Bonus

Make Something is a community built around one question: what happens when someone who has never coded gets a tool that codes for them? Farza and Julian answered it live — a Discord, a few YouTube streams, and an open invite to the world.

Over 700 people shipped their first project in under two weeks. A 55-year-old mother who had never touched code told her son she was busy — she had something to finish and ship. Great things start by looking really silly. That’s the whole point.

A vlog documenting a spontaneous, last-minute trip from Bengaluru to the Liwa Desert in Abu Dhabi — the real filming location of Dune — to continue a decade-long tradition of filming the first sunrise of each year. What started at age 16, inspired by the Japanese tradition of Hatsuhinode from a Doraemon episode, has evolved into an intentional cinematic ritual. For 2026, the vibe was Dune: Hans Zimmer’s score, vast sand dunes, and a sunrise over the desert that doubles as a teaser for a future Dune-focused film called Old Dream.

In early 2025, Farza Majeed put out a call for his “Dream Team.” Instead of sending a quiet application, Vikrant made a full production out of his pitch, proving his filmmaking chops by doing the thing itself. Farza noticed. They hopped on a Google Meet. He encouraged Vikrant to come to San Francisco to meet him in person.

The Dream Team project got shelved — but the public pitch had already taken on a life of its own. It caught the eye of Composio CEO Soham Ganatra, and Vikrant became the founding filmmaker at Composio in Bangalore.

This vlog is the full-circle moment. Vikrant finally meets Farza in person, and they sit down to trace the whole unlikely chain of events — from a forwarded LinkedIn DM, to a viral application video, to a career that didn’t exist six months prior. Farza insists he barely did anything. Vikrant disagrees. The truth is somewhere in between: one person’s post became the catalyst, but it only worked because someone else chose to take destiny into their own hands.