building your personal health assistant AI
@meetaugustai
🩺 prev: 2x founder, consumer biz • dumpin' real-time notes on things i'm curious abt & find joy in 🌱
we’ve ditched the trendy office cubicles for a cozy villa in an off-beat corner of b’lore. less chaos, more savings & our team's loving it. 🏕️
hack for teams in b'lore: villas like this actually cost shockingly less for the space they provide compared to typical office spaces.
You can learn more about running a company/business from
@shl
's "Gumroad Public Board Meetings" playlist than any MBA💰
This man's living proof that you can be relaxed and still achieve meaningful & impactful things in life🌱
not a quizzer, but wow, this was fun!!!✨big cheers to
@di_shawarma
for being an epic quiz master - framing the questions w/ answers cleverly hidden within!
pls follow
@internetfreedom
- incredible work on digital rights & online freedom in india. def going back to quizzing!
Wrapped up AI Agents Hackathon last weekend at
@meetaugustai
, amazing energy all around!
There were 18 really good projects ranging from a multi-language course creator to a platform to test LLMs against security vulnerabilities.
Here are a few that caught my attention 👇🧵
all the
@localfermentco
kombucha vanished at the ai agents hackathon. must have been brew-tally exhausting.
light, low-cal, refreshing af & packed w/ flavor. we’re always on the lookout for healthy, homegrown, f&b brands to collab with. 10/10 recommend LFC for your next event!
you don’t need to complicate getting your first 1,000 users.
be where they naturally are, where their intent aligns with what you offer.
we placed our qr codes next to payment qrs in pharmacies, where people were already using their phones.
it just made sense.
Attended a 'vision-boarding' gathering that was both intimate & meaningful✨
Went in with no expectations other than to meet people, but
@thesakshishukla
turned it into a refreshing & grounding experience. Sakshi's hosting skills were impressive: engaging & thoughtful!
Charming 2BHK in the heart of Koramangala, steps away from Third Wave ☕️, Sony Signal & Wipro.
Has a long, beautiful balcony with a curtain of trees🌳 You get the best sunset views from terrace (direct access). More deets & pics here:
Looking for 2
watched "good will hunting" last night - soul stirring movie. wish i'd seen this much earlier!🎥🤍
still can't believe it was written by matt demon & ben affleck though.
here's the summary of a brilliant character analysis of this movie by
@michaeltuckerla
('lesson from the
Hey there 👋
We are conducting user research to better understand the e-learning space.
This is a big ask from us. However, it'd be great if you can fill this form: in your available time. Thank you for your time!🌱🤍
we’re hosting an “AI Agents” hackathon at our cozy, beautiful villa turned hacker-house 🏕️ in b’lore on 7th-8th Sept '24 (2 weeks from now).
register from the link below and tag relevant folks👇
Looking for a flatmate to join us in our 5BHK house/villa in Indiranagar 🏡, few min walk from Indiranagar Social. We share our home with a furry friend🐈 & the room is available for immediate move in. DM if you're interested!
@BangaloreRoomi
@fmrbangalore
@fmrbangalore
we’re hosting an “AI Agents” hackathon at our cozy, beautiful villa turned hacker-house 🏕️ in b’lore on 7th-8th Sept '24 (2 weeks from now).
register from the link below and tag relevant folks👇
.
@fitclubblr
is back w/ yoga in nature followed by a breakfast mixer, this sunday🧘♂️
there's something magical about starting the day surrounded by greenery, fresh air and the sounds of birds chirping - it's like a reset button for the soul.
limited to just 20 folks, link below.
Hey there 👋
🚀Over the last 6 weeks,
@thehabbitat
had intense learnings and iterations around community building finally comes to an end as the first cohort members of Community Fund (
@TheProductfolks
) graduate this weekend.
@BhosalePratim
I drink electrolytes everyday (would recommend if your physical activity is high)
If there's one supplement I'd put at the top of everything else, it's electrolytes. Unbelievably underrated!
Buttermilk is an excellent option too. Pro-biotic, pro-gut & hydrating af!
@neilshroff
like
@sudu_cb
replied, we (
@sudu_cb
,
@pablomuralo
& i) run community called 'blueprint b'lore' - mostly practical longevity & anti-ageing practitioners.
we share experiences & support each other w/ supplementation, diagnostics (wearable sensors, blood work, DEXA, biological
Here's your chance to hear from 15 early-stage communities on how they are scaling up and understand how you can build your own community.
