Rafael Mendiola
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Rafael Mendiola
@GroundControl
Startup founder: https://t.co/1Ew4UQ67Sz, a next-gen software company. Our first product: https://t.co/pjzP7c2I0h. MIT grad. React Native, AI, conference speaker.
Boston Katılım Nisan 2008
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time to rename my holding company.
i'm wide open to ideas here. just needs to be relatively unimposing as it's used across a HUGE swatch of industries (AI, medical/health, ecommerce, social) and all varieties of customer types associated with each of those.
hit me.
Josh Pigford@Shpigford
my holding company legal entity has been "Sabotage Media LLC" for nearly 20 years. but in the past ~6 months i've started getting complaints almost weekly of people saying that seeing that in legal docs, or app store listing names made them second guess/worry. what's the play?
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I'm so pumped for Krakow and @appjsconf
Jamie Birch@birch_js
The talk schedule for App.js Conf is so stacked 🤩 Can't wait to chat with everyone between talks, too.
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@joshu Maybe you gave them bad vibes, which is ok. Investors are trying to get through a lot pitches, us founders are trying to get through a lot of investors.
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replied to a cold pitch asking for the deck. no response. fascinating
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If I'm building an Expo web app and I want to do SSR, what should I be doing?
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@BlueTeamJK @Shpigford @IanLandsman @conductor_build there's going to be a local model cliff coming up. At some point local models and hardware are going to be up to par with Claude and Codex
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@Shpigford @IanLandsman @conductor_build So what are you going to do when Open AI also blocks programmatic usage of your codex subscription next month?
If your workflow depends on wrapping these tools, you're a dead man walking. All of them are going to make this change, if not today, tomorrow
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i know there's going to be an adjustment period but man do i not enjoy gpt as my primary model.
100% subjective in every way.
just been a real bummer of a morning using gpt for everything. i'd become so unbelievably productive and so i acutely feel when something changes.
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A lot of people are dunking on this, yet there's people out there sharing tips on how to keep your laptop awake while you're walking around.
Walking around with your laptop half open is a sign of weakness.
Ishaan Sehgal@ishaansehgal
Your agents die when you close your laptop. We fixed that. Omnara Cloud Sandboxing is live. Close your laptop, the session keeps running in the cloud. Open it back up, you're right where you left off. Close the lid. Keep building.
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@tylerangert I haven't tried coding with it, but Gemma 4 isn't bad on a laptop
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About to be on a 6 hour flight with bad WiFi
What are the best local coding LLMs nowadays / best tools in general? Is it still opencode + qwen or what
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I've been working with coding agents all this time, and I still don't know the best way for them to automatically grab proper env files without my intervention. What are people doing for this?
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@annanay This is my startup's agent manager. We moved all our agents off our laptops, and we manage them via the web from our laptops, phones. We're looking for early stage startups who want to try it out.
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UPDATE turns out that yes, nobody has heard of tmux.
Ishaan Sehgal@ishaansehgal
Your agents die when you close your laptop. We fixed that. Omnara Cloud Sandboxing is live. Close your laptop, the session keeps running in the cloud. Open it back up, you're right where you left off. Close the lid. Keep building.
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Whenever I go to a conference I always bring stickers. Since this time around I'm a startup founder of okthink.ai, here are the conference stickers I'm bringing to @appjsconf. See ya in Krakow!
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@willccbb I think there's an upcoming local-model cliff that's going to disrupt both of them, but it's nice to have the certainty that we can innovate on top of Codex.
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given that codex's official stance has always been "yes of course please use the app server for any frontend you want" and claude's has been "uhhh not sure if doing that with your sub allowed but we'll get back to you on that" i can't say i'm too surprised
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I wonder what's going to happen with Claude Code in the long run. It's clearly a very successful tool, but it doesn't exactly have a moat, since it's very easy to switch to Codex. There's also an upcoming local model cliff coming up. People want inference to be cheap.
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@raphaelschaad that looks like two buttons made at different times by different agent sessions, in a project without a design system.
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Seeing a ton of vibe-coded apps having button rows with diff heights. Is this an actual style LLMs somehow find appealing? Can't just be a dumb bug at this point …
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@ClaudeDevs I think this sounds like a good thing, but I'm having trouble understanding it.
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Starting June 15, paid Claude plans can claim a dedicated monthly credit for programmatic usage.
The credit covers usage of:
- Claude Agent SDK
- claude -p
- Claude Code GitHub Actions
- Third-party apps built on the Agent SDK
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Tbh, X is teaching me the value of LinkedIn. I used to resist LinkedIn because Twitter was a hopping place and I networked a lot here, but when it turned to X the experience dropped significantly
Nikita Bier@nikitabier
The value of an X account can be measured by what doors it opens for you in real life.
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@danmall True, I felt I got a lot more networking out of Twitter. On X it's just crickets
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My Twitter account changed my life.
I’m not sure if my X account has had any value.
Nikita Bier@nikitabier
The value of an X account can be measured by what doors it opens for you in real life.
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what' I'm finding as I talk to VCs is that they really want you to fit yourself in whatever shape they've been looking for. At the beginning it was very easy to feel like our pitch was bad, but then you start seeing that the more meetings you have the more contradictory advice you get.
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startup advice has often has this framing of “here’s what you should do” when its almost always “heres what you have to do”
sfc was passed on by basically everyone at every round and at every round, that proved to be a mistake for those who passed; we’re up multiples over our last round
but each time we raised, i knew it was bad. my pitch was terrible, the business was a mess, and our deck was non existent or made hastily on the fly. I’m horrible at this sort of thing and worse before
But i hate this sort of advice because its useless to anyone who is doing anything
if you are in the drivers seat, your job is to drive the car. other people telling you the road the car is beat up can be ignored because it does not fix any of the problems to listen to people who dont offer solutions. anyone actually driving does not have an option of not talking to fund #101 or whatever.
you drive the car you got, on the road before you, you grip the damn wheel, floor the gas and make the best calls you can
weisser@julianweisser
If you talk to 100 seed funds and they won’t invest in your company you’re actually wrong. Was reminded of this conversation I had with @eoghan.
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One of my favorite branding projects so far this year
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