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Re:I Am So Tired on Monday June 16, 2025 @05:07PM (#44293402)
Learn to teach someone something new or do voluntary work. Try to make better humans for tomorrow. I know your today is screwed. However, your learners may create a better tomorrow.
Re:Autonomous trucks in Texas, no safety driver on Friday May 02, 2025 @12:18AM (#43866151)
Looks like there will be a vehicle (manned of course) following the trucks at this time (the same way oversized cargo/load moves today).
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025) on Sunday March 30, 2025 @06:50PM (#43528543)
Matrimonial App for Indians settled Abroad (with paying members) - https://www.nrimeet.app/

Neighborhood App for Indians - https://neighar.com/

People buy houses by taking loans with high interest. Next year, the house they own increase in valuation equal to the amount they paid interest.

House owner is happy - their asset has increased in value. Bank is happy. They got the money. City is happy. They got their taxes for the higher valuation of the house.

After sometime, The middle-class becomes lower class and moves to rent. The lower class becomes homeless as they cannot afford the rent.

The cycle repeats.

I made a dating/meetup app exclusively for Indians and for the NRI Indians (Non-resident Indians).

https://www.nrimeet.app/

Available on IOS and Android.

Gets me around $250 per month. I've not done much marketing either. Started as a hobby project after Covid and continued after.

I also built an Indian Version of Neighborhood app (like Nextdoor). But I am not making any money from it. https://neighar.com

PS: I am planning to scale up and also planning to spend some money on marketing. Investors are welcome!

Why no one mentioned the term “vaporware”? Isn’t this a classic example of one?
Rank. Country. Average Age

48 United States 79.46

123 India 72.24 73.86 70.73

https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/life-expectancy/

A couple of the HN comments in this thread said,

"America can simultaneously be the safest place on earth for those with food allergies, while avoiding this kind of bureaucratic nonsense."

"I get that this seems like an overreach, but America is incredibly safe for people with allergies and it's because of enforcement like this."

In my 40+ years of life in India, and among the many people that I've seen or interacted with in 5 Indian states (among 28 States), I've rarely heard someone say they have allergies the way they have in the US. In US, people have allergies to almost everything.

In my 40+ years of life in India, and based on the various supermarkets that I've visited across 4 heavily crowded metro cities, I've rarely seen "Allergy" medicines/prescriptions occupy the shelf like they do in the US.

Also in the same period of my existence in this third world country, I've rarely seen people concerned about the ingredients in a restaurant menu or labels printed on food packets or containers that there are allergy causing ingredients in there.

Like George Bush once cruelly remarked, "India is the cause of shortage of food in the world", because we eat everything, and rarely check the labels or need them, or less allergic to any food. We are just short of food.

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024) on Monday October 28, 2024 @09:07AM (#41970684)
Building a Nextdoor equivalent for India. Check it out at https://neighar.com
Sell everything in the US and move to a cheaper country like India. You will have free health care.
Re:My spiciest take on tech hiring on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @12:29AM (#40796395)
In the AI/ChatGPT world that we are in, cooking up a neat resume is not that hard. But I agree, you are going to interview someone who did at least that part good, and worked a little hard to prepare for it.
Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment? on Monday June 03, 2024 @12:58AM (#40559477)
I am from South east asia, and the learning moment I got from a high-school kid who took the order at Chic-fil-A. He taught me that burgers and sandwiches are made of beef and chicken respectively.
Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment? on Monday June 03, 2024 @12:56AM (#40559467)
That in the US, and if you are driving around a neighborhood, the size/tallness of the trees tell how old the neighborhood is (without really looking into any ads in an online portal)

Show HN: I Built a India Neighborhood App

https://neighar.com/

I built Neighar: Indian Neighborhood Social Network app that connects residents of the same neighborhood, allowing them to share local news, recommendations, and events. If you call it a rip off of Nextdoor, we wouldn't complain.India relies heavily on Whatsapp and Facebook for their communication needs, but it has its own limitations. Whatsapp is limited to closed in-circle communications, and...

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Re:Show HN: I built a 100% free startup idea generator on Thursday May 02, 2024 @06:02PM (#40241868)
Got the below idea from this tool. We built it a few months back already. I gave Mobile App and Social Media as the inputs to the generator tool.

Check it out https://neighar.com

>>>> LocalBuzz — Neighborhood Social Network An app that connects residents of the same neighborhood, allowing them to share local news, recommendations, and events. Capital required: Complexity:

Re:Show HN: I built a 100% free startup idea generator on Thursday May 02, 2024 @05:59PM (#40241843)
Got the below idea from this tool. We built it a few months back already. I gave Mobile App and Social Media as the inputs

Check it out https://neighar.com

>>>> LocalBuzz — Neighborhood Social Network An app that connects residents of the same neighborhood, allowing them to share local news, recommendations, and events. Capital required: Complexity:

Re:Toyota Adopts the North American Charging Standard on Thursday October 19, 2023 @10:11PM (#37951535)