Shemeer grinning, fist raised, in a black OASIS Summit T-shirt
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Shemeer

Angry young old man.

Undergoing anger management treatment at aikyam space, Fort Kochi.

Blood pressure

  • 168/109 mmHgAnother 10-minute delivery app raised money
  • 172/110 mmHgSaree bought at ₹4,000, sold at ₹12,000
  • 118/76 mmHgPlaying with my cats
  • 159/102 mmHgLinkedIn: ₹1,500 per job posting, per day

I build things when something makes me angry. Here’s what did.

  1. aikyam fellows An app that delivers milk in ten minutes gets millions in funding. A young social entrepreneur teaching children in a remote village gets nothing.
  2. aikyam space I had a big office, and most of it sat empty every day. That one, I was angry at myself for.
  3. PATTIC A young non-profit founder with one compliance question had to pay a monthly retainer, or a big fee for a single answer.
  4. aikyam jobs LinkedIn charges non-profits ₹1,500 per job posting, per day. And the right candidates still don’t turn up.
  5. cats of kochi Fort Kochi had no single place that listed everything a visitor can actually do.
  6. constituition Search for the Constitution of India and the first result is a PDF you have to download to read.
  7. Kantha Scraps from tailors all around Fort Kochi were going to landfill.
  8. Tinybridge Rich companies charge richer clients 20% of their donation to manage their philanthropic grants to grassroots non-profits.
  9. House of Kasavu Merchants bought sarees at ₹4,000 from women weavers and sold them for ₹12,000 to tourists in Fort Kochi.

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BITS Pilani. Mozilla Tech & Society Fellow. Worked at Amnesty International and Azim Premji Philanthropy. The rest is on LinkedIn, and my code is on GitHub.