Ritik Harchani

Engineering @letsblinkit

[Harpreet @CestMoiz]

Dear @letsblinkit, your Ambulance service is a lifesaver indeed. Jist this morning, a classmate of mine requested for an ambulance in Gurugram. It arrived in 4 minutes and his mom was in the emergencybward of a hospital within 20 minutes.
Both the paramedic attendants and the driver were topnotch and took excellent care of the patient.
After the formalities in the ER were done and the patient stabilized, her son went out to thank the ambulance guys, only to find out that they had already gone.
Two minutes later he got the scolding of his life from his wife for not giving them any token of thanks, especially since the ambulance service didn't charge anything. He had no idea and had just assumed that the charges would have been paid when his wife had booked the ambulance!
On that note, you may consider adding an option on your app for a token payment and perhaps a rating system for your ambulance crews after the job is completed.
They are a lifesaver indeed.

[Rohit @Iam_Rohit_G]

Number of Jobs created by Blinkit : 1,85,000+
Number of Jobs created by Zepto : 1,20,000+
Number of Jobs created by Big Basket :80000+
Number of Jobs created by Zomato : 5,50,000+
Number of Jobs created by Swiggy : 6,90,000
Number of Jobs created by Urban Company : 40000+
Number of Jobs created by OLA : 1 million+
Number of Jobs created by Uber : 1.4 Million+
Number of Jobs created by Rapido : 8,00,000+

No of jobs created by Kunal Kamra : 0
No of Jobs created by Raghav Chadda : 0
No of Jobs created by Ravish Kumar : 0

People who have created 0 jobs are questioning people who have created million of Jobs in India!!

[Aditya Kulkarni @bizaditya]

If your heart is bleeding, feel free to start a business in this country and provide better jobs to lakhs of people - instead of criticising the gig economy.

Zomato, Swiggy, Zepto ,Urban Company and others are doing God’s work just like Infosys, TCS and Wipros did earlier : jobs they have created have changed lives - and fortunes of families.

Sure hold them accountable but first start a business yourself in this country and employ some 5-10 people, deal with compliances and babudom : your critique will have a lot more weight.

I don’t say it with spite - respect the empathy but let it meet reality too 🙏

[Kawaljeet Singh @kawal279]

Just stating some facts: (all figures on Per day basis)
Figured based on avg metro cities earnings
- House maids earn Rs 400- 1000
- Battery Rickshaw drivers make Rs 500-1500 (if he owns, otherwise deduct 3/400 Rickshaw rent from income)
- Auto Driver earns Rs 700-1800 (Deduct 4-500 Rs per day rent from this)
- Labour chowk wala does not even earn daily. When they do, they make Rs 500- 1000
- Helper at Mithai shops or restaurants- Rs 350-600
- Office boy- Rs 400-700
- Mechanical Labour at Puncture shops- Rs 400-1000
- Taxi drivers- Rs 1000-2500 (Deduct 600-1000 Rs rent)
- Sales boys at Clothing shops- Rs 500-1500

ALSO, NO Insurance, Pensions, offs, maternal/paternal leaves etc

Please add more from your experience or correct me if I am wrong. We should uplift everyone simultaneously & not only gig workers.

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

Last one on this topic, and I have been holding this in myself for a while.

For centuries, class divides kept the labor of the poor invisible to the rich. Factory workers toiled behind walls, farmers in distant fields, domestic help in backrooms. The wealthy consumed the fruits of that labor without ever seeing the faces or the fatigue behind it. No direct encounter, no personal guilt.

The gig economy shattered that invisibility, at unprecedented scale.

Suddenly, the poor aren't hidden away. They're at your doorstep: the delivery partner handing over your ₹1000+ biryani, late-night groceries, or quick-commerce essentials. You see them in the rain, heat, traffic, often on borrowed bikes, working 8–10 hours for earnings that give them sustenance. You see their exhaustion, their polite smile masking frustration with life in general.

This is the first time in history at this scale that the working class and consuming class interact face-to-face, transaction after transaction. And that discomfort with our own selves is why we are uncomfortable about the gig economy. We want these people to look our part, so that the guilt we feel while taking orders from them feels less.

We aren't just debating economics. We are confronting guilt. That ₹800 order might equal their entire day's earnings after fuel, bike rent, and app cuts. We tip awkwardly, or avoid eye contact, because the inequality is no longer abstract. It's personal.

Pre-gig era, the rich could enjoy luxury without moral discomfort. Labor was out of sight. Now, every doorbell ring is a reminder of systemic inequality. That's why debates explode. It's not just policy. It's emotional reckoning. Some defend the system (“they choose it”), others demand change (“this isn't progress, its exploitation”).

