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The Community-Product Loop: Scaling from 120 to 11,000+ Teams
🎉 At @KridaFans, we embarked on a journey with grand visions: "Make it 3D!" we exclaimed. "Add blockchain everywhere!" we declared.
But 20,000+ users proved us wrong. Here's our final story on building @KridaFans, where less was indeed more. 🧵 1/
KridaFans' Tech Odyssey: From Catastrophe to Triumph
In 2021,@KridaFans made what seemed like a catastrophic decision - ditching 4 months of work. But here's the twist: it was our best technical decision ever.
Back then, we faced high ETH gas fees, Solana was emerging as the "ETH killer", and L2 options were scarce.
We chose Solana, but reality hit hard with network outages, no established NFT standards, and a shortage of Rust developers. Four months in, we had to decide: push through or restart?
The hardest part wasn't technical but psychological.
How do you tell your team to scrap months of work? Spoiler: Sometimes, the best technical decisions aren't about technology at all.
We rebuilt on Polygon, taking just 2 months to recreate the core, finding a better developer ecosystem, and proven NFT standards.
But that wasn't the end; we built our own NFT standards, resulting in a 3x increase in NFT volume.
Then came the mobile users - 60% of our traffic, leading to 6 months of wasted efforts before nailing it in 2 months and reaching the top 5 in 20 countries under the New Apps of Fantasy Sports category.
Key learnings?
Proven tech beats cutting-edge,
user experience trumps technical superiority, and
mobile experience is core.
Looking back, our best tech decisions were about admitting when to change direction. What's your tech story? Share your tales of choosing between emerging vs established, completely rebuilding, or creating custom standards 🧵.
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Watching Elon Musk this week has been a fascinating character study in the saviour complex of Western tech billionaires.
They arrive in your country selling you the future. Welcome them, and you’re a country that wants progress. Make them wait, and suddenly your people are victims who need rescuing from their own institutions by the chosen one.
It’s a pattern. When Thai rescuers didn’t use the mini-submarine Musk sent for the trapped boys, and diver Vernon Unsworth called the idea impractical, Musk attacked him as the “pedo guy.”
When Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered X to comply with its rulings, Musk called the judge a “dictator.”
The script rarely changes. Only the country does.
The colonial mindset isn’t always about wanting to rule a country. Sometimes it’s the assumption that you arrive as its saviour, and if the country doesn’t immediately recognise you as one, something must be wrong with the country.
Paurav retweeted
Mr. Musk, yes, no billionaire should dictate a nation’s policy - Indian or American.
India must welcome competition in satellite internet, from Indian and global providers, whoever offers the most practical and affordable last-mile solution for those in remote regions. In countries with lower per-capita incomes, satellite internet must be affordable too. High subscription fees and equipment costs risk putting it beyond the reach of ordinary households. Connectivity must bridge the digital divide, not create a new one.
India knows our networks and spectrum are strategic infrastructure, not merely commercial assets. India’s national security safeguards are non-negotiable.
Every country makes choices based on its own interests. Those in the West cannot preach free markets while practicing protectionism at home. USA imposed 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to protect its domestic industry, just as India takes measures to protect its own domestic manufacturers. Both India and the US have restricted Huawei over security concerns. One cannot demand a level playing field from others only when it suits its own agenda.
Indians will internally debate, question and address our strengths and shortcomings as a democratic country.
Take BharatNet, India’s programme to bring broadband to village-level local bodies. We will question why, as the CAG’s 2026 audit report found, the programme is struggling to meet its original objectives. Why were only 33.2% of service-ready Gram Panchayats operational, despite ₹39,888 crore being spent? At the same time, we know to appreciate our telecom sector and regulations, which has made internet data among the world’s most affordable, bringing millions online.
India is a democracy, not a colony. We welcome the world, but we, the Indian people, will decide our own future - not Western vested interests, their double standards or any billionaire - Indian or American.
It's interesting that people turn a tweet into narrative that vegetarianism is about casteism. But they only want to say about castes in Hindus.
Would you or the author also like to say about casts in Muslims or Christians and while beef has been part of your tweet also, why you did not give a chance to pork at all in your tweet?
There are brahmins as of today who eats all the non-veg food they like and there are muslims or different caste people who turned into vegan or vegetarian like the author told he himself turned few years ago. Our revered president Mr. Kalam was vegetarian by choice and that's why he was served full(or pure in slang of veg folks) vegetarian meal in Iceland visit.
So just pulling the narrative out of "pure" word and getting into the point of view, wouldn't the literate need to also know/find out what blindspot they are having in they viewpoints?
My questions is for the content, not the person.
But if anyone literate is reading this tweet, this is precisely what’s problematic about the OG tweet:
anishachandra.substack.com/p… (A great great read)
“The fact that vegetarianism is often seen as connoting purity and altruism by Western cultures is a boon for dominant-caste Hinduism and grants a degree of acceptance to the far-right Hindu agenda against beef. “It’s like Indian Muslims don’t have agency to claim a linguistic, regional, and culinary identity,” Janmohamed explained. “In the diaspora, Hinduism, vegetarianism, and ‘Indianism’ go hand in hand.”
What could have been better reporting is that starting this year govt new policy of hosting film awards in different part of India as "Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat" scheme.
Btw in 1970 this event held in Chennai by then govt, a one-off exception.
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This Independence Day 🇮🇳, I asked, "What will the next century of young Indians look like?"
