Vikas Kumar

Software Engineer | Automated System Trader | Curious

[@levelsio @levelsio]

My friend went to an indie hacker meetup this week and said this:

"i went to indie hacker meetup

so what’s really interesting is that almost everyone is super focused on development.

they build these whole spaceships that generate code, review it, make all kinds of reports, analytics, and so on.

one guy built an entire factory: he has a list of ideas, and agents generate the landing page, the saas, the analytics, and pull everything into one dashboard. straight-up sci-fi.

and they focused optimize all of it like crazy.

and you can really see how comfortable that is for them.

but the most interesting part is that almost none of them have money or traffic.

and nobody knows where to get either one.

you often hear something like, yeah, i should probably do on marketing, but first i’ll finish my super system and then i’ll start.

or in best i would need to make agent that will post to instaram automatically

before, the classic programmer would spend a year writing code, tests, preparing for scale in the basement, and not show anything to anyone.

now it’s even worse: the amount of useless aislop nobody needs has grown massively."

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Let me tell you what Scamdev is promoting here as an Ayurvedic treatment in 2026 and calling it health tourism.

For arthritis or some disease of the joints, they have cut the patient and are doing "singi" therapy, which is sucking out blood through a horn-like object placed over the cut area...they believe they are sucking out "bad blood" that will cure chronic illness.

You can actually see the old man (ancient garbage healer) kneeling down and sucking the woman's blood from her knee through the horn.

This is not just negligence, but extremely dangerous because it can spread infections and transmit illness to both the treating sucker and the sucker-punched patient.

Not just that, the video also shows patients poked with multiple needles by quacks, being bled from the back, none of the "therapists" with gloves or other aseptic precautions...
...and Baba is roaming around letting microbes from his unkempt hair and beard settle on the patients whose blood is freely drawn out without any protection.

If this was in any other country, these crooks would be rotting in jail for doing this to patients.

But the Indian government is promoting these batsh*t crazy loonies who claim to be "healers" and giving them civilian awards.

[Prakash Dadlani @prakdadlani]

“You live outside India. Why do you talk so much about India?”

Because India never left me.

Yes, I live in Hongkong.

But my blood, roots and heart are Indian.

That’s why I started a factory in India.

Because I wanted to bring whatever I learned from China back home.

We pay taxes in India.

We employ people in India.

We bring technology and manufacturing knowledge into India.

90% of our business is exports.

That means bringing dollars into India.

Now we are focusing on Indianization.

That means reducing dollars going out.

Maybe I’m not standing on the border with a gun.

But in my own small way, I’m trying to serve the nation economically.

So people can troll all they want.

Doesn’t matter if I’m in Hong Kong, China or anywhere else.

My mission is still India.

And while the haters tweet, we will keep building.

[Options.India @Options_IndiaAB]

I recently spent 2 weeks in China.

6 cities: Shanghai, Beijing, Xi’an, Zhangjiajie, Chongqing and Chengdu.

I went there with curiosity.

Like many Indians, I had heard a lot about China through media, social media and conversations. I expected to see progress, maybe discover some business ideas, and understand what the country is actually building.

I came back with a very uncomfortable feeling.

Not because I found a business idea for myself.

But because I saw 100 things that governments can do when infrastructure, tourism, transport, urban planning and civic systems are treated seriously.

I travelled within China by flights, trains, cars and local transport. The infrastructure was honestly stunning.

Clean cities. Smooth roads. High-speed trains. Well-managed traffic. Public spaces that actually feel designed for people. Tourist destinations that are built, maintained and promoted like national assets.

And then I kept thinking about India.

We keep comparing ourselves to China. Our media keeps telling us how India is catching up, how China is restrictive, how we are better in so many ways.

After spending time there and speaking to people, I realised how much of that narrative is just comfort food.

China is not perfect. No country is.

But on infrastructure, execution, tourism, civic discipline and quality of urban life, they are not 5 years ahead of us.

They are decades ahead.

