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client wanted the same explainer video in EN/ES/HI/PT. ran the english cut through 6 tools, graded on lip-sync quality, voice match, render time, breakage on fast cuts, and price.

1/ sync.so. best mouth quality, holds up on close-ups and fast cam. winner by a lot.

2/ HeyGen. fine for talking head only. side angles fall apart.

3/ D-ID. better for avatars than real footage.

4/ Rask. transcription is solid, lip-sync is the weak link.

5/ wav2lip self-hosted.

6/ premiere auto-dub. just no.

the combo that actually shocked me: elevenlabs for voice clone + sync.so for the lip-sync pass. spanish output looked native.

What is your stack?

planning the dining + crockery unit for our place and stuck on finish choice. crockery cabinet specifically gets opened 10+ times a day, guests, kids, everyone reaching for plates and glasses.

saw a bunch of high-gloss samples at a couple of showrooms last weekend (royale touche, century). under the spotlights they look unreal, depth, sheen, premium feel. but the more i think about it, the more i'm worried about how it'll behave in actual home lighting with daily fingerprint smudges.

would love brand + finish recos if you remember.

Got my first internship paycheck and the first thing i wanted to do was get my mom something. She never asks for anything ever, always outs everyone else first. So i just wanted to do something for her.

Got her a name necklace with all our names on it. The moment she opened it she just started crying. Didn't even say anything for like a full minute. Then hug me, says i am proud of you and put it on immediately and hasn't taken it off since.

I think it wasnt even about the gift it was just knowing i thought of her when I get my first paycheck. But i really liked how she reacts make me realise how important i am to her.

Is this a universal thing?

He's 62. Used to print 40-page documents and highlight them with a pen. Now he forwards them to a whatsapp ai (wingman by emergent) I set up for him and types "main points only, simple english."

Last week he forwarded:

• his health insurance renewal terms
• a 27-page society maintenance notice
• a lawyer's email with three attachments

A random forwarded chain message (he asked it to fact-check 💀). He's faster at this stuff than I am now. Calls it "my assistant" with full confidence. Showed his friends group. Three of them are using it too.

The boomer-to-ai pipeline is real and it's running on whatsapp because that's the only app they trust.

Currently doing my MBA and getting 30-40 profile views a week. no idea if that's terrible or normal, linkedin never gives you any context for the number.

For context: MBA student, applying for summer internships in product/strategy, profile is filled out, open-to-work toggle on (private mode), posting maybe twice a month. Is 30 low? what are y'all at, especially other MBA folks in active recruiting? Trying to figure out if i need to actually fix something or just chill.

Also curious about the OTW toggle. mine ticked up a bit when i flipped it on but less than i expected.

Drop your weekly number if comfortable, trying to get a real benchmark for this cycle.

edit to add later: ran my profile through careerflow's free linkedin scorer this weekend out of curiosity. flagged 6 things i hadn't thought about, mostly headline + about section. views jumped to ~65 this week after the fixes. too early to call but interesting.

Currently doing my MBA from masters union and getting 30-40 profile views a week. no idea if that's terrible or normal, linkedin never gives you any context for the number.

For context: MBA student, applying for summer internships in product/strategy, profile is filled out, open-to-work toggle on (private mode), posting maybe twice a month. Is 30 low? what are y'all at, especially other MBA folks in active recruiting? Trying to figure out if i need to actually fix something or just chill.

Also curious about the OTW toggle. mine ticked up a bit when i flipped it on but less than i expected.

Drop your weekly number if comfortable, trying to get a real benchmark for this cycle.

ran my profile through careerflow's free linkedin scorer this weekend out of curiosity. flagged 6 things i hadn't thought about, mostly headline + about section. views jumped to ~65 this week after the fixes. too early to call but interesting.

so i am going on a fourth date with my crush. but this time i am thinking to go with a gift.

i want to get her a name necklace as a gift because she once mentioned she's been wanting to buy one for herself. thought this is the perfect chance to actually get it for her before she does lol.

i just want something simple and nice that she can wear daily, cause ig she loves being simple and casual. so something that matches her personality.

now i am confused which and where to buy? i mean, can you pls recommend where to buy? i liked a cute necklace from theograce and the brand also feels awesome by reviews and all, but i don't know.

also i loved the golden color necklace but I saw she wears, silver ring, silver earings but i feels she will look nice in the golden color necklace. so what should I do?? 😭

Before i started my masters, for internships my old workflow: open linkedin, find someone, guess their email, tweak a mail for their company, attach resume, send, log in a sheet. repeat. 1-2 hours a day, easy. now i scroll linkedin, send names + company to a whatsapp ai (wingman by emergent) i set up, and it does the rest.

