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Every other CRM on the market previously built a system of records, that changes now. We are building a system of actions thanks to AI.
Octolane is building AI-first Salesforce. Our software does a lot more than just store customer data. It uses AI to find the best customers,
Jotted some thoughts about how AI opens up new killer app possibilities which can be wedges to systems of record
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Day 47 at SF - building
@octolane_app
Not many know this, but after I dropped out of Duke, I received an email from the visa office telling me I had just 15 days to leave the U.S. or face serious consequences.
I thought I was supposed to get a 60-days grace period, but
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Thanks to the original inspiration to
@steventey
it's happening! 🙏
Open Source Cap Table Manager - powered by Octolane AI CRM!
- Do whatever you want with the source code
- 100% free to self host - no need for commercial license
- 1111 likes we
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I came to Duke from San Francisco, just for a brief two days, to appear for my final exams as a junior. But then last night I finished reading how Google DeepMind researchers have elegantly solved what was deemed an unsolvable math problem using LLM.
Now I am leaving Durham
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Open Source Carta Alternative with Cap Table management - GitHub source code!
Check us out on HN:
Thank you
@peer_rich
for inspiring start open source project and and the repo inspired by
@steventey
Proudly built with
@shadcn
@nextjs
and thank you
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The
@ycombinator
W24 batch is gonna have more unicorns🦄 than any previous batches of Y Combinator.
I say this with confidence because I am in the current batch and have been seeing what these "I am gonna make it happen no matter what" type founders are cooking here. ♥️🫡🚀
If you invested in every YC company, for every 100 companies you did you would have 5 unicorns 👀
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Day 110 at the SF building
@octolane_ai
It's not that I've made tons of best friends in the
@ycombinator
W24 batch over these intense three months, but I've definitely found lifelong friends at YC. They're the ones I can call at 3 AM, whether I need help or just need to cry.
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I can confirm this. You might think that just because we are at YC, we get customers left and right from YC.
What you might not understand as a VC who was never a founder is this:
People at YC are incredibly smart, hard working and most of them are always ready to help. But if
Met a VC today who said the only reason
@tryfondo
has gotten the opportunity to serve 1,000+ founders is because we “are selling to our friends at YC”
First off, I wish I had 1,000 friends.
Second, we have worked incredibly hard to win the business of 1,000+ incredible
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"In the tech industry, at least, much of the credit for the renaissance can be given to those who never left; chief among them,
@garrytan
and
@ycombinator
."
"After spending last summer here for an internship, he knew from experience it would help to be in close proximity to
Who's going to rebuild San Francisco?
Startup founders who create thousands of jobs, bring the smartest people in the world to the city, and bring billions of dollars in new GDP
I salute the founders who will build the future in SF 🫡
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Thanks to
@ycombinator
, I found my people— the kind who stay up late building, hype you up like you’re the next Steve Jobs, and still have time to send you memes! Octolane wouldn’t be here without YC’s support and this powerhouse crew! 🚀 Here’s to hitting more milestones, making
@alexiskold
@Billy_Draper
Community. We speed them up. Our community becomes their customers. Their therapists. Their friends. Demo day is unparalleled for fundraising. There is basically a proprietary fundraising network of angels and seed funds around YC-only.
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6 out of first 10 early customers became our angel investors for
@octolane_ai
.
We are only getting started, I am recruiting ex founders to join our team just the way Rippling did.
People think we ship fast, wait until my co-founder lands at SF.
Glad that he will have at least
Extremely bullish when a startup has early customers investing or great former colleagues joining. Way stronger signal than which VCs are investing in my opinion.
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Day 99 at SF - building
@octolane_ai
Today we started hiring the first founding engineer for
@octolane_ai
.
If you are full stack engineer, young, hungry and get things done no matter what.
