Hello, I don't know much about horoscopes and i didn't want any ai or computer to tell me wrong about me can you tell me about my horoscope and future , I do not lil bit about the house so I hope you guys can be house specific. Thank you
Hey everyone! 👋
I'm currently building a small app and I'm at the stage where I need to figure out monetization. I'm thinking of offering two options:
**A subscription model** (monthly/yearly)
**A one-time purchase** for the full app
The thing is, I'm pretty new to how payments work on the Google Play side of things things like setting up in-app purchases, billing APIs, how Google handles the cut, etc.
Would love to hear from anyone who's been through this! A few things I'm curious about:
- Which is easier to set up for a solo/small dev subscriptions or one-time payments?
- Any libraries or tools you'd recommend for handling billing on Android?
- What are the common mistakes to avoid?
Any guidance, resources, or personal experience would be super appreciated. Thanks in advance! 🙏
We had some really great discussions around startup ideas, explored a bunch of new industries, and shared perspectives that really got me thinking differently. It’s always refreshing to be around people who are building, experimenting, and pushing ideas forward.
Big shoutout to u/boombap2025 for the guidance and insights — really appreciate you taking the time to help everyone out 🙌
Looking forward to more such sessions!
Hey everyone, founder here.
I was looking at this sub today and realized we have all these members but we’re all just lurking in our rooms coding solo. It’s kind of a waste, right? Sikkim has so much talent, but we never actually hang out in the real world.
I’m going to be at 241 Brewcafe Reshithang, Gangtok this 5/4/26 around 1:30pm-6:00pm just to get out of the house. I figured I’d see if anyone else wants to join.
No agenda, no boring speeches, and definitely no "networking" cringe. Just some of us nerding out over AI, whatever startup idea you’re sitting on, or just complaining about how hard it is to get good tech gear up here in the hills.
If it’s just me and one other person, cool, we’ll grab a coffee. If a bunch of you show up, even better—we can finally start making some noise as a community.
I’ll be the one with the laptop and way too much caffeine. Drop a comment if you think you can make it, or just sign up here so I know how many chairs we need to hijack: Event Link
Who’s down?
genuine question. not rhetorical. what is the actual plan for the 1.5 million engineering graduates that India produces every year when the companies that used to absorb them have quietly stopped absorbing them.
TCS hired 40,000 freshers in 2021. then 35,000. then 22,000. then they started going quiet on the numbers altogether which is corporate speak for "we don't want to say this out loud." Infosys benched so many freshers for so long that people were drawing salaries for 18 months without getting a single project. Wipro deferred joining dates so many times that people started framing the offer letters as motivational posters. the pipeline that an entire generation built their life plans around just kind of stopped working and everyone in a position to explain it is busy posting thought leadership content on linkedin about embracing the AI era.
so here's the thing nobody is saying directly. the big IT company job was never coming back for freshers the way it existed before. that version of the industry is structurally over. the work that needed 50 freshers now needs 3 people with the right AI tools and one of those people is probably a contractor. the math changed permanently and the sooner people stop waiting for TCS to announce a big hiring drive and start thinking differently the better.
and thinking differently right now actually means one thing more than anything else. startups.
i know that word makes people nervous because their parents want them in a TCS cubicle with a salary slip they can show at a marriage proposal. but hear me out because the timing is genuinely interesting in a way it has never been before.
AI is about to cause an explosion of small startups in India the same way cheap smartphones caused an explosion of apps in 2012. the cost of building something real has collapsed. a two person team today can build and deploy a product that would have needed a 20 person engineering team five years ago. that barrier dropping means thousands of founders who previously couldn't afford to hire are suddenly able to build with tiny teams, which means they need people who can do multiple things, move fast, and work without hand holding. which is exactly the situation a hungry fresher is actually good at if they stop trying to fit themselves into the TCS shaped box.
the startup ecosystem in Bangalore and Hyderabad and even in smaller cities is going to need people who understand AI tools, can build with them quickly, and don't cost 30 lakhs a year. that is a fresher with the right skills. not a fresher with a CGPA and a Java certification from 2019 but a fresher who spent six months actually building things and learning how modern products get made.
the dark humor part of this is that the same AI that killed the entry level IT job is also creating the environment where a 22 year old with a laptop and enough curiosity can contribute to something real faster than ever before in history. the floor collapsed but the ceiling also went up at the same time.
the people who are going to struggle are the ones waiting for the old system to restart. the people who are going to be fine are the ones who accept that the game changed and start playing the new one before everyone else figures out it exists.
anyway that's the take. the traditional job is gone, the startup wave is coming, and your parents are still going to ask why you don't have a TCS offer letter.
some things AI cannot fix.