Tune in on 12th June 2021 at 7 PM IST for an engaging community demo day :slightly_smiling_face:
heard an eye-opening podcast (by
@snigdhasharma9
) on the accuracy (or rather the lack of it) & challenges of door-step diagnostics & at-home blood tests in india 🩸🔬:
🧵on a quick summary of this episode:
Can you read a doctor's prescription?📝
August (health assistant AI) can read & understand prescriptions - FREE on WhatsApp 24x7. Visit:
Saves lives & $$$/critical time for both patient & doctors. RT for those in need🙏
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hack for hacker houses 🏕️: camping in tents on the roof, under the stars, in the heart of b’lore.
if it’s a 20h+ hackathon, you might as well make the space comfy enough for quick power naps b/w coding sprints.
real hackathon vibes at the ai agents hackathon.🔥
if we consider the fundamental unit of society to be interactions, then exchange of value through these interactions becomes the driving force of capitalism.
wealth, in this sense, is just a by-product of that.
growing up in a south-indian household, my amma & ammamma infused every meal w/ love & artistry. they really loved the art of cooking. our family would always gather around a circular dining table, connecting & sharing our lives over meals. moving away made me realize how those
we at dastarkhwan took to mutton gluttony in traditional dindigul style. collaborating with ponram - a 50 year legacy brand who’ve just opened in bengaluru serving farm to plate, fresh self grown ingredients, head to toe goat & lamb meat - we curated a set menu to die for ✨
Love lookin' forward to
@kmr_dilip
's weekly roundup of health care startups/projects in 🇮🇳
It's encouraging - elevates visibility & shares the unseen/unheard entrepreneur stories. Especially valuable for the network & ecosystem in healthcare.
Health startups in India 🇮🇳
This is the 6th list in the series.
These are companies we've met at
@Rainmatterin
Health
The reason for this series
This week:
-Pandorum Technologies : A tissue engineering and regenerative medicine company solving to cure
@PortkeyAI
@meetaugustai
your support powered this 24 hrs of non-stop creation & building🙌cheers to more such events & building the hacker house culture in b'lore
@PortkeyAI
"Most of the time customers do not know what they want in advance" - Eric Ries
They quite often understand their problems but might have limitations to view potential solutions.
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses" - Henry Ford
Just had a quick brainstorming session along with
@raghavgoyal97
&
@sauravarya
. Learnt a lot from
@sauravarya
on making communities more interactive and engaging.
👉Here's a quick thread on few points which I'd jotted down by the end of the call:
@pseudonymtra
and (-)ve respect for hiring teams that demand extensive time/effort & drag candidates through multiple rounds, only to ghost & disappear into thin air.
Like learn to respect others' time, fgs!
“It used to be that people were born as part of a community, and had to find their place as individuals. Now people are born as individuals, and have to find their community.”
— Bill Bishop
When there are so many digital products out there, trust is what differentiates your product from rest of the products.
Building in public is one way to build trust at scale!
"People want to become wealthier to make them happier. Happiness is a complicated subject because everyone's different. But if there's a common denominator in happiness - a universal fuel of joy:
It's that people want to control their lives" -
@morganhousel
Often times, what people actually do is completely different from what they say.
"For a business to be truly customer focused, it needs to ignore what people say. Instead it needs to concentrate on what people feel" -
@rorysutherland
Tryna share insights through memes 😂
Rightfully so, biologically brain is trying to save as much energy as possible. Lesser the cognitive effort to understand nuances, more the energy that's saved.
"The reason we don't always behave in a way which corresponds with conventional ideas of rationality is not because we are silly: it is because we know more than we know we know.
'The heart has reasons of which reason knows nothing' - Blaise Pascal "
-
@rorysutherland
first things first, super proud of my dall-e skills for whipping up aesthetic posters 😂
@gowda_dhanush03
built "AI law advisor for startups". check out his work!🍻
We're living in a digital age, which has brought with it an abundance of information, but lowered attention spans, loss of human interaction and a lack of quality learning experiences.
"Writing with fire" (by
@RintuThomas11
&
@SushmitGhosh
) is a powerful capture of the India's only Dalit women-powered newspaper
@KhabarLahariya
. The power of real journalism!
Won 28+ international awards even. How did we not discover this earlier?😲
the constant access to a lot of health information can often do more harm than good.
information overload → health anxiety
google, for instance, frequently bombards users with scare-mongering details. this overexposure to medical information has led many to develop health
the biggest challenge in health & wellness right now may be the extreme abundance of (often extreme & opinionated) advice pouring in from all directions - a good percentage coming from well intentioned folks but still massively varying in multiple ways.
i understand *eat less.
we're expanding our team at
@meetaugustai
🚀
if you're a senior AI engineer passionate about making a difference in healthcare, we’d love to have you on board.
DM if you’re interested or tag someone you think will be a good fit below. 👇
i'd like to call it "putting fitness scenes"!🤷🏻♀️
all about fitness, nutrition, longevity & pursuing a healthy lifestyle 'together' - b'lore folks, come through!😁
Starting a fitness community - Fit club bengaluru!
