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what if you could have an agent search over your team's session history?
- what did we get done this week?
- should we skillify things we're all doing?
- who is using agents in the most interesting ways?
now you can! our new agent is available for our most active users
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Honestly, fuck anyone who is joking about Canada joining the US. This conversation is classless and disloyal.
I lived all around the world growing up, and Canada is home. It gave me everything. The Canadian experiment is distinct, important, and worth fighting for.
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A few weeks ago, I left Wattpad and ended the most rewarding chapters of my career after almost 8 years.
Next up: Moving to New York to join Endeavor - the entertainment & sports powerhouse (and parent of WME, IMG, UFC & others) - as SVP & GM of a new education business.
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Announcing PROGRAM: Toronto
A hackathon held at City Hall with the theme of making Toronto the world’s most programmable city.
PROGRAM: Toronto is June 20 @ 3pm, in collaboration with the City of Toronto Open Data Team @Open_TO, held on the eve of Tech Week @TOtechweek.
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imagine being in toronto
at the doorstep of the biggest computing tailwinds in history
surrounded by absolutely cracked and hungry builders & creatives from around the world
with a massive list of role models that shaped wave after wave of technology from this very place
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Introducing PROGRAM: A new kind of software workshop series.
Our first event is on November 12 at 6:30 pm at @535Toronto. The theme will be Agents.
Luma Link in the next post + more workshop details coming soon.
What I really want and need help to put together
An event series focused on learning about an open source ecosystem/project or software concept. Learning solo is cool but learning together for new concepts really helps.
Ideally:
- Centered around a specific open source repo
- Led by developers who created / maintain the code
- Attendees bring laptops, no passive audience
- Some light theory but mostly practical
- Attendees leave with something created
Examples:
- The creators of an AI agent repo help everyone build their first agent
- Deep dive into a new framework or library, focused on helping new users get started
Can turn into a series, but start with one event.
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My folks took their oath of Citizenship early this year, almost 28 years after pops arrived for a diplomatic mission in 1997
Today is their first Canada Day as Canadians and the first one without an open file with Immigration
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Having ministers names + faces tied to individual metrics visually like this is such a clever way of creating accountability. Super effective.
Subtle way of saying, "Congratulations, this is your LinkedIn profile for the next few years, now let's get to work."
Introducing: Outcomes Tracker 🧭
We wanted to better understand what our government is working on. So we built a tracker to:
- Understand key commitments
- Track their progress over time
- See how they impact outcomes
Check it out below 👇
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Okay, time to work in public a bit more.
My new thing: a platform for developers to launch & grow a business alongside an open source project.
It’s called Gitwallet, and you can try it now at gitwallet.co, and read the launch post here: blog.gitwallet.co.
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Introducing PROGRAM 03: PERSONAL SOFTWARE
PROGRAM 03 will explore the movement of personal software enabled by new AI tools. The workshop is led by Flora Guo (@floguo) - designer & independent creative technologist, who is exploring & building on this frontier.
More info 👇🏽
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Normalize asking "send me your calendly" and let's just end this stupid scheduling dance once and for all
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Today, market.dev is open source
We're relaunching as an open source project under an MIT License, with a hosted offering
The goal is to give developers a combined toolkit for growing a services business - with built in landing pages, payments, CRM & contracts
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This was easily the best PROGRAM event. 26 impressive demos, people writing code in the hallways of City Hall, everyone so full of optimism.
Huge congrats to Arushi Nath - a 10th grade student (!!) - who won first place. The force is very strong with this one.
Announcing PROGRAM: Toronto
A hackathon held at City Hall with the theme of making Toronto the world’s most programmable city.
PROGRAM: Toronto is June 20 @ 3pm, in collaboration with the City of Toronto Open Data Team @Open_TO, held on the eve of Tech Week @TOtechweek.
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DSPy feels like the closest thing to “Rails for AI”
A set of opinionated approaches for how to start your app the ‘right’ way, with a small early learning curve on key concepts but with infinite potential for mastery
I actually think @dhh would appreciate it a ton
New short course: DSPy: Build and Optimize Agentic Apps
DSPy is a powerful open-source framework for automatically tuning prompts for GenAI applications. In this course, you'll learn to use DSPy, together with MLflow. This is built in partnership with @databricks and taught by @ChenMoneyQ, co-lead of the DSPy framework.
