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Raghav Pillai

@rag_pil

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i like building cool things. founder @speck_ai (yc w24), former @amazon @anduriltech

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Raghav Pillai
2 months
@mrperusse do things that don’t scale
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@thecaptain_nemo Love or hate the guy, he’s a hard tech doer who pushes the limits. Can’t help but say “damn”
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how many YC founders does it take to move a stuck waymo
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@0xluffyb same vibe
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7 months
stuck in an elevator at ⁦ @TransAmericaBlg ⁩ true story operator: are you in yc? have you presenting at demo day? are you fundraising? anyways the best part of yc, more than the connections and money is the community ❤️ every one of u
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7 months
Last group office hours, s/o to the 🐐 group Still cooking up big things 👀
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@ollama ⁩ with llama 3.2-3b is the 🐐 while traveling noticeably better since last time I’ve used it (llama 2)
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24 days
founder mode
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24 days
how many YC founders does it take to move a stuck waymo
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@brackin @garrytan After being in SF again, it’s not just a nicety to be here, it’s a true competitive advantage for any early stage tech company. The caliber of people building here is unparalleled, feedback quality and cycle is super quick and casual with networking events.
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Raghav Pillai
2 months
seeing yc interview apps gives me nostalgia, was at @hack_harvard when we got ours and literally jumped out of my seat even though i was on ~40h of no sleep congrats to those who’ve gotten it! happy to give advice in dms
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2 months
how it started vs how it's going who needs figma when you can just cook the UI in your dreams 😴
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7 months
@Austen This! University is great if you’re looking to become an academic. But for the vast majority of people that want to go into the industry, you’re better off putting more than half your time into side projects, hackathons and trying to find internships/get industry experience.
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Game changer. Was skeptical about yet another analytics platform but getting a demo, Dawn has real insights into the problem. These are features that I wouldn't have even thought about, but are super useful for seeing user intent at scale. A no brainer if you're building an AI
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today we're launching @dawnanalytics -- the first product analytics platform built for ai products. with daily slack digests, automatic topic detection, powerful filtering, and semantic redaction rules, we're making it easier than ever to keep a pulse on your ai product.
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8 months
finally updated the site @nextjs + @chakra_ui makes it so much faster to put stuff out there
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ticket resolved
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2 months
foggy night
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7 months
It’s demo day! Insane to see what everyone’s been building, the bar is set high! Feat: cool merch
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7 months
Truly an SF founder now, thanks @porterdotrun !
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8 months
as a yc company, we decided to make the hard decision of pivoting last week, less than a month away from demo day. launched yesterday and onboarding our first paying customers today.
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8 months
night (or morning?) before launch #2 .. calm before the storm
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3 months
@isabella_patane my version of the housing crisis
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7 months
@neuralink Damn I’ve been skeptical but this is truly insane. Congrats to the team, truly a huge step in BCI!
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3 months
@_jasonwei The only way to win when you’re lacking experience. Move with high agency
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2 months
Didn't realize copilot could curse, that's awesome
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@lumina_ai_inc Congrats on the launch! Looks clean af
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5 months
@bilawalsidhu This is ridiculous, they’re going to such great lengths to protect user data at even the 99th percentile. I doubt the vast majority of users will even care having this level of data protection. Huge props to Apple.
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Raghav Pillai
7 months
Power nap -> back to work Another launch + shipping a major release!
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Raghav Pillai
2 months
@levelsio Problem with CMD K is that the edits are generally worse, probably because chat does thinking/chain of thought before it generates edits. Not sure what the former does before generating edits
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Raghav Pillai
2 months
Super hyped to finally launch Paige. I’ve definitely felt like the time sink for frontend was something that could be solved with AI, more than any other facet.
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Speck
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We're excited to announce Paige, our new AI Frontend Engineer. Paige can autonomously create new websites and modify large, existing websites end-to-end.
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guys I think he’s locked in
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3 months
@hahnbeeIee It’s the last week for interns, they’re pushing to prod
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Raghav Pillai
13 days
Went to the xAI hackathon to try out Paige for building out frontend from scratch. Didn't expect to be one of the grand prize winners. Still a ton of work to do to make the world's best AI Frontend Engineer! Got some great insights, and we're excited to show you all some huge
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xAI
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Team eXpect was the runner-up at our hackathon, earning $5,000 in API credits. Congratulations! @raydelvecc @rag_pil @EShaotran @GiovanniMDanto2
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7 months
@prtwoa usually you’re fighting fires in a ton of different fronts, id love to tinker around with our site more or use twitter more but no time to do so. we’re seed stage but it only gets harder the bigger you get
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Raghav Pillai
8 months
@nealkhosla We’re building this at @speck_ai - here’s our launch YC from yesterday that has more info. Had this same problem before so now we’re building the solution :)
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20 days
co-ceo of ftx 💀
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8 months
i've never been so glad to pay taxes make something people want!!
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Raghav Pillai
7 months
for the first time i was almost annoyed that people keep buying our product. we haven’t done a single outbound sale yet. obviously its great that people love the product enough to fork over money, but god damn is it hard to balance support + onboarding + feature dev!
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7 months
@joebell_ Mute everything
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Raghav Pillai
2 months
@rbehal1729 @greptileai definitely feels like you’re “architecting” more than you’re programming. gives you time to focus on higher level problems
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Raghav Pillai
5 months
