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Bengaluru tech folks, What if we had open-source Alternative for Ola and Uber app? Where drivers and customer only pay for maintenance and server costs. No margin games. If this tweet gets 200 retweets, I might actually sketch a plan to make this happen.
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So proud of being raised by this human with all the values and teachings for life. Wherever I go, however I am, I carry a piece of her. I chose these 2 photos, it captures journey we have travelled as team, as a family. She worked for 8 hours a day for 8k per month, while I was
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qrt with a cute photo of you hugging your parents! 💛 (will send 7k to 5 of my fav qrts 🥰)
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What the fuck is "senior intern"? 😂😂
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This tweet has blown up in last few hours. If you're interested to contribute, please share your proof of work and how you want to help over DMs. Will get in touch while planning this out. And we are ON!
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Late night builds! 😌🚀
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Where should we host our Delhi meet-up for web3 founders, builders and creators on coming weekend?
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3 years
Looking for a UI/UX designer!! It's a very interesting project to work on. Please hit me up! If you know someone please tag them below. 🙏
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@surbhiskjain The stories you share about your upbringing and your family, feels almost like some parallel world of my sisters ( @Sanjana01999 ) and I and how we have been bought up, and the family circumstances. I still don't feel accomplished to share my stories. But when you do, it reminds
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This pic is from Dec 2019 from a village in Karnataka called ujire. I was invited to conduct a workshop. It was the 1st time I had got request from a "diploma college". There is a very interesting story behind and the reason is the lady in the right corner (Usha Ma'am) <Contd> 🧵
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"let's just book a villa and build web3 products and NFTs for 1 month straight and make 100 ETH each, I am ready to do whatever it takes to get there" That was the level of energy today of the community members😌 What a chill evening!!
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Be Curious, Not Judgemental #TedLasso
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@hamesjalpert Bro.. let me buy you "set boundaries and find peace".. you will genuinely thank me later for rest of your life. You will save a quite a bit on therapy also.
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My muslim friends, how are you even getting house to live in cities as a tenant? Trying to help a friend (siblings) get a house, 2 landlords rejected from going further, after seeing the Aadhar card for agreement. They are paying 40k per month for 1bhk at an Airbnb, only option.
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Hey Twitter folks, tweeting this to stop 2 kids from quitting schooling. 1 is studying in 6th and another in 7th. Their father passed away 2 years ago. Mother works as a house maid in Bangalore to pay the bills. Due to covid she lost significant income from various households...
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Hey Bangalore folks, Need some help, I just donated a PC to the school kid who didn't have laptop or mobile to attend online school classes. Monitor is not working. If you have a spare monitor and webcam which works and don't mind donating, please drop me a message.
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@anishastwt Same boat! Learnt to let go this year.. the deep anger/frustration hasn't gone away completely, but I am more patient now than ever before.
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We are ON in Bangalore 🔥🔥💯 @questbookapp @gyanlakshmi @Woodstockfund
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As this is still reaching people, can you help me with a formula we can use for the pricing of the ride? Parameters: 1. Duration of the ride 2. Duration in traffic 3. Distance 4. Base fees 5. Petrol, diesel price 6. Surge (No of req per 3Km radius) Any other factor to consider?
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@aaraynsh No freebies
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We are ON in Mumbai 🚀🥳 @questbookapp
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@ShwetaKukreja_ I used to believe the same for awhile. But you can have all of this and yet feel hallow.. it's only because you haven't realised or lived your true potential. There is a longing for that, which doesn't make you feel settled for any of these, because you're not happy within and
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Sister got this for me from her bonus ♥️🥺 For the first time, I have a new tech product without watching 234577 review videos and justifying the amount for it 🙈 Super proud and grateful ♥️
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Some Life update! I am starting up again with @Sanjana01999 😌 After my stint with jobs, I realized I need to get back into field. What are we building? Robots which can help in construction!
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2 years
Looking for back-end and infrastructure lead. If you're interested in contributing, hit me up! DMs open.
