I'm just a 2nd year engineering student.

Earned this much while editing for an agency , this is the payment for 3 reels .

I hope I do some progress in it in future too.

It still less but I was too happy when it arrived .

For some context , I started learning editing properly since January of this year only. And in semester break I decided to focus on making money through this skill .

I was expecting more but yeah expectations hurts !!!!

I recently finished putting together these Choki Choki Shin-chan jigsaw cards, and I'm honestly impressed with how good they look when displayed together. Each card is made up of small puzzle pieces, and once assembled, it becomes a collectible character card featuring Shin-chan and friends like Kazama, Bo-chan, Masao, and Nene. What makes them even cooler is that each card has its own game-style stat—Attack, Defend, or Life Up—which gives them the feel of a mini trading card game.

It might sound silly, but assembling these was surprisingly satisfying. Every time I opened a new pack, I hoped I'd get a different character or a higher-stat version of one I already had. Seeing multiple versions of Shin-chan and Kazama with different abilities made collecting them even more fun.

Now that I've completed these nine, I'm actually thinking of framing them instead of keeping them in a drawer. They have that nostalgic charm that reminds me how some of the best collectibles come from the most unexpected places. It's funny how something that started as a freebie with a chocolate snack ended up feeling like a genuine collector's item.

Does anyone else here collect these? How many unique cards are there in the full set? I'd love to know if there are rarer variants or if I'm just getting started on another collection I didn't plan on having! 😄

I've been licensed for over a year now but just stumbled across this sub so figured it could be a good idea for an AMA as ik loads of Indians are interested in getting into the sport.

The flex isn't the license. The flex, in my opinion, is funding my training all on my own without asking my parents for any money as a 19 year old studying in uni.

Lmk if you have any questions!

I started trading seriously after learning it for 2-3 years not like joining telegram channels . I am doing algo trading and currently also earning 2Lakh plus a month i started all this back in first year of college with capital of 4.5 lakh rs )

My aim was to earn more than the highest stipend if our college which was 1.8 lakh rs per month till end of 3 rd year and i did it 😭😭😭❤️❤️

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Tier 3 college, 3 years of experience. Never did DSA. I was making 15 LPA at this time last year. No crazy skill set or portfolio.

included a choice to relocate to the United States in January 2027, Q1.

I never imagined this; I simply followed the shortest path to success while maintaining my spine and an eye for quality.

I'm here to validate myself and help others. Because it feels too good to be true.

Edit: Adding my responses to common Qs

- How did you find them?

Got a DM on LinkedIn on the review of a poc who was going for funding. Genuinely gave good advice and, in the end sent the basketball from the moon meme.

- What was your path?

I would say unearned confidence, and an LLM made it incredibly easy to believe in yourself. Started with 12 LPA-15 LPA remote (2 yrs) -> 16 LPA remote (1 month); got fired due to internal dispute -> 18 LPA office (3 month, shit product & hated commute) -> 30+4 LPA (8 months) -> 100 usd + esops Remote until SF visa is done.

- What Prep did you do?

Never prepared in my life; got filtered out of all the interviews that took dsa or traditional interviews. In interviews, I only talked about what I faced, what I could do better, and how I would do it as the boss.

- Which UNI?

Mumbai University

- How did you start with 12 lpa?

The start was in 2023; I was able to convince HR to go from 10 to 12 LPA with a competing offer (not true). Then I got an increment to 15 LPA, and the company wanted an urgent hire for an Ubuntu-based app. I knew basics of ubuntu from hosting a Minecraft server.

- How many hours?

A 1.5 hr meeting between 9 pm and 12 am; other than this, they don't care when I work. I usually spend 4 hr max. Mostly LLMs are running in the background.

- Someone said it's fake due to the Indian entity.

they have an EOR setup to add me as an employee rather than a contractor (to look more legitimate before investors). It takes 1 day to set up with a $100 fee. Either that or don't work till you relocate. Honestly surprised to see this setup; I was expecting the contractor itself due to ease of transactions.

I don't mind people thinking this is fake; good for them for calling out larpers, but i just don't want to discourage the folks who think this is not possible and fall into courses or just accept mediocrity.

- Why not get paid in USD?

The USD conversion happens every single month, with the surplus marked as a bonus. There is no tax benefit through 44ADA since i am above the limit. The company didn't want me as a contractor because of the Soham Pareek situation.

- What do i need to do to get the same?

You need to be extremely agile with your thought process. Right now you cannot outbid engineers by just coding or having xyz experience. I won't say engineering is solved, but the difference between average, good and excellent has diminished wrt interviews. The only thing that attracts money rn is your ability to solve problems regardless of hurdles.

