Tapan Mittal

building tech, design. black hole

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In the last week two products I use and love have changed hands. Why does this feel ominous?

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@piyushkb A lot is driven by a get-rich-quick mentality, and that fuels following, not leading. The urge,.discipline and patience required to aim for and do world class stuff is thus rare

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@piyushkb I'm sure someone over there is building a kid mood predictor to guess when parents will urgently need pancake mix

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@Rahul_J_Mathur Good that grunt work is getting automated. Deeper truth may be that the workflow is broken. With AI replacing grunt work, maybe the 3-4 short meetings can also go away. With qualified leads from ai, VCs may be better off spending half a day *at the startup* for a deep dive

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@boardyai Peakk Cricket, automated ai video, highlights and insights for 100 million cricketers

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@paraschopra 100%. Also the time horizon required to get there, even with all the compute, is way beyond the appetite of any capital available in India

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@warikoo We did a lot of things wrong at nearbuy, but some world class work too - culture, engg. chin up :) I also remember bumping into @mobhat at nearbuy, and though we'd just briefly met 2yrs before, he remembered. Good guys are just good, irrespective of VC or employee or founder

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@miten @WhatsApp Ooh needed this! Will check out

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@subhashchy Great initiative! Exactly the kind of local support that's needed. We're solving this through tech, driving value for both athlete and scout. Would be happy to deploy at the teams/academies you patronise

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@Brahamvakya Sport is probably a bit like history. You can only try to imagine things as they were, but can't feel them as they did. Words can not describe what they did. And context matters, the opposition, the times, the pressure

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@KaeCapital We stumbled upon trust, and it got us inbound from Kanpur, Bijapur and more. We're not even selling there yet. It brings us personal relationships, and that feels like a moat

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@HammadH4 @RomanSaini Hey Hammad, we have a bunch of voice use cases I'd like to bounce off with you. Also if you're into cricket/sports, I'd love to meet. We're Peakk, bringing elite level sports tech to every cricketer. The UAE women's captain is a fan of our work.

https://t.co/KK8oHM9M4l

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@banglani Took us 2yrs to uncover insights that drive insanely deep value, 1.5yrs within that get our vision AI models right, serving customers through handwork all along. MVP done start-finish in 4weeks. Product building was fast, nailing insight was tough, as it should be

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@Ganwani @anandmahindra Hey @Ganwani i work with grassroots sports, let's talk if you'd like to get involved in the space

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@BadCapitalVC 2 months back, we uncovered a new, 100x truth, we serviced that truth for a month, earned money, and are launching a completely new product that self-serves this truth, all built in 6weeks by 2 engineers. At my previous tech employers, this would've taken 1.5yrs and 15-20 people.

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@nikunj Thank you 🙏

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@banglani There's a test match about the weeks away, in case the comments are not helping

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@Shefali_Vj This is a breath of fresh air. While most are offer hunting, you chose to build the business, and it built you like nothing else can!! Keep shining 🌟

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@BadCapitalVC Not just D2C, I'm struggling to get this done as a consumer tech startup. And we have enough ugc video content that gets generated on our platform, but I miss exactly what you said - a director level indian voice+video+distribution tool

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@neeran @vishalmisra Bowlers😢