The story of Red and Sudu
Competition, curiosity, and a friendship built through games
Red and Sudu grew up in Sri Lanka with strong competitive and technical interests. They knew each other from about 2016 and became close while playing Call of Duty during the pandemic. Their friendship developed into a working partnership because each trusted the other to explore ideas and follow through. Red studied electrical engineering before changing to financial planning, while Sudu moved from an early ambition to become a pilot into computer science and AI.
They also built a food delivery venture together before university commitments forced them to pause it. The project reflected interests they already shared in cooking, recipes, and entrepreneurship. Those early changes taught them that an abandoned route did not have to be treated as wasted time if it clarified the work they genuinely wanted to continue.
Paused ventures, education changes, and a harder social problem
The pair's path included the ordinary friction of changing degrees, pausing a young business, building websites, and learning how late honesty can make a difficult decision more expensive. They also saw a larger problem in Sri Lanka: limited public discussion of mental health and too few spaces where young people could speak without judgment. News of students dying by suicide prompted Red to imagine a small supportive community, and Sudu explored whether AI could help people find a conversational outlet.
The first concept did not remain an AI support bot. Their shared response to humorous online content led them toward memes, while local events for children showed that the mission also had to exist offline. They created opportunities for students to perform, distributed school supplies, and treated access to joy and recognition as part of the work.
Combining positive memes, AI review, and transparent rewards
Hap3 now gives Web3 projects a portal for community meme campaigns. A project defines the message and rewards, participants submit content, and an AI system filters and scores entries against project-specific criteria. Because humor is subjective, the team adds anonymous human review rather than treating the model as the final judge. Early testing generated about 16,000 submissions from roughly 800 participants.
Blockchain smart contracts lock campaign rewards and distribute them to selected winners, reducing the need for Hap3 or a project owner to hold the funds. Red and Sudu also train the system to avoid content built around hatred, racism, or personal attacks. Revenue from the Web3 product is intended to support real-world community and mental health initiatives, including help for children and institutions identified by the community.