Then please email me at one
@octolane
.com
We won't sugarcoat it: joining us means
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Day 262 of
@octolane_ai
- Think AI Salesforce, minus the tower (for now)
Since I moved to San Francisco, I've started framing one or two photos each month to remember the best moments. This month's top memory was a special dinner. San Francisco always find its way to bring
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Day 172 at the SF building
@octolane_ai
Every other CRM on the market previously built a system of records, that changes now. Instead of a system of records, now it’s possible to build a system of actions thanks to AI.
Octolane is building AI-first Salesforce. Our software
Salesforce down 16% as investors all collectively realize that no one knows what this company does.
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I will pay you $1,000 if you switch from HubSpot to our AI CRM Octolane AI!
We are that confident with our 4th version release!
1. We will take care of your entire migration, you will have 2 full time engineers working for you
2. Our team will also setup your GTM motion. The
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Day 251 of
@octolane_ai
(YC W24) - Think AI Salesforce, minus the tower (for now).
Here's the story of securing Octolane's first 10 Paid customers during
@ycombinator
W24 with SHIP email template!
At
@octolane_ai
(while going through the YC W24 batch and it was early), we
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Octolane AI is LIVE!! 🚀
LLM powered B2B data enrichment API! ✨
- API Documentation () is also LIVE powered by
@mintlify
!
- App secrets are secured by
@infisical
- Our real time search is powered by amazing
@metaphorsystems
(insanely powerful and fast!
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Day 85 at SF - building
@octolane_app
(YC W24)
- Today is a big day even though I didn't have enough sleep. As we are migrating a series B company to our CRM suddenly we are facing scalability issues that we didn't even knew were there. Migrating to AWS and thank you
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Day 183 of building
@octolane_ai
Today, I find myself at my co-founder's hospital cabin. He's just had surgery and can barely move. Here I am, coding in the corner, updating our AI enrichment codebase to add more features.
I had a team meeting over a Slack huddle from the
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Today is day 101 at SF building
@octolane_ai
It has been 100 days here for me after dropping out of Duke and joining Y Combinator. I can talk about 100 things that we accomplished and failed to accomplished, mistakes I made and things my co-founder and I did right. Instead I
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Day 78 at SF - building
@octolane_app
(YC W24)
My co-founder's O1 visa application got rejected 4 days ago. He is not gonna be here before
@ycombinator
demo day (April 3rd).
I read that email then we talked about it for 15 minutes, figured out the next course of actions and
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Day 93 at SF - building
@octolane_app
This is an open letter to San Francisco.
From the moment I set foot here, I felt grateful for the warmth and generosity of its residents.
There have been countless moments the generosity of the people at San Francisco has made a
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Day 82 at SF- building
@octolane_app
(YC W24)
- we are growing
- red arrows are the day when we did major update and you can see it helped us to get more tractions and increase retention
- I am so excited for the 4th version launch ^_^
- This is nothing, we need to push and
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Day 62 at SF - building
@octolane_app
- We have paid users now
- We are growing organically and inbounds are coming by building in public
- We got our first enterprise LOI and design partner today
- We got a new co-working space at Market street and it was our first day. If
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Dear
@mintlify
(or should I say, "My Silicon Valley Fairy Godparents"),
Not many people know this but the name "Octolane" was actually was given by
@handotdev
!
I'm writing this letter from my desk at Mission street, where the dream of having 3 monitor setup with a standing desk
Beyond excited to announce
@mintlify
's $18M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Since launching the product less than two years ago, we’ve grown to power the documentation for thousands of the fastest growing startups including Anthropic, Perplexity, Cursor, Pinecone, Zapier,
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Day 109 at SF building
@octolane_ai
- We have now advanced the customization of the dashboard that can power your B2C sales too, with forecasting and contact-level insights on Octolane AI. This is currently available to any customer who was asking for a B2C specific CRM.
- I
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Day 84 at SF - building
@octolane_app
(YC W24)
This week, 12 more
@ycombinator
W24 companies will register at Octolane AI. I am currently onboarding them in person on a 1:1 basis.
"Octolane AI is rebuilding Salesforce with all the power of AI"
#buildinpublic
#CRM
You could probably make a lot of money simply by investing in companies that a significant percentage of the latest YC batch use. They're the quintessential early adopters.
