Rafael Mendiola

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Rafael Mendiola

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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Josh Pigford
Josh Pigford@Shpigford·
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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Rafael Mendiola
Rafael Mendiola@GroundControl·
@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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Rafael Mendiola
Rafael Mendiola@GroundControl·
If I'm building an Expo web app and I want to do SSR, what should I be doing?
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Jason Keirstead
Jason Keirstead@BlueTeamJK·
@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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Josh Pigford
Josh Pigford@Shpigford·
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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Rafael Mendiola
Rafael Mendiola@GroundControl·
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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Tyler Angert
Tyler Angert@tylerangert·
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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Rafael Mendiola
Rafael Mendiola@GroundControl·
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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Rafael Mendiola
Rafael Mendiola@GroundControl·
@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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Rafael Mendiola@GroundControl·
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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Rafael Mendiola@GroundControl·
@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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will brown
will brown@willccbb·
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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Rafael Mendiola
Rafael Mendiola@GroundControl·
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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roon
roon@tszzl·
no bro you need to turn on “/extrausage”. dawg are you sure you have “/fast” mode on? Did you check the “no mistakes” toggle? are you sure you picked “correct mode”? did you turn up the “autonomy slider”, that’s how the pros use it,
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Rafael Mendiola@GroundControl·
@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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Raphael Schaad
Raphael Schaad@raphaelschaad·
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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Rafael Mendiola@GroundControl·
@ClaudeDevs I think this sounds like a good thing, but I'm having trouble understanding it.
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ClaudeDevs
ClaudeDevs@ClaudeDevs·
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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Rafael Mendiola
Rafael Mendiola@GroundControl·
@danmall True, I felt I got a lot more networking out of Twitter. On X it's just crickets
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Rafael Mendiola@GroundControl·
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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evan conrad
evan conrad@evanjconrad·
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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Kyle Anthony Miller
Kyle Anthony Miller@kyleanthony·
One of my favorite branding projects so far this year
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