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📣 Hey <!everyone>, I am hosting a Social mixer event on Thursday evening. In this event, you will: 🤝 Meet other RI members 💡 Grow your network 🚀 Have a blast! We’ll do a few rounds of 1-on-1 conversations until you’ve met a bunch of amazing RemoteIndians 🙂 🌐👉 Registration link  PS: ✨ We tried out this format ( and tool ) with our patrons last week and it worked really well 🔥

🚨 Here's an update on today's Social mixer event ☝️ ⏰ Scheduled Time - 8:30 pm IST 👥 42 registrations ( hoping we have at least 30 people turn up ) 📝 Agenda - I promise it's going to be a lot of fun getting to know each other using the prompts we have lined up for you. ✅ Sent a calendar invite to folks who had registered. 🌐 Will share the event link here on slack (10 mins before the event) if folks want to join in at the last minute. Hope to see you in the evening 🙂

📝 Hey Tribe, I have created a doc to document red flags faced by folks looking for remote jobs. This is hopefully in a step in the right direction. I will be delighted if you can add more details to this doc. Also, feel free to add links from the internet, which might be useful.

📣 Hey <!everyone>, I am hosting an Icebreaker event on Thursday night themed around books. In this event, you will: 🤝 Meet other RI members 📚 Share your reading rituals and the books you have been reading 🚀 Have a blast 🌐👉 Registration link PS - The last icebreaker session was quite a success with ~30 members joining in 😊

🏠 Housekeeping announcements We have a couple of new channels 🎉 #hobbyists - Share your hobby related updates here 👨‍🌾. Currently the home of folks learning to play the keyboard 🎹 #streamers - Share updates and live events from your stream. Follow folks who are streaming from the RI community 📡

🚨 A gentle reminder for tomorrow's event 🤓

👋 Hello <!everyone>,  With the festive sales currently happening, I scraped all of the Amazon/Flipkart links from the RI slack archives and put this list of recommended products together. Hope this is useful to some of you who are looking to upgrade your WFH setup 🙂

--- 👉 Please feel free to add product(s) that are missing from the above list. Preferably the ones that you’re using. 🌐 Also, do share it with your friends (or with your Twitter followers 😁) who might be looking for some recommendations.

--- shipit Created a quick website to make things more pretty 🎨 🙏 Shoutout to @early-smartphone-95195 for sharing the word on SpreadSimple on the #no-code channel

Hey <!everyone>, I am hosting another virtual meet & greet on Thursday night! In this event, we hope you will: 🤝 Make valuable connections 💡 Learn what others in your community are up to ⏳ Hear when folks get their work done and how they protect these Golden hours 🚀 Have a blast! We’ll do a few rounds of 1-on-1 conversations until you’ve met a bunch of amazing RemoteIndians 🙂 🌐👉 Registration link

Gentle reminder that we are having this event in a couple of hours ⏰

📣 Hey <!everyone> , I redesigned the Thanks page and added Stripe Checkout 🎉 Please do check it out and let me know what you think. A very big shout out to all the current supporters. None of this would have been possible without you 🙏 https://beta.remoteindian.com/support

🚧 I am wearing the product hat this quarter, so expect a ton of updates from the dev side of things 🙂 Here's the plan for now: 1. Launch the next version of RI (beta site once designed/content finalised will become the main website) 2. Ship the next iteration of wfhtools.xyz

🚨 Hey <!everyone>, I am hosting a Social Mixer event on Saturday evening (5 pm IST) 🔀 In this event, we’ll do a few rounds of 1-on-1 conversations until you’ve met a bunch of amazing RemoteIndians 🙂 🌐👉 Registration link

This time around, we'll have 4 rounds of 5-minutes each for 1:1 chats. And we'll try to finish the whole event in 30 mins ⏲️

👋 Hey <!everyone>, We're starting the Icebreaker event in 10 mins. Please do join us if you can 🙏

Hey <!everyone> 👋 Long time no deal, huh?  Thanks to @melodic-jordan-81418, we have a special discount for folks who want to use Sizzy - Browser for developers 🎉 It’s an awesome tool for frontend devs to ensure that your responsive web designs work flawlessly across multiple devices 🖥️ 📱 - The code is REMOTEINDIAN and it will give users 30% discount on the subscriptions and on the lifetime plan. - The coupon expires on 2020-11-23 - The coupon is recurring, which means, it's not limited in any way and the discount is for lifetime.