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Day 40 at SF - building
@octolane_app
@ycombinator
backed our startup when I was practically doing linear algebra homework at Duke. Harj Taggar called me from SF and when he gave me the good news I started crying in front of everyone. I was still determined to take finals and
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Here are a few things that were possible at Octolane, and wouldn't have happened without the miracle workers at
@EveryBanking
!
1. I couldn’t pay myself or my co-founder for the first seven months. We were so busy building the company that we struggled to set up payroll due to
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Thank you
@samuel_spitz
for all the kind words! San Francisco is the place to build and has the community to achieve goals that seem almost impossible from outside! 🌉❤️🚀🫡
I love San Francisco ❤️
Just met
@coffeewithone
and was blown away
-0->300k users in high school
-started a bio software tool licensed by a major hospital system
-joined YC & built 30 features in 30 days before batch even started
Watch out for him!
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Day 94 at SF - building
@octolane_app
I do a lot of stuff everyday but nothing gives me more joy than coding with my best friend at night and get into a silly contest of who can ship code faster. Reminds me of the old days in the high school when we were learning how to code
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@garrytan
Hands down, the best decision I ever made was moving to San Francisco! 🌉
It wouldn’t have happened without
@harjtaggar
from
@ycombinator
taking a wild shot on a college kid who thought he could outdo Salesforce! Dream big, take chances, and never look back! 🚀❤️
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I feel extremely grateful and fortunate to be the first intern that
@mintlify
has ever hired. 💚
This is the
@ycombinator
startup I would happily work for 7 days a week and still it wouldn’t feel like work because how much the team was having fun, enjoying their time while
I've lost track of the number of times
@coffeewithone
stayed up at the office past 2 AM and was the first to get in.
Bullish on One!
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Day 71 at SF - Working on
@octolane_app
It's nearly 7:00 pm at our Mission Street office in SF. The cleaning team has started in the kitchen. The co-working space seemed empty until I spotted
@Chandrika633
still engrossed in her laptop, fingers dancing across the keys as she
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What Happened in 2023?
- Joined
@mintlify
(YC W22) as their first SWE intern (Hands down the best thing that ever happened to me!)
- Dropped out of Duke to pursue my startup full time (second best thing!)
- Moved to SF with just a suitcase
- My professor at Duke became a paid
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Day 87 at SF - building
@octolane_app
- Customers over everything
Some of my friends were asking about a typical day for me. So here's my schedule for today.
5 - 7am:
Building an advanced form feature and contact section on our app for
@retellai
. Super excited that they are
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Built personalized AI tutor for college students over the weekend using
@supabase
@nextjs
and fine tuned Mistral! Thanks to
@brevdev
and tutorials from
@HarperSCarroll
!!
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Day 175 of building
@octolane_ai
You can now search for decision-makers directly within Octolane CRM.
Get verified emails and LinkedIn profiles of your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) without ever leaving Octolane. This feature is now LIVE for all our users!
[Attached is a live
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It's way past midnight and I am late to the party, but this is a post that I just can't miss writing.
I've been racing around San Francisco all day to get user feedback for
@octolane_ai
. From
@greptileai
's office (You guys should check out their new space!) to the other side of
Introducing Paradigm – a reimagined workspace with AI at its core.
Centered around the primitive of a spreadsheet, Paradigm puts swarms of intelligent agents at your fingertips.
The real power of Paradigm comes with scale: imagine having tens of thousands of interns working for
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@chamath
: “Last night while we were at poker i got this thing which — somebody in TWO DAYS built an open source competitor and just put the code out there and said here you go! Isnt that incredible?”
Thank you
@TheManMikeTan
for the recording 🙏
.
@coffeewithone
is truly a 10x builder. He’s got a real love of the game and is one of the most productive people I’ve ever met. To just see a random
@chamath
tweet and then say “let’s go” and build this in 36 hours is incredible. Glad
@theallinpod
gave him some recognition.
