u/StockRude1419

With 3 yrs workex, dono mein se soch raha hu.

ISB 1 saal, Masters union 16 months, dono technically PGP/certificate hai, fees around the same range. ISB ka game bhi similar hai but thoda purana hai toh huge alumni network hai.

Masters union startup focus interesting lag raha hain. but kam proof wale ko prefer karne ki bhi solid wajah honi chahiye na?

I had a weird realization recently. When I was younger, Diet Coke always seemed like something people drank because they were dieting or trying to cut calories. But now I know plenty of people (including myself) who automatically order it with lunch, dinner, at the movies, on road trips, etc.

At some point, it stopped being a diet product and just became the default drink.

Wdyt?

I have been doing this on the side since feb. I made mini apps and a website for these: a salon, a gym, 2 freelancers, a dental clinic, a small d2c brand, couple other personal brands. Trust me - just take whatever they give because it'll take just $20/mo lolol.

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Honestly the apps i built were nothing major, same framework with little customization.

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1/ booking + reminder tools. every service biz wants this, low complexity, they pay happily

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2/ internal dashboards replacing 4 excel sheets. instant wow in the demo

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3/ invoice generators for the india crowd (gst built in)

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what broke / what i underestimated:

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1/ the moment they want whatsapp integration, the scope explodes [whatsapp api is brutal]

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2/ non-technical owners change requirements 5x after seeing v1

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shipped most of these on emergent (ui + backend + db in one pass) which is the only reason 10 was even possible solo.

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I know im building the same booking tool everytime, but it’s still making decent money so im not complaining lol.

Parents are pushing ashoka, the whole "broader thinking, world class faculty, you'll find yourself" pitch. and ngl on paper it sounds beautiful but masters union ppl seem more career-set out of college, jobs and biz etcc.

anyone whos been thru either side - can liberal arts help me get into business / entrepreneurship as much as a business focused university?

My friend is in final yr BCOM also prepping for CFA, they’re looking at one of these pgp in capital markets/trading programs at masters union. curriculum mentions algo trading, derivatives, quant stuff etc. The most ‘quant’ thing they’ve done is buy stocks in the open market, i know for sure 😭​

Does this program make sense for a complete noob?

I am in the middle of redoing my profile, been staring at the headline for an hour. Saw the same old format, passionate problem solver, SE @ x company, currently building xyz etc etc.

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would love to see what you've actually written + whether it changed anything (inbound recruiter dms, profile views, search rank).

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ill start. mine rn: "backend engineer | scaling 0→1 fintech products". feedback welcome, brutal preferred.

Built in 3 days of moderate effort. It was a simple "send them a thank-you note when someone signs up" widget for newsletter writers. Emergent credits cost me $14, sold to 3 people at $15/mo each.

month 1 net: $33 after stripe fees.

Month 2: i added a tier and broke $80.

I’m not expecting to make a living off this. But does this kind of experience compound skill and money-wise?

I reviewed my last 8 interview answers on careerflow ai mock interview yesterday, and weirdly, every one of them was either

1/ their mission statement

2/ "i really admire your work in [thing from their homepage]"

3/ a vague comment about values

In my head the answers were more about their package, their website design, or offsite pics.

What are recruiters actually looking for in an answer to this question?

Pls help if you’re a recruiter or have spoken to one about this

Every time I see someone's setup it looks incredible, has beautiful graph view, perfect note structure and 50 plugins.

And it has those AI agents that will be summarizing everything. Then you check back a few months later and it's basically a digital cemetery. It has thousands of notes with hundreds of highlights and Zero decisions improved because of it.

I'm trying to build something that solves one problem: How do you make ideas come back when they're useful, instead of disappearing forever into storage?

Current thinking:

- Obsidian as the source of truth

- Telegram for frictionless capture via Wingman emergent

- Claude Code handling summarization and connections

- Semantic retrieval instead of folder archaeology

What do u think about this system???

the dumbest part of my job search used to be the saved-jobs sprawl. linkedin had its own list. wellfound a separate one. lever and greenhouse don't even have a saved feature so i was bookmarking them. ended up with 4 tabs and 14 bookmarks and zero clarity on what i'd actually applied to vs just liked.

Using a chrome extension that saves jobs from basically any site into one tracker (real reason: one click on the job page, doesn't matter if it's linkedin or wellfound or a company careers page, all end up in the same view).

Makes the "wait, did i already apply here?" question answerable for the first time in months.

So how u all are doing??

the dumbest part of my job search used to be the saved-jobs sprawl. linkedin had its own list. wellfound a separate one. lever and greenhouse don't even have a saved feature so i was bookmarking them. ended up with 4 tabs and 14 bookmarks and zero clarity on what i'd actually applied to vs just liked.

Using a chrome extension that saves jobs from basically any site into one tracker (real reason: one click on the job page, doesn't matter if it's linkedin or wellfound or a company careers page, all end up in the same view).

Makes the "wait, did i already apply here?" question answerable for the first time in months.

So how u all are doing??