Matt David

I wanted to share something I built over the last few weeks: isometric.nyc is a massive isometric pixel art map of NYC, built with nano banana and coding agents. I didn't write a single line of code.

Sometimes all the pieces fall into place - our own @matsonj opines on the future of the Semantic Layer and the surprising success of leveraging AI alongside your existing dashboards. motherduck.com/blog/who-needs…

If you're selling "AI coworkers" Should you get SaaS multiples or staffing company multiples? SaaS companies trade at 5-15x+ revenue. Staffing companies trade at 0.2-1.2x revenue. - Robert Half: ~0.7x - ManpowerGroup: ~0.2x - Kelly Services: ~0.2x - Adecco: ~0.2x

Making pivots less confusing @heyequals

Today we are launching Evidence Studio - an AI-powered development, publishing, and governance platform for analytics

@VideoTutor_io mcdavid1991@gmail.com This is really interesting. Love to see education adapting to where the student is at vs forcing them to feel relevance or appropriateness to their age/skill. Very cool.

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The education system is stuck in the past, so we're building its replacement VideoTutor is the world's first K-12 tutor agent The future of learning is no longer ebooks or even convos with LLMs We’ve created a way for students to produce custom video tutorials like Khan Academy and allow them to interact with them like talking to a real tutor/teacher Big thanks to our partners at @Trae_ai for helping us ship our product faster, and @Hailuo_AI @minimax_ai for providing us with the best ultra-realistic TTS model YC startup requests asked for an AI personal tutor for everyone... and we delivered. @ycombinator @harjtaggar @garrytan

@satyanadella @barrald all over this a year and a half ago: hex.tech/blog/jevons-pa…

Jevons paradox strikes again! As AI gets more efficient and accessible, we will see its use skyrocket, turning it into a commodity we just can't get enough of. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_pa…

Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!

X should enable user vs. user prediction markets. Imagine monetizing the spite and arrogance on this app. You'd print money!

@nickgerli1 I think we will be fine...

One major problem for the Housing Market is that homebuyers are not responding to lower mortgage rates. Rates have dropped from 7.2% to 6.4% over the last 3 months. And there has been no bounce back in buyer demand. In fact - mortgage purchase applications just came in at a level -9.0% below last year. And remain at the lowest level in decades. Rates are going to need to drop by a lot for it to make any impact on buyers. Probably into the low 5s.

After posting my project analyzing VC SEC filings using @duckdb and @evidence_dev, I got a ton of requests to open source it. So I did! Check out the repo below for the open source code. This is a great example of a DuckDB ETL and modern, simple data viz.

Data team: "The AB test results are directionally positive, but let's not jump to any—" Product manager:

There's quite a few companies in this wave of Notebook/BI/AI for analytics space. My guess is we will see more mergers/acquisitions/acquihires soon. deepnote.com/blog/deepnote-…

The AI team at @_hex_tech just shipped two new features which make iterating on code with AI the best experience I've seen (and trust me, I've looked). ♾Continuous Edits: Rapidly iterate on changes in a single cell 🆎Diff Based Edits: AI to only changes the code relevant for your request learn.hex.tech/changelog/2024…

In our most recent release, we introduced slider inputs and a download data component - a couple more pieces that make it easier to build interactive data apps.

@Trace_Cohen @axios Ed tech is tough. Best customers churn. A ton of signs up are aspirational and never log in to courses after buying.

HUGE PE loss "Vista Equity Partners has written off the entire value of its investment in tech learning platform Pluralsight, three years after taking it private for $3.5 billion" @axios

@screenstudio is clutch

GPT 4o is amazing – our bet on optimizing FixIt for low cognitive load and low reaction time is paying off. Suggesting small changes faster than I can even respond. We've gotten great feedback about what is and isn't working in FixIt. Can't wait to show you all the next version

Love to see more attempts at AI for data analysis openai.com/index/improvem…