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girish_h | 11 years ago | on: Introducing Slide-to-Select

This is a really cool implementation.. Definitely a time-saver.. Like another user mentioned here, i am curious to understand how you handle vertical scrolling..

girish_h | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is setting up a remote team of developers in India worth it?

Its really good then. I am so happy to hear that. Hope you identify a great set of developers / testers with whom you can collaborate with. Let me know if you need any assistance. I have done that before for a couple of product companies in the US and one in Singapore... Will be more than happy to help you.

Also, wishing you a great success with your product.

girish_h | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is setting up a remote team of developers in India worth it?

It depends on what kind of project you want the developers in India to get done, combined with the location(city) in India that you are planning to have your team work out of.

If its something like a mobile-first product, it will be better if you can have one of your trusted team-mates, who understands both the product and the aesthetics of your product, sit in India and operate the team: the reason being this team-mate will need to be hands-on with the developers on the product features and also add a lot of value on the aesthetics of the app.

In most cases, the developers in India lack these skills. As long as you are able to address that, you will be good.

The other most important question to ask yourself - are you looking at this team simply to save your development costs (or) are you looking to really collaborate with them and look at them to add value to your product? If its the former, then a lot of brickbats are thrown when the deliverables are getting delayed and you may end up in a bad state and write negative reviews about developers from India. But if you look at the India based team to add a lot of value to your product, then the guys will go any end to deliver the product for you. It becomes a happy ending for everyone. In this case, you wont even mind the 10-12 hour timezone difference.

girish_h | 12 years ago | on: Indian Railway has implemented the world's dumbest captcha

Its easier to criticize a group without understanding the background of what they have achieved.

The Indian Railways runs one of the largest ecommerce sites in India - a site that has seen a consistent YoY growth over the last few years since its launched. Last year, they are believed to have earned a revenue of nearly 100M USD.

The guys who built their reservation system have very good engineering chops - in fact these systems hit peak load of about a million queries (every day) during 10 AM - 12 noon (IST) when users and reservation agents try to access the site irctc.co.in from browsers / mobile / reservation counters etc.

The "captcha" was not even in this page a month back. The "PNR Enquiry" for which this page is intended is a feature that can be accessed through SMS & also from the irctc website. This is possibly the least visited page in indianrail.gov.in

I have been an active user of both irctc.co.in & indianrail.gov.in over the last 7-8 years and have seen how these sites have grown.

girish_h | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: iPhone App - Icon based review for concerts

This app was built to help people write quick reviews of the concerts they are attending.

The Chennai Music Season (also called Madras Music Season) refers to a set of concerts that happen in the months of December and January of every year. Concerts are held at more than 30-40 venues across the city of Chennai (a city in India).

Using this iOS / Android app, users can do a review of the concert within 5 seconds, by picking an icon (emoticon) that explains what a fan thinks of a particular piece of live-music that he just heard.

The idea of the app is to get maximum feedback from a fan from a live performance he is attending & at the same time share that with his social graph & also build some analytics for the artistes on how they can improve the performance. Essentially, we are building a platform that connects the performing musician with his fan-base.

We request the community to give us feedback on the Design also the app experience.

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