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Day 30+2 at SF - Building
@octolane_app
We got our first 21 customers in the first 30 days.
Here's how:
We shipped 30 standalone features for 30 days. Yes, that means we shipped 1 feature every single day for the last 30 days. Some features worked well, some features didn't.
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Day 246 of
@octolane_ai
(YC W24) - Think AI Salesforce, minus the tower (for now).
I bought a physical table clock for my desk, but forgot the battery. For weeks, I've been staring at this 10:10 PM time-frozen monstrosity, convinced I'd discovered time travel or entered the
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Day 5 at SF - Building
@octolane_app
The entire
@TheCeloCenter
co-working office feels empty; there's no one here right now. I was going through a
@contrary
research article and realized how big of a fan I am of their detailed analysis of companies.
Today, we are shipping the
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Day 98 at SF - building
@octolane_ai
Just finished reading everything I possibly could about
@Rippling
and
@parkerconrad
.
Rippling is truly built different and we are blessed to have a founder like Parker Conrad in our lifetime.
To beat big companies like Salesforce, using
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Day 210 of
@octolane_ai
- Think AI Salesforce, minus the tower (for now).
We just shipped Conversation Intelligence! Know what is the latest with all your emails, meetings, and CRM data 1 click from for any company or contact — now all in one place in Octolane CRM!
This is LIVE
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Day 174 at the SF building
@octolane_ai
"She is trying to show you her shoes, you should pay attention."
I paused typing and turned to look at my sister-in-law. She stood beside me with my 4-year-old niece, whose tiny hands cradled a new pair of shoes glittering like a thousand
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Day 280 of
@octolane_ai
- Think AI Salesforce, minus the tower (for now!)
San Francisco isn't just accelerating our product improvement and Octolane's velocity of shipping—it's supercharging our wellbeing! 🔥🚀
There's not a single day when Octolane hasn't improved or we
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The first ever fall application for
@ycombinator
is now open!
We are running a new YC batch this fall!
Applications are now open:
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Day 260 of
@octolane_ai
(YC W24) - Think AI Salesforce, minus the tower (for now).
Just shipping, what are you guys up to?
Would appreciate any feedback!
5:34 PM
28 August 2024
Mission street, SF
#buildinpublic
#crm
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Here's to every immigrant who took that giant leap for building a better tomorrow. ❤️🌁🚀
Nine years ago, in March 2015, these two kids packed their bags and moved from Brazil to California.
We had no idea of what was going to happen next, and I remember being super excited but also afraid.
I have deep respect for every single immigrant because I know what it takes
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Day 27 at SF building
@octolane_app
Note- We are rebranding Bye Bye Carta and getting ready for Product Hunt launch with a stable version! Please suggest us a name, and if we end choosing that one, we will give you lifetime free access and will also buy you coffee at SF!
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My cofounder Rafi and I are gonna push more code to production tonight because it’s time to build!! SF changed me for the better! Incredibly grateful for the entire SF startup community!
Tonight is my first Dec 31st night at SF! Happy new year everyone!!! 🚀🚀🚀
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Day 1 at SF: building
@octolane_app
(dropped out 36 hours ago from Duke University)
Precision Medicine Tool for Predicting Variant Pathogenicity! It became clear that by integrating even more quality data we can get better result! Shoutout to my professor from
@DukeMedSchool
and
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Day 86 at SF - building
@octolane_app
(YC W24)
- Have been running from meetings to meetings all day
- I love using our own product to find PMF. As you can see, we use our own product to track all the feedback/bug reports we are getting from our customers. A CRM to not only to
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Two days ago, I found myself sitting quietly on my room floor for hours, well into the night. As the clock neared 3 AM, I remained there, motionless. Exhaustion had taken its toll, and I couldn't muster the energy to climb into the bed my friend Holly had so thoughtfully set up
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We are pushing insane number of AI features on
@octolane_ai
in the next 3 months and fell in love with
@keywordsai
! As if they thought of everything we needed already. ❤️
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Day 42 at SF (post 2)- building
@octolane_app
Pushed code in the morning, then running from office to office all day.
