Hi guys, I am trying to ease my sleep schedule and for that purpose looking for tubelights like the alexa enabled bulbs out there. with different colours - atleast yellow, adjustable brightness and alexa enabled. Are there any such products out there?

Hi #tribe, I want to start startups but I am also extremely risk-averse. That is, I don’t want to give up my 5 years making $0. So I am curious, is there a school of thought OR certain way to do business OR certain people who do startups in a way that their downside is covered? That is, in worst case, they will take away 5-year worth of salary home - and in best case, they take away millions. Just thinking out loud. I guess another way to ask this question is - what are some risk-averse way to do startups?

Hi #tribe, Anyone used digiboxx any reviews or suggestions? Am basically looking for cloud storage don't want to use gdrive or Dropbox .I will be encrypting my files anyway . Other options I had in mind are Zoho docs . Any other alternatives with storage benefits and seamless sync up options across devices.

Living like locals seems to be the way to go https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1348411953929138176 it's good for the locals and governments both

Does anyone know a way to exchange dollars for rupees? I've around $500 lying in cash from 3-4 years back.

Hi everyone, I wanted to ask what the future of remote work in India will be and how tax laws and companies will register themselves in India. I don't know if there is an older thread where the same has been asked. Basically, my company is outsourcing a lot of work within India and we've been working remotely since 2019. I wanted to lead this operation but I'm a bit clueless on how things might change or if there is any change happening at all. Will the company have to go through the regular process of setting up a subsidiary in India (even though a physical office may not be used at all)? I'd love to hear your thoughts

I started a Twitter thing to put out one movie recommendation a week: https://twitter.com/IndieUsher Please do follow if you are interested in films. And share for good karma! (I think watching one good film a week is really good for the soul!) Would love to hear thoughts, ideas and suggestions.

Hello Developers, I have question wrt application security. Trying to be as detailed as possible. Let me know if things make sense or needs more clarification. Problem - Response(json) to a request contains data that is sensitive enough, not to be visible to the users but is required by the client to provide certain experience. Though the communication between the server and the client would be encrypted, but once the response is received on the client, the data would be in plain text (The client is a web browser) and users can misuse the info. The info should not be visible to the users, but the client application should be able to use the information. Proposed solution - Is it advisable to send the afore mentioned sensitive data as an encrypted string, which would appear to the users as gibberish but the client can internally decrypt the string and use as intended If not, what all solution can be explored. Thanks

hey guys, This is literally my first post on RemoteIndian. I am supposed to get an internship in one week but I don't really know where do i find open remote internship positions. I have found info on full-time positions here but couldnt find anything useful on internships exclusively. Any help is appreciated. Thanks :))

I tend to have this guilt when I don't work at normal times (9-5). I believe this is because I come from a traditional office setting where I worked 9-5 earlier. Now, even when I have the freedom to choose my own schedule and my team is remote, working in other times makes me feel guilty fearing that I don't justify the job / salary I'm being paid. Does this happen to you guys?

How does one get over the feeling of not knowing enough to build their own SaaS product or bootstrap a startup? I feel that is one of the biggest mental roadblock that stops me right in my tracks. A constant feeling of dread that I don't know enough about building startups, don't understand enough economics, etc. to succeed. Do you eventually figure out things along the way?

Ruby folks,

Enumerable#map

when called over a collection class, is there a definitive behaviour on the number of elements that are returned as an output of the of this operation? I was discussing this with a colleague and below was a conclusion that I came out with. Do let me know your opinions on this.

1. A function always returns the output of last invoked statement. This behaviour is universal to Ruby.
2. As an example if we say [1,2,3,4].map { |number| function(num) }, we can predict number of elements in the output. It would atleast be `nil` in case the function does not return anything.
Worst case if the function does returns `nil` for all the `number`s, the output would contain 4 elements.

My conclusion,
The number of elements in the output is a definitive number, and is equal to the number of elements in the input. The sole reason for this is the implicit returns in Ruby

Explanations
Whatever be the contents of the block passed to the map, it would be invoked only once for each element. As a method invocation returns atleast a nil, hence there would be  total number of N invocations where N is the number of elements in the collection.

Crypto HODLers, which platform are you using to invest in BTC,ETH etc? Please share your experience. I only know about WazirX app.

Recommendations for Type-C to USB adapters? I'm using Macbook Pro, need 2 USB ports and 1 HDMI from the adapter(LAN, VGA etc is not required).

Hey @icy-librarian-70729 - thank you for the very generous offer on StartPack. Having gone through the website, it looks like a very good alternative to Stripe Atlas. I had a few questions and thought about asking it on a channel instead of 1-1 as I think it may help others as well. 1. When you incorporate as a US LLC (Delaware for eg) and choose not to incorporate an Indian Corp as a subsidiary, how can you transfer the funds from the LLC to yourself in India? How does the pass through taxation work out for folks in India? (If I had a C-Corp, I could have paid a salary to myself I am assuming?) 2. For a SaaS business doing ~ 5K USD per month, what would be the ballpark figure to do book-keeping and compliance in the US if one goes for the Plus plan ($349). What if you are making $0 as revenue? How much would you need to pay for book keeping then? 3. How important is StartPack once the incorporation and setup is complete? Incase StartPack gets acquired or decides to shut shop, how would it affect the existing companies?

Hi, What does 'authorized to work in the United States' mean?

Anyone worked with Google Calendar API? Need one small help

@icy-librarian-70729 glad to see you here 🙂

When remote companies hire a contractor, do they also have strict background verification like some companies do in india? do they enquire about the candidate in previous companies he worked with and ask for paychecks? . If someone does freelancing without any proof of work (no contracts or any experience certificate) , will he have hard time finding full time remote jobs?

Excellent guide on writing fantastic copy for your product. https://www.indiehackers.com/post/my-step-by-step-guide-to-landing-pages-that-convert-9daefb2064

Does anyone have feedbacks/review about X-Team?

Came across this product on Kickstarter. Seems really useful, especially for Macbook owners https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1162921220/omnicase-the-1st-usb-c-hub-combined-w-electronic-organizer/description

Any tips for marketing a SaaS product or any new product for that matter? What are some good ways to reach out to your target audience?

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Hey all 👋 I’m trying something new, it’s an online course about programmatic SEO. After growing DelightChat.io’s search traffic from 600 to 240,000 impressions/day in 90 days and getting covered on Webflow’s blog about it, a ton of folks reached out asking how we did it and whether I could consult for them (by a company that runs 12 ecommerce brands). I don’t do consulting, but I took this as an opportunity to push myself and launch my first online course ever. The content in this course could potentially help people running blogs, ecommerce stores or B2B software. Any feedback is greatly appreciated! Otherwise, even a like or retweet can go a long way in helping spread the word 😁 https://twitter.com/hipreetam93/status/1353989791868567552 P.S. I give free access to students or indiehackers with <$100 revenue. Just drop me an email (hipreetam93 @ gmail)

Recently came across pothi.com and instascribe. Anyone used these services? https://instascribe.com/index.html

Does anyone in the tribe know much about an "professional indemnity insurance" 🤔

Software design question there is a service class that encapsulates another class’s instance (for making things simpler). All interaction to make modifications to the instance happens only through this service. The question is - Should the service be dumb and respond to all defined requests of the consumer or can raise errors at times? For example say -

so = ServiceClass.new

so.get_some_property

When the value of

some_property

is

nil

should the service respond with

nil

or raise the error saying the value requested is

nil

and cannot be returned