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Is housing.com hacked/down? India's Leading Startup

45 points| illuminek | 10 years ago |housing.com

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[+] anant90|10 years ago|reply
If nothing else, the level of immaturity of conduct by housing.com's ex-CEO and his followers within the company is definitely hurting the burgeoning startup scene in India real bad. To make matters worse, this comes at a time when foreign VC firms/banks were only starting to get comfortable investing sizable amounts of money in Indian startups at a pre-profitability stage. My only hope is that the people in the tech community world over do not stereotype Indian startups to this one bad apple, and up and coming Indian entrepreneurs do not assume this is acceptable and normal.
[+] illuminek|10 years ago|reply
I am surprised to see, that people are not able to redirect it to some decent maintenance page. What could have gone wrong at tech?
[+] shoo|10 years ago|reply
sure, it's perhaps a bit immature.

on the other hand, it's just another business out to make money -- like many others. there are more important things one could get upset about. let's not take things too seriously.

[+] HappyTypist|10 years ago|reply
The sysadmins need to change the DNS to point to a status page, perform forensic dumps of the servers, and perform incident response 101 ASAP. There's no excuse leaving an attacker controlled message up for hours.
[+] illuminek|10 years ago|reply
True. They seems helpless.
[+] pratnala|10 years ago|reply
I suspect this is an inside job of some of the employees
[+] ishanr|10 years ago|reply
its not india's leading startup.
[+] simonswords82|10 years ago|reply
What is then?

Edit: Thanks for the feedback, I didn't know some of these (like VWO) were of Indian origin.

[+] boulevard|10 years ago|reply
It is back up again. But was surely done by some insider who supports the ex-CEO.
[+] ebinjohn|10 years ago|reply
Now it's time. There is a new website up and running, you guys wanna check it out. http://housing.ceo/
[+] dylanjermiah|10 years ago|reply
Skeptical if that is actually him, his prior actions do indicate it's possible.
[+] boulevard|10 years ago|reply
Such a thing is really sad for Indian startup community.
[+] illuminek|10 years ago|reply
If I am not wrong then there was a townhall meeting going on @ Mumbai headquarters when it all happened.
[+] codeN|10 years ago|reply
Interesting that there is no HTML just a direct link to an image.
[+] illuminek|10 years ago|reply
Down again. For sure someone is playing with it.
[+] linux_devil|10 years ago|reply
very sad day for housing, I mean some scaling issues are fine but deface is catastrophic . Good luck to housing
[+] ebinjohn|10 years ago|reply
It's even down at 5:20 PM IST
[+] LaFolle|10 years ago|reply
Its more than an hour and still down!
[+] zaidf|10 years ago|reply
This may be an unpopular opinion but I think Rahul Yadav was made a scapegoat for all the VCs who put in too much money into housing at too high of a valuation. Yadav has his flaws -- but they are mostly childish, not evil. He gave the so-called adults a perfect excuse to hide behind but it still doesn't excuse the Board for their key decisions related to scaling, burn etc.

As for Rahul Yadav, I think he would have done well to find a person he really respects and to listen to him. Zuck did that with Andressen(no, I'm not saying he's Zuck; just that having a close mentor can really make a massive difference.) The Board could have helped here in lightly nudging him to find that somebody instead of engaging in constant confrontation.