And here’s the uncomfortable twist: the unsaid ask of clumsy ‘solutions’ isn’t dignity. It is about returning to invisibility.

Ban gig work and you don’t solve inequality. You remove livelihoods. These jobs don’t magically reappear as formal, protected employment the next day. They disappear, or they get pushed back into the informal economy where there are even fewer protections and even less accountability. Over-regulate it until the model breaks, and you achieve the same outcome through paperwork instead of slogans: the work evaporates, prices rise, demand collapses, and the people we claim to protect are the first to lose income.

And then what happens?

The rich get their old comfort back. Convenience returns without faces. Guilt dissolves. We go back to clean abstractions and moral posturing from a distance. The poor don’t become safer, they become invisible again: back in cash economies, back in backrooms, back in shadows where regulation rarely reaches and dignity isn’t even debated.

The gig economy just exposed the reality of inequality to the people who previously had the luxury of not seeing it. The doorbell is not the problem. The question is what we do after opening the door.

Visibility is the price of progress. We can either use this discomfort to build something better (which we keep doing continuously as delivery partners are our backbone), or we can ban and over-regulate our way back into ignorance. One of those choices improves lives. The other simply helps the consuming class feel virtuous in the dark.

[Ritik Harchani @RHarchani]

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[Ritik Harchani @RHarchani]

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[Ritik Harchani @RHarchani]

@AmanHasNoName_2 The ans is indexing. For me, organizing things, like folding a blanket is a technical process.
Its about ensuring fast access later. Small cost of putting it back pays off with quick retrieval. unfolded blanket, for ex- might block access to the TV remote or phone on the bed.

[sphinx @protosphinx]

Signaling is important. Everyone takes cues from their role models and peers.

High visibility high follower accounts spend a lot of time building that cred. Tech leaders with listed companies hiring hundreds of thousands are seen as role models.

If these role models and high visibility accounts cower, the signal is that you should too. In their absence, a few from the rank and file try to fill this vacuum of conversation. It becomes a self-fulfilling argument.

Look, these normies who can’t even write properly are hating. That means we were right to stay away.

That’s why it’s so dangerous when high visibility accounts cower publicly.

Put it this way. If the US were in a war like situation, you can bet every tech boss would be tweeting support within hours. It’s not about the statement. It’s about signalling and alignment.

You make a statement. Let others know you’re in support. You move on. No big deal.

The problem with the Indian tech crowd is they either think this doesn’t matter or assume they have no skin in the game.

That’s deeply worrying.

[Ritik Harchani @RHarchani]

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Here's the 4k trailer, hope you like it!

[Akassh Ashok Gupta @peepoye_]

🧵 1 | I received over 350+ emails this weekend… and what’s happening at IIIT Allahabad is horrifying.
Two students are dead.
The campus is locked.
Police are silent.
And it looks like the system is doing everything to suppress the truth.
Let me show you what they don’t want you to see 👇

#JusticeForIIITStudents #IIITAllahabad #JusticeForAkhil #JusticeForRahul

[Albinder Dhindsa @albinder]

Ambulance in 10 minutes.

We are taking our first step towards solving the problem of providing quick and reliable ambulance service in our cities. The first five ambulances will be on the road in Gurugram starting today. As we expand the service to more areas, you will start seeing an option to book a Basic Life Support (BLS) ambulance through the @letsblinkit app.

Some more info-

• Our ambulances are equipped with essential life-saving equipment, including oxygen cylinders, AED (Automated External Defibrillator), stretcher, monitor, suction machine, and essential emergency medicines and injections.

• Each ambulance has a paramedic, an assistant and a trained driver to make sure we are able to deliver the highest quality of service in time of need.

• Profit is not a goal here. We will operate this service at an affordable cost for customers and invest in really solving this critical problem for the long term.

• We are carefully scaling this service up, as it is both important and new to us. Our aim is to expand to all major cities over the next two years.

Let's do our bit and make way for an ambulance always. You never know when you may save a life.

[Ritik Harchani @RHarchani]

@Yemihazan Waiting for apple to add this feature with tags like "first ever" in iPhone 25

[Sean Frank @Seanfrank]

All the kids who filled their water cups with sprite got into crypto

[Understanding Nuances @UNuances]

(860) @letsblinkit in its “Print Store”, now also offers the ability to have passport photos delivered to your doorstep in minutes. Blinkit offers guidelines on which photos to choose/ take, alongside some AI enhancements, ensuring user satisfaction.
#blinkit #product #UNuances

[Ritik Harchani @RHarchani]

@shantanugoel Thanks sir, means a lot! 🙏🏻

[Ritik Harchani @RHarchani]

Thanks for the art peice! @shantanugoel

[Ritik Harchani @RHarchani]

@manthan_surkar Happy Birthday, Manthan! 🥳 🎂