so far it has been an interesting journey and I have had some success but the whole process has led me to write a lot of software around my own process so that I can scale it.
Might turn that into a product itself.
The surface level for us is not just LLM generated text, it is also the combination of AI augmented audio (for incoming calls) and then for our own voice agents being able to protect and identify services cloning our own agent voices with watermarking.
It's not fun, as we are constantly catching up.
I'm exploring the idea of assigning AI agents a unique email address as a way to facilitate communication with users. The concept is to let these agents interact via email - a channel that most people are already comfortable with - instead of relying solely on new or unfamiliar interfaces.Here are a few points I'm considering:- User Familiarity: Since email is a tool nearly everyone uses, could...
Are there any open source projects to help accelerate building integrations in my saas plafform? I am trying to see if I can quickly integrate connections with google docs, salesforce, hubspot etc.
I want to experiment with building my own phone agent. Currently experimented with bland.ai but it gets expensive. Any open source alternative that I can run on my own?
I have been out of windows ecosystem since XP. I am wondering what's the experience like moving back to Windows ecosystem for a developer. I mainly work with web apps (NodeJS, PHP, Rails, MySQL, Postgres, React etc) and occasionally have to work on some React Native or Ionic mobile apps.Anyone switched from Apple ecosystem to MS Windows recently? Pros? Cons?Also, I would need to continue...
I have been trying to get back into attending in person networking events and conferences. I am finding it challenging to motivate myself to attend them. For reference, I am trying to attend a few in SF and just the thought of driving of taking Caltrain from San Jose puts me off.I know that I need to get back in the game to launch my startup but its like I am dragging my soul.Any tips?
I ran and exited a startup with a young family. My daughter was 4 yrs old when I sold my company and I started it a year before my daughter was born.
My strategy was to divide my work day as best as possible:
Priorities: 1. Time with wife and kid 2. Customer calls 3. Everything else
I started to wake up early to have an hour to get myself organized. I would then block 6-9am for breakfast with family. 9am-3pm (6 hours) of customer calls/coding etc. 3pm-10pm totally available for family and I would only skip for essential calls (i.e. the hell is about to break lose and I think I had one day every month like that lol). 6pm-7pm was bed time for my daughter that I was responsible for and I am still responsible for it till today. 7pm - 10pm was time with wife, completely available for her for anything she wants. 10pm-2am work on my startup again. This was the most productive time for me as everyone was sleeping and my customers didn't expect me to reply back to them either.
It wasn't easy. Could not have done this without my wife who decided to stay at home with kid to help with everything.
I ended up selling the company about a year ago and we made a decent return back that ensured that we are mortgage free, having enough saved for my daughter and now I am actually getting my proper night sleep.
Itching to start something new though..
Disclaimer: I know that this is not the best place to seek financial advice. This post is not meant to be a 'give me a recipe'; it's more like a collective thinking post.So I currently have 2 rental properties netting me $3100/month in rental income. These properties are paid off, so no mortgage payments.I do live in a HCOL city so my current rent is $5k/month and with kids school, grocery and...
Happy to meet up with locals who are interested in this space.
I seem to keep finding about them on twitter after they have happened. Is there a particular place that people are looking for upcoming events?I am interested in any meetup, hackathon, conference etc for AI, Generative AI, LangChain, ML etc.
I am planning on resigning from my position next week and have been planning my conversation with my VP (I report directly to her)I am feeling burnt out for past month or so. Took 2 weeks off earlier this year hoping it will reset it for me but didn’t help. So now I am planning to take a break from professional life and find my rhythm again.I am also a very private person, don’t like sharing my...
I am currently on TN visa and trying to map what are my options when starting my startup.I can create a Delaware Corp and then apply for E2 visa or should I go with O-1 visa path?Any fellow Canadians who have done this and can help guide?
I saw it on HN a while back, they had this software (in beta) that was supposedly going to enable us to search and find anything text against any document, zoom call etc that you were on.Anyone remember their name?
Looking for some experiences of folks who came to valley on TN visa and then ended up starting a company. How did the experience go, what would you change if you were to do it now, and, how did you handle health insurance at early stage?For context: I have a wife and 2 kids as well, not sure if that complicates things.
I want to be productive and learn a new stack over the holidays. I have been thinking of creating an app that is something similar to Twitch streaming. The idea is to enable someone to share their screen and camera and instantly offer live stream class. The subscribers will only be viewing the stream and they will have the ability to send messages via chat. I have the chat component finished...
I want to try experiment and build a plugin for google docs etc but not sure where to start. Any good tutorial?