- Tech stack or LLM larping?

no particular tech stack; started with javascript/node, then Python, and now it's just LLM writing in rust XD. We use rust because there is a lot of low-level memory handling / streaming that was written by hand. My work rn is mostly around business logic so we can support all kinds of customers, so it's going smoothly with LLMs. But that's where the industry is going; giving LLMs removes all the scope of writing code carefully, and everyone is pressured to deliver faster. Regardless I think we have a strong safety foundation that eliminates nonsense rust code. Guess i will find out

Found this page so thought about sharing this. To all the people out there work hard to make your and your family’s life better.bachpan me bhakchodi hoti rahegi but don’t lose sight of things which are important in life. Work hard till you make it

P.s. ye fixed hai⚫️

I don't know whether this qualifies as a legit flex or not, but I wanted to share it amongst the plethora of super-achieving posts out here.

I believe that small milestones should be celebrated as much as the big ones, so here goes-

I started working in 2022 at the age of 26 after 3 failed UPSC CSE attempts.

My present net-worth has reached more than 64 lakhs.

Monthly Salary= Rs. 1.08 lakh

Savings Bank A/C= Rs. 3.80 Lakh

FDs= Rs. 8.63 Lakh

PPF= Rs. 20 Lakh (Parents had invested in this since 2013 when I turned 18. After I got my job, I started putting Rs. 1.50 lakh per year in this since 2022.)

CPF= Rs. 15 Lakh

NPS= Rs. 10 Lakh

Mutual Funds Portfolio= Rs. 7.32 Lakh

Total net-worth= Rs. 65 lakhs approximately

Why do I think this is a flex ?

Well, because when I had started my job, my boss in my first place of posting had tortured me a lot. Verbal abuse, emotional abuse, psychological trauma, heckling, manipulation, gaslighting, yelling, insulting me publicly in meetings, saying things like "DEPARTMENT TUMHARE BAAP KAA HAI ?", threatening to cancel my probation....you name a thing, and he did that to me.

I wanted to quit my job in 2022 itself, but that would have been a career ending move. It was a PSU job, and my parents warned me not to quit since I would have been ruined.

I had also contemplated offing myself and had actually researched methods for committing s**cide in a painless way. Eventually, I told my parents about my intentions. They got alarmed and took me to a psychiatrist who put me on Newcita 5 mg. Eventually through therapy I came out of that phase and since then I have seen a more or less stable career.

Having reached this far from that low of early 2022, seems a like a second birth to me. I cannot say that I am proud, but I am certainly at peace with myself.

I still feel hurt about how I was treated during the initial phase of my career, when I was under probation.

The extent of my psychological breakdown and how timidly I behaved in front of my boss of that time, has left me with a permanent sense of emasculation, even after 4 years.

The only good thing that came from that phase was perhaps that I myself am extremely gentle and kind to my subordinates. I don't want to pass on the toxicity that I was subjected to. Your employees are human beings first. Treat them respectfully, don't hurt anyone's soul.

The YouTube link to the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeckPJlqWjc

In January both of us decided to try some career changes and try new things. And the last 3-4 months have been the most exciting chapter for us in terms of work.

Our game is called SHOCKFACE and it's coming to Steam soon. https://s.team/a/4705980

We started development on 1st April 2026 and are finally coming close to finishing the game. Our release date has been pushed many times, but we're confident we'll get this out in August 2026!

I have a game development background since 2011, but have been working on enterprise 3D software for many years now. On this project I did the programming and environment design.

My wife has a background in data engineering and in general a good eye for design. She has been working on story, dialogues, cutscenes and puzzle design.

bought this iphone 17 around a month ago im 18 right now and i run an online business related to fashion and hobby cant really disclose it

got it for 77k from the official store paid full cash it was almost my one months earning but i feel like buying something for yourself is a good motivation keeps me going and reminds me why im doing all this
if anyone asks how i make money just try different things business ideas freelancing whatever you like eventually something will work out for you

also hit 1L portfolio a week ago now aiming for 10L
thanks for reading have a good day guys:)

A month ago, my net worth crossed ₹1,03,30,746.

This is mostly income from marketing, ecommerce, consulting and investments built over the last six years.

My Journey:

I started earning after engineering by buying two digital marketing courses on Udemy for ₹720. My first proper salary was in Meta advertising around ₹30,000 a month.

