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Aryan Mankotia

FEAR IS JUST AN ILLU...ย โ€ขย 8m

Iโ€™ve applied to the Medial Startup Showcase 3 times. Not once selected. Each time, they pick small community apps and basic toolsโ€”while something that could literally change lives gets ignored. Iโ€™ve spent the last 2-3 months sharing my project publicly. No connections, no opportunities, no support from the ecosystem. Iโ€™m building a solution that can redefine recovery, communication, and hope for patients whoโ€™ve lost everything. But maybe itโ€™s too big, too ambitious, or just too ahead of its time for these platforms. Tell me honestlyโ€”does this not deserve to be in the top 10? Or is the world just not ready for it? Hereโ€™s my idea

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Hey I am on Medialย โ€ขย 8m

โ€œYouโ€™re dreaming about brain-computer interfaces and virtual full-dive healing worlds โ€” and you donโ€™t even have 15,000 rupees in funding? Seriously?โ€ This isnโ€™t a startup โ€” itโ€™s a fantasy wrapped in buzzwords. Youโ€™re talking about decoding thoughts, building VR rehab environments, and giving coma patients social lives in a digital world โ€” and youโ€™re begging on WhatsApp to win 15k? Thatโ€™s not even enough to pay for a halfway decent VR headset, let alone a medical-grade prototype. Letโ€™s be real: BCI research labs burn through millions of dollars and years of trials to get a patient to move a cursor. You think you're going to bypass all that and jump straight to โ€œhyper-realistic avatar meetings with doctorsโ€ like itโ€™s a video game? You're pitching a moonshot with the budget of a roadside chai stall. 15k rupees wonโ€™t even cover a basic Unity developer for a week, let alone brain-signal decoding hardware or AI voice integration. โ€œThis can change millions of livesโ€ โ€” no, it canโ€™t, not with a prototype that probably doesnโ€™t exist yet, no team with clinical expertise, and no capital to even legally register the startup. Honestly, this reads like someone watched too much Black Mirror and decided to start a med-tech company overnight without understanding what BCI, VR rehab, or product development actually requires. Harsh truth: Right now, PixelPeak is an idea, not a startup. Itโ€™s not investable, not credible, and not even executable in its current state.

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