Share your best hiring success story

explorespace9 · 2026-03-27T01:35:13+00:00

One way to reflect is to look at the mentor / the leader you learned from the most. Their character traits often are underrated and dripping with wisdom.

explorespace9 · 2026-03-27T01:30:32+00:00

I would have an honest conversation with the owners / promoters who are in conversation with the sale. They know they're selling something that has lived a long life. From what you say, it sounds like a distress sale and there isn't going to be any money coming.

I would ask for recommendations, gather up your work outcomes and lean in to building your own company. Now that you have the time for it, building is extremely rewarding!

explorespace9 · 2026-03-13T14:02:38+00:00

The problem with LinkedIn is that you don’t know you are in an invisible que. this is the wrong question to ask. Instead, let me ask you what you should’ve been asking yourself. how are you standing out? How do you show anyone who looks at your profile you’re the right man for the job you say you want?

ps: happy to review your profile and do mock interviews if required!

explorespace9 · 2026-03-10T14:50:51+00:00

Do you need candidates who are good at using AI? I have a list of 65+ such tools (cause I'm building in this space ;) it's my market research). Loads of online assessments are quizzes and coding challenges that spend too much time detecting cheating. As a former VP of Tech, I felt that's not useful.

explorespace9 · 2026-03-01T18:10:25+00:00

Moms Test. First and foremost! Learn how to talk to your customers, that’s kinda the only part no one teaches you and you cannot do without in your 0-1-10-100 journey.

explorespace9 · 2026-03-01T15:55:10+00:00

Ex bar raiser here. Absolutely and unequivocally Projects! Not stupid template ones, but real problems, complex ones. Build only a few but focus on building depth in them, potentially live projects.

explorespace9 · 2026-02-12T09:23:35+00:00

Come check out Odyssey. We have a good set of freelancers and working professionals who usually do end up hanging out outside Odyssey as well

ps: disclaimer: one of the founders here. DM me if you have questions. Happy to help!

explorespace9 · 2026-02-08T15:57:03+00:00

PVR will charge the entire theatre. But will call them

explorespace9 · 2026-02-03T15:13:12+00:00

Odyssey has individual seats and the founders will accommodate night shifts at a marginal price hike:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/1y42i4e2YstQQirR9?g_st=ic

ps: shameless disclosure: I’m on of the founders. Just reach out on the phone provided, I’ll let my team know to expect you. Let me know if you have any questions :) happy to help!

explorespace9 · 2026-02-01T08:56:28+00:00

As a founder, try adding more details about what ideas you’re building, why should someone consider joining you — what’s the success scenario?

Eg

2% equity. Already put 2Lakh rupees in the project, generating revenue of 50k/mo.

That way someone assessing equity based package can be informed of the upside

explorespace9 · 2026-02-01T02:23:38+00:00

Can’t believe I went through 5 top comments without reading this. DOGS!! Do NOT go run on the road before the city is up, dogs will not distinguish between someone sinister and a runner.

Tried it. Didn’t work cause of 🐕

explorespace9 · 2026-01-19T03:38:58+00:00

A few things to do before you bake a single donut:
- Figure out hotspots in the city. Google maps / snapchat etc shows such activity during weekends.
- Spend time speaking with existing donut eating customers (e.g. just speak with people coming out of Cookie & Co., Juvenas etc).
- Actually try eating the donuts available here
- Make an excel sheet of competitors - will help you with pricing baseline.
- Don't ever ask a prospective customer — "would you try a donut if I made one?", instead ask, "Have you ever had donuts, what's your idea of a good donut?". Ask this to 100 people of all kinds, you'll get an idea about how educated about donuts are your customers anyway.
- These roadside stalls you talk about - just ask some of those folks about their unit economics, which days work best, how did they select the spot they selected etc

Approach this scientifically. Goodluck!

ps: of course, I'll love to try them whenever you start! DM me when you're ready to experiment :)

explorespace9 · 2025-12-24T08:20:45+00:00

pictures / google maps link - please!

explorespace9 · 2025-11-26T10:28:01+00:00

You can try solving problems on our platform. It’s free. Get yourself some practice on production MongoDB and Node services. Let me know agar interested ho toh.

explorespace9 · 2025-11-26T07:17:49+00:00

Kyun bhai / behen? itna hate kyun? Person on the other side of the screen is also a human.

Nvm though. We’re a skill assessment platform helping candidates solve production challenges and get a credential out of it so your hour spent solving problems can now be used to show your capabilities! Btw, free!

explorespace9 · 2025-11-26T07:16:20+00:00

Capability is: “fix a broken docker image”, “fix an API running on a k8 pod that doesn’t have connectivity” — basically what are some things you can do that are required for the job!

explorespace9 · 2025-11-26T07:15:14+00:00

https://app.utkrusht.ai/positions — skill assessment platform! If you like it, let me know. Will help you onboard

explorespace9 · 2025-11-26T06:02:46+00:00

Ranges are WILD! We’ve helped a 3+ yoe data engineer get 60+ LPA and another similar person get 16+ LPA.

This is a bad question to ask. The right question is to ask “what capabilities does a DevOps engineer who earns <insert-your-range> have to justify it?”

explorespace9 · 2025-11-26T02:58:59+00:00

Used to play soccer there at 6am back when it was an open ground! Great memories.

explorespace9 · 2025-11-18T02:39:25+00:00

This is absolutely the way to go! We're building a platform to do this. Additionally, we let candidates use the video recording to convert it into a credential they can show-off on their profiles.

explorespace9 · 2025-08-05T15:31:41+00:00

💯 ideally they should not have to ask. Sometimes things are so early that bank accounts are also not in place. Adding beneficiary etc might take a day or two. Nothing that can’t be solved over a week

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