Figures out the email format from the company domain, drafts the mail with my master template, attaches my resume, sends, logs it in a tracker sheet. also tracks who replied and pings me to follow up.

i just forward profiles in between classes now. 2 replies in the first week, more than i got in a month of doing it the manual way. if you're a student grinding summer apps, set up something like this. genuinely the one thing i've stuck with.

Visited an interior showroom recently and saw Royale Touche veneers for the first time. Honestly, the finishes looked genuinely premium and a lot more natural than the usual veneer samples I’ve seen around.

Would love honest opinions from people who’ve used it in their homes?

Visited an interior showroom recently and saw Royale Touche veneers for the first time. Honestly, the finishes looked genuinely premium and a lot more natural than the usual veneer samples I’ve seen around.

Would love honest opinions from people who’ve used it in their homes?

Doing chennai, madurai, pondi for 2 weeks next month. Don't want to be that person who just says vanakkam and calls it a day. Been learning airlearn tamil for a few weeks so the basics are locked in. But apps only get you so far, I want the stuff locals actually use day to day.

Like how a foreigner saying "kya scene hai" in delhi instantly gets warmer reactions than textbook hindi. That kind of thing but for tamil.

Specifically: complimenting food without sounding google translated or maybe politely declining shop owners.

Also open to slang that won't accidentally make me rude, and that one phrase that always makes tamil speakers smile when an outsider uses it.

nandri :)

The early internet used to feel geographically alive. I was reading this in swati ganeti(md @ masters union) newsletter that you could often tell if someone was from India, Tumblr, Reddit, Twitter, gaming forums, or 2010s Facebook just from how they typed. Every corner of the internet had its own weird rhythm, slang, grammar, and personality.

Now a huge amount of online writing is starting to sound the same: polished, structured, emotionally neutral, and AI-assisted. Same sentence flow. Same formatting. Same “clean” tone.

Feels like the internet is slowly losing its accents.

Yoo guys, we’re trying a weird live show called “PPT Kidhar Hai?”

basically: people make funny/unserious presentations about their life, work, career confusion, startup delusion, emotional damage, linkedin behavior, etc.

not stand-up comedy. Definitely not a big boring lecture.

just people presenting nonsense very seriously.

5 minute PPTs. small audience. probably diet coke.

looking for:

• presenters
• audiences (free entry)

- cafes/coworking spaces willing to host chaos

Checkout website link in the comments for more info and if this sounds stupid enough to attend, dm me 🤧

Yoo guys, we’re trying a weird live show called “PPT Kidhar Hai?”

basically: people make funny/unserious presentations about their life, work, career confusion, startup delusion, emotional damage, linkedin behavior, etc.

not stand-up comedy. Definitely not a big boring lecture.

just people presenting nonsense very seriously.

5 minute PPTs. small audience. probably diet coke.

looking for:

• presenters
• audiences (free entry)
• cafes/coworking spaces willing to host chaos

Check out google drive in comments for more info and if this sounds stupid enough to attend, dm me 🤧

Studying at masters union and planning a birthday thing for around 10 people soon. looking for places near cyber park / cyber hub with good vibe + not insanely loud so people can actually talk 😭 open to rooftop places, bars, clubs…

Please send some reccos.

like you barely notice it. clicked continue with Google once and I was inside immediately, For something like gofundme imagine someone wanting to donate and then getting stuck resetting a password lol they’ll probably just leave..

feels like companies underestimate how important auth speed is until they scale, especially consumer apps.

How is it this fast?

I used to think my resume was weak because i wasn’t using the right tools. turns out the actual problem was that i genuinely could not answer: “what changed because you were there?” most of my bullets were things like:

1/ managed social media

2/ helped with reporting

3/ worked on outreach

which is basically just another way of saying “i had a job”. the biggest resume improvement i made was starting to ask “so what?” after every line. managed social media → so what? helped with reporting → so what? and that’s where the real bullet usually is.I resume checkers are useful for spotting weak points and fix it.

Tools like Careerflow or AI resume checkers are useful for spotting weak points and fix it.

So what worked for you?

I used to think my resume was weak because i wasn’t using the right tools. turns out the actual problem was that i genuinely could not answer: “what changed because you were there?” most of my bullets were things like:

1/ managed social media

2/ helped with reporting

3/ worked on outreach

which is basically just another way of saying “i had a job”. the biggest resume improvement i made was starting to ask “so what?” after every line. managed social media → so what? helped with reporting → so what? and that’s where the real bullet usually. tools like Careerflow or AI resume checkers are useful for spotting weak points and fix it.

So what worked for you?