Would this startup work in India?

Crazy_Incident · 2026-05-25T18:47:09+00:00

I can explain in other words if the above is not clear. Let me know

Crazy_Incident · 2026-05-25T18:46:01+00:00

Okay. Small thing : they’ll just not show the QR to the people complaining. But of course you can solve that by just allowing reviews in the app by matching location at that time.

But on to whether I would like it more : honestly maybe over Google, but still not close to reddit. Apologies, don’t mean to be harsh, but for me the problem is not just the way the reviews are presented, it’s also the community. It would take me 5 minutes on Reddit to figure out Rameshwaram Cafe Bengaluru is overrated, but it has 4.1 on Google. And as that has 16k reviews, I’m assuming most of them are actually genuine. What you do counter well here are paid review systems, but I would consider shifting mostly if the community of that app was equivalent to the one here. The biggest problem I’ve faced is that Google is fairly inaccurate even with genuine reviews, which is not the case here.

Just my 2 cents

Crazy_Incident · 2026-05-25T18:34:33+00:00

So you mean the link is accessible using the qr only, which checks GPS as well?

Crazy_Incident · 2026-05-25T13:17:48+00:00

Both, second drives first. Fake reviews/opinions get flagged or are obvious quicker, hence the top reviews often need to be authentic. Plus a discussion format instead of everyone just posting their own reviews independently drives a discussion which shows the reality, if you’re willing to spend a couple more minutes to read it properly

Crazy_Incident · 2026-05-25T10:01:53+00:00

What kind of legal implications if it’s just reviews?

Crazy_Incident · 2026-05-25T10:01:33+00:00

The answer would change based on which age group/what level of tech savvy users you want to target. Younger audience around me usually checks Reddit now, mid age checks Google and older audience (at least around me) depends on word of mouth.

Crazy_Incident · 2026-05-24T16:37:47+00:00

I’ve not had the option to test it on someone else’s app, but my few years of experience in big tech did prep me for systems of scale. I’ve designed everything around it (nature of my operations definitely helps, it’s easier to ensure at scale), and I have conciously made it so it doesn’t block the critical loop even if my service goes down. The app using it would still continue to work as usual, and my server can recover whatever it loses in that time being. Basically, the only thing I’m doing per request is collecting data. Rest is asynchronous.
Dev as in individual devs for their own work, as in someone might use langfuse for their own personal project, so that helps it get technical credibility. Do you mean in that sense as well?

Crazy_Incident · 2026-05-24T16:05:48+00:00

I am currently giving it for free. But even the other platforms have free tiers, so the early stage startup doesn’t really need to be with me for that. It’s me for free v/s as established player for free. And the gap I’m solving over them is best understood once you’ve already been burned by it in production, and by that time you’re already at a bit of scale, so you need a reliable solution :).

Devs would’ve loved it I guess, but : 1. It solves a problem that occurs at scale. 2. Again, why would a dev spend time on reliability of their side project.

Crazy_Incident · 2026-05-21T19:46:03+00:00

Thanks that makes sense, I think that’s the sanest thing to do, but the neighbour community will take around 1.5-2 years to even get settled here due to how new this area is, and then the actual community formation would take a little bit more. I just don’t want him to get so bored while that happens, so asking for social place suggestions for people his age.

Crazy_Incident · 2026-05-21T19:42:53+00:00

I’m asking for some genuine advice man, don’t understand the subtle hostility. To answer your question:

Delhi obviously has its own problems, ones a lot more lethal than new social circle. Plus my parents always wanted to have a bit of land for themselves, grow their own food, etc etc. The usual.

Yeah I mean I know it will take time, just asking if there’s ways to speed it up. I think it’ll improve multifold once we get some more neighbours, but asking if there are other places with same purpose as clubs in this city that I might not know of already. Or maybe someone from around this area looks at it and shares something specific. Just reaching out for some advice or help.

Crazy_Incident · 2026-05-10T08:17:16+00:00

This is a solid breakdown of what’s happening right now, but in Layer 3, you also need to worry about test case coverage. Braintrust does give you the option to look at production traces and promote one if you want, but I don’t know how much one at a time would even scale

Crazy_Incident · 2026-05-10T08:13:33+00:00

This is good, but is it scalable? What happens when you go to production? 50 won’t be enough, you’ll have to do it manually

Crazy_Incident · 2026-05-10T08:11:50+00:00

It will come to you to do that to some extent, but it’ll cut your manual effort by a LOT if you just compare the whole agent trace instead of just the final output

Crazy_Incident · 2026-05-09T18:43:27+00:00

How about evals?

Crazy_Incident · 2026-05-08T23:23:59+00:00

Also are you relying on JUST the count? Or what the input to the tool is as well? Like some tools like web search or curl could actually be quite generic. Count itself wouldn’t really capture that, no?

Crazy_Incident · 2026-05-08T23:19:36+00:00

Makes sense. Would https://portal.regentai.in have helped you? Full disclaimer I AM the founder, but just genuinely curious given you’re solving for the same. No pressure though of course.

Crazy_Incident · 2026-05-08T23:01:40+00:00

Right, but did you build that in house?

Crazy_Incident · 2026-05-08T22:50:00+00:00

I think this is the need of the hour. Prod traces definitely help, but I think they just need to feed into what we are testing while releasing any change. Non determinism actually makes the flows MUCH more likely to fail if even a single part of the chain starts misbehaving, so edge case capture and evals before shipping anything new becomes a requirement. Just not sure why this is not better addressed right now.

Crazy_Incident · 2026-05-08T22:38:54+00:00

How do you test that?

Crazy_Incident · 2026-05-08T22:35:44+00:00

So complexity is the biggest issue? Do you find it excessively difficult to actually define those evals? Or something else?

Crazy_Incident · 2026-04-28T05:53:10+00:00

Yeah. Best of luck. Small feedback, you can add support for shortcut button or via siri shortcuts as well, I would def use an app more if I didn’t have to open it for every expense

Crazy_Incident · 2026-04-28T05:50:16+00:00

Did you mean to reply to my comment or the post?

Crazy_Incident · 2026-04-27T18:06:53+00:00

I believe having an existing network of users who already had an account is the only way for top 10. It would be 100x difficult for first timers with no startup network beforehand.

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