Vishal Telangre

Tinkerer

[Vishal Telangre @suruwat]

@j33tshah Thanks!

Doesn't "Settings / Home & startup / Startup / Auto-open file on launch / Temporary scratchpad" work?

[Vishal Telangre @suruwat]

https://t.co/QuydHWVYat

100+ stars in 2 months!

Love the very active community members who are constantly reporting bugs, requesting new features and suggesting valuable improvements.

Install for free from Play Store, F-Droid, etc.

[spidey @lochan_twt]

The day a blind man sees. The first thing he throws away is the stick that has helped him all his life

[Vishal Telangre @suruwat]

Worth sharing?

Unknown people are buying me coffee!

[Vishal Telangre @suruwat]

Never expected someone would actually support me! ☕️ 🥰

FYI, I am currently building this: https://t.co/QuydHWVYat

[Vishal Telangre @suruwat]

I have worked with @ershus both at @BigBinary and @gumroad. He's a pure gem. Very kind to everyone and always helpful. Working with him is always fun.

[Deedy @deedydas]

This man dropped out of a no-name college in India to be a software engineer and by 33, worked his way up to being CEO of a $100M+ company in New York.

Here's the never-before-shared incredibly inspirational story of Ershad Kunnakkadan:

> be middle class kid in random state school in Kerala, India
> get really into computers
> senior hands you Ubuntu 8.04 CD, whole new world
> starts contributing to SMC (a malayalam computing group)
> gets into blogging cause SMC seniors are into it
> go to no-name small private college in Kerala
> spend more time in terminals than classrooms
> shell scripting contests, Linux admin, security, virus cleaning, bots, paper presentations
> doesnt see a point to college exams
> drops out after 2nd year, promises family "I will earn a degree somehow"
> lands internship at small software co
> grows into being an architect
> found security bugs in Github and Prezi
> reads "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" and the "The Google Story", dreamt of being in the US one day
> does Google Summer of Code
> earns a degree remotely from Bharathiar University
> gets remote job at BigBinary
> moves back to Kochi to be near family
> involved in local free software circles and workshops, events, meetups
> building a quiet dense body of work over loud personal brand
> gets introduced to Gumroad as a consultant first
> joins Gumroad as a senior engineer
> gets married
> moves to Abu Dhabi to be closer to wife's family
> does the boring crucial stuff - scalability, security, payouts, infra
> grows to being a staff software engineer at Gumroad
> support millions of users and $1B+ in creator earnings
> just focusses on self-improvement
> never once thinks about promotion
> moves to New York City on an O-1 visa
> Gumroad looking for a new CEO
> board looks around and its clear who is best fit for the job
> become CEO of a $100M+ gmv business

I just love the story of Ershad. No brands, no pedigree, no MBA, no loudness. When I asked him the quality that got him here, he said "reliability". A truly kind, quiet and generous person. Who loves computers. Dropping out when you're rich is trendy in America, but to see someone Indian drop out and work their way up into the top role is pure inspiration.

Don't worry if you don't have all the accolades and ornaments you see in people who achieve your dreams. Be a good person, and be reliable.

[Vishal Telangre @suruwat]

@shl @ershus All the best, @ershus for the new role! 😎

[Vishal Telangre @suruwat]

@the2ndfloorguy @zerodha @nikhilkamathcio @Nithin0dha भावी कष्टदायी जीवन की हार्दिक शुभकामनायें।

[Vishal Telangre @suruwat]

Small but convenient #AiText update!

Now you can easily re-generate the result if you don't like the current one.

Learn more: https://t.co/3itZ0Oz4AB

[Vishal Telangre @suruwat]

Just open sourced: AiText!

A browser extension that allows you to use AI to do _literally_ anything with the selected text!

You can install it from Chrome web store and Firefox add-ons store, find links here: https://t.co/3itZ0Oz4AB.

[Vishal Telangre @suruwat]

Don't forget to ⭐️ https://t.co/3itZ0Oz4AB

[Gumroad @gumroad]

🆕🔥 Run your Community on Gumroad.

Now your customers can actually talk to each other (and you)

[Vishal Telangre @suruwat]

@fRigAweStudios @gumroad Thanks! It should be fixed now.

[Vishal Telangre @suruwat]

@thelifeofrishi @TwitterDev @TwitterAPI Maybe consider Cc'ing @CCI_India so @TwitterAPI can bump the priority to fix those exaggerated rate limits! 😂

[Vishal Telangre @suruwat]

@thelifeofrishi I spent my childhood in fixing our small black and white TV this way back then. 😜

[Vishal Telangre @suruwat]

@prithvi3141 I have yet to travel to the north. :D Your suggestions will be definitely helpful when I do. Thanks.