Many AI builders spend hours hand-tuning prompts. When given a set of evals, DSPy automates this process. It’s especially useful for optimizing prompts, including few-shot prompts, in complex agentic AI workflows. Further, if you switch an application to a newer LLM, performance can degrade if your prompts were optimized to the previous model. DSPy automatically optimizes the entire system for the new LLM as well, using just a few evaluation examples.
This course teaches DSPy works, and best practices for using it. You’ll write programs using DSPy’s signature-based programming model, debug them with MLflow tracing -- to gain visibility into how different parts of a pipeline, as well as how the overall system, are performing -- and automatically improve their accuracy with DSPy Optimizer.
Please sign up here: deeplearning.ai/short-course…
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2024 was the first year we started working on @gitwallet. We shipped a TON of product and helped hundreds of developers set up shop on their path to independence.
Thank you to everyone who made it possible.
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Man working at @wattpad was so wild, I would go to bed and when I wake up I see an email saying 70,000 people joined the app yesterday
It happened for so long that I just got used to it, I was there for almost 8 years
So yeah, that's basically my standard for PMF
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The @DSPyOSS community in Toronto is getting together tomorrow at New Stadium! Come by for a remote workshop with @MaximeRivest, @dosco and hang with local DSPy experts like @tech_optimist and @RobbiePasquale.
An evening of building elegant AI systems and good pizza.
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Slightly delayed life update: a few months ago I started something new - a multidisciplinary product studio called @lab0324.
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Feels like so many people in Toronto are working on some really cool shit, finding their stride, and ending the year strong. Great energy all around.
Love to see it.
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On Tuesday evening, about 35 people gathered at @535Toronto for PROGRAM, a new software workshop series.
@sarimrmalik from Rubric Labs guided the group in a structured session to create an AI agent from scratch. Special thanks to @jtalms and others for helping debug issues for attendees. All code is available here github.com/RubricLab/worksho….
We started at 101, but ended the session with a discussion from the people building at the frontier of the space. Thanks to Aaron from @Mosaia_io, Sarim, and others for sharing how you're thinking about this.
Really appreciate everyone who took the time to participate, and a special thanks to @melkuo + @535Toronto for creating the space.
PROGRAM 2 details soon, stay tuned.
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(Photo credits: @surim0n & @trillhause_)
ALT Photo by @trillhause_
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28yr old me is not impressed with 39yr old me complaining that 9pm gametime “is kinda late no?”
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a message to those builders:
ignore the noise
you are the future of this city
there are now enough people who will do everything we can to help you reach your dreams. Its time to pull your future forward.
everyone else will eventually follow suit
BUILD & BUILD MORE
❤️
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Just remembered what GPT3 reminded me of. It was this line from World After Capital by @albertwenger:
"Going back is not a viable option. It never has been. We did not remain foragers after inventing agriculture. We did not remain farmers after inventing industry....
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Every time I’m in Montreal I have the same thought … I should be coming here wayyy more often
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Today, we're announcing Radar - a new consulting service for a very specific problem: creating custom data feeds for open source monitoring and analytics.
Link and more details below ⬇️
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Update: we won New Demos 1 🎉
Last night, in front of some incredible folks from Toronto's tech and creative communities, I demo'd a little experiment called... Detour
Detour is an interactive story app - one where you can play a story - but also change, or extend it, using AI
I'll be at New Demos today, showing off some stuff we've built @lab0324, alongside amazing folks like @robjama @aliasaria @TGUPJ & more
Very excited to see Toronto's technology & creative community connect like this. Big love to @internetvin & team for making it happen
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still can’t believe we got city hall for this
Announcing PROGRAM: Toronto
A hackathon held at City Hall with the theme of making Toronto the world’s most programmable city.
PROGRAM: Toronto is June 20 @ 3pm, in collaboration with the City of Toronto Open Data Team @Open_TO, held on the eve of Tech Week @TOtechweek.
