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aranibatta··on Pantograph: Building a preschool for robots
Reminds me of the GDM robots! I'm super excited about getting to play with one soon!

https://www.techeblog.com/google-deepmind-ai-mini-humanoid-r...

aranibatta··on How (and why) to be a good customer
I think engineers would be better at sales if they were better customers.
aranibatta··on Show HN: Mastra – Open-source JS agent framework, by the developers of Gatsby
Congrats on launching! Curious how early the Mastra team thinks people should be thinking about evals and setting up a pipeline for them.
aranibatta··on Show HN: XHR anti bot bypass (xhr.dev)
I could see another tier that comes with 1,0000-10,000 included requests included at 1/10 of the cost being a good idea. Might be really hard for a small startup to support those customers out the gate though!
aranibatta··on Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative
Less aggressively, pricing is a historically bad way to create urgency in software
aranibatta··on Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
This post is a right of passage
aranibatta··on Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
I think if EVERY tool you use at work is in the Office suite, teams is just better. If you have any other tools like one off SaaS or devTools, Muddy could be a fit.
aranibatta··on Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
Curious what you had in mind?
aranibatta··on Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
Yes, the lag is the main problem. Certain distros and setups don’t work with wine. Mine doesn’t, but I’m sure it’s a tractable problem.
aranibatta··on Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
Team is a handful, fluctuated over the years but never more than 8.

We’ve always treated everything we do as an experiment. We’re not trying to keep anything alive for the sake of it.

aranibatta··on Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
I think we might have more base interfaces (notes, sheets) but we want to encourage people to keep building first class software. All in one is worst of all
aranibatta··on Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
You're correct. Don't really need to do anything with your data as well. I will change.
aranibatta··on Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
Ty for the catch, correcting now. Seems to be for the invite and update emails?
aranibatta··on Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
yup, that's Muddy. One of our users described it as a self healing slack channel with tab groups.
aranibatta··on Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
Nothing sophisticated right now unfortunately. But we're planning on releasing a version where all servers, models, and build CI for the app are self-managed. Let me know if that's of interest.
aranibatta··on Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
Previous projects of ours include: sail.online nototo.app

This is the first one with real traction and retention, so it's the first time we started to share on HN. Wanted to make sure it was GA and not a waitlist before we came here

aranibatta··on Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
Yeah, unfortunately there's no real way to deliver on a consumer experience on top of another browser. Craziest implementation I can think of is writing a MacOS app that's a wrapper, but obvious distribution/compatibility issues there.
aranibatta··on Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
Google Wave for the web has been one of the more popular ways to describe Muddy. I didn't see it at first, but I'll take it :)
aranibatta··on Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
check the timestamp: https://x.com/SlackHQ/status/367835012315357184
aranibatta··on Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
That's the general idea. We found that if you break down the average team's project slack channels, it's a bunch of urls and threads about them. Just wanted to make that experience simple!
aranibatta··on Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
We have Ubuntu and Fedora users through Wine. Not ideal I know, but enough to try out unless you have a super custom Arch setup
aranibatta··on Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
Most of the stuff we do that people seem to really like can't be technically or physically done inside of another browser's tab unfortunately. Chrome extensions are too limiting as well. We started off as a chrome extension inside of our previous company, and hit a wall pretty quickly.

For the LLM calls, the one's you currently see are patching calls to a variety of model providers. As long as they hold their end of the TOS you should be fine. Everything else is happening locally.

We will launch a self-host option for Muddy. Cool features like hosting the servers and build process yourself, custom icon and skin on the app, and other internal rules you can set up. Let me know if that's of interest.

aranibatta··on Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
You can actually check out all the material from the pivots inside the app. There's a walkthrough in the Getting Started space when you first set up.
aranibatta··on Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
I can't say we haven't heard that. Surprisingly, it's usually more of a TL or most Senior Eng who seems to like those presence features. A lot less cat herding across apps for them.

We have less traction with PMs. Most of the feedback from them implies they like being bombarded with Slack notifications even if they say they don't.

aranibatta··on Launch HN: Muddy (YC S19) – Multiplayer browser for getting work done
Not yet, in the pipeline. Depending on your distro (Ubuntu and Fedora) have users through Wine.
aranibatta··on Ask HN: YC misses that went on to do well (like veed.io)
Fairly sure that Notion and Roam are both YC rejections. While Roam isn't quite at the same level, Notion is a healthy business at venture scale, a meaningful miss to the YC portfolio.
aranibatta··on Ask HN: YC misses that went on to do well (like veed.io)
Fairly sure Roam and Notion are both rejected. While Roam isn't there yet, Notion is a very healthy business at venture scale.
aranibatta··on Ultrasonic Payments
Crazy to see a Clinkle demo 8 years late
aranibatta··on Explaining to my parents what I do
nice read neel
aranibatta··on I want a computer that I own
yup, https://sail.so
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