Sourabh Jain

Traveller. IT sales guy. Eats everything tasty. More of a Zombie. Chocolate (read Nutella) addict. Passionate about the Cloud world.

[Sourabh Jain @jasourabh]

@smitaprakash Should name and shame such creches! Pathetic.

Anyone know what is the name of establishment?

[Sourabh Jain @jasourabh]

@shobhitic What is rhe denominator here? Per year, day, month?

[Sourabh Jain @jasourabh]

@ravihanda Don’t mind even unlimited beer for the conversation! Possible to meet up?

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇮🇳 India now has drones that only need 12 ft of space and zero runway to launch from a moving truck.

The V-BAT can stay airborne for 11+ hours using a tail-sitting VTOL design, carrying AI systems capable of swarm coordination and autonomous target tracking without a human pilot in the loop.

The Indian Army is deploying it along the border. Persistent surveillance in terrain where you can't build an airstrip.

That's the point.

Autonomous tactical systems are no longer a futuristic concept. They're already at the border.

Source: @DefenceDec

[Umesh Kumar @itsumeshk]

MacBook Pro. iPad. iPhone. Apple Watch. AirPods.
All this is just the second prize.

Runable can now build production iOS + Android apps and ship them straight to the App Store and Play Store.

We're running a challenge, To participate:
> Reply with your idea under this post
> build a mobile app on Runable
> record a quick demo
> quote tweet this with your video + why you built it

2nd prize: the entire Apple ecosystem
1st prize: mystery

starts today, ends sunday midnight.

[Sourabh Jain @jasourabh]

@itsumeshk This is Runable’s reply! One merch here please 😅

[Umesh Kumar @itsumeshk]

I am looking for a founder’s office

Some basic requirements:
> learner - I want to learn from you
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> +1 if you are from IITR 🙂

Send me anything that proves any of the four points.

[Sourabh Jain @jasourabh]

Amazon enters the game.
After early pilots in Bengaluru, Delhi, and Mumbai, Amazon Now is scaling fast — targeting ~100 cities across metros and Tier 2 markets, backed by 1,000+ micro-fulfilment centres.

This isn’t just another launch — it’s a distribution-led assault. Amazon’s logistics moat is hard to replicate at scale.

Meanwhile, Meesho is quietly testing grocery in select cities (like Nagpur historically being a key market) — signalling a Tier 2/3-first expansion thesis

Big guys are coming for Eternal and Swiggy's lunch money!

[RedboxGlobal India @REDBOXINDIA]

AMAZON INDIA TO COMPETE ETERNAL AND SWIGGY TO TAKE ‘AMAZON NOW’ TO 100 CITIES; RAMPS UP QUICK COMMERCE PLAY|| PLATFORM TO OFFER WIDE SELECTION OF ESSENTIALS, GROCERIES, ELECTRONICS DELIVERED WITHIN MINUTES TO HOURS

[Sourabh Jain @jasourabh]

Vijay Sales is quietly printing money - ~₹850Cr per store with just 150 outlets.

Compare that to Croma: ~₹19,000Cr across 560 stores → ~₹34Cr/store.

That’s ~25x higher revenue/store. Wild efficiency.

Could be reasons: :
• Includes online sales (no split disclosed)
• ~32% of revenue is from mobile phones

Still — those unit economics are explosive.

[Vinod Chendhil @vinodchendhil]

Vijay sale does 13,000 crore in revenue, damn!

And people think offline is dead.

[Sourabh Jain @jasourabh]

You should try it out if you haven't! image-2 and GPT 5.5 (including Codex) is too good.

[Sam Altman @sama]

so fun to see the reception to 5.5!

there is almost nothing that feels more gratifying to me than builders saying they find our tools useful.

[Sourabh Jain @jasourabh]

@itsumeshk Super smooth! Kudos to the team 🚀

[Umesh Kumar @itsumeshk]

The power to create anything is now in your pocket.

Runable is now live on the App Store.

Try it, tell us what sucks.

