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disclosure: i'm an eng on this team sales is a really interesting breeding ground for the first wave of vertical agents: - success metrics are well-defined (did we get an email res…

I summited Mt Whitney last fall, a trail that 1) is notoriously hard to get a permit for and 2) requires all waste to be packed out via Wag Bags. I was surprised to see a dozen or …

o3 has yet to fail me on complex, multi-table queries. Not a fan of BigQuery’s Gemini integration.

would love to use this but def need soc2 to justify it to our security folks

I was trying my best to finish quickly, initially in hopes of making the NYC Marathon. The "best" way to do the trip is probably to take everything in and have a few zero days, pot…

check out the map! https://map.brooks.team

i was a little worried about bears for the night or two i was in bear country but my fear of cars and weather was far more top of mind

i didn't look into different tires. my hypothesis is that most of my flats can be attributed to all the weight being on the back tire. favorite part was jumping into extended conve…

After shutting down my startup in summer 2024, I was burned out and unsure what to work on next. Before jumping into another startup, I decided to bicycle across the country. I bui…

I wrote up a retrospective on my time working as a founder at DirectAI ( https://directai.io ). We learned a lot and I wanted to share some things I wish I had known ~18 months ago…

We’ve been running our company’s friends and family newsletter on buttondown for more than a year and love it! Congrats on the domain purchase.

You may consider starting with what you consider to be a reasonable price and doubling the price for every subsequent customer until they start to churn during pricing discussions.…

Update: Thanks for your recommendations everyone! We decided to go the route of measuring successful hits on the endpoint associated with our docs (inside our monitoring service). …

on second read, this is something that is set up on the service-side. I.e. if our service goes down, we would also stop sending data to Signoz Cloud. We wouldn't be able to run a s…

ah, this is the answer I was hoping for. thank you!

thanks! this has been recommended by others. I'm not feeling excited about migrating to another monitoring service but it might be the right move.

Hey there! My team is hosting an API that sends open telemetry data to Signoz & manages on-call via PagerDuty. We've configured Signoz to hit Pagerduty when there's a series of 500…

Disclaimer: I’m one of the founders We’re working on text/image prompted vision models at DirectAI ( https://directai.io ). We help clients do detection of bespoke objects by defin…

Starting today, DirectAI’s Zero-Shot Image Classification & Object Detection APIs are public. Define classes and objects exclusively in natural language - no training data required…

helpful context, just sent for discussion in our team slack

this is sick!

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