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chandan_maruthi

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About chandan_maruthi

Founder at http://www.twig.so

Recent public activity

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    Comment #44626903

    Not saying it is an achievement. But it a concept I think must be well shared. And if you dont use AI in writing in 2025 you may as well live under a rock.

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    Comment #44624914

    Let me know what you think

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    I coined the word "Distributable Expertize"

    *Distributable Expertise: Why We’re Entering the Age of Shareable “Micro‑Robots”* I’ve been thinking about a new pattern in our community: experts aren’t just writing blog posts or…

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    AI Agents ≠ Zapier–A Better Mental Model

    Most AI agent ideas are lame; they’re essentially a glorified Zapier (I don’t hate Zapier; it has its place). I have been struggling to understand what a good AI agent should look …

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    Comment #44205726

    What do you mean by "Now begin littering hyperlinks throughout them"

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    Ask HN: Micro KB? FAQ? What is this thing?

    We did something interesting recently, but not sure how to proceed. Ideas are welcome. • Context: We (an AI for Support startup) recently onboarded a support team that had no forma…

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    Our society values unique takes

    Just realized. Our society values unique takes on subjects. They do not penalize bad takes; both good and bad takes receive the same value. To me, this seems to make sense. If ever…

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    The Yellow Notepad – Tamed My Messy API Pipeline

    Last week I spent three days wrestling with a data‑pipeline script. The API returned pages of JSON that—despite using cursors—felt impossible to checkpoint reliably. Every new edge…

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    Comment #42965029

    One more related question, are there any metrics around conversation rates to be aware of.

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    Ask HN: B2B SaaS Onboarding flow Free to try with/without CC?

    Hi we are getting ready to launch our first self onboarding flow at Twig.so. I love the idea of customers understanding what we do and getting started self serve without a "Book a …

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    Comment #37296308

    "custom dependency resolver" I am intrigued, Ill check it out.

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    Comment #37296196

    How do you handle dependencies like libraries?

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    Comment #37296143

    I can definitely relate. As an engineering manager, migration projects are often the least fun to work on. They are complex, take a ton of time and no one wants to work on them. If…

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    Comment #35282409

    Damm!!! I actually thought they shut down.

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    Comment #35084506

    U all just hungry?

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    Comment #35084204

    A an engineer and founder I can say this makes a ton of sense. There are often tons of generic screen very app needs to build that are just not worth the time building custom, I ca…

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    Comment #34314196

    Update: Still waiting on OpenAI to increase API limits after we hit hard limits after a popular HN post

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    Comment #34302726

    Thats an interesting use case. How would you think you would use it on RFCs

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    Comment #34302721

    Yes the only have a completions api now

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    Comment #34302649

    Dang, Hi, If you see just below the "add me to waitlist", There are live Chat Bots created for several companies you can try out right now. These chat interfaces are live and work …

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    Comment #34300905

    Just saw someone tried to hack/denial-of-serive the bot by just putting too many words in the prompt. (This hit triggers as usage is token based) . I just set a prompt limit of 100…

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    Comment #34300797

    Hi All, We had over 6,000k interactions and have hit OpenAIs hard api usage limits :-). I have requested OpenAi to increase limits. Until then the live chat with bot may be restric…

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    Comment #34300331

    Stuff that was very hard just a few years ago is now relatively easier to do. I guess that is the nature of technology.

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    Comment #34300111

    That must have been me :-), I realized the thumbnail and fav icons were not updated so made a push. Sorry about it. I saw people posting on Twitter and I had to update them for met…

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    Comment #34299896

    Ha ha ha ! You have a point, That would be the next problem to tackle. Probably try to determine if I should even try to answer a question before attempting it. And then not showin…