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if you're in your 20's, in toronto, and you see these gdp graphs, just remember
“Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.”
GDP per Capita: 🇨🇦 vs. 🇺🇸 (1960-2023) 📊:
1. GDP per Capita in 🇨🇦 often lags, except for brief periods in 1976 & 2011-2
2. Gap hit 30% recently, echoing 2020, 1997-2002, & 1962
3. 🇨🇦 vs 🇺🇸 relative purchasing power has been decreasing since 1980
Because, IMHO:
1. Robust Capitalism in 🇺🇸:
Fuels bold risk-taking and innovation, generating more wealth, though it has some struggles with fair wealth distribution.
2. Conservative Approach in 🇨🇦:
Leans towards stable sectors like natural resources and banking over tech, reflecting a risk-averse culture.
3. Less employee productivity in 🇨🇦:
Factors such as lower investment per employee, partly due to:
A. The U.S.'s status as a reserve currency drawing more capital.
B. A large portion of Canadian capital being funneled into real estate.
4. Less field expertise of 🇨🇦 politicians:
In Canada ministers are elected officials, sometimes with very limited experience in their ministry, while in the U.S. they can be leading experts.
The U.S. faces its own challenges, but the widening gap between Canadian and American Purchasing Power Parity should be a concern for all Canadians.
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Announcing 3 new PROGRAM events for August!
Aug 12 - PROGRAM10: WHISPER
Aug 20 - PROGRAM11: ADVANCED DSPy
Aug 27 - PROGRAM12: REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
More details on each event below ⬇️
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…. and then thinking, you are being “stopped” by regulation, tall poppies, sred, being ‘too canadian’ or some other stupid excuse 🥱
ENOUGH. JUST FUCKING BUILD SHIT
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New Demos 2 last night was a special event for Toronto. Don't think I've ever seen anything quite like it.
Thank you to all the builders and creatives who showcased their work....and ty @internetvin @tommytrinh, for everything
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This "Timeline of promises" view from the @build_canada Platform Tracker is really well done
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Today we're changing our product name and expanding our product footprint - we are now market.dev
More in the thread at @marketdotdev
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PROGRAM 05 is an evening of graphics programming with Threejs, P5, raytracers, diffusion models and more - led by @caseploeg.
April 16 at 6pm in New Stadium.
We’ll kick off with a short demo of some of Case’s projects, and then open builders time with demos.
Link 👇🏽
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Met Allan Vermuelen in 2002 as a @uwaterloo co-op @ Amazon.
I remember having a 1:1 with him for 45 minutes about how to customize xemacs as a power user. He carried a conductors baton.
At the time, I was the first coop on a newly formed team called "Amazon Web Services"
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This was really fun. So many cool experiments on display + special thanks to @sid_srk from @runwayml for the product tour and sharing your thoughts around this new affordance in creative tools.
All made possible thanks to the team at @runwayml and the @newsystems_ community.
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Celebrating #Wattpad10 with our amazing team, community and city that helped make this all happen. Thank you all! 🇨🇦🎉💯🙏🏾
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Very excited to be able to support New Builds. Feels like this is going to be a big night for Toronto. Good luck to all participating 🫡🫡
Thank you @tarunsachdeva and gitwallet.co for grabbing a G ticket to support New Builds. Appreciate everything you do for Toronto, and developer communities. <3
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New Landing Page: gitwallet.co
Shipped by @maxoulos in his first week, incredible work 🫡
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Today, we launched Prospects, a new primitive in @gitwallet.
As a developer, Prospects are a new way to collect leads for your business and are fully integrated as a new type of checkout experience, available to embed on your site or anywhere else.
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Yeah, this was fun, a really special evening.
Thanks to @caseploeg for kicking it off and to everyone that participated.
Elite creative code on display
PROGRAM 05 is an evening of graphics programming with Threejs, P5, raytracers, diffusion models and more - led by @caseploeg.
April 16 at 6pm in New Stadium.
We’ll kick off with a short demo of some of Case’s projects, and then open builders time with demos.