[Sourabh Jain @jasourabh]

@_falsi1ke Hello

[Sourabh Jain @jasourabh]

Bigbasket is OpenAI, Zepto is Anthropic and Blinkit is Gemini

[Sourabh Jain @jasourabh]

@GabbbarSingh Ah! Just one more zero to to 😝

[Sourabh Jain @jasourabh]

The company that bought IPL rights also owns a top franchise - that’s a structural conflict, not a coincidence.

This should be concerning because the 2023–27 media cycle placed IPL control squarely with Viacom18/Jio (the deal followed the 2022 auction for a five‑year term) - a watershed commercial shift that moved 1000s of crores into the central pool - (BCCI / media reports, 2022). Reliance‑controlled Network18 is a principal owner of Viacom18, and Mumbai Indians are held by IndiaWin Sports (a Reliance‑linked consortium) - the same corporate family appears on both sides of the payment flow -(Viacom18/Network18 and Mumbai Indians).

That matters because central media revenue becomes the primary source redistributed to franchises; teams routinely receive payments in the hundreds of crores each season from that pool. When the broadcaster and a franchise sit under the same group, incentives to influence scheduling, commercial terms or governance increase - disclosures alone don’t remove those incentives. This is a concentration problem, not merely an optics problem - (BCCI revenue practice; IPL financial reporting).

If we treat league economics as public‑interest infrastructure, then coexistence of dominant broadcaster and franchise owner requires more than transparency: it needs structural safeguards or clear competition review.

Concentration of media and team ownership should trigger regulatory scrutiny, not shrugging acceptance.

[Ragav X @ragav_x]

JioStar (Ambani) pays BCCI Rs. 8,732 crore for the IPL rights yearly.

From that same pool, BCCI distributes the franchise share. MI (Ambani) receive around Rs. 436.6 crore.

So the money comes in and goes back to the same ownership.

It is not ideal to have the same ownership owning both a franchise and the broadcast rights. This is a conflict of interest. Thoughts?

[Sourabh Jain @jasourabh]

A Rs. 1700 latte isn’t just a bad day for a cafe - it’s where currency moves, commodity swings and tax rules meet your cup.

I see this as a supply‑chain and policy problem, not a barista prank. Services account for roughly 54% of India’s GDP, so cost pressures in rent, wages and power feed straight into restaurant bills. At the same time the Reserve Bank targets 4% inflation (±2%), so a sudden 8× price move is far outside normal monetary dynamics by the RBI.

Retail shocks like the joke reflect imported input volatility (coffee is a traded commodity), local labour/rent rigidities and tax/markup layers - the things ordinary CPI numbers don’t capture at the shop level. Watch commodity markets, exchange rates and sectoral costs, not just headline inflation, when you see a spike like this.

If your espresso suddenly costs a month’s groceries, stop laughing and start tracing the supply chain.

[Abhinav Khare @iabhinavKhare]

A Indian walks into a cafe and orders a flat white latte.

The barista tells him : "1700 INR!"

The Indian is shocked - "1700 INR for coffee??? Yesterday it was only 200 INR !"

"Well, today it is 170O."

- "But why 1700 damn it?" 😡

Barista : "I'll explain it,

-200 is the Coffee,
-500 for Ladli behena
-500 for Bheem ke Diwane
-300 ek haanth Quran ek haanth laptop
-100 Ayushmaan Bharat
-100 Anndata Tax

The Indian with anger UPIs 1700 INR.

The barista enters it in the POS & gave 200 INR back.

Indian in disbelief : "Wait, you said 1700 INR, right? Why are you giving me back 200 INR?"

"There is no coffee."

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

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[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Today, India takes a defining step in its civil nuclear journey, advancing the second stage of its nuclear programme.

The indigenously designed and built Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam has attained criticality.

This advanced reactor, capable of producing more fuel than it consumes, reflects the depth of our scientific capability and the strength of our engineering enterprise. It is a decisive step towards harnessing our vast thorium reserves in the third stage of the programme.

A proud moment for India. Congratulations to our scientists and engineers.