Dhikshith Reddy
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building @folksable: accountability app (#1 product hunt) • yc fintech swe • prev - applied math @NIT_Surat • oss https://t.co/71YpXYUFFV
Joined May 2017
if you're a student at an Indian college, don't learn MERN stack, learn Swift if you have a Mac otherwise learn ruby/ROR and apply remote.
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tech job market in india is brutal for freshers right now. your internships don’t count, it doesn’t matter your skill level, doesn’t matter what you’ve built, doesn’t matter how much leetcode you did. at the end, HR will ask graduation year, non-intern exp, go with more exp guys.
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hey @CRED_club, you may reject my application for the flutter role, but my code will live rent-free in your app!. thank you, some other time : ).
Just landed my first @dart_lang contribution!. Introduced Iterable.withIterator - a new factory constructor that lets you create lazy iterables from existing iterators. Perfect for working with partially consumed sequences, see the example.
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if you're a student at an Indian college, please stay away from roadmaps and courses,. just build stuff and let the process teach you what you need to know.
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day 669, and I’m still as much as locked in as i was on day one.
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Just landed my first @dart_lang contribution!. Introduced Iterable.withIterator - a new factory constructor that lets you create lazy iterables from existing iterators. Perfect for working with partially consumed sequences, see the example.
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if you’re in first year or second year of college, the world will be radically different by the time you graduate, be prepared for the worst.
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Ok, i got what i wanted : ). I can’t believe this app is free.
hey @CRED_club, you may reject my application for the flutter role, but my code will live rent-free in your app!. thank you, some other time : ).
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if you’re working in indian tech startups, you’re not really a programmer, you’re a business translator,. you’re a white collar tool user, not an engineer.
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Is it a coincidence that we moved to a new & bigger office on my second day at work @StackWealthHQ(YC S21)😝. LFG!!
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crazy turn of events 🫡. two years ago i was watching these streams, and today i’m here with them
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23,. > Indie Hacking at “Nights and Weeknds” Shipping apps to 120+ Countries,. > Works Full-time in Blr Fintech, . > Contributes to OSS,. > Pursuing fitness goals & has hobbies outside of tech. What am i missing. ?
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@CRED_club If you're hiring for flutter/mobile, I've built @folksable, I have packages with thousands of downloads and contributions in flutter & dart sdk's. this is not arrogance, I'm just marketing myself.
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even if the exp. guys just been floating and doesn’t have anything to show for.
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my AWS bill to run @folksable last month. you don't need big pockets to change the world, just start.
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2023 was the year of "Founder Mode" for me, I was building @folksable day in and day out. what kept me going was that found early signs of PMF, I was getting emails and phone calls at 3 am (from US) reporting bugs, and people were actually using the app and coming back every day
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It took me 2 years from idea to the early sign of pmf:. Why i’m sensing an early sign of pmf:. 1. Most of the growth is coming from people referring their friends to their rituals. 2. 104 are 5 Star Ratings out of 106 total. 3. Getting a lot of emails & dms from users.
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don’t be sorry, or rationalise for being very passionate about something, you’re are a very rare kind. ignore the mids; focus on the mission.
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@Aditya45210l Those two are general niches with these qualities:. 1. Has lots of jobs in US/Europe where Remote hiring is not uncommon. 2. Has a decent size community where a student can interact and learn from. Web3 is still a small niche compared to above, but huge potential in coming years.
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@skathirmani this advice is for tier-2/3 uni’s where the situation is even if they studied really well placement is uncertain, . my advice is to get into a niche tech that’s highly in demand in U.S/Europe and apply for Remote Jobs.
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the @folksable h.q. got a tiny upgrade, this chair arrived today, this better fix all my problems 🥹. i hesitated to get a good chair until I wasn’t able to sit and work on @folksable for 30 mins straight without getting hurt.
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Loading bars are a lie. They're designed to feel like progress but keep you hooked. Here's how I used Zeno's paradox for Deceptive UX patterns:. Every 2 seconds the bar covers half the remaining distance until it’s 95% filled—then it stalls until server confirmation.
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if you're young and ambitious, don't move to SF, move to Shenzen.
