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🚀 ixigo Reports Strong Q1 FY26 Performance! India’s leading travel tech platform ixigo has posted a 27% YoY jump in net profit and an impressive 73% surge in revenue for Q1 FY26. With rising demand across air, rail, and bus bookings, and strong traction for its AI-powered tools, ixigo continues to scale profitably. 📈✈️🚆🚌 Read More :- https://lnkd.in/gQuKWw75 👉 Read the full report on ixigo’s robust financials, market outlook, and growth strategy. #ixigo #TravelTech #Q1Results #IndianStartups #OTAGrowth #BusinessNews #ProfitSurge #RevenueGrowth #FY26

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FOUNDER FRIDAY 📈 India-built, world-loved: BrowserStack now #67 on the Forbes Cloud 100💡🌎 In 2011, Ritesh Arora & Nakul Aggarwal saw how frustrating cross-browser testing was. 👉Their answer? BrowserStack — a cloud platform that lets dev & QA teams test on thousands of real browsers & devices in minutes. Fast-forward to 2025: ✅ Named to the Forbes Cloud 100 (ranked #67), cementing its spot among the world’s top private cloud companies ✅ Powers 3M+ tests daily for 50,000+ teams globally ✅ New launches like Testing Toolkit & Website Scanner streamline QA workflows ✅ AI-powered agents now generate test cases, catch regressions & boost reliability 📊Lesson: Start with a clear developer pain, solve it well, then expand into a full platform while staying obsessed with speed, reliability & UX. BrowserStack proves that solving a niche pain point can create a global leader — and earn world-class recognition. 🚀 #FounderFriday #BrowserStack #ForbesCloud100 #SaaS #FounderFriday #StartupStories #Entrepreneurship #DJSCEECELL #StartupIndia #LearnFromLeaders

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Bharat Taxi is set to launch on January 1, 2026, aiming to disrupt the ride-hailing market with a more balanced approach. The platform plans to offer stable fares with significantly less surge pricing, addressing a major concern for commuters. A standout feature is its driver-friendly model, where drivers will receive over 80% of the fare. With around 56,000 drivers already registered, Bharat Taxi will offer autos, cars, and bikes, positioning itself as a fair and inclusive mobility solution. #BharatTaxi #IndianStartup #RideHailing #FairFares #DriverFirst #india

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In today’s food delivery ecosystem, customers are often left stuck between platforms and restaurants, with no real accountability. Zomato says: “If Domino’s delivers food that tastes stale or foul, it’s not our responsibility—we just charge you platform fees, GST, and luxury price add-ons.” Domino's, on the other hand, insists: “We delivered the food fresh and cooked.” The result? The end consumer is fooled, with no one ready to take ownership. These "food goons" keep playing blame games, while customers helplessly pay the price. Swiggy adds another dimension: big promises like “food delivered on trains”, but the reality is often shocking. Customer service representatives—sometimes like one I encountered named "Altaaf"—make the process a nightmare, pushing cancellations without refunds. It feels like, nowadays, we are battling more with internal scammers and goons hidden inside these systems rather than outside threats. Food-tech platforms need to understand: - Responsibility cannot stop at charging fees and advertising. - Restaurants cannot keep hiding behind vague “freshly cooked” claims. - Customers deserve accountability and real support, not harassment. It’s high time both platforms and restaurants are held answerable together, because the trust of consumers is far more valuable than any commission. Fssai ,Food License Registration India #FoodTech #Zomato #Dominos #Swiggy #CustomerExperience #FoodScam #ConsumerRights #Accountability #FoodGoons

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Great energy here at the India AI Impact Summit Proud to be part of the journey at Meesho, where we’re building BharatMLStack — a full-stack ML platform focused on real production needs, cost awareness, and strong data control. If you’re around at the summit, let’s catch up. Always happy to exchange thoughts on AI infra, experimentation, and scaling ML systems in the real world. #IndiaAI #MLSystems #AIInfra #MLOps #BharatMLStack

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Natasha Malpani Unveils Rs 200 Cr Boundless Ventures to Support AI Startups Former Kae Capital partner Natasha Malpani founded Boundless Ventures, an early-stage fund worth Rs 200 crore that supports Indian AI-native startups. Finance Outlook India READ MORE: https://lnkd.in/gTK4FxKD