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3 years
Who are some great founders and builders in Delhi building some cool stuff in web3? Tag them below! Planning a small get together!!! 🥳🚀
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We are ON in Goa 🥳🎉 @questbookapp
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Another update, I drove from Bangalore to Pune on my bike 😌 Almost 850kms, in 2 days time. It was one of the most beautiful and overwhelming experience. Have also got some motivation to cover rest of India soon on my bike, would anyone like to join? 🙃
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Chai pe charcha with @PareenL ♥️👌 Didn't realise how 2-3 hours went by. 😌
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GM! This is no normal weekend for me!! 😌 I have been little quite with all my Web 3.0 activities. So here's some update. At @questbookapp we started a new division of team to nurture the Web3 talents across the world begining of this year... Contd.
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Thanks to these two guys for helping me out in making the Mumbai meet-up a success! Right from the planning n execution 🔥🙏 @questbookapp is truly building a community where Web3.0 learners/creators/innovators wants to hang out and help each other to grow together 💯 WAGMI!😌
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Most beautiful thing I heard today ❤️ had a very similar experience with my mom in 2016. Things my family and my parents have gone through to get me here, it's not to settle here. It's to rise higher than their imagination and make yourself proud and happy.
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I have lived all my life in a rented house. Never realised this was a privilege until recently. It's heartbreaking to see this happen and you can't hold anyone accountable for this animosity.
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There are some decisions which take away a good 3-4 months of your life. They require attention and care. Be mentally prepared for these decisions, please speak to people who have done it before to better estimate timelines...
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Planning to meet developers from Mumbai tomorrow. To see if we can organise a meet-up on web3.0 here. If you know any web3.0 enthusiasts or developer's community in Mumbai please HMU or tag them here. 🚀
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Some happy news today! 🥳🎉 Preparation for the long drives to come 😌🚀
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Trying to map a closed room using SLAM with RGB camera and it's being a major pain in the ass 🥲🫠
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Working with a Kickass leader like him! @madhavanmalolan He has always trusted me with some of the wild bets 🙏 Super grateful to this journey we are in!! Loving every day of it. PS: If you're looking for an intro to join us, let me know. Happy to connect and have a chat.
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@AmanHasNoName_2 the only solution to this is, for males to reflect and understand what's happening to masses, and why are they part of this herd. spirituality and a sense of belonging to meaningful community (which is a major miss) can help this generation from sinking low in this pit.
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Who are some of your favourite web3 founders, founders in making and hackers? Would love to chat and see how I can help. I have some interesting things planned out. Please tag them below or send me a DM! RT 🙏
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Back on the roads 🏍
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Goa folks! This Friday evening we are organising a meet-up party on Web 3.0. Come with all your silly, stupid and difficult questions. Our team at Questbook will answer them for you. 😎🥳 And ofc, food, drinks and beer on the house 😌 Registration link:
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A schoolmate called today and was so happy that he bought his first sofa in life, sharing all the details. He was same guy who had panic attacks because he had to stay in a small PG because his parents had to leave city, they couldn't afford living in city. Small things ♥️
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Bombay here we come!! 🥳 This time it's just not talks on understanding Web3 world, we are also going to write some Web3 code and deploy on ETH. Come with all your questions! Our experts are all buckled up😎 Register here 👉 My DM is open for any query!
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This video is better than our group picture! Lol Fun catching up with my twitter lifelines for rescue! @MotwaniSuhas @abhayjani4 @adityamohanty_ 😇😌 And happy birthday @FittestGeek 🥳🎉
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@AabhashK Where is this 1% getting financed from? If it's just VC money to acquire customer, don't see it lasting very long. Eventually we will have cred2 in a different name.
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Going to make conscious effort to document my learning every Sunday 11am. A small goal of atleast 100 words. Been feeling little off and not in balance, making this a checkpoint for myself.
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I’m writing this in frustration: Bangalore as a city is crumbling. There is something fundamentally wrong with the way things are functioning at the citywide level. From water shortages in summer to flooding roads in monsoon, no modes of transportation available when it rains,
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Hey folks, what are some of the best developers community you know in your city, who would be interested in getting their community into Web3.0? Tag them below so that we can see how we can help them. RT for reach!!
