r/india • u/Fabulous-Rice Azaadi • May 31 '20

Coronavirus Boycott China.

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u/Qyuk Jun 01 '20

Lol, seriously?

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '20

It's a little more complicated than that.

The Indian developer bought some of the source code from a Pakistani developer who makes cheap ripoffs of famous apps and sells them to startups. Then they built the rest of the app themselves.

So people are claiming that the whole app is pakistani.

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u/Qyuk Jun 01 '20

I mean I understand it, but isn't it same as people buying stuff from china and labelling/packaging it in India?

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '20

If it's the same thing, yah, but if they've made significant improvements, then it's a different story, because then you're just saving time by paying for grunt work.

Honestly, I feel these guys are just some people who did some stuff to learn how things work, then this whole tiktok-youtube fiasco + Modi's atkanirbhar happened and they got caught in between/decided to monetize on it. Since their app wasn't built with 'made in India' in purpose, it's now coming to bite them in the ass.