$0.01 Drone Deliveries. UAVs that never land. Groceries in under 10 minutes.
Meet The 22nd Century Indian. A Documentary on a New India.
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1669 - जब औरंगज़ेब ब्रज को गाँव-गाँव कुचल रहा था, तब मथुरा के पास के एक किसान ने मुग़लों के खिलाफ़ किसानों की सेना खड़ी कर दी।
स्कूल में हमें कभी उनका नाम नहीं पढ़ाया गया। यह एनिमेटेड फिल्म उनकी पूरी कहानी बताती है।
youtube.com/watch?v=ztxeOMAY…
Paurav retweeted
🚨launching ‘the third door’
cuz’ the best careers aren’t built through the front door
was clearing my inbox last month and one thing that i did over the last few months that i am really proud of making over 600+ intros
(not ai, handwritten.)
founders looking for the most talented & ambitious folks.
🤝
builders looking for their next dream role
same loop, week after week.
so here comes - the third door 🚪
a small way to keep bridging that gap
if you're exploring, feel free to DM. bunch of founders looking for top talent.
if you're not, share it along w a friend who might benefit.
with just one goal over the next 7 months via @theproductfolks
making the world a smaller place. one intro at a time. 🤞
PS: been wanting to do this for years. tag a friend who'd benefit from this or reshare for karma ❤️
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If you work in a company with many 100s or 1000s of employees, the best networking strategy actually lies in plain sight within your company.
Here’s how it works:
If you don't believe in luck at all, check out how Bruno missed the record today
Hardwork, effort has its place but luck also has. 🤞he will break it in last match
Paurav retweeted
everyone assumed ai would flatten the talent distribution.. turns out it amplifies the hell out of it.
it used to be: can you build it.
now it’s: do you know what’s worth building, & can you feel when it’s wrong.
that’s ~unteachable & ~unautomatable right now. models can generate 100 variants of anything but they still can’t tell you which one matters.
amazing talent is roughly priceless in the ai era because with ai it’s leverage++++++.
I was paying for Claude's amnesia.
Same file, read 3x/5x per session. Every answer opened with "Sure! I'd be happy to help..."
Measured 17 sessions in @claude_code . Fixed both. 50%+ fewer input tokens. 20%+ shorter output.
Two hooks doing the work:
1. caveman (41k ★) — fires at session start, strips filler/hedging from every response. Code, commits, PRs untouched.
2. OpenWolf — catches file re-reads. First read goes through; every repeat gets a cached description injected. One read per file, per session.
Paste one prompt into any @AnthropicAI Claude Code session. It installs itself.
→ github.com/JPauravS/claudeco…
#ClaudeCode #Claude #TokenOptimization
Great initiative and work by @PineLabs
One of the reasons that corporate AI pilot fails in agentic environment are due to standards and procedures not embedded into agent.
Grantex v0.3.4 Release
Your AI agent has Salesforce credentials. It's supposed to read contacts.
But nothing stops it from deleting them.
API keys don't have "read vs delete" granularity. OAuth scopes don't cover agent-to-agent delegation. Service accounts can't be revoked per-agent.
We just shipped the fix. Thread:
This is equally valid for founders too.
You develop scar tissues based on failed experiments BUT you also have to note down the context in which the experiments failed.
In my journey of Kridafans, we actually repeated the same experiments which failed earlier but context changed and those have worked also.
Agree. It’s the hardest thing in venture to not pattern match based on prior experience, to keep an open mind and to preserve first principles thinking while evaluating a new opportunity.
This is why I maintain that the best venture deal ever is Mike Moritz’s investment into Instacart. Not just because the exit was amazing ($10b public company!) but because Moritz had invested $50m+ into Webvan, the online grocery delivery service that was one of the biggest casualties of the dot-com boom when it filed for bankruptcy in 2001. Twelve years later, Moritz led the series A of Instacart.
To me, the Instacart investment shows the first principles thinking, the intellectual humility, and the emotional resilience that separates great investors.
Most people who lost $50 million watching a grocery delivery company implode would have built a mental scar tissue around the category. “We tried this. It doesn’t work. Consumers don’t want it. The unit economics are broken.” Moritz could easily have justified the pass.
But first principles thinking requires you to decompose the question “did online grocery delivery fail?” and ask why it failed — and whether anything has changed since.
By 2012, the answer was obviously yes. Smartphones meant consumers always had the app in their pocket. GPS made real-time logistics tractable. The gig economy created a flexible labor pool that made asset-light delivery possible. Webvan failed because it tried to own the warehouses, the trucks, and the last mile in an era when the infrastructure didn’t exist to support any of it cheaply. Instacart was a fundamentally different business, though it might have looked superficially similar.
In venture, pattern matching is seductive precisely because it’s usually right . The trick is knowing when your pattern is a useful heuristic and when it’s a cognitive trap. The best investors hold their theses loosely enough that new evidence can update them. Moritz’s Instacart investment is the clearest proof of this.
Thank you for bringing this up.
I thought a lot about this and I have 2 kind of personal examples:
1) Good folks continue doing well in a high competition environment
2) Good folks fizzle out in a high competition environment
I tried to understand these experiences and figure out in which kind of school I should put my kid in.
When discussing with my close circle, I concluded the game is all about CONFIDENCE.
If you feel confident in the pond you are irrespective of the pond you were in, then good to go. If you start feeling inferiority complex continuously for a year, then pond size might be an issue.
