OTC CatchUp #95 Summary

One of the most observed reasons might be to learn more about how to build a product in a relatively short amount of time.

Smit Jethva suggested that startups provide the complete entitlement and project ownership whereas corporate occupations frequently adhere to preset protocols that discourage ingenuity and creativity.

Darshan Rander said that startups might pay more than the established corporates. You are allowed to maintain public entitlement for a project that was built for the startup which helps in your personal brand.

There are certain cases where the candidates get chosen on the basis of their knowledge and experience which might be equivalent to a degree.

Each player essentially decides the further moves for the opponent in bejofo.net/ttt - An emulator for a 9X9 Tic Tac Toe Board.

Even though someone might be willing to work in a given job role, they might not want to keep working in the same field.

Siddharth Bhatia shared a friend’s experience where they disliked their job as a product manager after being promoted.

One should try to explore multiple domains since a single domain might become monotonous.

Valve is one of the few gaming companies with a small team who controls a major chunk of the market.

Spiderman franchise games were initially built under Activision and Treyarch. It was later taken over by Insomniac games who also did a proper justice to the franchise.

Ubisoft had a game series for The Prince of Persia which was later discontinued and probably morphed into Assassin’s Creed franchise.

Vatsal Patel shared an example of Call of Duty: Vanguard, where an identified cheater won’t be able to attack opponents.

Darshan Rander suggested him to use webp images instead of PNG since it is also supported by Flutter (Google’s unofficial solution to PNG is webp images).

Rishit Dagli suggested multiple libraries for image loading in applications that use Flutter or Kotlin.

Sanni Prasad talked about what ZestMoney is and how it works. It is a consumer lending fintech company.

He also shared how Indian government bars loading credit lines on prepaid eWallets.

Here’s an interesting Youtube Video explaining in and out of BNPL.

Jaden Furtado suggested that it works everywhere and it’s profitable.

Fingerprinting could be used by the applications to identify if the device or the user is suspicious and allow those who might have good credit score.

Artemis - 1 plays a crucial role in revisiting the moon and setting up a base on it. It is also one of the first missions involving people from different races.

This launch embibes a similar kind of anticipation and energy that even SpaceX did during its Falcon Heavy launch.

We talked about how Apollo 11 launched to moon with a memory of mere 72Kb in its ROM.

The app uses Jetpack compose. Also, Flutter bundles 3MB engine files which makes it relatively heavier in file size. XML would have consumed less memory but he didn’t use it since he wanted to try using Jetpack Compose.

He shared how he reverse engineered a music API by tracing the network requests.

Widgets are supposed to be written for Native Android.

He also talked about how proxy chaining works and how one could do it. Proxy chaining involves forwarding traffic from one proxy server to another.

It might be a paid subscription for Twitter Blue users.

On similar lines, we discussed how WhatsApp should add some features such as scheduling a message, but isn’t adding it since its userbase is huge and might not easily adapt to such changes.

Darshan Rander shared an answer from StackOverflow which addressed the issue of date format.

Their problem statement was regarding Offline payments in person.

UPI is only supported in India. Countries like US use wire transfer unlike India which uses RTGS, NEFT and UPI.

Some people get into such schemes since they want to use the latest devices, but the scheme comes with some obdurate terms and conditions.

We discussed how multiple phone brands evolved in India.

She also talked about pay in MAANG companines and Startups. A Startup’s monetization depends on its predictions of sustainability.

In the current scenario, EVs typically cost a lot, mainly due to its expensive battery packs.

One potential solution to charging stations for EVs could be standardisation of battery packs upon which different manufacturers could build their cars.

For instance, practical experiences such as using an old PC with a Floppy drive or CDs and restricted storage space and internet access might shape a person’s thinking and approach to using devices in a different way as compared to someone who has a constant internet access and an uncustomizable device.

CD burning used to be a common chore for people who used to download music and movies from the internet.

We also talked about evolution of internet access in India, where 3G plans were extremely expensive initially.

Darshan Rander shared that Winamp will be revamped. Winamp was a popular music player in the 90s and 2000s.

Vatsal Patel and Pranav Dani talked about old games such as Dangerous Dave, Banania and Road Rash which were built for devices with low specifications.

Open Search is one of the examples that is built over Elastic Search.

Amazon built its own version of Elastic Search after version 7.1 since it was privatized after that.

LeetCode is one of the most helpful platforms for preparation.

Company hiring is generally based on logic and thinking capability.

The application uses Wifi Direct to find nearby devices.

The frontend for was built using React Native.