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arsalanb

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About arsalanb

a at livedocs.com @arsalanbashir on Twitter

Building Livedocs, a modern day office suite. We're hiring!

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    Congrats on the launch! Very impressive product!

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    I'm surprised that the developer experience around sandboxing on macOS is generally so bad. Seatbelt is in limbo and apple containers are just a pain to work with as some have high…

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    Comment #46986945

    I will charge you $100 to answer that question

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    Comment #46979828

    We weren’t affected, but as a startup I’ll take a minor outage over getting stonewalled by GCP/Azure/AWS any day. Railway has consistently been responsive and actually understands …

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    Comment #46968923

    We include $5 in credits for every new account, after which you can pay-as-you-go for credits. I can drop some more credits in your account so you get to try it out fully, let me k…

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    Comment #46966397

    Livedocs runs locally on your machine or on customer-managed infra, has full terminal access, supports canvas mode for building custom UIs (not just charts), and uses long-running …

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    Comment #46966168

    True! Tried to do that with the video + the example prompts but definitely could use improvement. Thanks for the feedback

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    Comment #46965961

    In our case, in order to run the queries we need to provision a sandbox and connect to your data sources to give meaningful answers, unlike a general purpose chat. We need to have …

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    Launch HN: Livedocs (YC W22) – An AI-native notebook for data analysis

    Hi HN, I'm Arsalan, founder of LiveDocs ( https://livedocs.com ). We're building an AI-native data workspace that lets teams ask questions of their real data and have the system pl…

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    Comment #44709246

    Working on Livedocs.com We are building a modern alternative to Jupyter, something like Cursor meets Jupyter.

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    Comment #44091893

    https://livedocs.com An AI data scientist for serious data work. Think of it like an AI native Jupyter notebook.

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    Comment #43791384

    Check out livedocs.com, we built a notebook around Polars and DuckDB (disclaimer: I'm the founder)

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    Comment #43625792

    We use Vega pretty heavily, its a broader ecosystem. Where it really shines is in combination with Altair and Vegafusion to do number-crunching on the backend and return a chart sp…

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    Comment #41114884

    Is the Python code executing via Pyodide in the browser?

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    Comment #40562682

    Out of curiosity, what took you 10 years? Keen to hear your journey as someone building in the same space..

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    Comment #40279595

    I see, thanks!

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    Comment #40279349

    Assuming you use a connection pool, why would it stop? Either the query returns a result or it doesnt? Am I missing something?

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    Comment #40279272

    Noob question: What is the advantage of replicating data into a warehouse vs. just querying it in place on a postgres database?

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    Comment #39782094

    That sounds like a great add! Will add this in over the weekend!

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    Show HN: Timefinder – a simple way to find a team to chat across timezones

    Being a remote team means we'd sometimes send calendar invites where somebody was dialing in in the wee hours of the morning, or late at night. Timezones are complex! It's so easy …

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    Comment #38264378

    This is great, especially to introduce new devs to models. I use (and love) TablePlus ( https://tableplus.com/ ) which has a diagram generator plugin that does the same!