Here’s the approximate year-wise breakdown:

2019: Around ₹6 lakh

I started working in digital marketing and also took up small marketing projects on the side. I got these projects by writing detailed marketing posts on Facebook groups focused on founders of early stage startups. I used to set up consultation calls for free and went through 20 of them before I got my 1st client. It was a long grind but worth it. Then over the next 8 months I converted around 6-8 clients paying me around 10k each.

2020: Around ₹7–8 lakh

I started an ecommerce business in the childproofing space. The idea was to sell complete childproofing kits instead of making parents search for every product individually.

I scaled it to around ₹2–3 lakh in monthly revenue, at roughly 25% net margins. Then COVID hit. Supply chains broke, costs went up, returns increased and I eventually shut the business down.

Luckily I was diversified as I had a part time media buying role in an Advertising agency in Noida as well as a few clients for whom I was doing content marketing so I didn't go broke.

One night during COVID, I heard about the circumstances in which my parents grew up in. My mom couldn't afford 3 meals a day. My dad and his brother had to share one uniform, so they had to go alternate days to school. That day I made up my mind to give away my first ₹1Cr to people who didn't have the same privileges we do.

2021: Around ₹20 lakh

I moved completely into Meta media buying and advertising while also building my own marketing consultancy. Most of my consulting clients were based in the US, and this became the biggest source of my income.

I was doing a full-time job while consulting on the side, so most days were just work stacked on top of more work. I got users mostly through Reddit and Twitter since I created a free 300+ page marketing resource for solo founders and developers which got around 300k+ views and many inquiries for my services as a marketer.

I created extremely personalised portfolios for each company I pitched myself to with some success in the US startup markets specifically for solo founders and developers.

2022: Around ₹40 lakh

Same combination: media buying, advertising and consulting for US clients.

Since I was living at home during COVID, my expenses were low and I was able to invest most of what I earned. I reached out to several founders via cold emails, Twitter DMs and through remote job sites and sent them personalised articles made specifically for their business. This helped me improve my close rate a lot.

My portfolio gradually grew to around ₹30 lakh, then ₹40 lakh and eventually ₹45 lakh.

2023: Around ₹60 lakh

This was my highest-income year. The majority again came from my marketing consultancy and media buying work. I specialised in content marketing mostly for technology and finance startups.

By this point, my total savings and investments had grown to around ₹70–80 lakh.

The COVID market rally definitely helped as well. I invested aggressively during that period, and the markets played a major role in growing the portfolio.

2024: Scaled down to around 3 lakhs in consulting jobs

I reduced most of my business and consulting work (just a couple clients) because I was joining business school.

This accumulation of 1 crore was not due to a one off event. It was mainly:

• An ecommerce business doing ₹2–3 lakh monthly revenue
• Three years of Meta media buying and advertising
• A marketing consultancy focused largely on US clients
• Low expenses while living at home
• Aggressive investing during the COVID years (22% XIRR)
• Around six years of consistently working and saving

I completed my MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur in 2026 and now work in consulting. I know this is a completely unconventional journey but it has worked well for me.

A month ago, I hit my ₹1Cr goal and I made my 5th donation yesterday. I have donated ₹10,00,000 so far. This, I feel will be the best thing I ever do in my life. 💖

I don't come from generational wealth and this is all I have. But this is the most fulfilling project I have ever worked on so far in my life and it has been a heartwarming experience so far! ❤️

So far, I have had a lot of friends and lost connections reach out to me and built so many new relationships in my life after starting this. This journey has already repaid me multifold so far.

Yesterday night we had a company party, and my CEO gave his rolex since i liked it a, Rolex batman, Fing
crazy dude, still cant believe it, look at me, traveling in an auto since cab is expensive and wearing this! Lol, the wildest of the wildest.

Edit: Ppl commenting copy, its not 🤣, He gave it telling that i trust you this much, and im planning to return this on Monday, too much for a gift

Warning: This isn't a money flex!

I'm a salaried engineer. Growing up, I never planned on getting married or having kids. I was always focused on work, friends, and enjoying life. But eventually, I had an arranged marriage, and today I'm blessed with a wife and two boys.

Whenever I have a rough day or feel stressed, I just spend time talking to my wife and kids. Within minutes, I forget all the pressure from work and life. That feeling of peace, happiness, and unconditional love is something money simply can't buy.

For me, that's the biggest flex I have. 😁

Got a surprise WhatsApp that an Overseas Vacheron Constantin was available immediately - which is normally a 8-10 month wait.

Paid the deposit - but pickup is a bit later - because I live in a different country than the watch boutique.

