Vardhman Jain

Nothing in life is permanent. Pain is temporary. Success is temporary too. If life is going exceptionally well for a long time, it's easy to lose the ability to handle stress and uncertainty. Pain, in the right measure, builds resilience and prepares you for difficult seasons. But when pain lingers without relief, it can turn into overthinking and anxiety. The goal isn't to chase comfort or suffering , it's to find the balance that helps you grow.

@AnomalistG @sahilk @DietPravda Indian roasters: QBF, Blue tokai, Fraction 9, Ground zero International: I am part of the coffeevine group, so it's easier to order since they handle customs and shipping.

@lightroastguy @sahilk @DietPravda Damn! Those beans look very interesting. What’s your favourite place to order beans from?

Good brewing session yesterday with @sahilk and @dietpravda

@manisha_kat @OnyxCoffeeLab Sharing a very interesting recipe for kalita: youtube.com/watch?v=cFlTVA…

dnd i’m enjoying my peach juice

@anshu We need to meet anshu and taste these coffees :)

@lightroastguy Noticed a couple of times when the concentrate is more than a week old and that too in an americano, milk based are very forgiving.

It takes a bold move to remove the espresso machine from your coffee bar. That's exactly what Project Zero in Melbourne has done. In a city where it's genuinely hard to find bad coffee, they've replaced the traditional setup with pre-batched espresso on Linkbar, automated milk texturing for consistency, and coffee served in ~20 seconds. This has been the same thesis in my head since 2024: if you're primarily selling drinks like Vietnamese iced coffee or Spanish lattes, do you really need an espresso machine at all? The future isn't about removing quality. It's about questioning which parts of the process actually create it.

@anshu this is amazing, do you see any sourness after few days?

@lightroastguy Nowadays, I sometimes pull a week's worth of espresso in one go and freeze it for iced Americanos or milk based iced drinks. It's incredibly convenient, and there's barely any perceptible change in taste. Hot beverages is another matter.

I started taking my health seriously once I realised that a founder's life is all about hustle, overthinking, constant pressure, and tension. There is no finish line to it. I also wanted to focus on my mental health and work towards tapering off antidepressants. What helped me was getting back to running with a community like @cubbon_run (thanks to @ektasawant77 for introducing me to it and giving me the push I needed). I decided to take running seriously in 2025. Now, in 2026, I've built a tiny ecosystem of habits that don't depend on any external stakeholders and contribute directly to my mental and physical health: a. Running + walking b. Strength training c. Meditation d. Reading e. Water intake I don't compromise on these unless I'm unwell. I'm solely responsible for showing up for them. I also track them using simple habit tracker cards, which help me stay consistent and keep an eye on my progress.

If you’re a founder or work in a startup, you should know- no one cares about you. Not your employees. Not your investors. Not your customers. Not your insurance. Not your team members. Nobody. Everyone will pretend because they want something from you. But if you stop caring about yourself, you’re screwed. Your priority should be to work on your health- both physical and mental. Just the way you work on your startup. Else there will be no coming back. The number of people who have earned so much and are leaving it all to fix what’s broken is mind boggling. Your ability to bounce back when things don’t work is a bigger status symbol than your valuation or esops. You are the greatest project you’ll ever work on.

@janwhyy For first point, we use just deliveries for all our b2b orders and cafe dispatch. Do check it out.

if you’re good at what you do, actually deliver on time, and don’t ghost after 4 conversations, I am looking for you: 1. A delivery partner. we have our own warehouse, just need someone who can actually get the product from there to the customer without losing it somewhere in between. fast turnaround, high accuracy, support that responds. if you’ve worked with one you love or one you’d never touch again, both useful. 2.someone who does curated PR boxes. gifting businesses work too. if you can do perishable goods for Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore with same day or next day local delivery, even better. 3.a video editor who gets social. 30-60 second reels from raw clips. we’ve been through three editors already. one delivered unusable work. one ghosted after 4 videos. third couldn’t stay consistent. I am tired. email everything to janhavi@skipd.in with “DELIVERY PARTNER” or “PR BOX” or “VIDEO EDITOR” in the subject line. Please rt for good karma

@AggyAbhishek Hahaha , good to know :)

@lightroastguy Been a user for a few months sir. :) Helps for sure. Bharat has to deal with my unrelenting stream of inputs sadly for him. 😅

need a human personal ai manager for my life to get all this shit sorted out

@coachsnehaa Hybrid 3 days running and 3 days strength

Running won’t do the heavy lifting in the long run.

Hearing absolutely opposite from founders: seed stage getting tough, expectations is series A/B metrics with solid unit economics. Hot sectors still: QC for anything or AI. Cautious capital available, interest more towards series B plus companies.

@Sonalomania @JassilJamal Uengage: connects with POS, WhatsApp re-engagement, online ordering and payments, deliveries, birthday reminders,ratings data.

@JassilJamal Reelo is more loyalty and marketing than CRM, as far as I know. They are available as an add on in our POS but unfortunately they don’t fulfil the need we have. Thank you for the recommendation, though.

Any suggestions for a good CRM software for a bakery and patisserie business? Done with Excel and Google Sheets.

@Sonalomania Uengage

@lightroastguy Sorted for billing. We require it for prompts on customer birthdays, special days etc.

@speakingofarpit @harsh6363

looking for a performance marketing consultant/agency, dm if you have any leads TIA

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” — Albert Camus “Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.” — Chuang-Tzu