Kartik @Kdeshpande3 Twitter profile

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

27 days

spent some time this weekend hacking on something very original

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

5 months

if a startup has 2 cofounders i think one of them needs to be rooted in reality and the other one needs to be insane

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

10 months

Built in 20 mins using @OpenAI and @streamlit 📣 Introducing UI Auditor Upload a picture of your app's UI and get feedback from GPT GPT-Vision is crazy man I'm gonna build a million wrappers Link below if you want to try it 👇🏽

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

11 months

YC this YC that Y don’t u go C a therapist bro

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

8 months

onboarded our first customer today so we are officially a real company with real customers and a product first time i’ve experienced 0 -> 1 as a founder is this what crack feels like

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

9 months

my mac broke last night which has made me realize i do literally nothing besides working on startups and lifting weights already went to the gym today, no idea what to do with myself until my new computer comes

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

3 months

got rejected from YC but won 5 straight games of pickleball so who's the real winner here

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Here's what I'm building during n&w s4 I've always struggled with planning my time effectively and being consistent each week I thought it'd be dope to build something that helped w this, so thats what I'm doing Roast me in the replies cc @_buildspace @_nightsweekends

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@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Week 1 done Waitlist has grown 208% I’m just getting started Watch me tweet a company into existence cc @_buildspace @_nightsweekends

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Week 2 We are cooking

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

3 months

s5 back like we never left cc @_buildspace @_nightsweekends

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Week 2 in the books Launched in private beta Did 3 user interviews Waitlist grew 102% Are you not entertained cc @_buildspace @_nightsweekends

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

5 months

@srb1337 i think this way you equalize each other and go after things that are very ambitious but also not impossible

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Week 2 of n&w s4 Building a toy, this is what it looks like rn I think it’s pretty fire, but UX definitely needs improvement Looking for feedback, pls roast me in the replies cc @_buildspace @_nightsweekends

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Does anyone wanna start beef on here I'm 14.97M impressions away from the 15M I need to get paid

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

8 months

my moat is that i will simply outlast everyone and i will never stop improving

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

2 months

@inkev_kevin txt file in public github repo open source it

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

9 months

After 347 days, Apollo is no longer a pre-revenue company

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

11 months

Second Reel passed 1,000,000 views I am no longer a one hit wonder

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

3 months

rewrote my idea slide so it actually makes sense (i think) cc @_buildspace @_nightsweekends

Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

3 months

in all my prev projects, people churn bc they couldn’t quickly figure out how to use it thought it'd be cool to build a widget that can be added to an app and learns how to use it then when user asks a question, an ai cursor guides them wyt cc @_buildspace @_nightsweekends

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

From a beta user There is no team It’s just me

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

5 months

📣 Announcing Astra: Your email-first chief of staff Email is the most trusted tool on the internet, with 4.2 BILLION users worldwide Astra turns your inbox into a command center where you can deploy AI agents to work for you Link below to try it out!

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Built a simple scheduling algorithm Put your task in, it finds time on your calendar to work Really simple, but will improve fast What u think cc @_buildspace @_nightsweekends

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

@mwalts0 @webdevMason No bro it’s a psyop trust me bro they’re coming for our kids bro

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

2 months

week 2 featuring my lego lamborghini cc @_buildspace @_nightsweekends

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

5 months

YC this YC that Y don’t you touch grass bro

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Built a toy This is just the beginning Soon Apollo organizes your work Apollo plans your work You just do what it says and 10x your life cc @_buildspace @_nightsweekends

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

11 months

What do you say to someone who hits you with the “Yea bro let’s split it 50/50, I’ll handle the business side and you handle the coding side” Mf

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

What an incredible 6 weeks Shoutout @FarzaTV and the whole @_buildspace team for putting together a great s4 On to demo day

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

stepping out of my comfort zone I hate making videos, especially w my face in them But @FarzaTV challenged everyone in n&w s4 to try it, so here it is cc @_buildspace @_nightsweekends

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Here's my goal for the end of n&w s4 This is the first time I've worked on a project that people are actually excited about By Sept 16, I want to launch and make it so useful that people pay for it cc @_buildspace @_nightsweekends

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

11 months

1 million percent growth month over month Reels is really the real deal

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

6 months

startup advice if you’re failing pivot to succeeding

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Startup bf, real job with a 401k and health insurance gf

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

As it turns out, startups are hard lol

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Showing off my toy a bit more I used it to find time on my calendar to finish the weekly update! Pretty fire Functionality is still limited, but iterating fast cc @_buildspace @_nightsweekends

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Week 3 I am definitely up to something

