nithayakumar

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by nithayakumar 2y ago
Oh man - i've been watching you guys for awhile. We're YC too and building a superapp for sales ppl. Any killer use cases you've seen or imagined for sales (outside of prospecting vid customization?
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by nithayakumar 2y ago
I strongly recommend people give this a try. Its got so many quality of life features (like picture in picture).
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by nithayakumar 3y ago
Just Weta FX - those were the guys and gals that used Weta tooling for producing films and such. Not Weta Tools - those are the guys and gals building and maintaining the Weta tools
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by nithayakumar 3y ago
I was going to come here and say exactly this at the risk of being flamed. Love seeing this at the top
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by nithayakumar 3y ago
Very cool. We're working on something similar but we went more narrow because its really hard to unravel the business context from just the data alone. Ours is ponyrun.ai if you want to check it out. Also open to chat and share learnin
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by nithayakumar 4y ago
Ive seen data sets like this and they've been bad. My main issues have been that dataset isn't kept updated, theres no sense of proportion (e.g. is 1% of the team java or 50%), and there's often not enough companies in the da
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by nithayakumar 4y ago
Awesome - lots of potential here. Lots of folks are asking "who is this for?". I think that's because the people that should use this don't know that they should yet. And it's probably missing the hotel/car ang
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by nithayakumar 4y ago
Does this hold true if you charge $150 for lifetime license vs $50? I think you have a pricing problem. This is what I see for you: Subscription Monthly = $84 / year Subscription Annual = $50 / year Lifetime = $50 One Time If I se
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by nithayakumar 4y ago
Congrats on the launch. YC W22 founder who loves gaming and used to work in the gaming industry here. Love the concept and I'm excited to see how you guys grow
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by nithayakumar 4y ago
There's data providers that sell this info. If you didn't put it on LinkedIn, the spam callers got it through different ways (sales tooling, direct from data providers, leaks, etc.) If you're putting your phone number out any
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by nithayakumar 4y ago
Yeah - we've (usenimbus.com - a company in this space) have heard the same about Jetbrains IDEs. You should check out our extension (or others') because there's been a lot of work put into making performance better. M1s are a
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by nithayakumar 4y ago
Thats definitely one way to do it. Im a founder at a remote dev infra startup (usenimbus.com) and this was the model we started with because it was just so simple. But we quickly learned theres no one size fit all solution so expanded into
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by nithayakumar 4y ago
>> you need to lack alternatives I dont believe this. Went through YC this year and many of the founders had great alternatives. You could say that none of the alternatives were as attractive... but thats how all decisions are made
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by nithayakumar 4y ago
No but even if true, being stupid doesn't mean they should get scammed
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by nithayakumar 4y ago
Extremely biased here. I'm one of the founders of Nimbus (www.usenimbus.com) and we help companies move to cloud dev environments. Cloud dev environments are a tool like any other. How they're designed matters. A lot of home grown
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by nithayakumar 4y ago
Congrats on the launch. I've worked in environments with structured and unstructured standups. And the former is so much more impactful.
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by nithayakumar 4y ago
Gitpod competitor here - www.usenimbus.com We've made a lot of the opposite decisions and often wonder if we went the right way. Still don't know if it's the right decision but at least our thinking wasn't wrong - so tha
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by nithayakumar 4y ago
I cofounded a company and had my first kid 4 months later - it was brutal. I took 2 weeks off completely but then had to take a bunch of days after because babies are hard work. What I would do next time: - Take more than 2 weeks (lol) - Co
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by nithayakumar 4y ago
I think more people on remote environments does lead to better overall experience. But the incremental benefit for each additional team member drops until everyone is working on the cloud - because then you can do some cool things or stop d
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by nithayakumar 4y ago
I've tried so many MKs. This one is almost perfect. I don't like the big digits in the number row but can live with it. But I need more tactile switches :) Looking forward to the release
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by nithayakumar 4y ago
For engineers, the most immediate wins here are cutting build/test times with more power, removing new project setup, and reducing environment error rate and troubleshooting. It also gives more visibility into environments which help S
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by nithayakumar 4y ago
Nish from Nimbus here. The cost of a laptop is a factor but its a drop in the bucket relative to the cost of an engineer. A $4k machine over 2 years on an engineer that has a fully loaded cost of over $200k/yr is only 1% of the total c
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by nithayakumar 4y ago
1. The usage based fee goes up or down based on the hours used. So if you use 60 hours / week, expect it to be double the estimates. In a few months, we'll be launching our "self-hosted" option that lets you avoid usage
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by nithayakumar 4y ago
We're working on self-hosted right now. When that comes out, you'll be able to do exactly what you want without any usage fees from us (you'll take on the AWS usage, storage, load balancer, and other fees though).
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by nithayakumar 4y ago
Yeah - the targets are different. Thats probably why comparing the pricing seems odd too. Even our lowest tier has more dedicated memory (so its more expensive for us too). But don't get me wrong - I think Replit is really cool but jus
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by nithayakumar 4y ago
Noted and very fair comment - thats definitely an area that we want to upgrade.
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by nithayakumar 4y ago
Facebook definitely does it. Thats where we first learned about this way of working. Some bigger tech companies have actually written about it (see links below) but a list of ones that we've seen with this kind of infra include LinkedI
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by nithayakumar 4y ago
Nish from Nimbus here We have some loose plans but not really high up to be honest. From a traveling perspective, it works well... as long as you have internet..you get fast download speeds (based on AWS data center transfer speeds), can wo
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by nithayakumar 4y ago
Nish from Nimbus here. This is on the money. The challenge though is still giving engineers flexibility/freedom. Our approach is to have templates that engineers can use but they can fork it and play around with it, make a snapshot of
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by nithayakumar 4y ago
Nish here. Let me address the run time and pricing question - my cofounder wants to touch on the other question. Teams have told us that they want to avoid 24/7 machines. It gets really expensive (and wastes energy) when people keep cr

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