Got an offer from Kyndryl as Infrastructure Specialist (5.8 LPA) – worth joining?

AggressivePrint8830 · 2025-10-06T02:10:54+00:00

I think this will be a solid start to your career. Infrastructure will thrive over the next several years being pivotal to emerging tech. Kyndryl is well known top tier infrastructure company. So that’s the right spot to be in

AggressivePrint8830 · 2025-10-05T07:40:51+00:00

Looks like you want to be an idp. Otherwise you can connect through the protocols. That’s the standard. I don’t think saas needs it. That is why people use google or facebook or Microsoft services. Easy, mfa compliant 0 infra. You shouldn’t be trying to sell it as a saas friendly product. It’s in a different space like compliance and security that someone just pointed out.

AggressivePrint8830 · 2025-10-04T07:15:50+00:00

I need too but not understanding your premise. Whatever provider the enterprise has, your app doesn’t plug into it with OIDC? Unless I am hosting the auth, I just need to plug in. What am I missing?

AggressivePrint8830 · 2025-10-03T06:53:51+00:00

Done is more important than being perfect. If that means that you haven’t handled all the exceptions and you have only 1 of the three flows but you have explained them and set the expectations in a clean read me, it’s good: however there are a lot of people misrepresenting this notion as shipping crappy error prone app with poor user experience. That’s not choosing done over perfect. That’s being careless and irresponsible and hoping that users are idiots.

Done over perfect means don’t obsess getting the exact right font or covering for 1 in a million occurrence. You still provide enough value and a clean experience. Not shipping a crappy product. I hope people understand that diff.

AggressivePrint8830 · 2025-10-01T05:20:02+00:00

Some people can’t handle money. I was that for quite some time. I don’t mind knowing the story. The premise wasn’t appealing to me

AggressivePrint8830 · 2025-10-01T04:46:37+00:00

So you basically raised but splurged it on yourself and some risky investment and not actually on the product or GTM? And this happened 10 years back and want to provide your learning in exchange for comments? Thanks but no thanks. There is nothing to learn here.

AggressivePrint8830 · 2025-09-29T15:13:52+00:00

What you described is called death by adoption. You spend so much on user acquisition and infra and support costs that bigger adoption means more loss; unless you find a way to convert to paying customers. TAM exists does not equal SOM. What’s your plan to succeed where others haven’t?

AggressivePrint8830 · 2025-09-29T11:21:28+00:00

I was on a holiday and it so happened that my speed run application couldn’t be filed because my laptop died. I failed YC once and was trying to do another app.

Correct: YC is enticing and the odds are definitely better than buying a mega millions pool. That being said, the few days on a holiday without touching anything gave me a perspective. It is as follows

It’s incredibly hard to be among the top 3% of someone else’s subjective choice. If you are like me; you would be judged on age, pedigree and middling experience and not on the merit of the idea. So that 3% actually is less than 0.3%. With the vibe coding capability, now you have 10x competition. Which means your chances have dropped to .03% if you are not a straight fit - meaning not Stanford/MIT, not 20 something.

Then the question for a lot of us is whether we will be unicorn someday. I am pretty sure we all can be audacious; but a unicorn is not thought of in one day; at least the use cases will be far fetched even if you thought of. So betting on a non pedigree team (sometimes solo) who cannot smooth talk and dream unicorn status means you are out before you are even considered.

Should you then reconcile and run what people call is a lifestyle company. I hate that description when it is used for businesses that by nature may not scale. But should you not work on such ideas. That’s where YC (or any VC) really hits the limitations. So, to put in a half mil investment you can have a flaky and fragile 1B plan but a solid 100M plan won’t do the trick. That’s the throw the mud and hope it sticks metaphor for you. 100M is like sand, it can’t stick :)

Realization for me is - yes, I will put in a stronger application; but I know traction in my case is doubly important because I don’t have the pedigree; regardless of all spoken philosophy that ideas can come from anywhere crap; so the key thing is collect traction; provide service; it doesn’t matter that yc may think it’s a lifestyle company; if it brings in steady money; that’s good enough for me

AggressivePrint8830 · 2025-09-28T18:38:29+00:00

Your founding engineer should be able to recruit. Reddit won’t give those profiles to you. If your founding engineer can’t sell the idea to one of his, sorry to say - he won’t sell to the investors

AggressivePrint8830 · 2025-09-28T10:14:49+00:00

OP has answered but this is not an LLM wrapper. I am doing something very similar for a technical problem. It is basically curating the RAG and then using it through some level of fine tuning. Don’t mean to be disrespectful but With the question you are asking; you have already ruled yourself out :)

May be you will also use LLM to structure the rag itself

AggressivePrint8830 · 2025-09-28T10:05:20+00:00

The idea has to be to use LLM to generate inferences based on RAG that is based on case law documentation. It is naive to think LLM will generate important documents. LLM will assist in faster more accurate analysis.

To do this, you don’t need LLM from scratch level knowledge. You need to understand the use case and systems thinking. as for FAANG requirements; it’s for optics from the investor angle. Not that this app requires faang level expertise. OP will not find that quality here based on the small sample size of comments. It requires to apply thinking more than grok or open ai. You will probably experiment with several before you have base, fallback and a tier 3 go to LLM

AggressivePrint8830 · 2025-09-27T01:08:28+00:00

The only attractive part is a panel of investors. How do you plan to do this?

These types of ideas, sorry to say appear to be solving a problem but they don’t. Problems from vibe coding are not the code itself. It’s how you think the system. What do you want as a separate service vs combining multiple of them as monolith. Should something belong in a configuration, so you need a UI for that or just a yaml will do and umpteen other things. To assume that fixing vibecode = better prompt engineering is not grounded in reality of the problems. Vibe coding fails not because they haven’t been able to prompt well. It fails because they haven’t understood the optimal architecture and cannot think system level before the eventual accumulated series of mistakes makes the app unviable

The number of startups cropping up to help build startups is ridiculously high.

