Big win for #DigiLocker - its now powering India's National SSO - Single SignOn service (named MeriPehchaan]👇

What this means? Think FBConnect & GoogleConnect - these SSOs r used acros the internet to sign into websites/apps. DigiLocker SSO is similar but for Indian govt apps.. The National SSO service was launched yesterday as part of the #DigitalIndia Week 2022.

The CoWin example shown above is a live sample implementation... hope to see this turn into a trend, pick up steam and proliferate fast across government websites!

Stunning amts of money is now flowing out of India into overseas mkts #anecdotal

- Public Mkts: My investment advisor (big 3 Indian pvt bank) recommends 20% exposure to foreign equity in investment portfolios (v/s 0% 3yr bk)

- Private Mkts: Hundreds of startups moving abroad.. to incorporate @ Delaware, London, SGP, Dubai. I've recently been forced to exit 3 of my best angel investments as the startup chose to raise next round from foreign investors (who didn't want early Indian angels as baggage)

As an Indian🇮🇳 I shudder to think of the long term...

Did my annual online services (subs) spring cleaning🧹 Lots of surprises & leakages.. sharing checklist (suggest everyone do this)👇

- Found 2 subscriptions I'm paying, but not using.. killed!
- Many subs broken by RBI credit card issue.. resurrected!
- Dual Billing Shocker: /1 Turns out my Audible a/c was being billed both by Amazon India (in Rs) & Amazon USA (in $). So weird - emailed customr support, they acknowledgd & reversed the US dual billing. What a relief!
- Android PlayStore Billing: Realized this has ballooned into a sizable, slippery list..

Seeing a trend >> Many startup pitches nowadays have deep analysis abt market dynamics, industry size, competition, but lack clear view on how the product or service works.

Demos, process flows, pics/videos that should natively be part of pitch are often missing

Wonder why? /1 IMHO how well the product solves the actual need/want shld be the core of the pitch. In fact, this is the very fulcrum on which the entire argument gets built.

Possible reason - founders are getting too focused on prof investors (who tend to be more market/opportunity driven) /2

Throwback to early days of #ROR ~ circa 2007/08

Ruby's single threading was leading to serious scalability challenges at SlideShare (also Twitter etc). The word on the tech street - "RubyOnRails ain't enterprise-class. These platforms won't scale".

#RubyOnRails #Rails #Ruby /1

https://twitter.com/Coursesity/status/1274911517960556545

ROR was optimized for "developer efficiency & happiness".

That's what endeared it to Web2.0 startups - iterate, build fast & break things, think MVP, Agile, Lean... get to product-market-fit ASAP

Whether it could deliver at enterprise scale like java, dont net was untested /2