Also, for folks who have joined recently, you can check out some of the previous deals on this notion page 📝

📣 Hey <!everyone>, We are starting a new channel to share tips, tricks, and queries regarding #design 🎨 I am hoping that the designers in the community use this space to talk about their work and share their expertise and knowledge 🤟 Lately, I have found a lot of joy working with @crooked-daybreak-310 and @tall-advantage-5586 for a couple of projects mindblown And I feel more folks can make their work stand out by learning about design and/or collaborating with designers in the tribe 🤝 PS - Shoutout to @stocky-leather-73533 for initiating this idea 🙏

Hey <!everyone> 👋 It’s been a while since we did any live zoom calls for the community ( or RI Campfire sessions as I like to call it 😎) Let's fix that and end the year with some high-value discussions 💯 This Saturday at 6 pm, @microscopic-summer-24263, currently in Mexico City 🇲🇽, will be hosting a Q&amp;A session with fellow Digital Nomads from India 🛫🗺️ 1. Pravin 2. Devansh 3. Tirumal (visatraveler.com)

Of course, now is not a good time to travel. But I do agree with what Pieter Levels is predicting 🔮

👋 Hey <!everyone> I shipped a new landing page today 🎉. Please do have a look and let me know what you think 🙂 A big shoutout to @crooked-daybreak-310 who created this design 👨‍🎨🤘 I feel this page does a much better job of communicating the value created by the RI community 💯 Also, I had an idea of having a video play when somebody clicks the image on the hero section. And here’s where I need your help 📹 If some of you can DM me a short clip (15-30 seconds) about some of the benefits you've gotten from the Remote Indian community, then I can stitch them together to create a small video. It’s perfectly ok if you don’t feel comfortable doing so. But if you do, make sure your face is visible and well lighted and your voice is audible and clear. Thanks for everything Tribe 🙏

🚨 Hey <!everyone>, Here's a reminder for tomorrow's event.

📣 Hello <!everyone>! In this week's RI Campfire Session, Saurabh will present his excellent deck on “How to go about your remote job hunt” Saurabh has been working remotely since 2015 and has compiled all his learnings into a crisp and high-value presentation 💯 Even if you are not looking to change jobs in the coming few months, the pointers will hold you in good stead.  Sign up 👉 https://lu.ma/2ggj1xnl You don’t want to miss out!

👋 <!channel> Boy did the panel knock it out of the park on our Q&A session with Indian Digital Nomads last week. For those of you who missed it, here's . Here are some of the things they discussed: • How much income is good to sustain the digital nomad lifestyle - A lot of people get into this without figuring out the financial math. • How do you manage visas (with an Indian passport), healthcare, and money ( esp. taxes ) as nomads - For one, OTPs is a hassle when you’re traveling. • How folks have made the transition from a desk job to a career which allows them to be on the road • What’s the best place they have worked from in India or the World. • How has digital nomadism changed their world view? Thank you @microscopic-summer-24263, @gray-scientist-12794, @hundreds-smartphone-78904, and @swift-pilot-25722 for doing this 🙏 Let’s keep the energy going in the #nomad channel 🔌

👋 Hey <!everyone>, Does finding a remote job seem tricky? Last week, we had Saurabh go over his framework for a successful remote job hunt 💯 Do watch the  if you want to learn about:  • Applying daily - Make it a habit • Work out your law of averages by tracking each application • Where to look for jobs • Trimming down your resume • Why cover letters are so important • Tips for Take-home tests and Interviews  Thank you @loud-glass-33663 for sharing your wisdom with the tribe 🙏

Also, here's a dump of the zoom chat. We covered some of the questions at the end of the call, but then some of them were out of the scope of the session and I asked folks to bring it up for discussion in the slack group 🙏

📣 Hey <!everyone>, I have been working full-time on the RI project since the start of 2020, and I need your support to continue developing this wonderful community. RemoteIndian is a bootstrapped project, and it's definitely a full-time job. I am trying my best to build a mindful, respectful, and valuable space for our thousands of lovely members. I have lots of ideas about how to do a better job and lots of challenges. And a minimum viable income helps to keep hustling in this mission to normalize remote work in India 🇮🇳 My intention is to build a member-supported community that keeps your interests at the forefront. This also means that the future of the RemoteIndian project relies entirely on your generous contributions. Here’s how you can help 👉 https://beta.remoteindian.com/support

📣 Hey <!everyone>, I am hosting a Social Mixer event on Saturday evening! We’ll do a few rounds of 1-on-1 conversations until you’ve met a bunch of amazing RemoteIndians 🙂 In this event, I hope you will: 🤝 Make valuable connections 💡 Learn what others in your community are up to 🚀 Have a blast 🌐👉 Registration link