Avinash

For my first 100 followers, I think I owe you an introduction while I find a decent profile picture. I am Avinash. Born in India, Living in Toronto and currently in SF doing the regular SF things, like building an ai startup. We are building a workspace for the modern knowledge worker to get the most leverage out of the technology of our time, ai. And by "We", I mean me. Yes, I am the team. I am a solo founder, currently, building the startup leveraging ai. In a way, I am building a this product for myself and people like myself. Since "we" are early, and I am very open minded, I had an unusual idea. What if, I document my upcoming adventures in building a startup in 2026, from the start? The big risk is obvious, what if we fail? That's a fair point. I mean, we can't really guarantee an outcome. The future is not exactly predictable. But I guess we can try our best anyways, and see how it works out. The upside of this would be, for the first time, we will have an inside look of how to build a venture scale company from day Zero. "We" are calling it The Billion Dollar Show ( I know ). While I spend most of my time building the product, talking to potential users, and filming the show ( coming soon on YouTube ), I do keep a few hours free each week, just meeting new people and talking anything and everything. If you ever want say hi, just DM me and let's schedule something. If you are a power user of ai products to develop software, design products, produce art or games, research knowledge or just generally use ai to create anything, let me buy you a coffee please. I want to hear it all.

@hiteyjit Truth, a mobilizer of intentions? The other way around seems more plausible. Intention mobilizes truth.

@avinashonrecord a true mobilizer of intention

Taste is Truth

@TGUPJ this is essentially what oai is building at its first device

best thing i did was build the family agent into its own phone with its own number. it can text, doordash, book the appointments...

May the best story win

something went really wrong with the whole 2010s SaaS era and that something was Google and Meta

Work is changing, so is user behaviour. A new product category is growing. I call it the Work Surface ( I know ). Claude/Codex/Perplexity are all early & incomplete glimpse of what it looks like. Increasingly amount of time is being spent on these work surfaces over the browser and individual applications. Browsers & applications becomes tools. User works from a single place. Exciting times ahead. I am building this btw...

@mayarox5 how about charging money for advice on a site called intro?

I think charging money for intros is weird

@claudeai Here is a hard question: does Claude train on my conversations?

There’s hope in hard questions.

@adilmania cool concept!

🚨 looking for 1 last founder and 1 last investor for this week's episode in SF. who's down?

@paulg Was “personal computers” grand or precise?

An initial startup idea can't usually be both grand and precise. In practice they're usually either grand and vague or precise and small. Precise and small is better. You know who your initial users are, and you expand outward. With grand and vague you can't even get started.

“Hard questions are great but the hard questions that matters are the ones we ask, not the ones you ask”

@tekbog Its a gravy train

anthropic is recruiting everyone wow

this exists as a feature because to enable auto selection of models, the agent needs to provide certain level of competency in task, which becomes the responsibility of the product developer. Products with model selection features are essentially outsourcing their responsibilities to the user.

model selection is a dumb feature. If the agents are so smart, why can't they pick the right model for the task.

@ivnbkrv cool! I am in SF. Can’t DM you though.

sup everyone, my name is Ivan. I'm building a voice you don't speak. I started playing with machine learning pretty early, and turned it into a business automating stuff for local enterprises and government in 2022. Dropped it when I turned 18 and quit uni, have been on the road since, working on functional brain-imaging instead. Always loved metacognition, have been thinking about how to turn AI into powerful cognitive tools. Before that though, we need to make the interface to our computers intimate and practical. I'm throwing a dinner next week with some of the sharpest people I've met during my time in SF. A few spots open, comment if interested

@realOldBilly @basedjensen I don’t expect you to see this for another 3-5 years.

@avinashonrecord @basedjensen They own instagram they’re doing fine

Yea this is not gonna end well for zuck

execution infrastructure for startups is too brittle

These kind of predictions are never an outlook of the future, but an opinionated view of the current state of affairs. Good for entertainment, bad for informing your worldview.