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imshashank

54 karma · joined September 16, 2014

Founder & CEO of Noveum AI (https://noveum.ai/) and creator of API.market.

I build developer infrastructure for production AI agents: structured traces, repeatable evaluations and configured voice/chat scenario tests. NovaPilot turns evaluated failures into recommendations that engineers review, implement and verify.

Previously part of the original AWS SageMaker launch team, with production ML experience at Amazon Prime Video and engineering leadership at Activeloop and Levity. Earlier ventures include Hopdata and PipFeed; early technical publishing includes HackItEasy and Dailyjag.

MS in Computer Science, The Ohio State University. Author of Intelligence at Scale: https://intelligenceatscale.ai/

Professional background: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shashankagarwal2/

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imshashank··on Words Matter: Alternatives for Charged Terminology in the Computing Profession
I think we can remove this for sure "abort, terminate child process".

Funny story my neice saw me write "git fetch" and thought I was playing a dog game (she loves dogs).

imshashank··on CEO blasts companies with billions in funding but zero revenue
Well that's the new AI Age! It's somehow all revenue is in the future.
imshashank··on Why Your AI Agents Are Hallucinating (and How to Stop It)
This article explains why agents hallucinate and how you can automatically detect and prevent it before your customers do.
imshashank··on Built an AI Gateway in Rust for routing OpenAI and Groq (What do you think)?
Thank you.
imshashank··on Discover the Ultimate Toolkit: Must-Have Hacking Software for 2023
The most potent hacking software of 2023, from the juggernauts of penetration testing to the subtlest backdoors.
imshashank··on Are there any AI speech-to-text model that can run locally on Mobile devices?
Interesting, thanks for sharing.
imshashank··on Are there any AI speech-to-text model that can run locally on Mobile devices?
Thanks for sharing.
imshashank··on Are there any AI speech-to-text model that can run locally on Mobile devices?
Wow, so it's possible. Any idea how are they doing this?
imshashank··on [dead]
Have you heard about the Faceswap API? It’s a neat piece of tech that lets you swap faces in images and videos. I’ve been thinking about how we can turn this into a solid income stream. Here are three practical ideas that could help you bring in $1,000 a month.
imshashank··on MagicAPI: Shopify for API Sellers
Hi, My name is Shashank and I am an API Seller myself and listed my APIs on RapidAPI (by the name of Pipfeed). After 2 years of my APIs getting new customer slowly, I reached around $1500 MRR on RapidAPI. Naturally I wanted to grow my business but it was impossible with RapidAPI. I needed an API Store that I could control. So, If I was going to set up a Sales pipeline withe email funnels and ads, I want to be able to track everything.

So I started working on an API store for Pipfeed APIs. But I realized it is a lot of work for just one API Seller to create this API Store. I had to create systems like Authentication, Analytics, Billing, User Portals and more.

I realized other API Sellers might have the same problem so I reached out to them and my intuition turned out to be true. Hence I decided to create MagicAPI. We have been building MagicAPI for quite sometime now.

MagicAPI is ready for launch and we are now onboarding new API Sellers. We are looking for 10 API Sellers who we will work with directly to improve their sales. We are happy to set up your Sales Pipeline, tracking, conversions etc.

Let me know if you want to be an API Seller at MagicAPI. Happy to onboard you.

P.S. Pipfeed's store on MagicAPI: https://app.pipfeed.com/

imshashank··on A.I. Powered News Extract API
Hi,

Thanks a lot for testing the API. I just tested with the above URL and the extract API worked.

Are there any links that didn't work? Please let me know and I can look it up.

Thanks for the help :-)

imshashank··on Ask HN: Why is IndieHackers website so slow?
This is so random to be asked on HN! Why don't you ask the founder.

But to be true, I do not think IH is slow. If there are a lot of comments then it might take time to load.

imshashank··on Some popular self help books
I really disagree. I think you haven't even tried reading the article or any of these books. To be true I was one of these people who thought all these "self-help" books are quite useless. I used to hate the word "self-help"

But these books changed my mindset. Let me share some insights from these books:

1) Fastlane Millionaire Told me that if I want to be a "Millionaire" then it's highly unlikely I will be one by working for others (a job) unless my job is super high paying. Also by having a job I am playing an almost no risk and less reward game. Instead if I just increase the risk profile lil bit my rewards will be must more increased. It's hard to explain everything in 2 lines, hence this books is number 1.

2) Creativity Inc How can creativity be nurtured and promoted.

3) Range I am one of those people who like to do multiple things and mostly mix my different passions and make something new.

6) The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau Startups don't need to be started with a lot of money. People are making it big.

7) Originals by Adam Grant Lessons from others that it is okay to think differently and it is okay to do things others might tell you not to.

These are some lessons I owe to these books.

imshashank··on Some popular self help books
So everyone, that is my personal list. I have read every single one of these books and have only shared them since I find them really helpful.

P.S. I chose a really bad day to move plugins, update site etc and that's why some of you were seeing the 502 errors. Sorry about that.

imshashank··on How to Build a Scalable SDK the Right Way (Learnings from AWS SDKs)
I used to been an engineer in the PHP SDK for AWS which is open-sourced on Github and anyone can look at the code published by the AWS teams. AWS manages over 8 SDKs including SDK for JAVA, ruby, python, javascript, PHP, go, C++ and few other languages.

Generally, it requires a significant number of engineers to manage just one SDK. To make sure all APIs and features are available across all SDKs is a big feat. In this post, we are going to talk about how to scale the SDK and how AWS is able to achieve perfect synchronicity across all SDKs without sloshing the SDKs team with manually updating each SDK.

Let me know what you guys think?

imshashank··on Top Articles for Digital Nomads
Best articles for digital nomads. Want to add a blog?comment on this post.
imshashank··on Top Articles in Future
So I created this blog to show parsed articles from all over the Internet. This one is just a list of top articles on category "Future"
imshashank··on Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser
Not the same as a desktop version.
imshashank··on Editmode: Make any website editable inline
As a kid, I used to love doing "document.designMode = 'on'"
imshashank··on Micro: Modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
The big questions, should I invest time in learning a new CLI tool?

I am not sure what is the use of Micro that I can't already do.

Do we really need an editor inside the terminal? My current setup vim + sublime.

imshashank··on Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative
Awesome product but definitely not a firebase alternative.
imshashank··on SpaceX NASA returning human spaceflight to United States today (canceled)
Love the new "Space" suits and the touch screen panel inside the capsule. This is going to be amazing. My prayers with the brave astronauts.