Sumith Rajagopalan 🌏

Flying ✈ is a passion. Tinkering is a hobby. Wannapreneur. Looking to transition from Enterprise IT to Consumer Product and Service.

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Talk about a real-world test! 🛺

I’m building https://t.co/tDbXAT6xJI 2 help people speak Kannada. Today, I had an unexpected chat with an auto driver & used d exact lesson I designed. It worked perfectly!
App isn't out yet, but I'm so proud of this win 💛❤️

#BuildInPublic

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Asked #copilot and #Gemini the same question whether today is a banking holiday. Co-pilot replied, saying in the United States today is not a banking holiday whereas Gemini understood the context and the location and then replied correctly that in India today is a banking holiday

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This is why I hate @Flipkart, their search is a joke. What you search and product recommendations are always off. It has been and they never fix it. Sad state of affairs @_Kalyan_K

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@ICICIBank_Care Missed your call. Received your email and have replied. Awaiting your response

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@ICICIBank does @RBI mandate that you need to ask business turnover before you'll allow connected banking service?

[Sagar Awatade @SagarAwatade]

I don't know who else to tell this to, so I am going to tell my story here.

Every day is a struggle for a young business, but the last few months have been harder than usual.

We are a small Indian company. For more than ten years we have been building a homegrown brand in a product category dominated by big foreign players.

There are almost no Indian names in this space. We set out to be one.

We started in 2014. Over the years we began making parts in India instead of just importing, and we started selling in the US, Dubai, Nepal, Malaysia and South Africa.

We showed up at global trade fairs to represent an Indian brand on the world stage.

In 2023 we changed the import code we use for our product. We did not do this quietly. Every shipment was declared. Nothing was hidden. We didn't invent our approach.

We followed written professional advice and the way this product is treated in markets around the world.

And now we are facing a government demand running into tens of crores in duty recovery and penalties, plus personal penalties on the founders and even on an employee.

For a company our size, this is not a fine we can pay and move on from. This ends us.

We have not run from any of this. I am not built like that. It is not how I was raised. We have written to the authorities, met officials in person, and we have now filed a writ in the High Court.

All we are asking for is a fair treatment.

I set out to build in India and sell to the world. I am asking only that the system back honest founders trying to compete globally, instead of breaking them.

The process is the process, and it exists for a reason. But process should not feel like punishment.

From where I am standing today, it does.
I am not giving up. I have worked too hard for this. If you have read this far, please share it. If you know someone who can help, point them my way. Help me get the word out.

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@jdeepmishra @svembu I did get the 3 year lower pricing as promised. Zoho is far from perfect, but do want to acknowledge that I did get what was promised though

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A lake being recovered with dumping and leveling going on day and night #BengaluruSouth #Bengaluru

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Restaurant in #Thiruvananthapuram - board in English and Arabic. No #Malayalam, no other Indian languages!

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@SingaporeAir Your SignUp page has a bug. When someone enteres a password longer than 16, it reports the Passenger "name" is longer instead of "password"!! Do get your IT to fix it #bug

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@ShashiTharoor Freedom of expression and in India? If anyone's ego is hurt or dislike something, they can get a FIR saying the broader organisation or religion or community is hurt.

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There will not be much respect left for @Israel in #India if they continue to hit Iranian infra that starts causing hardships for our family and relatives living in Middle East and cause hardship for us with all the gas and oil disruptions

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@Sarahy5ql @EmmanuelMacron As if Trump consulted allies before starting this thoughtless war.

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@Unnitalks Why are you still using @Olacabs when it's founders themselves have abandoned the company?

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@reliancejio why are you blocking @Zoho customer support calls as "spam"? I have been missing their calls for weeks now as you keep blocking them !!

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@AQI_India You have gone from 'free product + pay shipping' to 'pay product + free shipping'. Fine, understandable. But the T&C are insane! No refund, no cancellation, you can deactivate at your will, you own the data !!! 🥱

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@Arattai That worked, but after a few tries. Arattai mobile app said the Web app QR code is invalid 🙄

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@Arattai Arattai web linking with QR code is not working. #android

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They are litterly occupying public footpath area and creating path to their own property at kundanahalli gate bus stand. Requesting @BlrCityPolice @CPBlr @blrcitytraffic to please check it once.

#bengalurupolice

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@perplexity_ai This is the what depending on solely US based #AI gives us

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@perplexity_ai what kind of biased article is this? Taking a social media post and amplifying it without context is grossly misleading