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Here's my demo day video for n&w s4 I built Apollo -- an app that uses AI to plan your work Thank you to everyone who has supported Apollo. Hundreds of you have signed up, and I can't wait for you to try it out! cc @_buildspace @_nightsweekends

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

4 months

this guy has bought, built, borrowed, or banned every social media platform in human history

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Waitlist grew 38% today All organic Probably nothing though Idk I didn’t go to business school

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

⚡️ Introducing Apollo, an AI assistant that plans your work for you Apollo plans your work according to your preferences, so you can stay on top of deadlines and get more done If you want to try it out — drop a 🤑 below and I’ll DM you a link cc @_buildspace @_nightsweekends

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Week 4 We iterating

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Week 4 done Learning how to do user interviews properly Nothing can stop me now cc @_buildspace @_nightsweekends

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

@luke_metro @AviSchiffmann Can’t forget rideshare and food delivery so they could get to the lab and eat

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

11 months

Posted the same exact short on TikTok and Reels TikTok: 285 views, 40 likes Reels: 491,000 views, 26,000 likes What

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

5 months

@personofswag scrolling through the replies and realizing i’ve never had a unique experience in my life

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

5 months

@sama does it say delve more or less often than before

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Gonna make 1 chatGPT wrapper per week until I am worth a billion dollars

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

8 months

Had a great time interviewing @OfficialLoganK at our AI tinkerers Chicago meetup last night! We talked multimodality, GPTs, assistants api, and what the future looks like Our next meetup is 2/20, you should be there cc @drivecapital @landon20s

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

✨Apollo has a whole new look Built a new task creation view, working on lots of other updates If you are: ✅ a founder, freelancer, or indiehacker ✅ Someone with adhd ✅ Someone who wants to get more done Check out the link in my bio cc @_buildspace @_nightsweekends

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

10 months

If your startup got “killed” yesterday, I’m sorry to say but you never had a startup to begin with lmao

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Graph won't stop going up gotta give the people what they want I don't make the rules

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Still don’t know what CORS is

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

11 months

ANNOUNCING AI TINKERERS CHICAGO MONTHLY MEETUP 11/8 @ 5pm Come hang out with Chicago’s top AI talent and share what you’re working on Meet no-nonsense highly technical tinkerers building autonomous agents, RAG systems, and lots of other crazy shit RSVP below 👇🏽

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

My toxic trait is that I buy a new domain and then go straight to Zillow and start looking at beach houses

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Men used to go to war Now they pay AWS $1.17 every month bc they can’t figure out how to turn off an EC2 instance from 4 years ago I am men

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Week 5 I am in the arena (Quarantined in my parent’s basement)

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

10 months

📣Introducing Email Artisan I built a custom GPT that writes great cold emails for you @OpenAI GPT builder is very cool, lots to explore Going to add some sort of database and maybe a way to directly send as well Link below to try it out 👇🏽

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Moved to Chicago to work on full time! Excited to be part of the future that @landon20s , @ClaudeCimeus and many others are building in this city!

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Didn’t crack the top 50 but I still think what I’m working on is pretty dope If you’re a freelancer, indie hacker, or someone with adhd who wants to be more productive, I’m building it for you Link in bio if you wanna check it out cc @_buildspace @_nightsweekends

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@_nightsweekends

1 year

s4 had many incredible builders. here are 50 of them that almost made it to final 32. click on their handles + check out their demos :) p.s. twitter only lets us tag 50 ppl lol. 1. @_mehrdude -- building a tool that helps people find medical care globally. 2.

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Changed the description a bit so that people can better understand exactly what apollo is Waitlist has been blowing up, got lots of stuff cooking for this next week. Excited to see where it goes! cc @_buildspace @_nightsweekends

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

11 months

ChatGPT with vision is insane bro I just take a picture of the SaaS I want to clone and it clones it for me None of you mfs are safe I’m coming for all the B2b SaaS

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

I'm building an AI assistant that plans your work for you. If you are someone who: ✅ is a freelancer, indie hacker, or founder ✅ has ADHD ✅ wants to be more productive then hit me up - i'll dm you a link to join our early access Slack Community

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

6 months

born too early to explore the universe born to late to explore the earth born just in time to send cold emails

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Week 3 done Number of users grew 100% this week Started a slack community Iterating on the product This is just the beginning cc @_buildspace @_nightsweekends

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

7 months

@OfficialLoganK @OpenAIDevs you should add one consistent example/tutorial for how to make an assistant, create a thread, add message, poll for response, use a function call rn it’s all kinda spread out, would be nice to have one long example instead of a bunch of small ones