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Air travel changed forever in 2008 — the moment the industry shifted from paper tickets to fully electronic, globally interlined e-tickets. Overnight, passengers could fly multiple airlines on a single digital record. No paper. No coupons. No manual stitching. Just seamless travel. What most people don’t realize is how massive this change really was. Behind the scenes, airlines had to rethink how they cooperated, exchanged data, reconciled revenue, and delivered a consistent experience across borders, alliances, and partners. This video article breaks down that transformation in simple terms — how we moved from fragile paper booklets to a unified global e-ticketing ecosystem that still powers billions of journeys today. #AirlineIndustry #TravelTech #DigitalTransformation #AviationInnovation #Eticketing #Interline #IATA

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🤖 Swiggy integrates #MCP to enable #AI-native ordering 🍔 Swiggy becomes one of the first Indian consumer platforms to adopt Model Context Protocol (MCP) across food delivery, #quickcommerce, and dining out. 🧠 Users can now discover and place orders directly from AI tools like OpenAI ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude, and Google Gemini using natural language — without opening the app. ⚡ Instamart becomes the first quick-commerce platform globally to support MCP, enabling AI-driven access to 40,000+ SKUs in real time. 🔗 MCP acts as a secure, open bridge between LLMs and live systems, allowing AI models to interact with catalogs, availability, and workflows — not just static data. 🏗️ This marks a shift from surface-level AI features to deep infra-level AI integration, where apps become services callable by AI agents. 🇮🇳 After fintech and logistics, Indian consumer internet companies are now building AI-native foundations. 🚀 Commerce is quietly moving from apps → APIs → agents. https://lnkd.in/gTBquHk8

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Air India and Zomato Announce An Interesting Partnership Air India Limited and Zomato have announced a strategic partnership that links Air India’s Maharaja Club with Zomato’s food delivery platform, offering customers combined travel and food rewards. The collaboration expands Maharaja Club’s value proposition and brings everyday transactions closer to tangible travel benefits. Key benefits • Earn points: 2% Maharaja Points on Zomato orders over ₹499. • Welcome bonus: 2,000 Maharaja Points for new Maharaja Club members after first flight activity. • Daily prize: One member daily may win a complimentary one-way Economy Class ticket voucher for domestic travel, valid for six months #AirIndia #Zomato #MaharajaClub #Loyalty #TravelRewards The Cornea Impression

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🏠 It’s 2025 — and buying a home with white money still feels like a challenge. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been exploring home options in Gurgaon — and what’s truly disturbing is how openly many sellers, including small developers and investors, ask for 30–40% payment in cash. We’re not talking small amounts — often over ₹1 crore — discussed casually, without hesitation or fear. Unaccounted cash doesn’t just hurt individual buyers; it distorts the entire housing ecosystem. It inflates prices, reduces formal credit flow, and erodes trust in developers. Even transparent builders find it hard to compete with cash-driven pricing. A recent report highlighted how even professionals with 100% white income struggle to buy homes without facing pressure for off-record payments. I personally don’t want to support this practice. I earn my salary in white, taxes are deducted at source, and every rupee is accounted for. Converting that into untraceable cash just doesn’t feel right — financially or ethically. This isn’t a Gurgaon problem; it’s a national issue. To fix it, we need policy and market alignment: ✅ Revise circle rates regularly to match actual market prices ✅ Align capital gains taxation to realistic valuations ✅ Incentivize full-disclosure transactions (lower stamp duties or simplified digital paperwork) ✅ Mandate digital payments beyond certain thresholds More than a decade ago, the Ministry of Finance identified real estate as a high-risk sector for unaccounted money. Today, with Aadhaar, PAN, and digital registries in place, the infrastructure for transparency already exists. What’s missing is consistent enforcement and the right incentives. Transparency shouldn’t be the exception — it should be the baseline. #RealEstate #Transparency #Housing #Gurgaon #India #Policy #BlackMoney #Governance #FinancialIntegrity #UrbanIndia

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Every time a client raises a ticket… There’s an assumption it’s just “one issue.” But behind that one ticket is: Multiple checks. Vendor follow-ups. Escalations. Coordination across time zones. And a lot of patience. A ticket is not just a request. It’s a responsibility. Operations isn’t about closing cases. It’s about creating confidence. #Travel #Operations #CustomerExperience #Process

