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Disruptive Technology Product Startup

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, NLP and Speech Processing. I find it disturbing that a number of companies use terms like these to describe themselves to journalists. The problem is not with these words or verticals. As a company if you’re … Continue reading

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7 easy steps to recruit the right developer

Recruitment is one of the most important things a startup needs to do. We too put in a lot of emphasis on recruitment at VXT and even though we have had a few bad recruits, I would consider that we … Continue reading

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6 reasons why your outsourced project will run late

I’ve been running my company for about three years now. I don’t have an exact number now (unlike earlier, when I knew exactly how many projects we had done), but I would say that in general we would have completed … Continue reading

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iOS Deployments over the web using PHP

Deployments over iOS are quite painful. When a developer sends you a release you can try on your phone, they send over two files – something.mobileprovision and youApp.ipa. The first file lists the devices on which your app will run … Continue reading

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The best comment ever on an iPhone app!

Colors has taken the tech world by storm. Partly because of the app and partly because of massive amount of funding that they received. Everything about the app and the company is really impressive, but Adhip pointed out something even … Continue reading

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How to decide which clients to work with

We have been building iPhone apps for over two years now. When we started, there were hardly any clients and we had to make do with the projects that we got. For the first six months, we never once took … Continue reading

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The Quintessential Non Disclosure Agreement

If you run a company, you really can’t get away without signing an NDA. You need to sign one before you can talk to anybody. This is why I thought we should have a discussion about how is an NDA … Continue reading

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Gist is finally here!

I finally got a beta account for Gist and it looks really really awesome. Trust me!

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Setting up emails via SVN

We finally managed to setup SVN to start sending us emails on each commit. I also wrote about it in more detail on the company blog. If you’ve just started hosting svn on your server recently, you should take a … Continue reading

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Uhooroo – Indian Music Community

Uhooroo derives from Uhuru – the Swahali word for freedom. And that is exactly what they set out to find with this website – freedom for the musicians. India was always a singing and dancing community, though the music was … Continue reading

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