Harshit

Ironman 70.3 🇮🇳 | engineer | product engineer @dashversetech | previously @_groww @udaandotcom

[Harshit @iiamharshit]

@Levelsfyi levelstothemoon!! :)

[Harshit @iiamharshit]

We’ve been on a similar journey at @dashversetech — figuring out analytics at scale.

Building on top of open-source (@OpenPanelDev) + heavy internal optimisations. Today, we’re able to handle ~7–8 billion events/month without relying on expensive third-party tools.

[Striver | Building takeUforward @striver_79]

Currently we are figuring out how to manage analytics in-house for around 100M events a month.

From the outside, analytics looks simple. Track events, store them, query them. But when you actually sit down to build or even evaluate it at scale, reality hits differently.

PostHog is there. Good product. But self-hosting it at our scale needs a big machine and serious infra. Paid tools are convenient, but expensive at scale. Some cheaper options exist, but they do not give us the kind of per-user tracking we need to create business funnels.

As a bootstrapped company, you cannot just say, “Let’s buy this tool.” You have to ask:

- Do we really need everything it offers?
- Can we build only the limited parts we actually need?
- Can we keep the storage cheaper?
- Can we work with a TTL of 1–2 years instead of keeping everything forever?

Reading. Discussing. Trying. Failing. Reworking. Learning again. A lot of people think bootstrapped companies move slower because they spend too much time thinking about cost.

I think the opposite.

- Cost makes you think deeper.
- It forces you to understand the system properly.
- It pushes you to separate what is essential from what is just nice to have.

We are still figuring it out. All of us are learning on the go. But that is also the beauty of building this way.

When you cannot throw money at every problem because you don't have enough, you learn to trade-off.

Glad that we took a call to build a end to end prep platform, instead of a typical course platform hosted on some third party site.

[Harshit @iiamharshit]

@_cleartax 🥲

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Was filing tax returns as usual, but this time capital gains were a pain — 2 types (LTCG & STCG) × 2 periods (before & after 23rd July change).
Almost went to ClearTax, then thought: why not try an LLM?
Uploaded my capital gains file + a few IT portal screenshots… and voilà!

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@thewisenerdXDA Enough of internet for today

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@getpeid @sama @thewisenerdXDA

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@subham_padhi_ 😂😂

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Paytm uses sound box not just for payment notification but as medium of communication for all sorts of information they want to provide to their sound box users.

I am just wondering if the same can be used for advertisements to offset the cost of sound box 🤔

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@thewisenerdXDA Shit happens, it’s will a new morning tomorrow

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@_BansalNikhil @kuddle_pet @akshay_kuddle Congratulations, millions more to come :)

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Bring Thruxton back to India @IndiaTriumph 🥲

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@0xgaut well what about impact

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@thewisenerdXDA @devanshjain_ why not https://t.co/4kgOSa0ehU 🤔

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@subham_padhi_ Well, ant bhala to sab bhala 😉

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@Mohammedbasra7 @thewisenerdXDA

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@dementorSam @supan5 @shriramprops Meanwhile Rainbow Drive - https://t.co/kEfsun8TGW

[Prajwal @prajwalmanipal]

Bengaluru rains : Rescue works at Sarjapur Road, Bengaluru after waterlogging following overnight rains.

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@supan5 Quality of chat is still maintained if the user know how to react on the message + the engagement will even increase given the users who were not reacting to a message earlier now using reactions to not disturb the other users using reactions - [3/3]

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@supan5 It's more upto the user how he/she wants to react to the message, from a POV of user who is reading the message and wants to react on the it - there could be two possibilities - [1/3]

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@supan5 1. Don't want to notify other users of the group - will use reaction
2. The user wants to notify about the reaction - will use reply on that message instead - [2/3]

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Apple is trying what @sliceit_ was trying to do, split due payment #apple #applepaylater