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"India’s outbound travel is expanding rapidly, with countries worldwide easing visa rules and tailoring campaigns to attract Indian tourists—a clear sign that India is becoming a major force in global tourism. Together, China + India + South Korea make Asia-Pacific the world’s most dynamic outbound travel powerhouse." Read the latest article about the shifts taking place in Asia Pacific with this list of 10 trends redefining the next few years in travel. https://ow.ly/8Bbq30sPTTW

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Go Performance Tuning at Scale: Zepto’s pprof Journey (Part 1) At Zepto, performance isn’t just a priority — it’s an obsession. The best part about making systems more efficient is that it not only boosts speed but also drives real cost savings. In this blog, Akash Agarwal shares our journey of performance tuning — the challenges we tackled, the wins we unlocked, and how the process didn’t just improve our systems, but also shaped the way our engineers think about building scalable, efficient systems. Blog link: https://lnkd.in/gtzdtmGg #ZeptoTechXpress #PerformanceTuning Shivanshu Kumar Tiwari Ashish Bhatt Sumit Gupta Aditya Haridas Menon Harshal Khodifad Abhinav Nimesh Uday Solanki Devansh Chaudhary Devansh Goswami Sumit Ojha Vivek Gover Prashant Giri Balram Vishwakarma Shubham Prashar Anoop Singh Mayank Agarwal Nikhil Mittal

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𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬, 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: Travel buying behavior is not transactional but most travel websites are designed like online stores. 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞: • Research across multiple sessions • Human conversations • Tailored itineraries • Trust signals over time • Longer-than-expected decision cycles 𝐘𝐞𝐭 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐮𝐬𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐫: Visit → Lead form → Immediate booking When the website ignores the real buying journey, traffic grows, but conversions stall. This isn’t a marketing problem. It’s a product and experience design problem. 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐮𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤?

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I'm a Software Engineer at AWS with 7+ years of industry experience. I've designed systems across CloudWatch, EC2, and Region Services. Some scaled well. Some broke at 2AM. Here are 15 system design lessons I learned the hard way: ► Before you build anything → Understand what you're solving before you start designing → There is no perfect solution — only tradeoffs you can live with → Assume everything will fail. Design for it. → Don't build what you don't need yet ► Data decisions will make or break you → SQL when you need ACID. NoSQL when you need flexibility. → Index for fast reads. Denormalise for read-heavy workloads. → Shard when one database isn't enough. Replicate so one failure isn't fatal. → Choose your partition key carefully — a bad one creates hot spots that ruin everything ► Scaling isn't magic → Scale horizontally. Vertical has a ceiling. → Put load balancers in front. Put CDNs at the edge. → Cache aggressively but know when your cache is lying to you. → Keep systems decoupled → Use queues between services. Sync calls create cascading failures. → Make operations idempotent. Retries will happen. → Async everything that doesn't need an immediate response ► The one that matters most → Design for the engineer debugging this at 3AM, not the one building it today --- ♻️ Repost to help someone with system design  ➕ Follow Abdirahman Jama for software engineering tips

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The "Service Revenue" Trap AI founders bootstrapping with service projects. I see this pattern in 1 out of 3 Indian AI pitch decks right now. You claim $500k ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue). The investors get excited. Then they open the Data Room. What do we find? $100k is true software subscription. $400k is "implementation fees," "custom model training," and "consulting." Founders: Stop disguising service revenue as product revenue. Service revenue is linear (humans selling time). Product revenue is exponential (code selling itself). Investors value service revenue at 1x-2x, We value product revenue at 10x-20x. If you are funding your product build with service work, that’s smart bootstrapping. I respect that. But be honest about it in the Seed pitch. "We are a product company fuelled by service cash flow" is a strong narrative. "We are a high-growth SaaS company" (with 80% service revenue) is a lie that kills the deal in week 2 of diligence.

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We've spent 18 Months building what every travel agency can't afford. Travel companies have teams of engineers dedicated to one thing: knowing which airline, hotel, and route is best for each customer. Meanwhile, 3,00,000 independent travel agencies across India are making the same decisions blind. 🎯 That changes now. What's the ONE thing you wish you knew before booking a flight for a customer?

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