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Built by leading minds behind the world's most advanced AI and technology - Our team unites top researchers, engineers, and strategists from pioneering companies and institutions [...]

https://www.hypercubic.ai/company

Please consider adding more background of the executive and heads of department on the about page to help us understand who these top researchers, engineers, and strategists are.

There are currently no names on the about page, not even the co-founders, however this claim that "our team unites top researchers, engineers, and strategists from pioneering companies and institutions" appears on multiple pages on the website.

It seems:

* Sai was an Apple machine learning engineer for 19 months, then a Apple lead machine learning engineer for 17 months.

* Aayush was an Apple software engineer for 3 years, then an Apple senior software engineer for 8 months at Apple.

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Hi! I agree we should have a profile page on website.

Btw, this is Aayush and I was at Apple for almost four years and Sai was there for three. And we have Kevin as our founding engineer who has almost a decade of experience and has worked at Cognition and Windsurf.

> And we have Kevin as our founding engineer who has [...] worked at Cognition and Windsurf.

Kevin was at Cognition as a software engineer for 9 months and Windsurf as a design engineer for 7 months.

Including company logos on the Hypercubic website because team members worked there for less then a year doesn't convey the endorsement of these companies I'd expect when I see their logo being used.

I came here to agree with this. You don't put IBM's logo on your page just because one of your team used to work there.

That gives off a bad signal to someone visiting your site.

Everyone's faking it till they make it but at the same time using a logo like that, which universally implies that you have some kind of relationship with that company or they are using your product, is not even faking it.

And that's ignoring the legal challenges you are up for if that company spots you doing it.

BTW this sounds like a genius offering

Wait until Elon sees one of their products is called HyperLoop

I was concerned when I read this, and was going to suggest that they consider changing it. But I just looked at the page and it seems clear in context. That section of the page is describing their team, and the text is talking about where they've worked previously. It's true that the logos imply some relationship, but in this case the relationship being implied is that of former employer.

Had the logos been on their frontpage with no explanation, the implication would be that these companies are customers, but there's no such implication here.

(Btw, I appreciate that you're saying this from a place of actually liking the product, or at least the idea, - I think it's often true that criticisms are coming from a place of wanting to like something, but commenters usually don't make this bit explicit and then the criticism just sounds like harshness for its own sake.)

I went back and looked again and while I have moved a little more to your position, I still believe it is misleading. The key text to me is "Our team unites top researchers, engineers, and strategists from pioneering companies and institutions—all focused on building systems that deliver real impact." Under that are the logos. To me, that implies that engineers who are actively employed by those companies are somehow working on this, the assumption being that those employers have blessed it.

I'll admit it's not clear cut - but I feel it deliberately pushes the boundaries, as marketing often does.

But as far as the idea goes, it sounds like a fantastic direction. That should have been my primary message.

Like 90% if not 99% of HN users, I don't like marketing speak either - and am constantly advising founders to prune it from any text they post to HN. But on an "about us" company page? That's a different universe. If you hold that kind of corpspeak against a company on its own website, then your problem is with corporate marketing itself, or nearly all of it. That's also a position many of us sympathize with, but it's unfair to hold it against a specific startup.

> it seems clear in context

While I get marketing and faking it until you make it, I'm struggling to be comfortable with the idea that being with a company for seven/nine months and not holding something above a regular developer role (lead/senior/staff) qualifies you as being a "leading mind" or a "top engineer" from the company logos shown.

I'm not trying to be "harsh for its own sake", I've already been HN rate limited and have no desire to make that worse, so I wasn't sure if I should risk a reply, given this thread has also been manually down-weighted (I appreciate that you commented so we get more context), but I see another reply to your comment so safety in numbers.

I'm sure they're all leading minds and top engineers but I question if that applies in the context of those specific companies they're claiming.

I like the idea of the product, especially that their agents validate transformations against original system via mathematical techniques. It's my flaw that the thing that attracts me to the correctness of their agents also extends to wanting to see slightly clearer credentials of the team involved.

> I've already been HN rate limited and have no desire to make that worse, so I wasn't sure if I should risk a reply

Your account isn't rate limited. Are you talking about a different account? if not, what made you think it was?

It was this account, I only have the one. I got the "You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks." error last month when I hadn't made any more then a few replies, and not in quick succession.

I got the error after writing out a detailed reply (which I lost as a result since the error is on posting not loading the form) so I couldn't have been fast enough to trigger a regular rate limit.

I thought it was unusual so I searched and found your explanation for this error message https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35157524

I assumed since I've had two warnings, a rate limit was applied.

Although given Anthropic have since removed the word "understands" from their page, I feel I was vindicated of flamebaiting. [1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45722979

I run into that all the time during periods of more intense posting, I just hit the back button or Shift-H for the same from Vimium to get back to the form with my text in it, and if I really want to post it I send it the next session I'm around.

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