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Today I’m launching my new startup ✨ Run your freelance business on autopilot with AI-powered project management, invoicing, and client outreach. Maximize productivity, automate admin, and ensure you're paid on time! Learn more 👇

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

8 months

once i learn how to spell entrerepreneurship it’s over for you mfs

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

10 months

Post @OpenAI Dev day hack session Just me, Diet Coke, and the lights from the Hancock building There has never been a better time to be a developer

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

5 months

anthropic is great shoutout @alexalbert__ for increasing my rate limits so Astra can stay up will have fewer outages going forward link below if u wanna try it

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

11 months

In 2019 this would have been considered AGI

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Kartik

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1 year

@nikitabier

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7 months

early stage founders explaining their TAM calculation

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Moved to Chicago to work on my startup, first 2 weeks have been great! ✅ Built UI for , getting ready to launch ✅ Got lunch with @xaviablaza ✅ Went to PMF workshop @landon20s office by @ellieINchicago ✅ Went to the beach! Who should I meet next?

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

11 months

The future is being built on discord servers you’ve never heard of

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

6 months

@JimmyRis raytheon

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

People who taught themselves how to build hardware — how did you do it? Are there any starter projects that were useful?

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

10 months

Someone should start a startup that makes it not get dark at 4:30pm in November

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

11 months

Reels organic content is starting to hit I like green numbers

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Cleaned up the UI for SiteChat's widget. Looks a lot nicer now! Try it out: #buildinpublic

Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

I spent last weekend building with ChatGPT's API & Pinecone. I'm launching the project today! You can create a custom ChatGPT style chatbot for your website using: Your chatbots can be added to any website as a widget! @OpenAI @pinecone @LangChainAI

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

7 months

The AI community in Chicago is on the move In the span for 4 months, @AITinkerers Chicago has gone from 20 people to 150+ Our next meetup is on 2/20 If you’re building anything with AI and you’re in Chicago, this is the place to be Sign up below 👇🏽

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Me after buying another domain with no real intention of using it

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Who is building chat with pdf This is an untapped market opportunity

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Working on cleaning up onboarding Idk if I love the colors though What do you think cc @_buildspace @_nightsweekends

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

9 months

It’s wild that you can just teach yourself anything

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

2 months

another successful @aiclubchicago meetup in the books had a great time interviewing @DomScandinaro , listening to @MichelangeloDA and watching some sick demos always great when @jheitzeb is in the house too! excited for #11 in august! cc @landon20s @LyingWithStats

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

6 months

thought i was depressed but turns out i just needed it to be 70 and sunny in chicago

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Feeling a lack of clarity in my life, time to go on an 11 mile walk

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Refactored some code and now the whole product is broken I love JavaScript

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

11 months

@erenbali This is literally Chicago

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

6 months

@willdepue i mean yea they did reimagine it, just not in a good way

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

I’m a “run the whole company on Apple notes” kinda guy

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

using AI to write your tweets is such a cop out Scream into the void like the rest of us Otherwise what is the point of this app

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Improved SiteChat's mobile page, and added the classic typing animation to bot responses ✨ Iterating my way to $1k/mrr! Try it out: #buildinpublic

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

10 months

The more I play with the Vision API, the more I’m convinced this is the next big thing GPTs will probably keep getting all the hype, but in the long run, the capabilities unlocked by vision will dwarf everything else

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

7 months

currently visiting india for the first time in nearly 10 years i am amazed at how much progress has happened they’ve basically rebuilt the entire country in the same time it takes to put up a stop sign in the US

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

10 months

Earlier this month, we hosted Chicago’s second AI tinkerers meetup We had people who were: ⁃Using GPT-vision to lift weights with better form ⁃Using LLMs to address the migrant crisis ⁃Researching glitch tokens and crazy prompt injection exploits 🤯 ⁃And much more… If you

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

4 months

feels like there are some parallels with foundation models now and early internet companies @paulg essay from 2004

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

3 months

in all my prev projects, people churn bc they couldn’t quickly figure out how to use it thought it'd be cool to build a widget that can be added to an app and learns how to use it then when user asks a question, an ai cursor guides them wyt cc @_buildspace @_nightsweekends

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Kartik

@Kdeshpande3

1 year

✨ Apollo Update: Redesigned sidebar! I’m building an AI productivity coach to help you get more out of the day If you’re someone who: - Is a freelancer or indie hacker - Has ADHD - Wants to get more out of life Check out the link in my bio cc @_buildspace @_nightsweekends

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@Kdeshpande3

1 year

Older people’s relationship with emergent technology is so interesting A lot of older people in my family (grandparents etc) are really skilled mathematicians They’re super interested in AI, and they’re able to understand how it works at a fundamental level really fast But

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