To make the city more fit + form a tribe of folks into fitness & longevity
come through to:
1. learn + discuss everything fitness & longevity
2. join weekly meetups to workout, vibe and run together
hmu or drop a +1 for access
✅ Have a quick warm onboarding message and call with a new community member (
@discord
is a great platform for quickly hopping on a voice channel and having a chat with your users)
Make this personalized: "People might forget what you said but not how you made them feel"
Started having a casual conversation with
@nagaraju_raaj
on 'Team building while working from home' on twitter spaces, turned out to be very insightful.
Here are few snippets from this conversation 👇
Few examples of rituals:
1️⃣ Making sure everyone introduces themselves when they join the community
2️⃣ Have engaging weekly activities: virtual events, game nights, quizzes etc.
3️⃣ Try to have weekly video calls (depending on the users' comfort)
'bout this weekend: woke up at 5:30 am, headed to Raogudlu crag, did rock-climbing 3-4 routes for about 4-6 hours & earned my food indulgence later in the night!
'The problem is that real life is not a conventional science. The tools which work so well when designing a Boeing 787, will not work so well while designing a customer experience or a tax programme.'
just wasted 20 mins dying of laughter, listening to every dog breed bark 😂 googled how to pronounce 'dachshund’ & clicked the speaker icon, expecting a pronunciation but no, it's just the dog barking wtf xD
who decided this feature was necessary? who's out here needing to hear
spend the night coding & doing bbq 🍖 bonfire on the terrace & more stuff to keep you going. come & ship some cool stuff w/ us! doing our bit to revive the hacker house culture in b'lore 😁
In the age of internet, when there are zillions of available sources of information and knowledge, learning itself becomes skill.
It's so important to know how to:
1) Unlearn
2) Relearn how to learn
3) Learn
We’re hosting Fit Club Blr’s first event - A Cubbon Dosa Dash!
a workout + mixer for people passionate about fitness and longevity.
Schedule
- 3KM run (beginner friendly)
- 20 mins calisthenics workout
- Dosa and mixer
sign up link below
@gauravmunjal
We're building August () - world's best health assistant AI!
Available 24/7 for free on WhatsApp. Multi-lingual support w/ text & voice.
A team of doctors & engineers (alumni of IIT, BITS, Johns Hopkins etc.) from India 🇮🇳 for the Globe 🌍
@gauravmunjal
@VarathaVC
1. Are you addressing subsidised public transport or traffic congestion?
2. Increasing car pooling & subsidising public transport might enhance public transportation ridership, in turn, helping reduce traffic congestion?
3. Why prioritise this strategy?
@BhosalePratim
@PhonePe_
you know a product has penetrated the indian market deeply when a nariyal pani wala can navigate around the interface seamlessly
Types of activities in the day of a product manager that I learnt from High Output Management by Andrew. S. Grove:
1) Gathering information
2) Conveying information
3) Giving nudges (advocating a preferred course of action)
4) Making decisions (firm and clear directives)
🌻Summary of the feedback loop (inspired by
@ericries
's framework from "The Lean Startup") which we are experimenting with right now (thread)👇
✅ Learn: Figure out what we need to learn (about hypotheses and assumptions)
"Rushing features/software out the door by writing code about something that you don't have a proper understanding of to get some experience" is similar to monetary debt, called "Technical debt".
i recently started using "
@Swiggy
daily", and i’m genuinely impressed - not just as a consumer, but as an ex-business owner in the doorstep delivery of fresh, healthy homemade food from home chefs. 🥗
1. quick and consistent service:
- home-cooked meals delivered in just 15
✅ The power of rituals: "We are what we repeatedly do"
Try to have daily, weekly, or occasional rituals (depending on the product). These can bring everyone together and create a reason to keep getting back to the community.
🎁 Make sure to incentivize them for showing up!
The right thumb is the single most essential finger! (for right dominants & vice versa ofc)
Hurt it climbing rock yesterday - wasn't properly able to do a single damn thing today. Typing, driving, eating, holding, you name it.
Thumbs you guys, protect 'em! 😂
mutton broth (from
@BaglaNayantara
) is a soulful rasam in disguise - flavourful, comforting & healthy🍜
for someone who assaults his joints training jiu-jitsu & climbing regularly, just the idea of glucosamine chondroitin in my food 2-3x/week makes me feel invincible.
Bone Broth is Back! Doing a larger batch this week- to make up for being out of town all month afterwards!
Human and Pet suitable- both are available!
High on collagen and glucosamine! Only in BLR
DM to order
RT for reach please! 🐼
Love walking into Krumb kraft near BIC Indiranagar (top 3 places for any bread in B'lore) - my fav ritual.
Got pleasantly surprised w/ the tastiest coffee bun & carrot-walnut loaf I've ever had, yesterday.
Nothing satisfies like fresh baked bread (melting tender crumb)🥖
spotted this heart shaped red traffic light recently. gotta admit, surprisingly brightened my traffic mood! 😅
turns out, it's a move by
@ManipalHealth
to raise heart health awareness ♥️🚦
here i was thinking abt the genius behind this smart design to influence perception 😂