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Vapi's pivot story: 5 years and 12 pivots to a $130M valuation

Posted by srekhi on Monday December 01, 2025 @01:21PM
from the youtu.be dept.

https://youtu.be/KjMq_BXJnmc?si=ToHMfgyG9c4f9YMC

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Re:Vapi's pivot story: 5 years and 12 pivots to a $130M valuation on Monday December 01, 2025 @01:21PM (#46110901)

I interviewed Nikhil Gupta (Vapi's cofounder/CTO) for "Before It Clicked" - where we interview founders about the messy zero-to-one. It’s a crazy story, and I left thinking there are very few people with the gumption to go through what they underwent.

They shipped 12 products across 5 years, and experienced the whole range of emotions in between: elation, depression, confusion. Nikhil even considered moving to India and leaving tech startups entirely.

Thanks to Nikhil for sharing his journey in detail.

Re:Can ChatGPT Beat My Favorite Daily Puzzle Game? on Friday November 14, 2025 @12:29PM (#45929180)

interesting - and thx for making reproducible

Re:Adaptive LLM routing under budget constraints on Monday September 01, 2025 @01:54PM (#45094979)

I'm not following this either. You'd think this would be frontier back in 2023

Re:Making LLMs Cheaper and Better via Performance-Efficiency Optimized... on Friday August 22, 2025 @12:50PM (#44986769)

Isn't this what NotDiamond (founded 2 years ago!) has been working to solve for? Maybe someone from their team will chime in (cc @t5-notdiamond)

Re:Gemma 3 270M: The compact model for hyper-efficient AI on Thursday August 14, 2025 @06:10PM (#44906291)

video game NPCs with intelligence :O gaming is going to be crazy

How to build a security data pipeline (and why you shouldn't)

Posted by srekhi on Monday September 30, 2024 @05:35PM
from the tarsal.co dept.

https://tarsal.co/how-to-build-your-own-security-data-pipeline/

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Re:Show HN: Napkin – Build back-end functions in the browser on Friday July 02, 2021 @02:21PM (#27714935)

This is awesome - using this in production for vdiff right now.

Two things I'd love: 1) code review (just like GitHub) 2) team collaboration

Awesome job y'all.

Re:Launch HN: Revery.AI (YC S21) Scalable deep learning-based virtual ... on Monday June 14, 2021 @02:51PM (#27506633)

Awesome product.

Two things:

1) would love to rotate the model to see how it looks from all angles

2) being able to customize the model to look similar to me (so I can get a sense for how the clothes would fit on my body) would be awesome.

Re:Show HN: Napkin.io – Backend in the Browser on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @07:37AM (#26805651)

Big fan! Super fun, seamless way to spin up backend functions. Also has an excellent UX. Y'all rock!