Hacker News: adi2907

New comment by adi2907 in "MiMo Code is now released and open-source"

adi2907 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:51:29 +0000

What a transformation by Xiaomi to build almost frontier level models. Five years back, when I was in the data science team, they dint really bother about AI models and were using Baidu for NLP and vision under the hood of their APIs

Show HN: A free, open-source replacement for Evernote (and paid note takers)

adi2907 — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:40:05 +0000

Bending Spoons (owner of Evernote) recently hiked price of Evernote to $100 per year. I was not paying that amount for the honor of accessing my own notes

Hence I built a feature-identical (almost) EverNote replacement which does the main things I need – taking notes, syncing across devices, searching within notes.

EverFree is always free and open source. It imports your existing Evernote notes and converts to markdown.

Backend data is hosted on Github on your own repo. So its always belongs to you

Frontend is hosted on a vercel app. No hosting fees.

You are welcome to self host as well. Here’s the github repo: https://github.com/adi2907/everfree

Downloadable DMG in case you just want to run it directly: https://github.com/adi2907/everfree/releases/download/v1.0.0...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48322352

Points: 3

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New comment by adi2907 in "Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships"

adi2907 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 05:52:04 +0000

This is definitely very useful, and something i've been thinking of to build myself. A personal CRM. Issue is when I see something like this - where it will take me around half hour to figure out - while i can vibe code something in an hour which will do much more and personalize it for me, I hold back on trying it out.

New comment by adi2907 in "Five Day course to learn data science for beginners"

adi2907 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 01:48:20 +0000

This is a 5 day - only code , no maths -introduction to data science covering all critical topics and suitable for beginners. As a practicing data scientist, this covers 80% of my toolkit. All datasets are created synthetically. I created this course as almost all the existing courses cover too much material, too much theory and maths and don't emphasize the practical aspect of using existing algorithms to achieve impactful output. I hope this helps beginners and I wish a course like this existed when I started years back to not dissuade me from learning this approachable field

Five Day course to learn data science for beginners

adi2907 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 01:48:20 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/adi2907/essentials-data-science

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42799723

Points: 1

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New comment by adi2907 in "Launch HN: Undermind (YC S24) – AI agent for discovering scientific papers"

adi2907 — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 05:26:06 +0000

Very impressed. I am not a scientist but am building a product for intent-based discounting in Shopify. Typically Google scholar gives me very generic results using LSTM etc however this search gave me some interesting results with focus on real world implementation. The clarifying questions are also quite impressive as it gives the impression that it is understanding the query really well. Good stuff. I think it might be useful for end-users and not just company/research folks as well

The Instagram moment for software engineering

adi2907 — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 15:27:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.adiganguli.com/the-instagram-moment-for-software/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40846718

Points: 2

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Clock has hit midnight in a dozen countries as China calls in on its loans

adi2907 — Sat, 20 May 2023 07:28:47 +0000

Article URL: https://fortune.com/2023/05/18/china-belt-road-loans-pakistan-sri-lanka-africa-collapse-economic-instability/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36010061

Points: 11

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Show HN: Simple Clickstream for Any Website

adi2907 — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:31:02 +0000

All website owners will want to know which pages their users are browsing, what they are clicking etc. Available solutions are too complex and expensive. Sharing a simple clickstream capture javascript which works for most purposes with a server to capture the logs. Detailed walkthrough of the code is also shared here https://www.adiganguli.com/category/analytics/clickstream/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33962758

Points: 1

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New comment by adi2907 in "India's new data privacy law proposes stiff penalties for data breach"

adi2907 — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 05:40:56 +0000

India's new data privacy law is quite simple to understand. Allows cross border data sharing with few countries. Stiff penalties for personal data breach or failure to report them

India's new data privacy law proposes stiff penalties for data breach

adi2907 — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 05:40:56 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/18/india-digital-data-protection-bill-2022-draft/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33678646

Points: 2

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New comment by adi2907 in "Indian online merchants cannot store credit card information from 2022"

adi2907 — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 07:14:21 +0000

As an entrepreneur, I empathise with fellow startups losing customers due to mandatory check for recurring payments. However as a customer, this has been a godsend as I had almost 15 subscriptions totalling $300 monthly, quite a large amount in India.

