We’re Aditya and Karan, the co-founders of Warrant ( https://warrant.dev/ ). We build APIs and infrastructure to help developers implement authorization and access control in their apps. Implementing flexible authorization that grows with your application is difficult. Many products only need authentication early on but eventually require authorization; however, adding complex authorization to a mature, high usage pr…
Congratulations on the launch, Aditya and Karan. Building SaaS from India (assuming that you eventually will) is always going to be advantageous [0] given the comparatively lower wages and access to a global client-base. Apart form that, in what ways does warrant differentiate itself from authzed.io, another YC-backed startup? I see that both these services are influenced by Zanzibar, but I am particularly curious if…
Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4
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Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4
#72We are Ali and Omair of Abhi ( http://abhi.com.pk/ ). We are a financial wellness platform in Pakistan, focusing on providing early wage access to the salaried class. Most employees in Pakistan live paycheck to paycheck, not having savings for emergencies or random bills. Many pay their bills late, as payroll disbursement often does not coincide with bill cycles, incurring hefty payment fees. Fewer than 20% of the po…
Congrats on the launch guys. This is a real need!
Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Congrats on getting an actual business out of the ground! A few comments : - On your delivery website, the first step is to choose a city, but you operate just in mumbai, so I can just select mumbai. If you could remove this choice before you open in new cities, it will make the flow of ordering one step shorter. It will also allow you to better market your local brand as the wording could be : order a burger in mumb…
-good point, the direct channel website we have is built using a third party service so its not customisable. The plan is to set up our own platform where we can fully customize the flow and sell food from all our brands in a single order in the near term. Right now focus is on creating the best food. -nope youre right , pictures are crucial in driving purchases, we'll fix that. -interestingly Swiggy already moved in…
First off, congrats on your venture! as a foodie I'm elated.
I realize that you're trying to create your own brand, my concern is:
- if it's a brand that does all cuisines, it is going to attract people mainly because of the price point, and not uniqueness
- if the idea is to build multiple brands, one each for a specific type of food: a brand for Pizza, another for Biryani, etc., then scaling each is its own demon
please correct me if I'm not understanding it right.
On a side note,
> But it didnt work and they shut down all locations
Do you have any knowledge of why it didn't work? I have a few thoughts around this, and have discussed this with a friend who's a restaurateur, but would love to hear from you!
Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4
#74We’re Aditya and Karan, the co-founders of Warrant ( https://warrant.dev/ ). We build APIs and infrastructure to help developers implement authorization and access control in their apps. Implementing flexible authorization that grows with your application is difficult. Many products only need authentication early on but eventually require authorization; however, adding complex authorization to a mature, high usage pr…
Do you plan to create an SDK for Ruby apps any time soon?
Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4
#75We’re Aditya and Karan, the co-founders of Warrant ( https://warrant.dev/ ). We build APIs and infrastructure to help developers implement authorization and access control in their apps. Implementing flexible authorization that grows with your application is difficult. Many products only need authentication early on but eventually require authorization; however, adding complex authorization to a mature, high usage pr…
Do you plan to create an SDK for Ruby apps any time soon?
Yes, we plan to have a Ruby SDK soon!
Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4
#76We are Ali and Omair of Abhi ( http://abhi.com.pk/ ). We are a financial wellness platform in Pakistan, focusing on providing early wage access to the salaried class. Most employees in Pakistan live paycheck to paycheck, not having savings for emergencies or random bills. Many pay their bills late, as payroll disbursement often does not coincide with bill cycles, incurring hefty payment fees. Fewer than 20% of the po…
Congrats on the launch guys. This is a real need!
Thanks
Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
-good point, the direct channel website we have is built using a third party service so its not customisable. The plan is to set up our own platform where we can fully customize the flow and sell food from all our brands in a single order in the near term. Right now focus is on creating the best food. -nope youre right , pictures are crucial in driving purchases, we'll fix that. -interestingly Swiggy already moved in…
First off, congrats on your venture! as a foodie I'm elated. I realize that you're trying to create your own brand, my concern is: - if it's a brand that does all cuisines, it is going to attract people mainly because of the price point, and not uniqueness - if the idea is to build multiple brands, one each for a specific type of food: a brand for Pizza, another for Biryani, etc., then scaling each is its own demon p…
-we're creating multiple brands -each with their own identity. The common thread is premium. Target customers are restricted to those in a 10km radius of a kitchen. Aim is to build customer wallet share by understanding our set of consumers well and serving food to them across different food missions - meal to go , family meal, light meal, cheat meal. Efficiency comes as we consolidate the supply chain and infra at scale
-they scaled too fast because it would not have moved the needle for a company of their size otherwise. and its difficult to build brands customers truly love if speed and scale is the main focus imo, we focus on depth first, then breadth. -would love you hear your views too
Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4
#78GamerPay ( https://gamerpay.gg/ ) is a scam-free marketplace for gaming skins and assets. 46% of gamers trading skins have been scammed more than once for either their money or their skins (survey of 5,000 gamers). 50% of gamers are under 18 and this their first online trading/cash experience. We solve this problem by integrating with Steam and making use of escrow, validating all trades. We are regulated by European…
I'd love to see this made available to the Spanish market next, will follow and see how you do.
Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4
#79GamerPay ( https://gamerpay.gg/ ) is a scam-free marketplace for gaming skins and assets. 46% of gamers trading skins have been scammed more than once for either their money or their skins (survey of 5,000 gamers). 50% of gamers are under 18 and this their first online trading/cash experience. We solve this problem by integrating with Steam and making use of escrow, validating all trades. We are regulated by European…
The fact that you need to hand over a Steam API key is really worrisome, and the FAQ entry for it isn't all that reassuring [1]. You're basically just saying "no it's cool trust us". Are you encrypting these API keys? Do you delete them after each transaction?
It's kind of a honeypot if you're holding onto the keys. You don't have the ability to revoke them so if they're ever compromised it's on your users to revoke them before misuse.
It's worth noting that there's a ton of undocumented (by Valve) Web API methods [2]. If you just look at the official documentation [3] it misleads you into thinking it's a read-only API for fairly basic data. I presume that GamerPay is relying upon some of these undocumented APIs as part of their implementation.
[1]: https://intercom.help/gamerpay/en/articles/5313751-is-it-saf...
Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4
#80GamerPay ( https://gamerpay.gg/ ) is a scam-free marketplace for gaming skins and assets. 46% of gamers trading skins have been scammed more than once for either their money or their skins (survey of 5,000 gamers). 50% of gamers are under 18 and this their first online trading/cash experience. We solve this problem by integrating with Steam and making use of escrow, validating all trades. We are regulated by European…
But this is against TOS, isn't it?
I think that GamerPay might be in the clear, but they require Web API keys from users. The terms [1] of those keys don't seem to allow for sharing API keys with third parties like this:
> 2. License to Steam Web API & Steam Data. Subject to these Terms of Use, you may access the Steam Web API, implement the Steam Web API in your Application, and distribute Steam Data to end users for their personal use via your Application, all in accordance with the Steam Web API documentation. This license is subject to the following restrictions: [snip]
> You agree to keep your Steam Web API key confidential, and not to share it with any third party. This license is personal to you and specific to your Application. You agree that you will be personally responsible for the use of your Steam Web API key.
When you request an API key from Steam they ask you to include the domain of your application. GamerPay instructs users to just put their own username in that field.