Chay

Why things cant be simple ? 🤔

My dear friends in Canada, you are about to experience one of humanity's greatest creations. FSD these days is insanely great. Just WOW.

@hthieblot Make it 80hrs/week 💯

Let’s be real: There’s no work-life balance in early-stage startups. If a candidate asks about it in the interview, don’t hire them. 60+ hours a week or bust.

@KWRoboticsAI What are the design requirements?

8 Hours of designing humanoid robot legs compressed to 30 seconds

SF, I am coming

@fdotinc This is a banger video which deserves more attention 🔥

this is a lecture on how to hunt for investors, cofounders & new hires complete breakdown: 00:00 8 billion people don't know you exist 00:24 No one knows you. No one cares. 01:09 Stop being a farmer 01:51 The one thing all great hunters share 02:10 How I got my co-founder in 30 seconds 03:30 You + them = 3 people 05:36 Missionaries vs mercenaries 10:31 Why you have to be generous with equity 12:35 The right vesting schedule 13:17 Always trial before you commit 14:19 The 9-to-5 specialist red flag 15:05 Why logos mean nothing 17:46 Hunt them on GitHub 19:37 Niche Discords and subreddits 20:58 Why paid referrals work 22:10 Hiring friends: the trap 24:39 Why advisors are bullshit 31:29 Should you raise at all? 35:06 Investors only buy growth stories 35:58 Fundraising is running an auction 37:36 The luck factor (and Twitter lies) 39:33 Angels vs VCs 47:21 The hierarchy: inbound > warm > cold 48:00 Never ask a VC for intros if they pass 48:59 The double opt-in rule 52:32 Fundraising is a full-time job 53:33 Why a 4-week VC chat is a "no" 56:22 The leverage trick 01:00:24 Fundraising advisors = scam 01:02:21 The one trait of every great founder 01:03:18 Your homework: a list of 100

@eptmpa Great stuff bro

Weekends are for adding “fun” features, today I added the ability for printers to sync to each other

@fdotinc Great stuff How can i try this out?

He reinvented the 3D printer Introducing the polysynth mini:

@michaelblhssn When is the private event? DM me the details

The stage is set. We’re coming out of stealth on May 5th. Before then, we’re hosting a private viewing of our launch video here in SF. A curated evening with a group of people we genuinely want to share this journey with. If you care about tech + emotion + culture, we want you in the room. Comment below if you’re interested. Can’t wait to share what we’ve been building.

@astrodanish Happiness is a decision

Happiness is not a destination, it is a way of being. Happiness is the knowledge that you are living your true purpose. That even though the current moment may not carry joy, it carries meaning.

@yunta_tsai Always felt this

Having product-building experience helps cultivate a taste for research topics. It exposes you to the long tail of problems that make a product useful versus not. Instead of spending another 2-3 years in a postdoc, working in a leading engineering company might be better than staying in an academic environment. Researchers might not want to deal with corporations, but universities are quite bureaucratic. Two to three years of product experience might be worth more than an equivalent amount of time in a postdoc. You can tell the quality of ICLR papers whose advisers have product sense (solving a problem at scale) versus those who do not.

@adilmania Popular Mechanics MAD magazine

update: currently working on the 2nd issue 🔥 looking for more inspo, what are the best magazines out there?

Seek gratification in doing hard things

@AkshayNarisetti 👍

@adele_bloch Happiness is a decision

it’s a gift to be happy. lots of people walking around complaining about the news, politics, or letting factors they cannot control impact how their day goes. some think happiness is ignorant or naive. that it means you haven't been exposed to hard things. but I actually think it's one of the harder things to do remind yourself of what *you* can control. choose to focus on the good. bring joy, positivity, abundance, and energy into the world in spite of any difficulties, doubts, insecurities, uncertainties complaining is the easy route. actively choosing to focus on what you can control and bring joy to the rest - that's hard & honorable

@michaelblhssn 💯

When building hardware, I always start with the consumer and work backwards. Technical limitations are never an excuse to deliver the wrong user experience. I’ve watched teams skip this step and lose years of development. Don’t make that mistake.

@SamuelBeek @Palak3312 @schematikio Until success, PAIN is the synonym for Hardware.

@Palak3312 with @schematikio it gets a bit easier, but overall Id say hardware is 10x harder

Serious question: Is hardware harder than software?

@EXM7777 😂

ask ChatGPT to act like Gustavo Fring, kinda helps to get shit done methodically

Never quit as a founder. I’m begging you. It’s 0 for longer than you’ll ever expect. No momentum. Soul-crushing doubts. Nobody seems to care. Even when it looks like it’s working, it’s not. You keep trying new things. You don’t lose hope. Then it snaps to 100. You finally find the one thing that resonates. You wake up with more customers than you can handle. Everything is breaking. Momentum keeps building even when you’re not pushing. Something changed. You didn’t get lucky, you just didn’t leave.

@lossdecay @maticrobots Cool 👍

@Chay_Create @maticrobots Did something similar last year through an AWS Deepracer event! I only had ~3 hours to train and test it (had a lot of projects for classes at the time), but it worked in the end (and got a pretty solid lap time)

Getting there, need some more tuning. Auto Lane keeping with a 720p webcam. Ps. I think I should say @maticrobots autonomy stack too.