S10 E30: Ravi Pratap Maddimsetty, Uniqode
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO
4.6 • 216 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Ravi Pratap Maddimsetty lives in Bangalore with his family. Early on, he joined startups where his friends worked, in order to get to know the landscape of how they functioned. He fell in love with the tech, team and early innings of building a business - so much so, that he eventually started his own. He has been an entrepreneur for 15 years - or in the woods, as he says. But outside of tech, he's married with 2 girls. He loves spending time with his family, playing tennis, being outdoors or skiing.
Ten years ago, Ravi was riding the wave of smartphones, tinkering with numerous technological solutions to connect users to their world via their smartphone. After moving through beacons, NFC, GPS and others - they started to think about how they could use the camera, which was on every device, to read QR codes.
This is the creation story of Uniqode.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Rohan Kare Mandy. |
| 0:01.5 | And I'm Phil Hawthorne, and we're the hosts of the Home Assistant podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | We're guessing you're into technology. |
| 0:06.5 | Home Assistant is the number one open source contributor project on GitHub, with a focus on privacy and local control. |
| 0:12.5 | Join us every other week as we'll break down the latest features of Home Assistant |
| 0:16.0 | and talk to everyday users who are automating their lives with Home Assistant. |
| 0:19.5 | From feeling like you're living in Star Trek with lights turning on in rooms when you walk in, |
| 0:24.9 | to automating, flushing the toilet. |
| 0:27.0 | Home Assistant can integrate with virtually anything, |
| 0:29.4 | and we've interviewed everyday people like yourselves, |
| 0:32.1 | and that have done some pretty crazy automations. |
| 0:34.5 | Listen to the Home Assistant Podcast wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts, |
| 0:37.3 | or find us on YouTube |
| 0:38.6 | or visit home assistant.fm. |
| 0:43.4 | When we first created the Bluetooth beacon platform, we made that platform first before we did |
| 0:50.9 | this whole QR code thing. |
| 0:52.5 | And of course, it was built on the technology that we knew at the time. |
| 0:55.7 | So I remember the first version of beacon stack, if you will. |
| 0:59.4 | It used a very ancient UI that we had built in a technology that honestly predates, like React, Angular. |
| 1:06.2 | All of these things were not around at that time. |
| 1:08.4 | So built the dashboard, built the user on the face. |
| 1:10.9 | Because essentially, even with Bluetooth beacons, you had the same underlying concepts, right? |
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