Aloka Gunasekara

Views, personal. Bore people on startups, innovation and entrepreneurship for a living. Worrier. Bringer of lightbulb💡moments.

[Aloka Gunasekara @alokag]

@yudhanjaya I’d probably try a concrete structure and rammed earth walls when I build something. You’re absolutely right about architects and structural engineers not wanting to try. Ideally some org like NBRO should do research on this.

[Aloka Gunasekara @alokag]

@yudhanjaya I was excited when you wanted to experiment with earth bags. I’ve always wanted to build with rammed earth and yours was the closest I’ve seen in Sri Lanka. I’ve seen quite a few rammed earth buildings in India, Kerala mostly, and also in Nepal.

[Aloka Gunasekara @alokag]

@dimitarangg Claude

[Aloka Gunasekara @alokag]

@kriticalvodka මොකෝ උඹ කින්ඩියට හිනා වෙන්නෙ? උඹත් රට පැනල ඉන්නෙ අල්ලන් යයි කියල නේ? ඉදපං කියන්නං මං.

[Aloka Gunasekara @alokag]

@victorcardenas @base Hey Victor, much needed service for quite a lot of countries. Unfortunately Persona phone number isn’t working- at least for me - in Sri Lanka. Would be mighty grateful if you can have someone look at it.

[Aloka Gunasekara @alokag]

@kriticalvodka කියපං. අපි හරි ලියන්නම් මොකවත්. උඹයි අර තඩි අන්දරේයි දෙන්නම එකයි.

[Aloka Gunasekara @alokag]

@kriticalvodka මේ නෙවිල්. මොනවහරි වැදගත් දෙයක් ලියපංකො. අන්තිමට අර ReadMe කඩමාල්ල update කරල තියෙන්නෙ අප්‍රේල් අග.

[Aloka Gunasekara @alokag]

Shots fired!

[Chamara Peiris @chamara]

The worst part of the startup world?

Wrong people leading the ecosystem.
People who’ve never built, advising those who are building.
No skin in the game. Just buzzwords and panels.

Founders deserve better.

Are we listening to the right voices?

#startups #ecosystem #entrepreneurs

[Aloka Gunasekara @alokag]

@isurusiri @chamara I do agree that some startups need funding.

[Aloka Gunasekara @alokag]

@isurusiri @chamara You should try it. It has lowered my opex and capex by a massive margin. Don’t consider AI as a silver bullet. But in many use cases, it just works and have heavily reduced my talent reliance.

[Aloka Gunasekara @alokag]

@isurusiri @chamara In this day and age, if you have all this, why would you raise money at all? Pay $20 to Cursor, use an LLM on API if needed and do it yourself. Getting to revenue on your own terms is a better option than waiting for an investor to make their mind. 🤷🏽‍♂️

[Aloka Gunasekara @alokag]

@std_err I’ve been looking for something like this. Let me try it and get back to you with some feedback. Should I use a lightweight LLM like in LM Studio as the base or can I straightaway use an OpenAI key or any other key?

[Aloka Gunasekara @alokag]

@yasas_t @nHiRanZ Ah. True. My bad.

[Aloka Gunasekara @alokag]

@kriticalvodka @nHiRanZ අපෝ නෑ. බල්ලා තමයි topic එක. 😌

[Aloka Gunasekara @alokag]

@nHiRanZ @kriticalvodka එල. එල. ආපු ගමන්ම බල්ලෙක්ව හොයා ගන්න එක තමයි පොඩ්ඩක් ෂැක. මොක උනත් දැන් බදින වයසෙ එකෙක්නෙ. හ්ම්ම්...

[Aloka Gunasekara @alokag]

@kriticalvodka ඈ යකෝ. රටේ ඉපදුනා නම් ඉන්න පුළුවන් කියලා කිව්වා නේද? උඹල මස්කය්යව report කළා ද?

[Aloka Gunasekara @alokag]

@harshap Are the QR payments enabled as well? I think this is a good place to start that.