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@viraj_sheth Why did you even watch it in the first place?? Most of the shows and movies on Netflix are dark and trauma inducing. I conciously block out content which are that way. Might seem cool, but it really disturbs someone's headspace.
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Who are some awesome folks building in Web3.0 from Pune and what are they building? Want to invite them to come share their experience and show off what they are building in our Pune meet-up!!
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I loved those days when I was done with my work at 5pm Friday. And used to call up my close friend, and just grab 1-2 beer and get some good dinner. Didn't necessarily talk too much because of the long call and day I had, just enjoyed the company and vibed. I want those days
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Hey Twitter folks! I just wrote this journey of building my first ever app from 2017! There is no code in this blog. It's just the journey of beginning to learn something on the internet, which has worked for me since then!
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have been at it for last couple of months, trying to build a prototype of a robot - from Bangalore. please don't waste your time buying any kind of parts from SP Road. They will generally scam you by giving low quality parts, at much higher price. reliable sites:
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@delightchathq is live now on all the 3 ecosystem!! Android, iOS and Web!! 🚀🚀 This part of the journey was really fun and exciting! Thank you @shrutic98 and @pavanJadhaw for being part of this mini journey in the major journey 😅🙌
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Just had a great chat with @ranjan3118 building @huddle01com !! We used Huddle01 for the meeting, what a seemless experience it was 🤌 I am tweeting this because, I had once tried working on webRTC and exactly know how challenging building was.
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Yesterday I was introducing one of my close friends to web3. He told, "arey how can I trust these tokens, if internet goes down these have no value". I told, "this is what your father would have told 15-20 yrs ago buying a computer when there was no consistent electricity".
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@aakanksha_uday Growth comes at a cost for many people—they are in a race. It's an imaginary competition, like collecting badges. It's an echo chamber that many have been part of since they were 15 or 16, driven by a scarcity mindset. If you want to make genuine friends, find people from
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Today I joined the @delightchathq tribe!! 🥳 Looking forward to building cool stuff with the awesome and accomodating team! It all started with a cold Twitter DM and a long elaborate email (without a resume). Thanks to @sankalpjonna and @hipreetam93 for being so welcoming🙈😇
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... yes with internet everything is accessible, but a lot of them don't know how to navigate through it yet, to learn something on own. This was one of the stories from pre-covid days where once in 3-4 months I would travel to rural part of Karnataka on weekend! 😇
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So here's an update!! 🥳 Everything got delivered today morning! Went and finished the set-up for the PC at their home. Thank you so much Twitter Fam, it wouldn't be possible without you guys 🙏🙏
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Thought of booking a hotel room for a breakfast and some nap in Shirdi. (Woke up at 4, left at 5am). Found this small tea stall with the cot 30km before Shirdi around 9:15am, stopped here, had Parle - G and tea, hydrated.. and bhaiya moved the cot under the neem tree for me to
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"I landed 3 hrs ago in Bangalore from Mumbai! Idk wtf I am doing here 😂" - @BonoQuak A small get together for founders, creators and builders tonight for dinner from @questbookapp 😌 #web3community
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@sidgunti Beautiful ♥️ hard relate until making into IIT part.. thanks for sharing this.
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3 years
Today @madhavanmalolan asked, what would you like to achieve by end of Jan that would make you happy? And just answering that one ques put off so much weight of my shoulder. And top of all, optimising for happiness 😌♥️
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Writing this before I crash to sleep tonight. I have been spending a lot of time in silence (70-80% of my day). Only 3 goals for each day. Sleep on time, wake up early and go play tennis. Laying the building blocks for next phase of life.
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It's so humbling listening to her, every single time! Literally the founding figures of the Bangalore tech scene! Thank you @BeerBicepsGuy for doing this! 🙏
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... at the end of the workshop I usually give some chocolates to students for asking questions, building things on own and learning something new on the internet during those 3 days. And I had to give one to Usha Ma'am as well! She had the best app by the end of the workshop 😇.
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5 years
Thanks to @YuvaFund for organizing this Meetup! Amazing evening around amazing people with great discussion!
