rajivayyangar

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Buoyant software – improves when models improve(blog.rajivayyangar.com)
2 points by rajivayyangar 2mo ago|1 comments
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by rajivayyangar 2mo ago
I've been searching for a term for what differentiates certain tools, workflows, or startups that improve models versus those that degrade or hold back the models. I am really stoked on the term "buoyant". I wrote a PG-style
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by rajivayyangar 2mo ago
The results strike me as comparable or worse than you could get with a Markov model. I think it reveals the gap in understanding between LLMs and music. I think you need to either: - Set up a pipeline to decompose music into, say, harmonic
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by rajivayyangar 2mo ago
It's heavily inspired by a past product - Wisp (super collaborative docs) - which inspired my last startup: Tandem (YC S19) - a virtual office for remote teams.
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Show HN: Skilldocs – Figma for Markdown(skilldocs.dev)
4 points by rajivayyangar 2mo ago|1 comments
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by rajivayyangar 2y ago
(I'm the CEO of Product Hunt) This isn't far off the mark, but I do want to push back on two things. One: "VC backed companies have the funds to be able to boost their launch on PH to guarantee their launch will be in the top
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Portal Windows for Electron(blog.tandem.chat)
61 points by rajivayyangar 5y ago|47 comments
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by rajivayyangar 5y ago
Cool - simple, to the point. Love the "now" vs. "later" suggestions.
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by rajivayyangar 7y ago
Saving, shared queries, easy link sharing, and basic charts with some intelligence. It also has excellent query UX (auto-complete, etc.). Most of all, it's really fast. It fundamentally depends on your DB of course, but PopSQL doesn&#x
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by rajivayyangar 7y ago
As a data scientist (startup / Yahoo) turned product manager (4 startups), I've used a variety of stacks in the past - from plain SQL, to Mode, to Mixpanel, Looker, Interana, and Hive. Recently we started using PopSQL ( https:&#x2
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by rajivayyangar 7y ago
Funny - one of our teammates used to do this at a previous company. We built in a similar function for remote workers with a Slack integration. It sends a little message with pre-formatted responses that indicates you'd like to talk on
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by rajivayyangar 7y ago
The maker-manager dilemma is real - which is something we try to address with the prominent Focus mode. At the same time, a big reason we show the app status is so that the "business owners" can hopefully take cues and minimize th
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by rajivayyangar 7y ago
We've built it with the internal/with-your-team use-case in mind, which lets us eliminate a huge amount of friction! There are also some really useful things we can do around presence.
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by rajivayyangar 7y ago
I hear you and I love Cal Newport's work (as well as PG's Maker-vs.-Manager essay). For us, the Focus mode was critical to allow people to disconnect. In addition, we find that organic, short conversations on Tandem are much bette
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by rajivayyangar 7y ago
Awesome to hear! Yes, quick collaborative reviews of PRs are a big use-case for us internally too.
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by rajivayyangar 7y ago
Compared with Slack and Zoom, it's way faster - just click and start talking! Think of it as push-to-talk, 2.0, with a richer sense of presence (seeing what work app, so you know if you're interrupting anything).
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by rajivayyangar 7y ago
Yes, when you join a new room, you're unmuted. However if someone pulls you into a room, or pulls you into a direct conversation, you start on mute. This is intentional - it allows frictionless communication while respecting everyone&#
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by rajivayyangar 7y ago
Awesome! Yes we’ve taken a more functional, less literal approach than Sococo. Bernat likes to draw an analogy that the first washing machine was a wheel of hand-shaped paddles. We think we’ve found something much better and less skeptical.
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by rajivayyangar 7y ago
Thanks! It's not the secret to life, the universe, and everything...or is it?
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by rajivayyangar 7y ago
Tom Moor (Sqwiggle founder) is awesome! We talked with him early on and got a lot of inspiration. We've found that showing the app status gives a lot of the same feeling of presence as Sqwiggle without the sense of being watched. The a
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by rajivayyangar 7y ago
Yes! Commuting is also really dangerous too.
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by rajivayyangar 7y ago
Thanks!
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by rajivayyangar 7y ago
We ask for video permissions only when you click the video button when on a call - ping us on Intercom if you get stuck. Regarding the video/audio selection, all calls start as audio-only, and you can upgrade to video / screenshar
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by rajivayyangar 7y ago
Well-said! Not sure who this is, but thank you!
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by rajivayyangar 7y ago
Interesting - can you say more?
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by rajivayyangar 7y ago
Thanks for the feedback! We have Intercom integrated, so you can ping us founders directly from the app. Would love to get your thoughts after you've tried it with your team.