u/Pretend_Shelter_1906

As part of my curriculum at tetr college, i built a business, small thing on the side that's started making money.

my last "off" day was in august. I remember bc i went to the beach and felt guilty by 2pm and opened my laptop at 4. since then it's been: wake up, classes, work, sleep at 2, repeat. weekends are just weekdays with no classes.

the weird part is i don't feel burnt out in the obvious way. im not crying or anything. im just. flat. food tastes less interesting. friends ask how im doing and i genuinely don't have an answer. messages pile up for 3 days before i reply. my mom asked if im depressed last week and i said no but i didn't sound convincing.

every founder podcast says this is the price. grind szn. you sleep when you're dead. etc..

ppl who've been here, which was it for you?

few years back a spanish or korean show breaking globally needed a perfect storm. parasite, squid game, money heist. the actual bottleneck was almost always the dub. english audiences would try ep 1, see mouths not match, bounce out. AI lip-sync tools fixed that.

elevenlabs, sync.so and others reanimate mouths frame by frame to match dub audio. saw this in berlin S2 last week, S1 dub was rough and S2 dub is genuinely watchable. same show, different pipeline somewhere.

prediction: within 24 months 'foreign show' stops being a viewer-friction category on the big streamers. spanish, korean, hindi, japanese all dropping with native-feeling dubs day one.

Opens up massive content libraries that have been locked behind subs for years.

As I was in India for my last term at Tetr College, I flew to blr last month for a yc startup school. landed, took the metro from kempegowda to indiranagar. ~50rs. Same distance on delhi metro? 20-25 max.

did the math later. namma metro is roughly 2-3x the per km cost of delhi metro. For a city where half the population is already broke from rent, this feels insane.

Delhi Metro is partly indian country govt funded which keeps fares low. namma metro is mostly state + loans so they're recovering costs from riders directly.

end result: tech bros take uber. metro stays empty-ish. defeats the whole point.

blr ppl, how are you actually commuting? is everyone just eating the cab cost or is there a hack i missed?

As I was in India for my last term at Tetr College, I flew to blr last month for a yc startup school. landed, took the metro from kempegowda to indiranagar. ~50rs. Same distance on delhi metro? 20-25 max.

did the math later. namma metro is roughly 2-3x the per km cost of delhi metro. For a city where half the population is already broke from rent, this feels insane.

Delhi Metro is partly indian country govt funded which keeps fares low. namma metro is mostly state + loans so they're recovering costs from riders directly.

end result: bangalore tech bros take uber. metro stays empty-ish. defeats the whole point.

blr ppl, how are you actually commuting? is everyone just eating the cab cost or is there a hack i missed?

Course is in english i confirmed twice, but i'll be there for a month. groceries, ordering food at restaurants, metro, weekend trips to lyon maybe. so daily interactions with strangers outside the course. A few questions:

1/ is the "parisians hate you if you dont try french" thing actually real or is it reddit folklore.

2/ how much french can you realistically pick up in 3-4 weeks? i did it back in middle school but not practised since. recently started airlearn 15 mins a day, can do greetings, basic food stuff now but no clue if that scales

3/ survival phrases i absolutely need beyond hello/thanks/bathroom. like the actual stuff that comes up at a pharmacy or boulangerie

4/ is using google translate openly rude

im not trying to become fluent. just dont want to be that guy who only points and smiles for 4 weeks straight.

merci in advance!

Course is in english i confirmed twice, but i'll be there for a month. groceries, ordering food at restaurants, metro, weekend trips to lyon maybe. so daily interactions with strangers outside the course. A few questions:

1/ is the "parisians hate you if you dont try french" thing actually real or is it reddit folklore.

2/ how much french can you realistically pick up in 3-4 weeks? i did it back in middle school but not practised since. recently started airlearn 15 mins a day, can do greetings, basic food stuff now but no clue if that scales

3/ survival phrases i absolutely need beyond hello/thanks/bathroom. like the actual stuff that comes up at a pharmacy or boulangerie

4/ is using google translate openly rude

im not trying to become fluent. just dont want to be that guy who only points and smiles for 4 weeks straight.

merci in advance!

As a foreign student at Tetr College, I was in India for a while. I don’t think people here realize how insane the Delhi Metro actually is.

The connectivity is ridiculous. You can go anywhere to everywhere😭

And compared to a lot of countries, this level of public transport is genuinely impressive. It makes the city feel way more accessible, especially if you don’t own a car.

Obviously it gets crowded and chaotic at times, but still… the fact that millions use it daily and it reaches almost everywhere is kind of amazing.

