OTC CatchUp #28 Summary

General introductions.

@Bharat Kalluri shared his self quantification dashboard with us. (Self Quantification community)

@Bharat Kalluri, @Harsh Kapadia, @Kartik Soneji and Viranchee talked about the solutions that people were making to use Git as a database.

Nikita Voloboev’s Wiki is SUPER awesome and everyone should create one!

@Harsh Kapadia and @Kartik Soneji helped Ayesha Malik with branching in Git. (@Harsh Kapadia's summary on default branches in Git.)

@Jai Kumar Dewani asked for suggestions to pass on a virus to a friend. Giving the friend an NPM package.json file to execute was the suggestion that he ended up with.

@Jai Kumar Dewani asked for help with GitHub Pages, because his React.js portfolio on GitHub Pages was not letting any other repository’s links work. @Kartik Soneji was able to address and explain the problem to everyone. This discussion lasted long and was quite interesting!

Rohit shared an IoT product that he is building and asked for suggestions. @Kartik Soneji went gung ho on one of the points that Rohit brought up.

@sirus asked whether joining a start-up as an intern was worth it, which lead everyone into a rabbit hole of discussing the state of start ups and why sometimes asking for equity is not worth it.

We helped @Kartik Soneji and @Sreekaran Srinath to plan a project for a hackathon.

@jaden furtado showed us a virus that he is building. (The reference video that he used: Writing Viruses for Fun, not Profit)

@ishandeveloper showcased his project Airwatt which amazed a lot of people! (Project demo)

Viranchee showed us his first ever web site that he made using Next.js and Chakra UI. (Project demo)

@kartikey rawat shared links for various communities.

Viranchee shared a link to Null Community’s Mumbai Chapter, a Cyber Security community.