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mgummelt

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About mgummelt

Founder at Plato - mgummelt@plato.io

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    Comment #39695220

    You can't compare the accuracy of speech recognition to LLM task completion rates. A nearly-there yet incomplete solution to a Github issue is still valuable to an engineer who kno…

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    Comment #39682827

    Airtable itself lets you expose simple forms to the public internet. Then there are dedicated form tools like Fillout that let you build more complex forms that integrate with Airt…

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    Comment #39672386

    Plato ( https://plato.io ) is free for up to five users, then $20/user/month (Disclaimer: I'm a founder)

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    Comment #39620750

    I was only there for a few months!

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    Comment #39620073

    If revenue was stalled, the investors would have written it off and deferred to the founders.

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    Comment #39619941

    One factor that no one seems to have noticed is that both cofounders, Ravi and Joshua, have already built fairly big companies. Ravi was the co-founder at Heap (he took over my co-…

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    Comment #39444370

    Neat. But why did you build this instead of just using Jasper?

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    Comment #39424980

    > tools in general are a hard sell, maybe an extremely hard sell. All business software are tools.

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    Comment #39424974

    > I have yet to see it in practice I don't know where you work, but automated continuous deployment has been an industry standard for fifteen years.

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    Comment #39424964

    There are lots of examples in the use cases section of any low-code vendor, but in short, most internal tools are not in the horizontal categories you listed. They're in vertical, …

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    Comment #39403454

    Cool. How do you use it to generate the frontend CRUD interfaces?

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    Comment #39402580

    How do you use ChatGPT to write CRUD apps? Do you mean Github Copilot?

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    Comment #39402550

    It depends what you mean by CRUD app. Strictly speaking, the answer to your question is Airtable.

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    Comment #38558996

    Equals is an actual spreadsheet with read-only access to your warehouse. It's used for analytics and accounting. Plato is a visual database, similar to Airtable, with read-write (c…

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    Comment #38547897

    Cool. You might give our app, Plato, a shot as well. It gives you an Airtable-like UI on your database. https://plato.io

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    Comment #38223445

    Agreed. So far, building macros ( https://www.plato.io/blog/introducing-macros ), we've found that if you provide an easy and immediate way to map program elements to their meaning…

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    Comment #38121468

    Founder of https://plato.io here. We support concurrent editing, so you see updates from your teammates in realtime, but we just haven't built a frontend for it yet, so you don't g…

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    Comment #38117571

    Mostly, yea. It's generated from the sequence of actions the user takes in the UI, with a little bit of inference so we can detect, for example, that a user actually is trying to u…

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    Comment #38117154

    We're not looking for partnerships right now, but message me and I'm happy to chat about visual programming. Max/MSP is the OG (though we of course are bullish on macros vs. flowch…

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    Comment #38117009

    Definitely, though the semantics of field mappings often only exist in a user's head, so will need to be explicitly defined. English prompts will no doubt be a big part of Plato, t…

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    Comment #38116814

    Shameless plug, but Plato ( https://plato.io ) is a PG frontend. Email me if you don't find what you need: mgummelt@plato.io.

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    Comment #38116539

    We've run some experiments, and the answer is "sort of...sometimes...for some things". One of our customers, for instance, records macros that upload new users from their Plato tab…

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    Comment #35116200

    Ah, this is an overloading of terms. Plato virtual columns are not computed columns. They're new storage.