Sanchit's Blog

Why is a mobile app more powerful than a website? At first it sounded un-intuitive to me. My reasons were that mobile has limitations due to a smaller screen, low computation power than a laptop and not having a keyboard further slows down typing on a mobile. Me and my company's co-founder knew that ecommerce companies are going to mobile apps, as apps constitute majority of their revenue curves. I was struggling to map this trend with my intuition. What makes a mobile app more preferred over website to an end user. We jotted down following reasons in next 15 mins: Mobile App Website User Attributes Geolocation is more readily available. User is by default logged in Cookies from other websites are availabile but their use may be limited. User logged-in is not necessary Ease of giving inputs to device Unless app requires you to type, it is very easy to just tap-tap and proceed to the next action Moving mouse pointer and clicking is not so intuitive. However, i...

Our friends baked us an anniversary cake last night. That was probably the most 'special thing' we did yesterday. We also made rotis for dinner, which I guess is special because we never do that on weekdays.

Its mid-winter here in Charlottesville, and temperatures can dip pretty low. So today (Sunday) when it got really warm here, we decided to drive down to Blue Ridge Mountains to soak in some sun and fresh air. We didn't want to go on a long hike, or one that was very far from Rockfish Gap. So we decided upon Turk Mountain Summit. It was only 2.2 miles round trip from the parking, and the cherry on the cake was that there was 0.1 mile rock scrambling at the summit. Most of the hike was easy, except for the last bit near the summit, where it got steep very fast. We got to the top and enjoyed a nice and clear view of the valley. We took some pictures and decided to go to Raven's Roost to watch the sunset. Here are some pictures from today... Part of the trail was embellished by stones Part of the trail was embellished with moss Carrying everything to the top, except for his wife Panoramic view of the summit At the edge You could see very far fr...

Our Second Honeymoon, to Puerto Rico Juhi Ranjan                            Sanchit Garg  University of Virginia                 TravelTriangle       juhi.ranjan@gmail.com           sanchitg@gmail.com  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Since our honeymoon trip to Mauritius, Juhi and I didn't have any good vacations. We cancelled plans to Grand Canyon and after many reschedules we finalized on Puerto Rico for 4-5 days. We wanted to blog our fun trip for reading later. We will also try that you experience Puerto Rico as you read the blog. Juhi and I divided the days to blog - she wrote about the odd days and I about the even days. This gives us equal rights to bash each other and also saves our lazy fingers to write everything. Day 1 by...