The saddest part for me was the currency.

Everything felt expensive. Not because China was insanely expensive, but because the rupee has weakened so much that even normal spending starts feeling heavy. As an Indian taxpayer, that genuinely hurt.

We pay taxes. We work hard. We talk about becoming a global power.

But where is the quality of life?

Where is the civic sense?

Where is the infrastructure that makes daily life easier?

Where is the tourism vision beyond religious tourism?

I met travellers from other countries who were excited to visit China because they wanted to see its progress. When I asked about India, many had no real desire to visit. Not out of hate. India simply was not on their aspirational travel list.

That should bother us.

Even the so-called “closed internet” surprised me. We are told people there are missing out because they don’t use Google, Instagram, WhatsApp or Facebook.

But China has built its own digital ecosystem. Payments, maps, transport, messaging, shopping, everything works inside their own infrastructure. People did not seem to feel deprived. They seemed adapted.

Again, this is not a hate post.

I love India. That is exactly why this trip bothered me.

Patriotism cannot only be about saying we are great.

Real patriotism is having the courage to admit where we are falling behind.

China made me realise one thing very clearly:

India’s potential is not the problem.

Execution is.

And unless we stop comforting ourselves with comparisons and start demanding better infrastructure, better governance, better tourism, cleaner cities and a higher quality of life, we will keep celebrating the idea of progress instead of actually living it.

[Saketh R @saketh1998]

I was talking to a reputed person during a discussion about markets. I made a comment saying MF’s don’t make much sense to me anymore. Most active mutual funds anyways fail to beat the benchmark over long periods. Index funds are far better for most people.

He got slightly offended and said that’s false data.

Then he asked:

“Do you think crores of SIP investors are fools? If index funds are really better, why don’t people directly invest in them?”

He also said:

“Fund houses spend crores on R&D, hire top graduates and analysts together, and you’re saying they still can’t beat the market?”

I said yes.

What surprised me was, he was convinced it was impossible without even looking at the data. His entire argument was basically:

“People can’t be such big fools to their hard-earned money into SIPs and companies spend crores together on research and still underperform”

Ironically, he himself answered the first question of why people don’t invest in index funds. Not sure if he actually realised it.

I must say though, the MF industry collectively has done a pretty incredible job marketing itself to the public.

[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

Was doing some reading on the whole IPS system and it was designed to keep expressly Englishmen and Anglicized Englishmen at the top of the "natives"

The system was architected in a way that natives, who started at the lowest levels of policing, could never reach leadership positions. Their leaders were always parachuted Englishmen who had no requirement to know or understand how things.

They were just there to "Command"

Contrast this to the system that the British use in Britain, where every police person joins as a constable and then has to work their way up the system

So every commissioner in the UK has at some point done the beats and the hard yards.

Every leader has faced the worst in the field and has risen thru the ranks

But In India, we have a system where an inspector with 30 years of solid field experience, is commanded by a 25 year old History graduate who may not have crossed the border of their district

Seems patently unfair and actually illogical

[Trading Composure @TradingComposur]

A trader who cannot tolerate randomness will eventually abandon a valid system.

[Ravi Prakash Official @raviprakash_rtv]

Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari did not even wait 24 hours. In a massive midnight administrative surgical strike, over 40 top IPS officers and District Magistrates loyal to the previous regime have been abruptly transferred.

This is the brutal reality of the Indian bureaucratic system. The police and administration are rarely loyal to the Constitution and they become private armies for the ruling party. The moment the government changes, the entire police brass has to be purged to secure the state.

A new political character cannot be built with the same compromised officers. The cleanup has officially started.

@SuvenduWB @BJP4Bengal @WBPolice @IASassociation @AmitShah

[#YeThikKarkeDikhao @YTKDIndia]

Crores spent under the Smart City Mission in Kanpur.

Our team visited the city to see the ground reality.

What we found tells its own story.

