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raveenb

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Founder/CEO at Luminary Lane (luminarylane.app) — building the AI CMO for startups. 3x founder: Hammerhead Navigation (Techstars '13 NYC, 7 years as CTO), Leadzen.ai (AI lead gen), Luminary Lane. 20+ years shipping software. Writing about why AI marketing needs governance, not just speed. Bangalore/Singapore.
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raveenb··on Kite is saying farewell and open-sourcing its code
Kite was good, integrations were plentiful, sad to see them go! I hope Tabnine learns from this and ups their game, I love what they are doing. Not so sold on Github Copilot yet, and probably the observations of Kite are applicable to Github Copilot, but due to their deeper pockets they may survive long enough to make to the AI breakthrough needed to get this product/class of products flying!
raveenb··on Ask HN: How did you start higher education after 40?
Which ever masters+university combo you choose, pick the one that gives you time to explore things around your chosen area. At, your experience level, academics alone will not help, you should be able leverage what you already know and are good at alongside your academics.

In my case, I was good at software and had opted for masters in business. In my free time I explored more on that area while on campus like - hacking groups, startup weekends, inter university competitions (Princeton, Penn, CUNY) and such. By the end of my masters I was able to start my own startup and we got picked by Techstars.

PhD's I'm not sure. Although, I would love to explore it yet again, perhaps in my 50's :)

raveenb··on My 2020 desk setup
I prefer the multi monitor setup and use at least one in portrait/vertical mode. Fits with my ide and jupyter notebooks
raveenb··on Show HN: I built a tool to send you daily digest of your saved bookmarks
this looks like a cool tool.

My problem was that i had collected a lot of such links and simply wasnt able to go thru all. So I had built this app that took all the links in the bookmark and summarized it.

You can check it out at https://www.makemysummary.com anyone is welcome to try it out, it summarizes youtube, podcasts and webpages

If your app has zapier integration then anyone can route their bookmarks via MakeMySummary and get them summarized

raveenb··on Ask HN: Does Building a startup feels like doing the work of 10 people?
Yes, it does feel that way. And yet I am doing it the second time. As a founder you are the janitor and the CEO and everything in between at the same time. It’s fun when it works out like last time, but I will find out soon if it’s fun the second time around.
raveenb··on Ask HN: Should I move in with my co-founder?
Try it with an AirBnb and see if it works out. It worked for me. Can’t say if it’s good for you or not, but it can give good perspective of your cofounders that can be if help later.
raveenb··on Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?
my solution has been bookmark in Pocket -> Zapier -> MakeMySummary -> Todoist

1. Collect in Pocket 2. On a new add to Pocket trigger a Zapier task to Summarize it 3. Summarize the item in MakeMySummary https://www.makemysummary.com. Although this is optional, i find it easier to have some sense of the item i bookmarked without reading/viewing it fully. And i built it in my spare time to solve this exact problem. 4. On Summary done, Zapier will make a Todoist Task for me to review at a later time

Added benefit with Pocket is its searchable, so if and when i need, i can look up something i bookmarked. Google links expire as several noted in the comments.

raveenb··on Ask HN: How to Beat Boredom?
Build a small aquarium and learn to care for the fish. No more than 10 fish. It's almost a zen exercise.

Boredom is good, its very hard to get bored these days with so many things needlessly wanting our attention.

But definitely try the aquarium.

raveenb··on Ask HN: How can I convince my coworkers to start a company?
attend startup weekends, hackathons and other places where such folks congregate. You may not get the right partner right away, but you will get to know the people who are in a similar boat as you. From there you have to do a trial and error to zero in the partners that suite you.
raveenb··on Ask HN: Where do you put your blogs?
Medium is the easiest to get going
raveenb··on Ask HN: Can my co-founder be a non-US citizen?
Perfectly doable. I have had the same experience. If you want a work visa for the cofounder then there may be additional cap table adjustments to be done. As you will have to prove that the non US person is not and cannot be self sponsoring for a work visa.
raveenb··on Show HN: App to summarize news/blog articles and YouTube videos
Its a Python-Flask-Gunicorn-Docker base with inferencing using PyTorch/FastAI CNN's and some AWS services. I will release a proper stack diagram in a while.
raveenb··on Show HN: App to summarize news/blog articles and YouTube videos
Founder here,

I built this app to summarize any News/Blog articles or Youtube videos into a few lines of text. It saves me time and attention from having to go through an entire article or video, instead, I can read the summary and decide if an article is worth my time to read further.

The app can be accessed as the website or via Zapier integration for those who are interested in automating their process. I have put in free and paid subscription plans as AI resources are not cheap to operate :(.

I integrated it with Zapier so that summaries can be automatically generated for content originating in from RSS feeds, Emails, Bookmarking software like Pocket, Youtube channels, etc

Looking for feedback!

Zapier users can click here for the beta invite of the integration https://zapier.com/developer/public-invite/64050/536dc46f726...

raveenb··on It took 12 weeks to ship an MVP I thought would take 3
Also the Viable part of MVP is subjective. As you build the MVP, your idea of what is viable changes. This needs to be accounted for. The minimum product has to be viable for a paying customer. If the MVP is not a paid product the you can get away with less polish, not so with paid products.
raveenb··on It took 12 weeks to ship an MVP I thought would take 3
My personal experience is that traditional software estimation techniques don’t work when done for a MVP situation. Yes it’s frustrating like hell to not know how long before your money, patience and interest runs out. In a non MVP situation some estimation models work, some 40% of time. But managers make it look like they work all the time. Cutting scope to hit deadline doesn’t count.
raveenb··on A dumb reason computer vision apps aren’t working: Exif Orientation
some of the object detection ai systems do actually rotate the images in 4 to 8 ways like in fast.ai. when trained with such input data, the ai detects the object in almost all orientations.
raveenb··on Ask HN: Have you known any devs that become great CTOs with no leadership exp?
Politics first, business next and then tech, and in that order is what you need to master. I have experienced it first hand, I was not ready for the first skill fully, takes a while for techies to warm up to it.
raveenb··on Culture Fit Interview Questions
Yes YMMV is my experience too following any of the suggestions. Sometimes I have hired the best and sometimes I have hired real snakes :) using such guidelines
raveenb··on Linux Terminal Goods
this is super awesome! love it, thanks for sharing spacevim is exactly what I have been looking for
raveenb··on Elsevier cuts off UC’s access to its academic journals
yes, this is the right way to go. public money is used to research and the public doesn't have access to the results is odd. ArXiv is the way to go at this time.
raveenb··on Raspberry Pi 4
Wow, this is such an bump up in the specs
raveenb··on Things I learnt the hard way in thirty years of software development
good one!
raveenb··on Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
more reason to use the Brave browser instead of Chrome. Essentially the Chrome browser without the Google bindings. Use the crypto features or not, it has been working for me and my mac runs way more cooler when i had been using Chrome.