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Karan Shah

  • Founder and CEO, IIDE
Mumbai
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Founder @ IIDE, Digital Marketer, Trainer, Tech Enthusiast and a Public Speaker.
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Gen Z insights from the NEET protest and what that means for brands

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By Karan Shah
| Afaqs!
CASE FILE: JANTAR MANTAR, NEW DELHI JULY 2026: GEN Z ON RECORD "Aja pakad le." Filed notes prepared for brand strategy A leaked exam paper became a generation's proof-of-concept. What started as anger over NEET irregularities turned into one of India's largest youth movements, powered by Gen Z students and young professionals, mascotted by a cockroach, and broadcast in real time on the same feeds usually reserved for reels.
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Telegram has ~1 billion users and no read API — so I built one in a day (Day 5 of 60)

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By Karan Shah
| DEV Community
Day 5 of building one commercial API every day for 60 days. Today's is the one I'm most surprised nobody has nailed: reading public Telegram channels as clean JSON. The gap Telegram has roughly a billion monthly users. Huge crypto communities, news channels, OSINT sources, brands — all posting in public channels anyone can read in a browser. But there's no official API to read a channel you don't own. The Bot API only sees chats your bot is in.
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Your vibe-coded app has no rate limiting. I built the missing backend in one API

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By Karan Shah
| DEV Community
Lovable, Bolt, v0, and Cursor will happily generate you a beautiful app that calls OpenAI on every button click - with no API keys for your users, no rate limiting, no usage metering, and raw LLM text going straight into JSON.parse(). That works right up until you get your first real user (or your first $400 OpenAI bill). I built VibeGuard for exactly this: the backend plumbing AI code generators never write for you, as one API you call from the frontend-ish code you already have.
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