An explosive thread 🧵

[Sandeep Rao - SEBI Reg. RA🖖 @mysandz]

⚠️ PSA for MON100 ETF investors:

The ETF is currently trading at a ~20% PREMIUM to its indicative NAV.

Before you buy, check the iNAV (Indicative NAV) on NSE (as shown below). It tells you the fair value of the ETF right now.

If you don't understand why buying at a 20% premium is bad for you, stop any kind of investing at this very moment and start with Zerodha Varsity Chapter 1. 😉

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

In general, seed oils are liver healthy.
Good ones are soybean, sunflower, canola.

Tropical oils derived from seeds/fruits like coconut oil and palm oil and animal derived clarified butter (ghee) are the worst for the liver.

Don't let social media fool you.

[Howutrade @howutrade]

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[Dr.Sivaranjini @dr_sivaranjani]

Sent in my resignation to the IAP membership as it's becoming too suffocating to stay there, with the leadership worrying more about the funds from Kenvue than the safety of children. No condemnation of the notice issued to me. No condemnation of the public statement made by Kenvue that they presented their hydration portfolio in PEDICON. Giving a position statement on ORS and electrolyte drinks after the notice was sent to me. Emphasizing on Sucralose (clearly showing conflict of interest) that it's safe, without even warning the parents about the potential dangers with long term usage...... disturbance of gut microbiome, diabetes, and related complications like heart attack.
What is the need to even talk about Sucralose in a position statement on ORS and electrolyte drinks. So much ambiguity in the statement. It's basically a script to validate eRZL selling its Sucralose containing drink as a daily hydration drink for children.

#IAP #sucralose #Kenvue #eRZL #ORSL

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[Howutrade @howutrade]

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[Anuradha Tiwari @talk2anuradha]

Be Municipal Corporation in India

> Get 1000s of crores of budget
> Supply water mixed with urine & feces
> No one gets fired
> Get 7th pay commission salary
> Get under the table money also
> Get retired & enjoy pension

Citizens are literally being treated like cockroaches !

[Sagar @code_sagar]

Brutal truth for mid senior Indian IT folks
SORRY in advance

Don't build a SaaS to make money
you'll FAIL

the reasons are simple:

1. you prolly have never built an entire product from 0

2. no idea what's GTM

3. storytelling skills in negative

4. compliance, tax and governance are alien concepts

not your fault tbh..

Indian IT services is a off shore delivery centre
very few groups are in R&D

What you should do instead?

A] Start a solo dev agency ( play your strength )

B] Find top tier consultants to learn the strategy and sales game ( mail or dm them directly )

C] Learn all of the above on the side. It takes 1-2 years

Let me know if I can help in some way.
*no referrals

[Yatin Mota @yatinmota]

MD of Whirlpool India at a investor conference

This clip is viral on whatsapp

[Anubhav Gupta @anubhavgupta_ji]

Dear General Category:

>Study Hard
>Check Category (Visiting Doctor / Hiring etc)
>Earn Money
>Leave India
>Start New Life
>Make Kids There
>Get Citizenship

NEVER RETURN

Expose the system exploiters abroad,
Make sure they get zero respect abroad with their fake 5000 yo stories

[Steve Burns @SJosephBurns]

The mathematical path to profitable trading: 1:2 risk-to-reward ratio. 50% win rate. 1% total capital risk per trade. Don’t overcomplicate it.

[Pat Walls @thepatwalls]

I'm trying to put together a list of all the distribution "channels" that work in 2026:

1. Organic Short Form
2. Niche Communities (Reddit, Discord, FB Groups)
3. ASO (App Store & Platform)
4. Personal Brand
5. UGC
6. Influencers
7. Engineering As Marketing (Free Tools)
8. SEO & AIO (incl. programmatic)
9. X & LinkedIn
10. Viral Video Launches
11. Organic Long Form (YouTube)
12. Cold Email & Outreach
13. Salespeople
14. Paid Ads
15. Affiliate
16. Feedback/Customer Calls
17. Timing & Trends
18. Positioning
19. Open Source

What am I missing?