@BiankaB_0011 @verge I’m not sure if this sentiment is shared by the average user. I don’t think most of my non-tech friends care about privacy other than very surface level. Doesn’t seem like many people opt out of tracking and telemetry.
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2 months
@handotdev @mintlify Congrats Han! 🚀
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@garrytan Over too fast 🥲, experience of a lifetime
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Raghav Pillai
6 months
in London til tomorrow morning and Paris til Monday, gotta tour some tech offices. dm me if you’re down to link!
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Raghav Pillai
7 months
Quite the day today for @speck_ai Spending more time onboarding now than building 😭
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Raghav Pillai
2 months
@khoomeik @patrickmineault Also depends on screen calibration/color balance
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Raghav Pillai
7 months
In the past 24h we onboarded 4 new customers and grew our waitlist another 400 people. Our AI agent now works better on LinkedIn and it's only getting better! Here’s a video we recorded this morning (yes this is fully realtime)
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Raghav Pillai
8 months
@housecor @jestjs_ @vitest_dev @playwrightweb @Cypress_io @MomenticAI is building an automated AI test suite, would throw their hat in there
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Raghav Pillai
7 months
@amasad We were thinking of something similar with the idea we got into YC with (developer collaboration tool, pivoted out). Glad to see it come to fruition! This for code debugging will be a definite value add
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1 month
“hey paige, make this stack as ugly as possible”
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Raghav Pillai
11 months
Hello world, new to the Twitter (X? Whatever it is now) thing but cool to see a ton of useful perspectives and content. World moves fast!
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9 months
@Austen Started doing this entirely for better or worse. Whiteboard arch -> comments -> cursor chat to generate blueprint -> iterate with cursor inline prompter
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1 month
fml
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Raghav Pillai
7 months
@t3dotgg No more lifetime 😔
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Raghav Pillai
1 month
@yacineMTB building the tool to automate 1/2 my job away :( use the product to build the product
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Raghav Pillai
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the desire to build a feature you’re dying to use vs the backlog of customer feedback 😔 my heart yearns for this feature
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Raghav Pillai
8 months
why'd we pivot? we realized that the issue we were solving was too small of an issue, and we weren't solving a burning problem that people had. maybe if we stuck at it long enough it could've proved fruitful, but the timing for it wasn't great.
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Raghav Pillai
3 months
With the news of Gemini 1.5 Pro it made me realize the way we architect agentic systems now is vastly different than last yr. Earlier last year we used to just toss every task into gpt-4 no matter what, but now we’re using a ton of different providers/models for different tasks.
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7 months
@Vercantez For running purely on device their image tagging is also pretty good
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7 months
@OfficialLoganK @Google Congrats Logan! Can’t wait to see what’s cooking.
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Raghav Pillai
9 months
@serenaa_ge YC deal hits diff
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Raghav Pillai
3 months
@raunakdoesdev @isabella_patane Costco in mission had them last time I went too
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Raghav Pillai
3 months
YC changed the way we approached our startup for the better. We wouldn’t be so confident without it. I’ll be giving as much advice as possible, feel free to DM me if you’re applying.
@ycombinator
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We are running a new YC batch this fall! Applications are now open:
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Raghav Pillai
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@AravSrinivas Would love more maps integration, one of the last missing pieces for me. Quick lookups like “X/Y near me”
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Raghav Pillai
6 months
Doing some cool stuff with data extraction for @speck_ai , check it out
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7 months
@snowmaker I see this every time I’m going back from the YC office, prime spot
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@Laughing_Mantis This is sick, quite the drunk banger
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2 months
breakfast of champions
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1 month
not my proudest moment, but you gotta do what you gotta do
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Raghav Pillai
4 months
@NaderLikeLadder Congrats guys!
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Raghav Pillai
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@ZyphraAI @NVIDIAAI huge, congrats!
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Raghav Pillai
7 months
@aymannadeem Welcome (back) to sf!!
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Raghav Pillai
7 months
@samir_vasavada Not sure about this. I think the general ethos of SF truly does make you work harder and opens your perspectives more than anywhere else on earth — but I definitely think a lot of people do end up chasing the hype/VC money vs solving a real problem.
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@DeveloperHarris Trader Joe’s frozen food 🤝 builders
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Raghav Pillai
1 month
mfw a bug comes up during a demo call and you have to push to prod during the call
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Raghav Pillai
2 months
god I love prompt engineering (this quantitatively improves performance)
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Raghav Pillai
2 months
1) what
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6 months
@adamc0dez We do @speck_ai . Definitely a lot more work than a traditional web app, but for us obviously the best way to do in-browser automation.
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Raghav Pillai
2 months
clowned on it before but github stats on the home screen is a huge accountability booster
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Raghav Pillai
11 months
@AbhayVenkatesh1 Noticed a ton of junior engineers taking early ownership/not being afraid to voice their opinions, something that I don’t see much in regular tech hierarchies. Obviously leaves some room to be desired for your own self interests though.
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1 month
if he sold the car how’s he gonna drive it
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2 months
@sdamico I just saw this outside of DNA lounge too lol
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11 months
@Waymo Dumbarton bridge!
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wtf did I write
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11 months
@iamgingertrash Been seeing a lot of OSS work out of France, good looks. Hopefully govt sees potential
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Raghav Pillai
3 months
thanks crowdstrike
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honestly quite impressive from @ChatGPTapp
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Raghav Pillai
3 months
Pressure is on
@Google
Google
3 months
We’re introducing Gemini Live, a more natural way to interact with Gemini. You can now have a free-flowing conversation, and even interrupt or change topics just like you might on a regular phone call. Available to Gemini Advanced subscribers. #MadeByGoogle
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