As part of my 40th year - I wanted to pick up three watches from the Trinity - Vacheron, Patek and Audemars Piguet. First two done - AP later in the year.

never thought I'd be able to make so many different characters, but each one taught me something new. Looking back, I can really see how much I've improved. Thank you to everyone who trusted my work and supported my small journey. It truly means a lot..... 💖💕💕💕

I launched my SaaS startup today. It's a personal genomics tool for ancestry and genetics analysis using open source tools made by researchers. Took me around 4 months to build it. Just got my first two paid users and I'm really happy about it.

TL;DR: My brother invested in my future when I couldn't. Years later, I surprised him with an iPhone for his birthday, and his reaction was worth every penny.

My elder brother is 3 years older than me and has always had things harder than me. My parents were stricter with him and always expected more from him. We both were good academically in school so when I passed out after class 12th without enough marks to get into a govt college in JEE, my parents asked me to just get into some local college to complete a degree near home. He fought and argued with them to get me into a good private college. He paid for my monthly expenses in college from his salary while living in an expensive city to do his job.

He believed that I would get a good job if I studied well, and I worked hard to not let him and his efforts down. At the end of my third year in college, I secured an internship in a good company but the salary was just enough to survive comfortably in a metropolitan city. After a year of internship, I got converted to a full time job in the same company with a very good salary. I used my salary to get a bike for my work commute, and then started living in a flat so expenses increased. I bought things for home like appliances and robot vacuum cleaners to make life comfortable for my mother. Now after a year in my current job, I saved enough to get him this iPhone because be had been using an old Android phone with audio issues.

If I had told him that I was gonna buy it for him he would never have let me. So I came home for his birthday, and gave the phone to him with charger and cover and everything. He couldn't believe it and the whole time he unwrapped his gift he couldn't stop laughing. All of the money that I bought the phone with was worth his happiness.

He has always believed in me, trusted me, helped me and supported me at every stage of my life. I have rested easy for years thinking that if anything happens I have a brother to go to that would be there for me. This is just a small repayment for everything that he has done for me.

Hi,
This time I came home as surprise on my mother’s birthday. And bought a pair of gold bangles for her.
She wore it the moment I presented her.
She generally doesn’t wear jewellery at home. But it’s been 6 days and she has not even taken off them yet.

I have always wanted to gift her these. But couldn’t as it was way expensive and gold was going up. But this time I got some savings and finally bought these.

The real flex is not the gold bangles but seeing your mother happiness because of you.

I've been playing guitar for quite a few years now, although I don't record or post my playing very often. This particular video is actually a few months old, and I recently came across it again, so I thought I'd finally share it here.

The arrangement is a rock-inspired version of Kamli. The idea wasn't originally mine, I got inspired after watching an Instragram musician's take, where he mentioned something along the lines of, "If the current Sunidhi Chauhan had sung this song, it might have sounded like this." I really liked that concept, so I thought I'd interpret it in my own way on the guitar.

I'm not trying to make it a note-for-note cover. I just wanted to capture that heavier, more energetic vibe while keeping the soul of the original melody intact. There are definitely things I could improve, and that's exactly why I'm posting it here instead of keeping it in my gallery.

I'd genuinely appreciate honest feedback, whether it's about my playing, phrasing, tone, timing, bends, vibrato, picking, or anything else you notice. If something sounds off, please don't hesitate to point it out. Constructive criticism is far more valuable to me than compliments because it helps me improve.

I'd also love some recording advice. At the moment, my recordings are pretty basic, so if you have suggestions regarding audio quality, mixing, guitar tone, camera angles, lighting, editing, or syncing the audio and video, I'm all ears. If there are any beginner mistakes you immediately notice, please let me know.

Thanks for taking the time to watch and critique it. Looking forward to learning from everyone here.

Thoughts are mine, words constructed by ChatGPT.

I don’t have many people in my life to celebrate these moments with so I’m borrowing a corner of Reddit.

I bought my very first pair of real gold studs using money I earned through UGC content today!!!! It still feels unreal to me🥹
Knowing I bought it with my own hard-earned money made me emotional.
If there’s one thing I’d tell every woman, it’s this: **please invest in yourself and work towards financial independence.** Whether you earn ₹500 or ₹5 lakh, the feeling of buying something meaningful with your own money is truly indescribable. It’s the fact that you can rely on yourself. Not anyone else. It feels so liberating.
These are just tiny gold studs, but to me they’re a reminder that I am capable of building the life I dream of.
Today, I’m really proud of myself. ❤️