I try to meet and show demo in person whenever possible. Came to YC office, and now at
@prantheman__
and
@GillBates408
. They are building Glimmer - Where
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Day 212 of
@octolane_ai
- Think AI Salesforce, minus the tower (for now).
We have multiple pipeline support now! This was a feature request for one of our customer who migrated from HubSpot to Octolane. You can now manage separate pipeline for your customer success team and
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Day 45 at SF - building
@octolane_app
Yesterday, I joined a cruise hosted by
@EveryBanking
(big thanks to
@LisaShmulyan
for organizing and
@rajeevbehera
for his insights!). Amidst the scenic views and buzzing atmosphere, I spotted Elle and Sarah from RetailReady AI, deeply
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Day 239 of
@octolane_ai
(YC W24) - Think AI Salesforce, minus the tower (for now).
2nd post:
Can we make the kanban board of a CRM smart so that that it updates itself?
Work in progress and would appreciate any feedback!
8:04 PM
Mission street, SF
#buildinpublic
#crm
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Day 92 at SF - building
@octolane_app
- It's 5:16 am at SF at the time of writing this and I am the only person who is in the office right now. This was a choice I made, not because I had to but because I wanted to. I did 12 meetings, made 15 intros for my good friends with
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Day 60 at SF - building
@octolane_app
I didn't watch the Super Bowl today because I was observing the future being built in San Francisco with techno-optimists. I found myself in a room at
@HF0Residency
with people I admire, and even though their combined net worth exceeds
The 49’ers are playing the Super Bowl.
But instead of watching, these SF engineers are hacking on AI projects. All built in just 2 hours before the game.
Here are the demos we saw at The Hackerbowl at
@HF0Residency
(🧵):
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So I signed up on
@join_arc
and thank you
@brickywhat
for your help! You are amazing!
We are getting $5,000 bonus and
@Equinox
membership as a platinum member as a
@ycombinator
W24 startup!!
you guys, just had
@coffeewithone
come by the office to demo his product.
when I say he is CRACKED I mean it.
a real builder.
if u need support in your founder led sales process, look no further.
DAMN
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Day 83 at SF - building
@octolane_app
(YC W24)
So what will you ship?
(Love this line
@vercel
!)
My favorite people from my favorite companies in YC in W24 came together to organize the happiest AI Startup hackathon! ❤️🚀
Thank you
@tryfondo
@retellai
@openmartai
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Day 56 at SF - building
@octolane_app
We shipped so many features for the third version release for our Hands Free AI CRM but this new sidebar is my favorite!
Our third version looks nothing like our second version. Having customers who also your brutally honest good friends
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This is just the start! Full source code and demo:
Open Source Carta Alternative with Cap Table management - GitHub source code!
Check us out on HN:
Thank you
@peer_rich
for inspiring start open source project and and the repo inspired by
@steventey
Proudly built with
@shadcn
@nextjs
and thank you
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Day 211 of
@octolane_ai
- Think AI Salesforce, minus the tower (for now).
Today we shipped our new task object so that you don't miss closing deals because a task slipped away from your mind!
We also have AI suggested tasks in beta that automatically capture tasks from all your
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Day 97 at SF - building
@octolane_ai
Insane updates are coming soon for our version 4 release 👀
"And there’s a million things I haven’t done, but just you wait, just you wait..."
2:21 am
18 March 2024
2nd street, SF
#buildinpublic
#crm
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The way we are doing things at
@octolane_ai
.
1. We map out our 1 year roadmap and it can change so we keep an open mind.
2. Then my co-founder and I are like - "What can we do to ship our 1 year roadmap in just 1 month?"
3. Then just do whatever it takes to make 2 happen
You
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One investor asked me today, - "How do you ship so fast?"
