Behind the scenes - #Flipkart Indimeet

Every mid-week, we start passively planning for the weekend and often our plans are made after few fights and then, each other's approval. It has been the same for last one year since we got married . However, this time, my better half ditched me royally. I don't blame her but her friends who somehow conspired to meet up  and eventually, went together to Mysuru to witness royalty. So there you see, I was left alone . Pity me !?!

Then, as usual, my few blogger friends whatsapped about IndiBlogger Meet happening at Hard Rock Cafe.  For last two years, I was totally out of touch with blogging as well as Indiblogger. After such a long hiatus, 2015 has been really good.Without second thoughts, I registered right away on Friday - July 31st and kept on anticipating the approval mail for my fourth IB event this year from Inditeam . Just a fortnight back, I was at WordUp event and it was lot of fun and learning. Now, this time, it was Flipkart - the giant of Indian eCommerce Story. And the icing on the cake was the venue - legendary Hard Rock Cafe. I had heard and read a lot about the venue and interestingly, few good things from my college mechanical engg department professor who visits here quite often and never forgets to put some great food tips on his Facebook profile which I always 'like' .

 I worked for a startup near Wipro Park,Koramangala which was just next to Flipkart Office. Quite a few colleagues there have now moved to Flipkart. Not sure if the office is still there, knowing that it has its own swanky new nine floor office space at Cessna Business Park in Bengaluru. There is lot of literature online which keeps you engaged with Indian eCommerce in general and Flipkart in particular. So hell yeah, I had very high expectations from the event. Point,Shoot,Buy,their primary selling point to host the event, is simple and catchy too .

Image credit : Indiblogger

With such a precursor, thanks to thoughtful organizers who kept the event starttime at 10.30 am, I manage to get good sleep and was raring to attend the event. It was packed house and I must say, there were quite a few who stood for the whole event due to lack of seating space. Few of my fellow bloggers have already mentioned about the Flipkart team and their firmness in answering the feature questions , albeit few offbeat ones.Also fellow indiblogger Debolina's  personal experience of meeting new bloggers and another colorful one from Archana helped me recall the event before I started penning these posts.

Anoop and the team were back with a bang at the podium of HRC followed up by 'minute of fame intro' sessions and deep dive into Flipkart's product talks. Appetisers were served well but to only those who took the risk of leaving their seat. After a decent Pasta in my platter followed by quick gulp of the plain vanilla scoops, I was done for the day. So I thought !

Infact, our ten fellow bloggers became published writers . So it was indeed a day for all of us to be proud. I got a signed copy of 10 Love Stories from Dr. Dutta. I already read her story and gifted it to my wifey. I would like to end this post as Part 1 of my experience. In Part 2, I intend to highlight very specifics about the image search feature launched by Flipkart, it's prospects and my feature requests. Stay tuned !