Soaring, inspirational music*
“Hamare papa ka mithai ka wholesale business hai..”
I can share an interesting experience from last week. We have a person who is incharge of buying hardware, software and data sets. This might sound stupid but when you are buying 100s of servers, workstations and laptops a month, it's complicated. This dude used Claude to create an entire tracking and maintanence portal that inventoried everything. He even managed to integrate the portal with our monitoring software to display the status of every server vm. He then modified it to store invoices and so on. He's been at it for a couple of weeks and we've been able to identify wastage and needs.
Without Claude, this would have been a maze of spreadsheets and a lot of manual labor. But we wouldn't have hired a developer for this. To me, this kind of software is the killer use case for AI. Enough to simplify your life, but not enough to justify hiring someone or buying a product.
Is the code great? Is it scalable? Is it good software engineering? No, no and no. But that's besides the point.