I replied - "I learned from
@mintlify
" ♥️
Go on, this is your sign, they are hiring -
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Day 96 at SF - building
@octolane_ai
Launch hour 5:
- Introducing Enterprise Demo form builder
- We brought enterprise level demo booking form builders to the fastest growing AI startups like
@retellai
in
@ycombinator
- Our form is different because:
1. We can tell you
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Drinking more coffee than water changed my face! I live in an AI world now! 🫡🫡🫡
that's a wrap of day 2 of YC W24 retreat!
gonna start documenting
@GillBates408
and my journey building a company for the next 80 days.
got my boy
@coffeewithone
along for the ride. face reveal at 1k followers ;)
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Day 41 at SF - building
@octolane_app
I got a couple of messages on how my schedule look like on a day to day basis. So I am gonna share my schedule for today from my journal here:
Jan 23 - 3:07 am
I shipped a new feature where our user can see multiple time zone and can track
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This is a very personal post for me. I came to know about Helicone AI and the team when I was working at
@mintlify
while having the best internship experience of my life. It was a co-working space at Mission street. Helicone team was one of the most hard working, kind, generous,
📣📣Hello world, we are re-introducing Helicone!
P.S. we spent a long time on the video, so sound on, pretty please? 🥺
Let us know what you think!
Sign up for free →
Get in touch →
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Started my weekend AI project with Zilliz vector database,
@vercel
AI SDK and
@OpenAI
! Can't wait! Thanks for launching free tier
@zilliz_universe
!!🚀 🤖
#AI
#MachineLearning
#OpenAI
#GPT4
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Day 272 of
@octolane_ai
!
The left image shows how Salesforce's competitive advantage is diminishing. At Octolane, we've already developed 1 click HubSpot migration tool (thanks to LLM and months of relentless work of 4 nerds with nothing but laptops, dreams, and an unhealthy
ENTERPRISE SAAS STICKINESS - WHAT STICKINESS?
This news from
@Klarna
should have every enterprise SaaS company shaking in their boots. If an internal team using AI can replicate 20+ years of work and customization from
@salesforce
and
@Workday
, to the extent the company doesn't
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Day 34 at SF - Building
@octolane_app
I am gonna take a break for 7 days and study everything I can about:
- Cap Table
- Equity management
- Why Carta is so expensive
- Fund administration
- Issuing securities
- Legal, compliance, audit support, 409, SAFE etc.
Please suggest
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@karrisaarinen
Well, we just started building our Open Source Carta alternative:
Thanks to the original inspiration to
@steventey
it's happening! 🙏
Open Source Cap Table Manager - powered by Octolane AI CRM!
- Do whatever you want with the source code
- 100% free to self host - no need for commercial license
- 1111 likes we
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Day 4 at SF - Building
@octolane_app
I see
@Chandrika633
and
@darshil36
working tirelessly every day to build the future of financial freedom here in SF! I love that they're creating
@PullNow
, where you can receive up to 6 months of salary in advance (with more exciting features
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Day 76 at SF - Building
@octolane_app
I came to this country from halfway across the world. I was utterly alone, quite confused, and mostly scared. Been struggling since the day I moved to SF for building our startup.
Silicon Valley celebrates its heroes, yet countless
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Not many people know this but this is how our team became 100X developers (You still need solid understanding of fundamentals, or you will not know what you are doing)
@ZvonimirSabljic
built GPT Pilot and as you can see it is the AI developer I always wanted. This Open Source
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Day 68 at SF - Building
@octolane_app
- Introducing "Use AI" to check or generate anything (LinkedIn intro message, tech stack verification, checking if the company uses LLMs through web scraping, etc.). It's LIVE for everyone, and attached is a video demo for
@helicone_ai
.
- I
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Day 39 at SF - Building
@octolane_app
It's almost 5:30 am at SF and we're almost there! In less than 48 hours, we'll be rolling out the biggest update yet for our CRM. Want a sneak peek? Just check out those fresh tabs on our dashboard – they're a big hint! This update is all
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Today I am leaving the safety of academia to pursue the dream of solving billion dollar problem! 🦄 Here's why and how:
We're out to disrupt sales tech—a challenging feat with high odds of failure in an extremely saturated market! It's a high-stakes gamble, but the returns
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“Building a business is hard, and not in a flashy way. Once in a great while, it means sleeping on the office floor or scrubbing toilets (done both) — but the vast majority of the time it means doing simple things well. It means taking your work seriously, treating people with
Ramp turns 5 today, and I want to share what we’ve learned about what it takes to build a great company.