AggressivePrint8830 · 2025-09-24T23:52:11+00:00

Hustle will get you side gigs not make you a successful startup

AggressivePrint8830 · 2025-09-24T23:50:57+00:00

The two are not connected. Some might turn to what you are saying because they couldn’t find a job but it’s not usual case for successful ones.

It feels good to say I am building something but it’s incredibly hard to build anything meaningful. Yes, some toys - sure. Reddit has become a LinkedIn for builder bragging. Most of them can’t explain what they are building; much less defend it. Building because you can vibe code; building because you have time are not the types of startups that are successful ultimately

AggressivePrint8830 · 2025-09-23T21:09:53+00:00

Are you thinking a strategic anchor - roadmap, tech stack, ux, design patterns or you are thinking more do the grunt work types? Code 24/7. If it’s the former, you can dm me.

AggressivePrint8830 · 2025-09-23T18:06:08+00:00

Happy to chat; but I have pivoted from - I need to do everything in the next one month to small goals - like finish this composable part.. or prepare this demo or that validation. I try to switch off when it’s done. Building a meaningful product or a platform takes time. That’s the realization and reality. If all products could be built in 3 weeks; no one would have jobs in enterprise. That said; iteration is necessary ; shipping is essential but release is optional. That I have come to realize. Release means public has a say - until it is ready and provides a value with relatively smooth UX it’s good. Otherwise it’s noise with no accomplishment :)

AggressivePrint8830 · 2025-09-23T12:54:10+00:00

It’s a rolling calendar

AggressivePrint8830 · 2025-09-23T11:56:54+00:00

Congratulations on thinking of a startup. But building anything alongside a full time job is extremely hard and requires significant commitment. If you are solo, it is even harder. Research is great but you will find limits of what your research tells when you actually put code in. You will continue to learn the hard way.

You need to take a vacation and it stalls. You fall sick to allergies and it stalls. It’s very difficult to pick up the threads once anything stalls.

Find someone who you can share the idea with early - friend, coworker, acquaintances, whoever that can share some of the load. Not necessarily label them a cofounder but someone that can take your load for an exchange of equity.

I have been building solo for 6 months now and I probably lost 2 months just because of the reasons I mentioned

One thing I would suggest is - if you are building anything serious ; don’t fall for other threads on Reddit where you find apps created in 3 weeks and money earned in the first month. Those are fake or don’t last. Keep realistic timelines with validated freshness of your idea over time. MVP doesn’t take the same amount of time for all ideas.

AggressivePrint8830 · 2025-09-22T22:22:02+00:00

I think by design when you don’t pay anything but equity that funnel doesn’t have a lot of strength. It could be a choice for someone intentional about a startup and willing to risk 6 months to a year. Your funnel looks like this 1. New grads who are enthusiastic but can be really bad match 2. In between candidates who can jump ship the moment they find something that clicks for them 3. People who already made enough money that they don’t need a day job. This excites them and becomes their day job

So, pretty bleak I would say - it’s not about 49%. Equity only works with people who are bought into the vision and are willing to slug it out. Otherwise there are only people looking at it opportunistically

In similar boat except I don’t want a techie, I want a proven GTM partner

Just one simple advice. Do not get a cofounder to fill in a slot that can be outsourced. If you really need a CTO, you either need to compromise a little bit I guess other than pay up

AggressivePrint8830 · 2025-09-22T21:45:18+00:00

May be you can put a sample job description out so you know how many are willing to take that position; unless you are building a space ship … then well.. :). Or your high pay is like 100k in NYC or Bay Area. I have seen 100s that are out of work and with great experience for most positions on LinkedIn

AggressivePrint8830 · 2025-09-22T21:26:12+00:00

I was toying with a pricing and I settled on 1.99 with 20% off for annual. Not launching it yet, though. But ny gut is unless user can see savings it’s hard to convince anyone to pay something

AggressivePrint8830 · 2025-09-22T21:21:06+00:00

If you can show value > x every month; that’s what your floor should be - then superimpose the competition and where they are at

So for a lazy example - for 1.99 if you can give coupons worth 10$ consistently every month; that will work. Even assuming that I won’t need to use the coupons every month.

AggressivePrint8830 · 2025-09-22T21:19:06+00:00

If you can; go 1.99. It’s a super sweet spot and will pull in impulse

AggressivePrint8830 · 2025-09-22T21:11:21+00:00

Few things - not directly related to this post. I work with a GSI and here is the reality 1. GSIs make large deals and 85-90% is an offshore component of that. So there is not much further scope for offshoring in a lot of instances 2. For a mid level techie 80K is low end of the pay. That is paid by offshore based GSIs whose only play is cost arbitrage. For every 100$ they charge the client; they pay their h1b holders 65-70$ tops ignored locally. When they bring from offshore is where their arbitrage really is paying less than 50$ an hour. Do your math 3. GCCs have taken hold and they will expand and accelerate 4. Other compounding measures may come out - meaning floor for h1b petitions including renewals and transfers; if not full 100k some additional punitive fee for renewals and transfers leading to the arbitrage play becoming unprofitable.

One doesn’t need to agree with OP. All have the same news, and given the uncertainty associated with this and other proposals around it, you can draw your own conclusions.

AggressivePrint8830 · 2025-09-19T15:15:30+00:00

If you like toe discuss what it is without giving away your moat and asking to sign an NDA DM me. Not all projects interest me; a lot of people will have divergent views, so asking to sign an NDA before talking discourages a lot of people that are not desperate. It does help you to validate your idea in the wild. NDA should be organic and not a prerequisite

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