The constant reminder of how many of those subscriptions are useless has allowed me to cut my expenses. Case in point, was subscribed to linkedin premium for last 2 years, while I make use of it only once in 3-4 months. Now I simply dont recharge my credit card and only do so once its required.

Not sure if its the ideal solution but definitely am thankful to it!

New comment by adi2907 in "GPT-3 APIs are now in public beta"

adi2907 — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 06:54:13 +0000

Wondering how can one build something massively successful which has GPT as the core engine. Will be ridiculously easy for anyone else to copy, if its trained on similar data as the use case

What D2C wants – Ideas to build for D2C brand gold rush

adi2907 — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 04:00:35 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@adityaganguli/what-d2c-wants-key-problems-of-d2c-brands-b163122dba37

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29527004

Points: 3

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New comment by adi2907 in "Hate Your Job"

adi2907 — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 04:25:06 +0000

Surprised how this is in the front page. I had a similar feeling of bewilderment that I had when reading Das capital- fancy in theory but after several decades of wasting your/others life, discover it’s unimplementable

Ask HN: Side-Projects - How to build persistence

adi2907 — Sun, 27 Dec 2020 12:01:22 +0000

I have observed some crazy successful people at close quarters and one thing which stands out is their persistence. They are extremely formidable who don't stand down from their idea or startup no matter what fate throws at them.

I am struggling with building persistence in my pursuit of startup ideas or side projects. I am a decent hacker - can crank out a simple MVP fairly quickly. I keep getting ideas and usually I start out with a lot of enthusiasm which begins petering out as I encounter technical difficulties or learning areas, or customer nonchalance. My question to those who have been at it, for quite some time. How do you maintain the enthusiasm for your projects esp when it's not a bread-winner?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25550455

Points: 3

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New comment by adi2907 in "Tony Hsieh has died"

adi2907 — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 10:46:04 +0000

Here's a post on how he influenced companies halfway across the globe https://helloworld-adi.medium.com/delivering-happiness-an-ev...

New comment by adi2907 in "Tony Hsieh has died"

adi2907 — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 10:44:28 +0000

Honestly haven't seen a clear answer till now. We had tried multiple ways to link high satisfaction scores with purchase behavior - correlation/regression of NPS with frequency/value of purchase.

At least in myntra case, the detractors turned out to be much more valuable than the entire universe, we put it down to customers who love us enough to hate us!

New comment by adi2907 in "Tony Hsieh has died"

adi2907 — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 06:32:48 +0000

Really sad , I remember when I was setting up Myntra (Indian zappos) customer experience department, Tony and his book were a huge influence and everything that we did was measured up with the zappos way of customer experience. We were one of the few large companies having in house call centre with a five day week and training period of one month to all customer cate executives, plus a mandatory call listening session once a quarter for all senior leadership.

There are still some question marks on the ROI of trying to ensure customer delight especially via call center since discounts are such a huge factor in buying shoes and clothes online that even an NPS of 60 will not help if you don’t price lower especially for the value conscious Indian buyer however he definitely brought a new dimension of thinking for a lot of customer care folks

New comment by adi2907 in "Amazon Academy India"

adi2907 — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 16:27:40 +0000

Have always marvelled at Amazon’s ability to do local Innovation at scale. Here is a behemoth for whom India is 10 percent of global revenue, yet launch a service which has nothing to do with their core e-commerce and cloud functions. Is it to get users, hiring tool or make more money. Will be interesting to learn the culture which facilities such decision making - any other large company would have shot down such a crazy idea long ago