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248 karma · joined October 17, 2022

Mostly curious.
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agcat··on Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users
This is so weird and true. The most unfortunate thing is that a lot of these data enrichment platform where they encourage these workflows but its clear that end person doesn't appreciate it.
agcat··on What podcasts are you listening to?
Dialectic Podcast by Notion
agcat··on Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?
Actually i create sub folders with topics where i save them. So i mostly go through those folders to see
agcat··on Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?
Also, whatsapping myself
agcat··on Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?
I use chrome bookmarks and sublime app
agcat··on Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware
This is so damn cool. I remember 10-12 years ago i used to teach kids to do these things manually. This is a great product for kids to experiment and then run it real life on their kits.
agcat··on Ask HN: What (other) jobs do you think of doing?
I have a hunch being a great teacher that will become the most prominent field
agcat··on Ask HN: What do you want people to build?
I agree.
agcat··on Dear OpenAI and Anthropic Sales Leaders
What do you like about Gemini sales team?
agcat··on Ask HN: How Did You Validate?
I made my validation thesis and frameworks that i used to run discovery open - https://aishwarya-48913.medium.com/startup-pivots-how-we-ite...

And the process of defining ICP, finding them here - https://aishwarya-48913.medium.com/founder-led-sales-for-us-...

agcat··on HTTP Cats
This is hilarious
agcat··on The Value of Things
This is a really good piece especially the part on what and why makes sense to build with AI or not
agcat··on Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?
My egg maker.
agcat··on Ask HN: What makes someone hate their job?
I agree
agcat··on Ask HN: What makes someone hate their job?
and company culture does that matter at all?
agcat··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://aishwaryagoel.com/
agcat··on Ask HN: Moved to SF to build a startup. What next?
I was in a similar position around 1.5 years ago. What helped me was: 1. Reaching out to people on X sharing that i just moved, would love to meet with offering some ideas where i can add value. 2. 1-2 meetups initially via luma/partiful. Most of them are noisy but even if you meet 1-2 good people that leads to long term connections. 3. Signing up for hobby classes - Most of the people in SF are in tech so you end up meeting a lot of like minded folks. 4. Going to popular coffee shops/coworking to work. Serendipitous encounters are easy to happen here.

Good luck!

agcat··on Ask HN: Does your team spend more time on tech or on competitors?
I agree. But i just feel its easy to lose sight once you are just catching up on features to win deals because x competitor has it
agcat··on Ask HN: Does your team spend more time on tech or on competitors?
I agree. i have seen marketing and sales ( mostly just talking about competition). But I think if we care talking more about our product with just a sense of where competition is that should be better.Idk
agcat··on Making RSS More Fun
This is the best thing i read on internet today! Cant wait to try once its released for google chrome
agcat··on Ask HN: VC-funded startup lurking in my community Slack – how to respond?
I agree. Honestly just focus on building good product and customer relationships!
agcat··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
Writing and nurturing on my personal blog/website.

https://aishwaryagoel.com/

agcat··on Ask HN: How do you *actually* recover from deep technical/founder burnout?
I am currently going through it.

Some things which are helping me- writing ( I take out time to write about things/topics that I always wanted to), traveling off grid, most important for a while stopping to take actions on every single idea, thread to close etc

agcat··on Free software scares normal people
Love it.
agcat··on I wanted to work on a newsletter but I realized I was building a cage around it
I know, have been there. Another reason why i got a little away from substack is the trap towards vanity metrics sometimes. With notes etc its kind of becoming like a social media platform. It has its pros/cons. For some usecases, substack makes sense. But for my personal writing and more, i have been using bearblog which is amazing
agcat··on Ask HN: Why do engineers hate salespeople?
Yeah the downside is huge. I hope there was a way to reward engineering teams too for sales commission.. have you come across any company that doso?
agcat··on Ask HN: Why do engineers hate salespeople?
Sorry did not get who are these people who deal with the front line grunt work? Support/engineers?
agcat··on Ask HN: Why do engineers hate salespeople?
Interesting. Curious to learn more about this aspect of self actualisation of salespeople is worthless?
agcat··on Ask HN: Why do engineers hate salespeople?
That’s so dull. Why to create competition?
agcat··on Ask HN: Why do engineers hate salespeople?
I agree. What are some common behavioural aspect/traits that you observed in these salespeople/team that made them so great?
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