Booking flows that don’t fight the user
Ride apps, long checkout paths, keep taps boring on purpose.
Darjeeling · Sikkim · India · the world
Stories & press
Stuff I wrote, plus what the tech press would sound like if it hung out in my Slack. Short sentences. Big logos. Zero patience for buzzwords that don’t ship.
From this desk
Supabase + UPI + Android in one breath
Postgres in the cloud, rupees on the wire, Kotlin on the phone.
Darjeeling standups, Google Calendar brain
Same tools as Meta and Stripe friends — worse Wi‑Fi, same ship dates.
In the news
MoCabs’ Ramesh Sharma: “We’re not rewriting Uber — we’re owning the hill-market Android long tail”
On Postgres, Razorpay, and why Series A slides don’t fix spotty LTE outside Gangtok.
One WhatsApp thread, three time zones: inside a “remote-first” shop that still prints tickets
How a Darjeeling desk keeps pace with Bay Area standups — caffeine and aggressive GitHub notifications.
The anti-hype stack: Supabase, Firebase refugees, and one dev who still likes XML for legacy cabs
Silicon Valley wants microservices; Eastern India wants receipts that survive offline mode.
“We stopped chasing multi-cloud”: MoCabs pilot talks managed Postgres and boring uptime
Why a mobility shop picked managed SQL over hand-rolled k8s — fewer pages, more rides.
Push notifications at mountain scale: what WhatsApp Business API taught MoCabs about OTP fatigue
Short read on treating messaging like product surface, not plumbing.
India’s “quiet” mobility builders eye UPI rails for the next travel boom
RS. quoted on payment retries, wallet limits, and why Android still wins outside the metros.