The only improvement it needs is better food carts inside the metro station.

Been seeing a lot of AI lip-sync/edit videos recently where creators make celebrities or movie scenes say completely different things with AI dubbing/lipsync tools like Sync.so or elevenlabs.

Do channels like this actually get monetized consistently? Or does YouTube flag it as reused/manipulated content?

I have a few short videos and I want to sync the mouth movements properly to different audio tracks. Mostly looking for something that looks natural and not super uncanny/robotic. Doesn’t have to be perfect Hollywood quality, just believable enough for social content.

What tools are people using right now for this?

At Tetr college rn and I just realized most of my conversations now sound like:

1/ “bro I slept at 4”

2/ “bro I haven’t eaten properly”

3/ “bro I’m running on caffeine”

4/ “bro I have 19 tabs open”

And somehow we say all this like it’s an achievement 😭 Feels like startup culture quietly turned exhaustion into lore.

At what point does “locked in” just become being unhealthy?

At Tetr college rn and I just realized most of my conversations now sound like:

1/ “bro I slept at 4”

2/ “bro I haven’t eaten properly”

3/ “bro I’m running on caffeine”

4/ “bro I have 19 tabs open”

And somehow we say all this like it’s an achievement 😭 Feels like startup culture quietly turned exhaustion into lore. At what point does “locked in” just become being unhealthy?

i’m at Tetr college, so every 4-6 months i’ll probably be in a different country (for the next few yrs) and i’ve started realising a normal “student card” setup probably won’t survive airport/lounge/forex life 😭 lowkey thinking if it makes sense to get a proper premium travel card early itself instead of upgrading later.

main things i care about:

1/ lounge access

2/ low/zero forex

3/ points that are actually useful internationally

4/ works reliably abroad

Suggest me something please.

i’m at Tetr college of business, so every 4-6 months i’ll probably be in a different country and i’ve started realising a normal “student card” setup probably won’t survive airport/lounge/forex life 😭 lowkey thinking if it makes sense to get a proper premium travel card early itself instead of upgrading later.

main things i care about:

1/ lounge access

2/ low/zero forex

3/ points that are actually useful internationally

4/ works reliably abroad

Suggest me something please.

At this point my Chrome tabs are basically a live representation of my brain 😭 I’m a student founder at Tetr so it’s constantly, assignments, startup stuff, client work, random research, internship tabs, AI tools, decks I’ll “read later”, 14 tabs related to one idea I forgot already etccc.

And somehow every tab feels important enough to not close. What’s funny is having this many tabs almost feels productive. Like: “look how much I’m working on”

But realistically, I think my brain is just context-switching itself into destruction 💀

Wdyt, how are u solving this problem?

At this point my Chrome tabs are basically a live representation of my brain 😭 I’m a student founder at Tetr so it’s constantly assignments, startup stuff, client work, random research, internship tabs, AI tools, decks I’ll “read later”, 14 tabs related to one idea I forgot already etccc.

And somehow every tab feels important enough to not close. What’s funny is having this many tabs almost feels productive. Like: “look how much I’m working on”

But realistically, I think my brain is just context-switching itself into destruction 💀

Wdyt, how are u solving this problem?

HOOKd founder Dia Goel came to Tetr College for a talk about consumer behavior and it genuinely made me reflect, most startup ideas sound good in theory. But Indian consumers are weirdly contradiction-driven. People say, healthy food and then order burgers at 1am.

People say, support local brands and still buy, whatever delivers fastest. Feels like a lot of founders build for opinions instead of actual habits.

What’s another industry where you think this gap is huge?

I am constantly around startup-focused people at my college (I am at Tetr college of business) all the time, kinda made me realize there are probably a lot more interesting founder programs out there beyond just YC.

Everyone online talks about YC like it’s the holy grail, but most student founders are still super early and can't make the cut; they're mainly looking for:

• smart people
• real building experience
• mentorship
• distribution/network
• maybe funding eventually

What are some genuinely good alternatives or adjacent programs?

could be fellowships, startup schools, residencies, student incubators, founder communities, etc.

I am constantly around startup-focused people at my college (I am at Tetr college of business) all the time, kinda made me realize there are probably a lot more interesting founder programs out there beyond just YC.

Everyone online talks about YC like it’s the holy grail, but most student founders are still super early and can't make the cut; they're mainly looking for:

• smart people
• real building experience
• mentorship
• distribution/network
• maybe funding eventually

What are some genuinely good alternatives or adjacent programs?

could be fellowships, startup schools, residencies, student incubators, founder communities, etc.