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Catching sunrises 😌♥️
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... I did this to fund my expenses during college days, I genuinely loved traveling and interacting with new people and sharing my knowledge with them. If you're from tech industry and have knowledge to share, do try contacting colleges in rural parts of the state...
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Just checked with BBMP helpline. There are around 30 normal beds available right now. 1. ESI hospital Indiranagar, 12 normal beds 2. General Hospital KR puram, 10 beds 3. General Hospital Anekal, 10 beds. Verified at 5:30 PM, 8th May. @peakbengaluru @MotwaniSuhas
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Hey folks, who are some cool folks from Hyderabad building in Web3.0? Please tag them below or connect with me on DM!! Looking forward to seeing what you're building and if possible, you could show some of your work and knowledge at our upcoming Meet-up!
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You need to pay premium for peace.
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... and throughout the workshop, she sat on that corner system and built apps with students! She had never been to college or had a formal education of CS. But her passion, curiosity and compassion for students at such an age was very admirable...
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I am looking for a freelance UI/UX designer to help me with some design work for an app. Need someone who can share the design in 1-2 weeks time. I am flexible with the budget. Please share some of your work over DM or tag anyone you know below. RT for reach please 🙏
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Okay so it's almost been over 24hrs while this tweet went viral. Didn't expect this. And I had mentioned 200 RTs mainly because I wanted people to poke into the idea and bring out the pitfalls. Those who are new here! Hello!! And DW this is not a "web3" solution,yet.. Contd.
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Bengaluru tech folks, What if we had open-source Alternative for Ola and Uber app? Where drivers and customer only pay for maintenance and server costs. No margin games. If this tweet gets 200 retweets, I might actually sketch a plan to make this happen.
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It has been 6 months @delightchathq and what a journey it has been so far! 😌 So thought of documenting this journey on how it started, how it's going, what are the new things I learnt and what is it like working at an early stage start-up. <A Thread 🧵>
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Yesterday, one of my close friend got her first salary and another got her dream job as a designer. Have seen both of them struggle through a lot, finally seeing them get what they truly deserve being female in this industry, gave me goosebumps ♥️
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.. So If you're coming across this first time or don't know me, I was a final year student then.. and since 2nd yr of college.. I taught Android app dev to my friends and got invited to rural parts of Karnataka to share some of my learnings...
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So the project name is going to be "Luru Cab" inspired from Benga"luru". I will try my best to bring this project to life. This project is going to be open-source, I will be sharing the whole journey here in public. Even if it makes it or not. Contd.
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... this is one way you can help tier 2-3 level cities of our country. A lot of them lack the exposure. They just don't know what to find where. You can show them a path....
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Evening in Aurangabad ♥️😌
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Delhi!! 🥳🚀
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Do you know any freelance photographer/videographer in Bangalore? For documenting our Bangalore meet-up. Please tag them or connect me with them 🙏
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Don't know where to start? Don't know what's the all hype around web3.0? Come with your silly, stupid and difficult questions to this meet-up, our team at @questbookapp will help you get started in this journey 😌 Registration link:
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Gate crashed Private bollywood party yesterday at Apple store.. didn't know it was private. Only when AR Rahman walked in, I was like shit! We are not supposed to be here. 😂 One of the wildest evenings of my life with @BonoQuak
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🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳 on the scene baby!!!
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der lagi lekin, meine ab hai jeena seekh liya 😌
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2 years
Next 5 yrs of my life I want to dedicate towards achieving excellence in whatever I do. I am having hard time defining the winning parameter for achieving excellence. When do I know, I have arrived? I want to figure that out, how would you define excellence in anything?
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I feel grateful that I have discovered people in my life, who actually casually check up on me, if I enter a sudden state of isolation.. or tweet/write something which they can connect dots with. It's a beautiful life ♥️😌
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If your parents did these 3, be very grateful: 1. Lived/worked in tier 1 city (India) 2. Got you a good education until undergrad (even until 12th). 3. Left you to live your life debt free. Even with 22 years on the card, your life is still like fresh cake out of the hot oven.
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