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name: Friends & Collaborators
description: People Arnav works or discusses projects with — their context, what they do, how Arnav helps them
type: user
originSessionId: 38a0dcdb-5376-45aa-a4f3-1527accc3abe
---
## Vedaansh
- **Status:** friend / collaborator
- **Project:** Has developed a **trading strategy** (details TBD, likely equity/options/algo)
- **Technical level:** NOT a coder. Needs no-code / AI-assisted tools
- **His GCP VM:** `trading-research`, IP `34.59.115.61`, user `vedaansh_007`
- Contains: `GEMINI.md`, `NSE_Algo_Trading_Master_Context_V2.pdf`, `trading/` folder, `www.py`
- **Arnav's role:** Setting up AI coding tools on his VM so Vedaansh can implement the strategy without being a developer
- **Exhausted:** Claude Code CLI quota already
- **Current attempt:** Gemini CLI (OAuth failing — 403 permission denied, needs billing-enabled GCP project OR API key)
- **Fallback plan:** Switch to Codex (OpenAI CLI) or Cursor CLI if Gemini doesn't work
- Strategy mentioned: NSE algo trading (from PDF filename)

## Vineet (Relative, jewelry)
- **Relation:** Arnav's relative
- **Business:** `jewelcreations.us` — custom diamond/gold jewelry (pendants, necklaces)
- **How he operates:** In-house CAD design → karigar builds → ships to customers. Word-of-mouth only, no marketing
- **Issue:** Product photos are bad (GemLightbox but poor editing), Shopify site looks generic
- **Arnav's plan:** Rebuild photos with AI (Gemini 3 Pro Image / Nano Banana), redesign site
- **Revenue deal:** Arnav gets rev-share later, doing it for free now
- **Tech setup:** Arnav has access to his GemLightbox account
- **Progress:** Generated sample AI photos for cross-pearl pendant and emerald cross pendant (shared via `http://34.93.99.180:8893`)

## Kams (YouTube CMS friend)
- **Status:** friend / industry expert Arnav knows
- **Experience:** 20 years in YouTube/digital media (one of the OGs)
- **Operation:** 25 Haryanvi music channels under Pvt Ltd
- **Revenue:** ~$60K/month combined across 25 channels
- **Current setup:** Rents CMS access from Hindustan Times (HT CMS)
- **Big problem:** Other HT CMS partners steal his music. Content ID can't flag same-CMS uploads. He's stuck.
- **Goal:** Get his own CMS. Has been rejected/ignored by Google India for years.
- **Last Partner Manager:** 2022 (expired, never renewed — YT Partner Manager is 6-month rolling)
- **Full plan:** See [Kams CMS Plan](kams_cms_plan.md)
- **Arnav's role:** Helping Kams strategize the CMS move. Not paid. Friend favor + potential future biz partnership.

## Abhishek Garg (former co-founder)
- Co-founded Iced Automations with Arnav in April 2024 (while in school)
- They split up. Abhishek kept the Iced Automations brand
- Now registered in India as **DEVINIDE PARTNERS AND SOLUTIONS LLP**
- Arnav started Icedout Solutions LLP as his own venture
- No bad blood mentioned but they're separate businesses now