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me and @archiexzzz daydreaming and discussing our side hustles everyday during the office chai break.
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my dad knows only one asset class, . real estate. he's been locked in for the last 15 years, trying to expand by all means including cheap debt, welcome to reddy families : ).
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my first crisis since founding @folksable. 13 days of runway left. earlier last year we got into gcp for startups, $2k for 2 yrs and i had setup alarms of a particular sound for 2 weeks before it expires. alarm went off yesterday. i thought it was the end, and this happened
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This is not to get their attention or prove/disprove something, I totally respect their decision. I’ve invested hours interviewing with them, it’s simply a way to recoup my loss by getting more leads, i’ve been an indie hacker long enough to understand the attention game.
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fuck the dinner plans when you randomly get ideas to solve issues in your app,. basically the idea is to find minimum compression ratio for the images based on their internet upload speed so that upload happens before network timeout < 10sec. currently the compression is static
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I'm building an on-device vector search database with relevance-based auto-pruning (equivalent to a GC) for lower-storage environments. applications are huge, it can power the privacy-first AI hardware/apps/agentic future.
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Your mind does not know the difference between a hard problem and an easy problem, they’re all just problems. theres no reason why every human shouldn’t think of solving the hardest and most impactful problems humanity is facing. most people just plateau after writing javascript.
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@dart_lang the biggest learning that came out of this is that "you can just do things", . the code you see when you cmd+click is just by another human no different than you, you can change it, you can influence it, just cmd+click repeatedly until you find the truth.
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you just turned 21, and a multi-billion dollar tech/entertainment giant is suing you for jailbreaking their flagship gaming console. and the obviously immediate rational thing you'd do is to sing a rap song and upload it on YouTube. this is @realGeorgeHotz
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@_svs_ I've built @folksable indie-style (#1 product hunt, used it 120+ countries, 4K users) built with flutter, nodejs and PostgreSQL, other than that i also maintain few popular open source flutter packages on pub, I'd like to explore this role, check dm.
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This will be available from v3.7-beta and will be included in the v3.8 stable release. Thanks to Lasse Nielsen for patiently reviewing this throughout. Gerrit CL:
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Anyone want this single sharing pg room in HSR layout for ₹17k, food & washing machine included, spacious room. I had been in good terms with the owner and want to help find a replacement.
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My first contribution to #flutterdev got shipped today in the latest release, also got a sweet mention in the release notes & as a notable commit.
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Thanks @azdevindia @tejasvtwts for inviting to share our story building @folksable, thanks for the hoodies as well.
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spent the whole night in front of cpu profiler, looking at heap-dumps, gc events, raster timelines in @folksable. i realised recently the app perf became almost unusable on android. enjoy this update that makes app run like hot knife on butter… 🧈
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your work is going to fill a large part of your life,. and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and do what you believe is important work that the world needs.
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People always ask me… if you’re a good engineer, why don’t you go work for the big FAANG. I’m both not smart(for the puzzle selections) and don’t want chill lifestyle, I simply refuse to play games i’m not good at,. Reading customer emails and shipping my own apps is my game 🙏
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yesterday i was telling archie about the reddy real estate traders in blr and how they got to be here as immigrants from chitoor with little money and now they’re prolly wealthiest community here, . it got us wondering how much wealth is literally just lying on the streets here.
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people express their deep appreciation for the rest of humanity by making something wonderful and putting it out there.
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Folksable(@folksable) got its first contributor @archiexzzz outside of me after 23 months & 2000 commits 🫡
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how can you even be a senior engineer and not have at least one widely used open-source package that you built and maintain as a hobby.
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if you don’t know yet, you can just shake your phone and start typing with natural language input to create a new task from anywhere on @folksable . i’m really proud of this, i do this on subways and girls walk up to me and ask what i just did.
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I really look forward to doing my rituals everyday @folksable, consistent small steps can make a huge difference
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even when it's unpopular, always do what you feel is right, dharma will guide you down the right path.
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Baackend Skill that I hoaned While building & Scaling @folksable. If you’re an engineer that works in a big company isolated from how the whole product works, this thread is for you 🧵.
