Desinerd: Dipankar’s blog

This blog post delves into the author’s experience of meeting a young, ambitious Ritesh Agarwal, the founder of OYO, at an early stage in his journey. The author reflects on the missed opportunity, highlighting the vital role of business and venture capital understanding, and the need to avoid tech myopia to be part of significant success stories.

“Made with love in California” - Talk about a one-line growth hack. We had made it with love, but sitting in my co-founder’s room in Kalkaji, New Delhi. We were competing with the valley boys and how (2007-9)!

We had a wordpress multi-site installation that was working just fine! However custom domain and SSL pose a clear problem, along with any specific changes one might have to make to the installation. NO CODE! NO SQL! So I decided to move back to regular wordpress. Now we are using the popular exponent theme, the challenge is that we are using a default demo setup which is modified. The goal was to make an easy shift, not make it into a week long project ;)....

The default guide for Huginn installation works pretty well. The only part where you do get stuck is sudo bundle exec rake production:export So what really happens is that the console looks like it stuck, which is quite frustrating. Lets say you force quit this (Crtl^C). Try running it again and you will get an error like. root@localhost:/home/huginn/huginn# sudo bundle exec rake production:export --trace ** Invoke production:export (first_time) ** Invoke production:check (first_time) ** Execute production:check ** Execute production:export ** Execute production:stop Stopping huginn ....

I have the using the Geeksphone Keon over the last couple of weeks and its been an interesting experience till now. Just to start things of here is the unboxing of the packed unit. The box is really beautiful and really reminds you of a great mozilla experience! [caption id=“attachment_604” align=“aligncenter” width=“225”] The top side of the box![/caption] [caption id=“attachment_605” align=“aligncenter” width=“225”] The bottom of the box![/caption] [caption id=“attachment_601” align=“aligncenter” width=“225”] Neatly arranged battery, and handsfree!...