passionate about start-ups, sports & fitness (🏃🏾 🏋🏽♂️ 🏏 🥏 🏸) & life. ex-@CRED_club, ex-@Freecharge, ex-founder@Eatlo.
Bangalore, India
Joined April 2009
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spent the first half of the day going down this rabbit hole and only feeling more anxious. thanks for saving the second half @anmol_tomer_cc.
hope you get win and learn in equal proportions 🙂
My feed in the last 48 hours has seen unprecedented amounts of yap about cybersecurity. Opened one security thread, somehow ended up with 20 tabs and a new personality: how cooked are we?
Me: Can someone translate that into "do I need to do anything?”
That's why I built Patchwatch. It gives your AI assistant context to check your setup and explain next steps.
patchwatch.anmoltomer.com/
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woke up to my X feed: car accident video. message - "never drive in india without ADAS."
doomscrolling X in bed at night: car accident video. message - "never drive in india with ADAS enabled."
as they say, India is not for beginners 🤷🏽♂️
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this resonates hard. and its not surprising at all knowing how user obsessed @_anishkaran is, and to what lengths @RanjithNair7 and Prateek would go to make products work like magic and look like art.
so proud to see sol out in the world. an ai that finds the work in your inbox and does it before you ask. try it today.
The obvious is missing.
So we built Sol - hellosol.app
Sol finds the work itself, does it, and comes back for your approval.
Every day in our emails we say "I’ll share”, "I'll review”, "I'll get back" - then repeat the exact same thing to an AI. Why?
Sol finds everything you said you’d do & gets them started for you.
It does the research, creates the doc, builds the slides, finds the time, connects the dots across multiple emails, doing everything it takes to get the job done - but doesn’t send, schedule, or share anything until you approve.
Sol runs on its own computer, uses a browser, and has a library of skills that automatically get assigned to the work that needs to get done. No setup. It just starts working.
We've raised $4M from General Catalyst, Nexus Venture Partners, DeVC, PeerCheque, Kunal Shah, and a few others.
Extending early access now.
@generalcatalyst @nexusvp @DeVC_Global @peercheque
@neerajarora @b_jishnu @kunalb11 @miten @RTinkslinger @Rahul_J_Mathur @AkarshS27 @SiddhantD06 @RajatAgarwal167
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excited (and a little nervous) to be pacing the 2:00 bus at wipro bengaluru half marathon this sunday 🏃
first time pacing a race like this. if you're chasing a sub-2 and/or have questions about the course, race strategy, pacing, or just running in general — dms are open. happy to help however i can.
see you at the start line 🎈
Most hard things in life are chicken-and-egg problems. Seeing the circle as a line instead - and just getting started - is a cheat code in life.
Like you can only run more if you run more. But starting to run is what matters most.
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TIL ... TikTok's name and the doomscrolling ux idea came were lifted from the 1995 @MaheshNBhatt movie youtu.be/8gJD_8DOfFQ?si=0ZvF…
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havent seen a more disconnected from consumer discussion in quite sometime. there is a contradiction or half-baked argument every 15secs.
youtube.com/watch?v=AEw5Ckj7…
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Very excited to see this scale and unlock a new paradigm in how offline search and discovery works in an AI-first world. the possibilities sound endless.
Godspeed @mehuljindal18 and team. lets go!
What if AI could call a hundred folks from the web to find anything for you?
The sublet with exact dates, the ENT doctor needed urgently, the house cleaner after the party?
Introducing Aurora AI, a search engine for the real world.
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handwash area of a Dosa place in blr. Random ~22-23 yr guy asks me if I can act as his father and talk to his teacher.
Am absolutely pissed he thought I looked old enough 😖
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been playing around with @periskope_app for the past few days. love the ease of building small hobby projects.
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wild how even the most physically active and health-aware folks will drink and vape without blinking, but want to listen to Hubermann podcast, ask reddit and then consult a doc on pros and cons of creatine.
we are living in very interesting times where people most of the people using AI generously will become dumber and more efficient at the same time.
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is it just me, or did Smith apply grip cream on his hands before coming out to field after the rain break? not sure if that's allowed ... someone knows better?
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Rahul Harkisanka retweeted
Spent some time out of my bubble living the life of a @zomato delivery partner, a few humbling observations
Problems of a delivery partner (and potential solutions):
- Just like the malls, few apartments explicitly call out that delivery boys are not allowed to use the elevator (still unsure about the logic), riders should report such apartments with an image and Zomato potentially blacklist them
- Finding parking was one of the biggest challenges, especially when on the main road, parking spots could technically be crowd-sourced from all the riders
- Constantly wearing/removing the helmet and carrying it around along with food becomes a hassle
- Above seem to be a couple of reasons why Yulu became so popular among riders, you could technically park it in unconventional spots, with no petrol cost, and also because you are legally exempt from wearing a helmet because they are classified as "Low-Speed Electric Vehicles (LSEVs)" not under the purview of Motor Vehicles Act
- Zomato allowed booking slots only at x:00 hours, e.g., if I decided to start working at 1:10 PM, I would have to wait until the next scheduled gig at 2:00 PM, there may be some non-obvious logic to this but if not, adding x:30 slots should minimize idle time
- Rider rest points are not always easily accessible, without a lot of public washrooms, this becomes tricky over an entire working day, Zomato/Swiggy/Uber/Ola could partner with the local government to maintain public washrooms from the CSR budget AND/OR make more private rest points accessible
- Identifying the right house is a mission, explains why a few riders call to ask where your home is, and you realize how Google Maps starts to fail you when you frequent new dense residential locations, the Google Maps AR tech could potentially help here
Other observations:
- Delivering orders to large apartments is the least ROI for a rider, as the check-in process and reaching/exiting the tower/home takes much longer
- Most people were nice and greeted while receiving the order
- Could do ~4 orders/hour during peak hour
- Hoteliers were mostly indifferent towards delivery partners
- You are not guaranteed consecutive orders during non-peak hours (function of supply-demand of riders in the area)
- Working this job during summer/rains is surely much more physically demanding than one would imagine
- Average per-order earnings seemed to range between ₹20 - 30 (without tips and milestone incentives)
- You have to pay (₹1600) for the t-shirt and the Zomato bag as part of onboarding either in full or installments (most likely to build commitment towards the platform from the rider)
- For most, it seems like a temporary stepping stone to earn some money and stabilize because there's not much room for upward mobility
- Onboarding was quite straightforward and well explained (from my tech-savvy bias)
- You see the numbers of Zomato and Swiggy orders but when you run into other delivery partners you truly feel the impact, employment at this scale is truly commendable
@deepigoyal this could be a pilot experience for folks, helps build empathy, humility, and gratefulness for what we have and truly appreciate what the delivery partners do for us
If you can't imagine yourself doing something, the person doing that is crazy. - David Goggins
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