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📍@Folksable World Wide HQ. Got a single sharing PG with 2 beds, one for sleeping and one for shipping 🚢
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@cynicalreflexx apply on wellfound, remoteok, workatastartup by yc, dice dot com, ziprecruiter, devjobsscanner,. set location to U.S/Europe and google search “swift/ruby remote jobs”.
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hey all folks @folksable, i know there haven’t been any big updates recently after the stats update. mostly b/c it’s been a chaotic few weeks in my personal & professional life, getting back it next month. lmk what’s the one thing i could work on that would elevate your exp.
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my goal with @folksable is to make productivity more fun and approachable to millions of young people who feel left out by the current enterprise-oriented solutions. it doesn't feel like work to me, it feels like I'm doing my dharma, the righteous cause within my capacity.
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my peak productivity setup,. this is where most of the work @folksable gets done, i don’t if it’s just me, but multiple displays often distract more than they improve productivity.
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the world is a very malleable place, you can change it, influence it, improve it, and make your mark upon it.
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if you’re a student in college, learn swift. get into debt if you have to.
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@luke_pighetti @FlutterDev @expo expo is a for profit company, they have a profit motivation for the industry adoption of it’s product, they offer cloud services for react-native. flutter doesn’t offer any profit motivation to google at it’s scale.
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If you’re hiring in mobile dev role for flutter, I've built @folksable indie-style (#1 product hunt, used it 120+ countries, 4K users) other than that i also maintain few popular open source flutter packages on pub.
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how to be content/happy: . identify yourself with what you create rather than what you consume. the only redemption from constant desire to consume more is to create your heart out and show it to people,. create something you’ll be proud of. anything.
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@Firdousi0Faizan If a hackathon is enforcing a certain tool or framework, RUN, it’s sponsored.
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@commentedcodeX @CRED_club you didn’t get the point here, . It’s a bait to collect more hiring leads for myself b/c im too lazy to apply 100s of times, also it’s a test to understand who i can work with based on if they think that I’m being smart/marketing or childish for complaining.
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all we need to do is unmute at the end and say “nothing from my end, thanks”
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me explaining my girlfriend why she should make content for my app
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@svembu Thanks for inspiring me we don’t need to be Silicon Valley or Metro City to build great software products, . I’m building @folksable, alone from a rural village of india for the world, with an unstable electricity & on limited mobile hotspot internet.
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for anyone asking why not *insert some tech*, this is a general advice.
@Aditya45210l Those two are general niches with these qualities:. 1. Has lots of jobs in US/Europe where Remote hiring is not uncommon. 2. Has a decent size community where a student can interact and learn from. Web3 is still a small niche compared to above, but huge potential in coming years.
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random punjabi restaurant in blr roasting tech startups here was not in my 2025 bingo card 😭
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@anuragiitj Good luck competing with 12YOE layoff’ed Java uncles from Bangladesh, Pakistan as a Fresher for a remote role.
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Today I'm proposing a new Dart language feature: . `String.splitMap`: a generic string method inspired by splitMapJoin in the dart core library. found this issue left open by @hixie from 4 years ago on dart-lang/sdk repo, so I decided to implement it last night.
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i love this beautiful mess that we are as human race, sure ai is impressive but have you held hands while looking into someone’s eyes.
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remote config is such a saver when doing migrations, . in a snap, all the @folksable users are now being served from a server that is thousands of miles apart from where it was yesterday and nobody notices 🚀.
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It's Chinese in the U.S. vs Chinese in China.
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@justinjmcc @dart_lang Thank you, Justin. It all began with my first contribution to the Flutter SDK that you reviewed. I appreciate your support.
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i got a crazy dream last night that made me rethink everything. i was 90 looking back at my life. regret wasn’t about big failures but the small daily choices:. > skipping walks.> eating junk.> skipping workouts. That "someday" never came 🕰️.Your future self is counting on you 🌱
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@kevin @ARTIFACT_News looks like @googlenews got some competition, .wondering how content moderation is handled, and all the problems that come with content serving/matching issues that are core to all social media that get them into trouble.
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