very hot take but i'm sorry
if you're building in india, move out
especially if you're young
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- frontend developers, slide into my dms ๐ plenty of opportunities lined up for yall
- thing is i hate rat races jee ivy league leetcode faang tech jobs i like things which arent as main stream crypto startups bootstrapping this makes my life 10x harder but 100x more interesting i feel now chat is this good or bad
- some threads on tech twitter are so UNREALISTIC. I read a thread which said u can learn javascript in 5 days and nodejs in another 5 days, and once u do that, learn python and django the next day. AAND, there were 48 retweets and 300+ likes๐
- Replying to @roshanpateIim literally gonna copy paste this into linkedin for the lols
- indian teenage boys who follow me need to aim higher and expand their horizons you're worth more than u think figure out leverage & communication and doors will unlock and pls fight with your parents
- Replying to @itspsnehavery easy to go abroad and use those credits in uni if u study in ib plus way better infra in those schools, better circles etc etc i could go on and on as to why ib is worth that cost but i mean it depends, if u can pay that much, u should 100% send ur kids to IB
- aspiring engineer indian teenager alternate to jee > learn to code after school > build public proof of work on twitter > work part time at startups or biz w/multiple clients > earn in usdc ( cuz no payment rail ) > graduate highschool financially independent > take a gap year
- everytime i open linkedin i see this kid my age who's been the founder of his company for 2 years and all he does is raise non dilutive grants again and again i've not seen a single product update or demo and i've even met him irl he just said it's a wip his cofounder and him
- you can live in india comfortably for around 12k usd per year blows my mind few 100k and u have infinite runway to chase whatever you want after this revelation idk what have i been thinking all this while tbh
- so its been 2 weeks since i moved to the US - ubers are fucking expensive - there's so much space between everything - flights are cheap - infrastructure for everything is great - so many homeless ppl - people talk a lot - people work a lot - ABUNDANCE everywhere (esp groceries)
- Replying to @theo @t3dotgg and @ApnaCollegefbthey're not the only one the state of indian dev youtube is horrific this is why many of us tend to stay pseudo and not associate with them lol
- peak locked in phase was 2020-2021 i was just at home locked in 24/7 - no twitter no ig no travel 100s of programming videos, blog posts, stackoverflow pages 1000s of lines of code insane progress on fundamental skills which i monetized in 2022 and 2023 but now im bored
