Co-founder & CEO of @shovelsai I like entrepreneurship.

Lafayette, CA
Joined September 2007
What's the best way today to turn 80gb of b-reel video into a 2 min highlight reel? Upworker or some AI tool?
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Not actually sure what this means or how useful of an analysis this is. But it is interesting to see the disparity in fire sprinkler mentions in new construction permits across all the cities in LA County. Palisades is the red bar.
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- Pacific Palisades has higher fire sprinkler requirements (4.3-6.6%) compared to Beverly Hills (2.8%) and West Hollywood (3.9%) - Higher likelihood of needing grading permits (26-36%) - Relatively efficient approval process (155 days) - Higher costs in RE20-1-H and RE15-1-H zone
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What's the best cheapest API for property photos?
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On behalf of the shovels.ai team, we're more than happy to support this great work.
We are doing a statewide analysis of ADU permit timelines. San Francisco takes the win for the county with the slowest new detached ADU permit submittal to completion average: 702 days. More results from our analysis soon. Credit to @shovelsai for supplying us with the data.
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What's the best tool for tracking clicks and users on a web app? Used to be Mixpanel (I think) but man I can't figure that shit out anymore.
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What happens when you cross permit data with precinct vote file data? Who knows! We're about to find out.
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I took a year off of X. No regrets, didn't miss much. But now I'm back because enough friends and contacts told me there's a legit community of climate, RE, and policy folks here. Still will lean most on LI but let's try X again too. My LI: linkedin.com/in/rbuckley
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Weezer's Blue Album dropped 30 years ago this week... So me playing Weezer for my kids is just like my mom playing the Beatles for me. damn.
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PSA: Yelp kinda sucks for finding building contractors. Why? Yelp treats them like restaurants, and they're the furthest thing from restaurants. I'm making this slide for our first big enterprise deal 💪
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Me: The Smile sure sounds a lot like Radiohead ... Me: Oh, snap
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Who sees the impact of SB-9 on the number of lot splits in California?
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The power of AI to surface ideas previously hidden is just getting started. Super exciting
The latest at Shovels: analyzing the EV contractor market. TL;DR -- it's growing at an increasing rate all over the state. We can quantify this using building permits. More detail here: shovels.ai/blog/the-growth-o…
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Is anybody interested in trends for SB-9 lot split data? We have it 🤓.
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The latest at Shovels: analyzing the EV contractor market. TL;DR -- it's growing at an increasing rate all over the state. We can quantify this using building permits. More detail here: shovels.ai/blog/the-growth-o…
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I haven't posted in a while. Been too busy making sheet pan dinners!
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I own a Sunfish, and life is good.
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I take back every negative feeling I've had about @elonmusk. Starlink is amazing and the vision + execution to make it work so seamlessly is astounding. Now I can work from the cabin my great-grandpa built 90 years ago. Grateful!
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