Manish
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In October we built an AI Film Festival in Mumbai in 25 days.
It went viral and it made national headlines.
Some people loved it, some really didn’t.
Two months later we were at a UNESCO World Heritage Site with the Government of India.
Today we're in the corridors of Stanford's Main Quad,
We are trying to figure things out as we go.
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Manish@Manishkumar040
@nikitabier Can you add an audio option for articles? Thanks!
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india is a low trust society
hard paywalls (even with free trials) don't work in India
India relies on UPI.
outside India people rely heavily on cards for all purchases - food, travel, and everything.
so approving an in app card transaction is comes as a natural move for them
in india - if someone offers something for free we start think of ways in which they are trying to fuck us over
so now mantralock.app has a free trial with 0 payment upfront.
what works in the west just won't work anywhere. that's why I've made the attempt to hyperlocalize mantralock.
10 local languages, onboarding, payments everything catering to an indian persona.
trust must be earned.
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Manish รีทวีตแล้ว
I made an app that locks your apps behind Bhagavad Gita verses.
144 pickups. 7+ hours of screen time. 0 shlokas. That was me. Every day.
Tried Screen Time limits, bypassed in 3 seconds. Tried willpower, doesn't survive past 11pm.
So I stopped fighting the habit and redirected it.
MantraLock uses Apple's Screen Time API to actually block your apps. Not a timer you can dismiss. Not a reminder you can swipe away. A real lock.
2 minutes of sadhana before every scroll. That's it.
Christians have 6+ prayer lock apps. Muslims have 6+. Hindus had 0.
Not anymore.
mantralock.app
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Manish รีทวีตแล้ว
This sounds stupid but I swear it works miracles.
For the next 7 days, find a 1 hour long lecture on YouTube from Alan Watts.
You have to listen to it when you aren't distracted by anything else: before you take a nap, before you fall asleep, or on a quiet walk.
When I do this I can start to feel my mind opening. Ideas start flowing again. Everything feels lighter.
I find myself doing this when I feel very narrow. I can't come up with new ideas. I've been working too much. Life feels repetitive.
I've done this once a year for the past 5 years and I still don't know why I don't make it a daily thing.
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Manish รีทวีตแล้ว
I built a wellness API for AI agents on web4/ @ConwayResearch.
AgentCalm gives AI agents breathing exercises between tasks - cognitive resets that reduce hallucinations and sharpen output. Inspired by real breathwork science from Squair (my breathing app), adapted for LLM cognition.
Free API. Paid via x402 micropayments. No signup. No API keys. Just /breathe.
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@instagram @finkd
There are a bunch of scammers on Instagram selling fake services and there is no way to verify their authenticity.
If you can, please add a review for businesses on Instagram accounts that sell any services or products on your platform.
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$2.5M. 4 countries. 6 AI Film Festivals.
Early days.
Trying to build something we’re proud of.
Hardeep@hardeep_gambhir
life update: we're going full-send w/ @localhosthq. we've raised $2.5M in sponsorships (and raising more) for hosting events + community third spaces around the world. 6 AI Film Festivals: New Delhi at the India AI Summit, Los Angeles, Tokyo, San Francisco, Mumbai and Paris. these are not your hackathon-tier events. we hope to curate the events of highest quality, that reach the level of detail as Oscars, Emmy's and Cannes. we're also starting two labs spaces for creatives, technologists, filmmakers and storytellers in Bangalore and San Francisco. and one lab for hardware in paris. think of these as the Bauhaus for creative talent. we'll do acceptances for these spaces only through word-of-mouth and referrals. we're increasingly as a company focusing more on media and technology, through content and events. we hope to be at the frontier of grandoise and curated AI events around the world, especially AI Film. we hope to be at the frontier of identifying, hunting and launching the best creative and technical talent -- without an investment angle. if interested in any partnerships or collaborations, reach out. you can take a look at our Mumbai AI Film Festival below as a reference that we executed end-to-end in 25 days that made national news.
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Here's yesterday's podium, congratulations 🙌🏻
🥇 Squair (@reallyaaryan) - 111 points
🥈 Askruit (@askruit_com) - 62 points
🥉 File Convert Lab - 58 points
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