Rajiv Ayyangar
@rajivayyangar
CEO @ProductHunt (@ me if you have questions about launching) cofounded @Tandem (virtual office) 🇵🇭🇮🇳 http://rajivayyangar.com
Product Hunt changed my life. Now I'm stepping in as CEO. Story time:
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Before getting acquired by @Amplitude_HQ, @Kraftful grew to 60,000+ product builders in just 2 yrs. All through word of mouth. @ProductHunt was a huge part of our GTM and Kraftful won 5 PH awards for our launches. Loved chatting with PH about the deal! producthunt.com/stories/kraftf…
Congrats to Lovable for a big milestone! Check out their launch history on Product Hunt! It's cool to see the early version: gptengineer
Lovable just raised $200M at a $1.8B valuation led by Accel. This all started unexpectedly with me calling my friend at 6AM to go for a walk. I've never shared this story before: (thread)
sometimes we kill ourselves trying to read users' minds and all they want is a knob
Latency ruins user interfaces. Every pianist who’s tried to play a pipe organ has experienced this. It really sucks.
Had a (probably unoriginal) shower thought about turn detection: Shouldn’t really good turn detection be able to add negative latency (to the entire voice latency stack)? If so, how far away from that are we? @kwindla @swyx
How to ship fast:
My latest blog was featured on this week’s @ProductHunt newsletter. If you want to learn more about how we run software Projects at @goClueso, do give it a read! producthunt.com/stories/how-to…
More designers should be founders. More designers should be founders. More designers should be founders. More designers should be founders. (Send this to your best designer friend)
More designers should be founders. And we want to back them at YC. Over the next decade, as new coding tools make it easier than ever to build and ship products quickly, great design is going to matter even more.
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me getting ready to start my day of working for 3-4 different YC companies
Who’s building Alexa but actually good? - zero friction to talk to - long term memory comparable to ChatGPT - low latency conversational mode
I’m at capacity for now but thanks everyone!
Anyone have 20 min for a user interview? Will show you some new stuff we've been working on! (dm me)
Love seeing young makers like Srihan (10 years old!) launch on Product Hunt. 😊 Go, @agentsrihan!
@rrhoover @rajivayyangar Have you ever imagined a 10-year-old launching on @ProductHunt?
Anyone have 20 min for a user interview? Will show you some new stuff we've been working on! (dm me)
Today I hunted a product on @producthunt for what has got to be the youngest founder ever to be on the site. @agentsrihan is 10 years old and just launched his first SaaS product today!
Product Hunt is hiring a hybrid moderator/support role! (north america time zone) This is your chance to work with top startups on their most intense launch days, and to work with OG multiple-threat head of moderation @jakecrump (DM him if interested or if you know someone!)
This is the year of AI + voice agents and none of us should rest until every business phone number defaults to a voice agent.
We’ve raised $17M from @a16z and @ycombinator at @TomaAuto to build the absolute best AI agents for auto dealerships. 45% of dealership calls go unanswered. We built AI agents that don’t miss a beat and provide an exceptional customer experience while getting more intelligent…
Exciting news from a formidable team hiring in SF!
We are excited to share that we have raised $6.5 million in Seed funding led by @firstround and participation from @ycombinator and some amazing business angels. Read more about the announcement from our founders, @MarkHuqhes & @patjfin - solidroad.com/resources/soli…