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OTC CatchUp #134

Date: 03-06-2023

Duration: 4 hrs 51 mins

Topics Discussed

  • We talked about Mumbai Hacks when Tushar Nankani joined in briefly during the hackathon.

  • Darshit Suratwala shared that he would be talking on Blockchain at KCD Mumbai Meetup.

  • Ishan Sharma and Darshit Suratwala talked about JSConf India.

    • JSConf India - Track 2

    • Ishan Sharma shared a talk by Ameer Jhan at JSConf in Bangalore. - Building scalable JS apps.

    • Getting accommodation in Bangalore is difficult, hence Jay and Ishan Sharma were discussing potential options.

    • We talked about navigating India and differences in the nomenclature of places across the world, where many places end up having similar names.

  • We discussed options for hosting web apps with a backend specifically for fixing OTC’s website after Deta Cloud was shut down.

    • Server-based free tier options are not available and hence using serverless seems like the only viable option.

    • Netlify supports static sites, and Heroku has bad pricing after the salesforce acquisition.

    • Cloudflare workers is a good option.

  • Aditya Oberai's tweet about Appwite winning the golden kitty awards was up on New York’s Times Square.

  • Aditya Oberai and Rishit Dagli talked about visas and passports with the benefits of having dual citizenship.

  • Most discussions were woven around JSConf India and Harsh Kapadia's internship experience.

Attendees

  1. Aditya Oberai

  2. Aryan Nayak

  3. Dheeraj Lalwani

  4. Hardik Raheja

  5. Harsh Kapadia

  6. Ishan Sharma

  7. Jaden Furtado

  8. Jay Kaku

  9. Krishna Gadia

  10. Pranav Dani

  11. Ramyak Mehra

  12. Rishit Dagli

  13. Sahil Prasad

  14. Siddharth Kaduskar

  15. Tushar Nankani

  16. Wilfred Almeida

  17. Ameer

  18. Darshit Suratwala

  19. Henrique

  20. Hiten Gerella

  21. Khushi Trivedi

  22. Trusha Madhav

  23. Vedant Modhave

  24. Atmaj Koppikar

  25. kieed

Meet Screenshot

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