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The convo that nobody is ready for is that AI has made every "technical" moat dead , especially if you are building a wrapper over Open Source Software, so now you are basically like every luxury perfume brand competing on marketing and aesthetics.
Is there a real moat for all of these sandbox companies? Feels like everyone is pivoting and the product is always the same???
- Fast boot time
- High clock speed
- Scale up and to zero
But like beyond lightweight microVMs it feels like the technical depth is fairly shallow? Like everyone is running on the same CPUs, and you can't really optimize the actual workloads because its just random agent-generated code at runtime.
Aside from race-to-the-bottom on pricing, how do you compete?
Former boss had a company that sold software to TCS and was licensed per machine. TCS simply copy-pasted the binaries + config and refused to pay. Fortunately he had anticipated this and shipped an encrypted license checking payload that verified license on bootup
My dad had a startup in India that created mutual fund software. They sold it to Punjab National Bank, which stiffed them on the payment, claiming that they didn’t use the tool provided.
Unbeknownst to them, there was a backdoor to stop the tool from working after a duration of time. The bank called to complain. That’s how they recovered their dues.
These bastards are just taunting us now, aren't they ?
.@SecRubio is returning to India for his second official visit! 🇺🇸🇮🇳
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3d printers for Robot parts ? Also Chinese. Wheels, tracks, sheet metal, CNC-ed parts ? You guessed it.
Govind retweeted
Nine months ago, this did not exist.
Today, India can build its own Fast Steering Mirror. QOSMIC’s FSM has cleared thermal vacuum and vibration qualification, both on the first attempt.
The FSM is the fine-pointing core of every optical link: satellite to ground, satellite to satellite, ground to ground. It holds a laser locked on target while everything around it moves, making hundreds of tiny corrections every second.
To put that precision in perspective: lay a grid over Rashtrapati Bhavan. From 500 km above your head, our FSM is designed to point a laser link at any single point on it.
Only two or three suppliers worldwide build this class of hardware. So we built ours.
From nothing to space-qualified in under a year.
Built to survive launch. Now it waits for one 👀
#ICSO2026 #ICSO #NewSpaceIndia #OpticalCommunications #LaserCommunication
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@Accel @AccelAtoms @AccelIndia @spc_india @spc @artparkindia
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GOAT agrees as well.
This is a massive L, not a W my guy.
A Bangalore tech founder finally experienced how Gujarati dhandho actually works.
I met a startup founder yesterday, exhausted, complaining that the manufacturing ecosystem is completely broken. His vendors were delaying shipments, crushing his margins and refusing to extend credit.
If you want to build a physical business, leave your tech mindset at home as it doesn't work in Indian manufacturing.
He thought the market was toxic.
The truth? The market just didn't know him.
Indian manufacturing runs on generational trust. It doesn't run on automated onboarding or email threads. I made one call and connected him to a vetted supplier in my network. He instantly got priority production and fair credit terms. Problem solved in 10 minutes.
You can have the best customer acquisition cost and the cleanest UI but the physical world is built on offline leverage. As a startup founder, start meeting new people and start doing founder branding simultaneously.
If your network can't fix a broken supply chain with a single phone call, your startup is already dead.