In 1827 days, this team has built one of the fastest growing startups in history and assembled some of the most talented people in tech. More importantly, we’ve recovered
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I love
@retellai
so much! ❤️ They are building Twilio for AI voice call and the product is insanely good! Thank you so much for supporting the hackathon! 🙏🫡🚀
We had so much fun on AI hackathon day!! Love the people and love the hackathon🙌 Let’s shark 🦈!!!
@coffeewithone
@davj
@Kathrynwu088
@grntlng
@octolane_app
@openmartai
@tryfondo
@amidlabs
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Day 33 at SF - building
@octolane_app
We just keep shipping! Now you can do sorting based on multiple columns! One of the most requested features! It's LIVE!
Today we onboarded the following customers -
@tryfondo
- Fondo is the easiest way to get your bookkeeping done, taxes
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Day 57 at SF - building
@octolane_app
A lot of thought process and designing on papers happens for us before we code. Whenever I get any feedback, I immediately draw a version on how the feature can be enhanced to fix the issue user is facing. I do this everyday as I try to
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Day 43 at SF - building
@octolane_app
Today, I brewed my usual coffee but with a twist – I poured it into a Starbucks cup.
Why? it's my little hack for that Starbucks experience without spending anything at Starbucks. Call it a budget-friendly barista experience!
I had 9 demo
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- 60+ GitHub stars in 14 hrs and thank you
@stijnbe
for making the first contribution!! You are the 🐐✨🫡🚀
- 200+ sign ups and people emailing/texting me for a cloud hosted solution
- 2,000+ visitors
- Crossed 65 Points on Hacker News
Was reposted by the co-founders of
Open Source Carta Alternative with Cap Table management - GitHub source code!
Check us out on HN:
Thank you
@peer_rich
for inspiring start open source project and and the repo inspired by
@steventey
Proudly built with
@shadcn
@nextjs
and thank you
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Calling all the YC W24 founders!
📅 Date: April 17th
⏰ Time: 7:00-10:00 PM
🌮: Dinner provided
📸 Photo opportunity
Event link:
Today is day 101 at SF building
@octolane_ai
It has been 100 days here for me after dropping out of Duke and joining Y Combinator. I can talk about 100 things that we accomplished and failed to accomplished, mistakes I made and things my co-founder and I did right. Instead I
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Here’s why I’m bullish on
@lanterndb
🚀
- Lantern achieves a staggering 90x faster index creation compared to pgvector when using external index creation. This is massive!
- Lantern is experiment friendly. Rapid index creation isn't just about speed; it's about flexibility.
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This is the same house where I stayed during my time at Mintlify. Surrounded by amazing people, it sparked the creation of
@octolane_ai
, a startup daring to challenge Salesforce.
So beautifully written
@evanjconrad
❤️
SF is worth fighting for and I love this city! ❤️❤️❤️
One night, at Page Street, a lady came by and threw a rock through our window. Next day it was the neighbors window. Next day, another neighbors, and so on, for weeks.
I cleaned up the glass for the old lady on rent control next door. Every window was broken and boarded up.
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but life's tougher than a two-dollar steak. Yet here you are, still chewing!
So listen up, you magnificent disaster-in-progress!
Don't lose heart—the compound effect is real, just like that pile of laundry you keep ignoring.
Every day,
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@CindyBiSV
's journey as an angel investor stands out as one of the most impactful contributions to Silicon Valley. She invested in Zapier in their seed round - 600x return. Her portfolio also includes Rippling, Algolia, Cruise, Retool, Bloom Institute of Technology and more.
Randomly saw this: thanks
@BankMercury
for sponsoring and take such a presentable photo to go places 🤓
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