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Yes so heartbreaking!
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Horrible stuff. Life is so unpredictable. RIP Jota. 😓
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Tried booking an autorickshaw in Chennai on Uber and Rapido. The app shows a price, but no driver accepts it. Then I get a pop-up asking me to add ₹50/100/150 to "increase my chances." What's the point of showing a price if drivers just wait for higher bids? The algorithm's pricing is too low for drivers (? from experience, I don't think it's low), so they game the system, and riders end up paying more. The whole experience feels unfair. I might as well hail an auto and negotiate directly - it seems to be often cheaper now. It's always an eye-opener to see what these companies are doing/testing in other markets.
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a nice break after a long time. Second half of 25 is going to be about pivots. Looking forward to building more.
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Restart app notification doesn't work. Freezes the app. Scrolling is choppy in profile feed (not the main news feed) - this started happening after banner image. Clicking on profile image/name sometimes doesn't work as expected (doesn't work most times). S24u running Android 15.
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Bengaluru airport - in a league of its own. Mega impressed.
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It's a solid product for reading news, tracking sports score, following stock market (e.g. live earnings call summary transcript), and overall good at chat too. Their assistant on Android works much better than ChatGPT - both integration and ux. Am not surprised at all that Apple and Meta have approached them.
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Too many tiers and levels of membership. New users will be confused (e.g. warpcast vs farcaster), and possibly annoyed that have to take all these steps to get visibility.
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It's a commerce company. They have 'dark stores' aka ghost warehouses around the city and they partner with delivery contractors for last mile delivery. Quick commerce players here are more dominant here compared to Amazon.
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Vacationing in Chennai. Realized I'd forgotten my toothbrush. Opened Zepto and ordered with my UPI. My toothbrush arrived in 9 minutes. The quick commerce game is on a different level in India. Understanding quick comemerce UX was on my list of things to do here during vacation. Very impressed so far.
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Preflight safety instructions can be done in 2 mins. But Qatar airways chose to recruit Kevin Hart to make a 346 minutes version. Now my toddler daughter is pissed she can't shut the thing down.
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Neynar AI is pretty cool. I first asked it about general guidance on posts and engagement. Then, I asked it about my casts in specific. Very useful answers. Well done! @neynar @rish @grin
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hobby showcase && testing multiple images embed. What's your creativity outlet?
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There should be a new headspace series for founders narrated by @garrytan .. Loving the videos on his own YouTube channel lately.
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Interesting feature on Dia - custom skills. You can create your own and run it on the chat window when the website is up. I first tried it on LinkedIn to summarize all the AI slop - but it works on FC too.
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tried to use it for a few hours. My brain refuses to switch back to horizontal tabs. Easy switch if they had just put in the vertical tabs + maybe spaces.
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forgot to include: the above classification took ~3 seconds (for 100 casts).
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Gemini Diffusion is insane fast. It’s not very robust yet, but this shift to diffusion architecture is exciting - looking forward to API release. I wonder if they will pivot to the diffusion models for the v3 flash. fun test: get your feed from neynar and play with it.
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horizontal tabs 😦 Does it still support vertical tabs / spaces?
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Throwback to Microsoft Longhorn launch
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