Indian E-Commerce Firm Flipkart Raises Eye-Popping $1B

Re:Indian E-Commerce Firm Flipkart Raises Eye-Popping $1B by akx on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @12:38PM (#8103174)

Huh. Never heard of the company, but what surprised me is that the site is actually really fast and snappy, somehow, for me -- especially considering what I saw when I took a look at the source code.

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Re:Indian E-Commerce Firm Flipkart Raises Eye-Popping $1B by swatkat on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @01:18PM (#8103424)

As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, Flipkart is India-only as of now. They are India's Amazon :) I've been using Flipkart since its inception, never had any issues.

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Re:Indian E-Commerce Firm Flipkart Raises Eye-Popping $1B by rtx on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @05:34PM (#8105160)

Here is a talk given by them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic_iQYYCDxY

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Re:Indian E-Commerce Firm Flipkart Raises Eye-Popping $1B by Theodores on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @03:19PM (#8104363)

Agreed. Very pleasing on the eye with clear navigation, puts Amazon slightly to shame.

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Re:Indian E-Commerce Firm Flipkart Raises Eye-Popping $1B by dheer01 on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @12:20AM (#8106346)

You might find it hard to belive - but customer experience is slightly better on Flipkart than on Amazon(US).

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Re:Indian E-Commerce Firm Flipkart Raises Eye-Popping $1B by ilamparithi on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @06:28AM (#8107275)

Right. The filter options they have are much better than other e-commerce sites.

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Re:Indian E-Commerce Firm Flipkart Raises Eye-Popping $1B by lovelearning on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @02:31PM (#8103999)

What did you find in their source code?

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Re:Indian E-Commerce Firm Flipkart Raises Eye-Popping $1B by seanflyon on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @06:00PM (#8105278)

I assume he means their in browser JavaScript.

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Re:Indian E-Commerce Firm Flipkart Raises Eye-Popping $1B by akx on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @04:03AM (#8106896)

Yeah, the HTML has bits of markup, JavaScript and CSS interspersed in a way that's hardly the state of the art for modern web dev.

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