Flo Crivello

Introducing Lindy Assistant, the ultimate AI assistant. It talks with you through iMessage, connects to 100s of apps, helps you with your meetings and emails, and proactively finds ways to save you time all day. Check out some examples of ways Lindy assistant helps below.

Worked on a similar project at Uber. A great case study of how big companies build things no one wants because they develop "main character syndrome" — thinking too much about themselves and not enough about the customer. From the company's standpoint, this makes perfect sense: Doordash's business is very spiky (around lunch and dinner time), Dashers have empty time to fill up, wouldn't it be nice if we used this under-utilized asset we acquired at great expense? Clearer why it doesn't work once you take the customer's POV. E.g. at Uber we tried to sell this to an empanada's store in Chicago, which spent 1h every morning filling out these little plastic sauce containers they hand out to people. "Hire a temp worker!", you could say. But then, it's only a one-hour task. The worker would have to commute ~10min to you, each way, and you'll pay for that one way or the other, on top of the platform fees (which are huge). Then, he doesn't know your process. So you'll spend another 10min from one hour task explaining to them, and maybe another 10min catching mistakes / asking them to re-do things. Finally — even assuming none of this was the case, why *would* you want to hire a worker? You're gonna be at the empanada stand anyway, which doesn't get busy til noon. You have time until then to fill out the sauce containers. So, the reason these things never work is that they only work for tasks: 1. Requiring 0 context (right here you took 98% of the market out) 2. In high margin / low cost sensitivity businesses (brick and mortar / service-heavy businesses are not high margin!) 3. Where every worker is already near 100% utilization OR that need done immediately (it's a rare task that's so sensitive it needs done immediately but not so sensitive that you can give it to a rando off the street)

We're making progress making Lindy self improve its own scaffold fully autonomously. The "detect issues → create evals → make changes → confirm they worked" loop will be closed in a few months. Crazy times.

The MacBook Neo is really Apple going full circle: they first put a Mac in an iPhone, and then put an iPhone in a Mac.

If you're switching from Granola today, Lindy might be what you're looking for. It joins your meetings, takes notes, and handles everything after — follow-ups, CRM, Slack. Give it a shot, and tell us what you'd want next.

@Godcandler Which is considered ridiculously high, the maximum being 1.0

@Altimor Correlation coefficient: 0.41 💀💀💀

Can't wait for the "science is real" people to change their views on taxation and economic freedom now that the science is settled

Massive toilet paper shortage in San Francisco

1 hour of TravisCore to build and accelerate to

Total legend His ouster was the canary in the coal mine of Silicon Valley succumbing to wokeness, before enough folks even had the words to articulate the destruction and cultural cannibalism that virtue signaling journalists and otherwise well intentioned liberals exacted upon innovation. I hope that arc is over. Perhaps Travis public reemergence - precisely when atoms are capturing relative value from bits - indicates that it’s done.

The NYT has completely lost its mind. Does not even pretend to report the news anymore, has just become full blown far left activism. The new Pravda.

"I cannot have faith in the long-term health of any organization expecting serious engineering to be done on Windows, and whose IT staff are too lazy to support other operating systems for their most core employees. The salary premium is simply not worth the torture of using Windows on a daily basis."

Legend. So fucking back 🫡

@kenanhsaleh @getlindy :)

What's the best AI personal assistant product out now? Looking for something that can call and book restaurant reservations, email for refunds, etc. - that's fully productized and easy to use

Apple's approach to business is simultaneously beautiful, naive and sad. Beautiful because it's literally just "incredible products, great marketing." That's textbook how capitalism is supposed to work. Naive and sad because it is not how it in fact works. Cheat codes abound, "weird tricks" that make you win despite having an inferior product, sometimes a deeply inferior one. And boy do these cheat codes work! Microsoft built an entire business thanks to their clever, galaxy-brain strategies, despite building the worst products in the world. Meanwhile, Apple and its old-fashioned "incredible products, great marketing" strategy almost died, multiple times. I'm grateful that Apple stuck to its guns, and that the good old fashioned approach did succeed in the end.

@Lindyydrope If that didn't work, buy another one

when in doubt, buy a new Apple product

One of the most annoying features of mental health is that you think that being more introspective is the solution, like "Oh, I just need to figure out exactly WHY I'm sad" Except you don't, you usually just need to think less about yourself and avoid ruminating at all costs

Your website should improve itself. Sherpa gives you an entire conversion optimization team with one line of code. Here's how 🧵

"Yep, that includes desktop monsters like AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X and Intel's Core Ultra 9 285HX."

I'm gonna start making my own chili oil. Do you understand? My own fucking chili oil. I'll be unstoppable