Link 👇🏽
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This is gonna be fun. The team at @GoldenVentures is incredible. More than anything, I'm looking forward to working with some amazing people that I'm lucky to call friends.
Heard it was time to build...our team! Join us in welcoming 3 new members to the Golden team 👏🏽
1️⃣ @taylorwilsonsip, our new Investment Associate 💰
2️⃣ @anamarcelopez, our first Operations Associate 🤹🏻♀️
3️⃣ @tarunsachdeva, our new EIR 🧪
More below:
medium.com/golden-ventures/t…
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What I really want and need help to put together
An event series focused on learning about an open source ecosystem/project or software concept. Learning solo is cool but learning together for new concepts really helps.
Ideally:
- Centered around a specific open source repo
- Led by developers who created / maintain the code
- Attendees bring laptops, no passive audience
- Some light theory but mostly practical
- Attendees leave with something created
Examples:
- The creators of an AI agent repo help everyone build their first agent
- Deep dive into a new framework or library, focused on helping new users get started
Can turn into a series, but start with one event.
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Introducing PROGRAM 02: CODEGRAPHS
Our first event explored agents, a new frontier of software.
In PROGRAM 02: CODEGRAPHS, we're switching to software foundations, to understand how code gets interpreted, analyzed and ultimately run by computers.
More info in next post.
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We want to run a PROGRAM event focused on MCP (Model Context Protocol) and are looking for workshop leads.
If you're interested, DM me.
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If you live in Toronto and have an active open source project, I want to talk to you + buy you a coffee / lunch if you're up for it!
Feel free to reply, DM, or contact tarun @ gitwallet . co.
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Just shipped: An absolutely gorgeous default site template, now available for all new users of @gitwallet
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Seattle is so beautiful. I miss this city so much.
Was very lucky to have a career highlight so early as an engineer at Amazon in 2002/3.
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We're hiring for 2 roles at @gitwallet to create tools for developers working in open source ecosystems:
Founding Designer - A design role where you'll shape all aspects of our product experiences & brand. Since design & engineering are closer than ever before, a big plus if you're also comfortable shipping React components.
Founding Engineer - A senior engineering role where you'll make critical architecture decisions, work on new products and features end to end, and lay the early foundations of our engineering practice.
In both roles you will:
• Build in small team that ships daily
• Work directly with our users
• Learn so much about what makes a successful open source project, community, and ecosystem.
These roles are hybrid and based in Toronto. You can expect to work in person ~2-3 days a week.
If you're interested, please share any proof of work - Github profiles, portfolios, or anything else you think is relevant.
DM or email tarun [at] gitwallet . co
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If you are a ... designer, developer, community builder, lawyer, writer, artist, accountant, policy maker, economist, educator ...
... You should know there's an insane amount of demand for your skill in Web3 right now. Let's craft the next version of the Internet together.
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We have momentum. Now let's step on the gas.
Introducing: Toronto Ecosystem Fund
(1) Dramatically accelerate current momentum by writing checks to students, individuals, and small teams who can have meaningful, and immediate impact on our ecosystem.
(2) See, and document what happens, then share with everyone in our ecosystem.
(3) No returns. The focus is on running an experiment to more deeply understand effects of capital allocation, and to accelerate the growth of our ecosystem.
(4) $500k - $1m to start.
(5) All capital deployed within 6 months for tight feedback loops.
Let me know if you can help me do this.
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Software was expensive to make, so the only economic justification was to create software we need
Software is easy and free to make now, so we can finally create more of the software we want
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We're hearing rumors Olivia Chow just bought a new Macbook Pro for this
There's word that Mark Carney just ran pip install openai and has some things cooking too
Who knows what's going to happen, you should grab a ticket soon. Details coming soon to all who have registered
Announcing PROGRAM: Toronto
A hackathon held at City Hall with the theme of making Toronto the world’s most programmable city.
PROGRAM: Toronto is June 20 @ 3pm, in collaboration with the City of Toronto Open Data Team @Open_TO, held on the eve of Tech Week @TOtechweek.
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Announcing PROGRAM 07: DSPy on May 21, 6pm at New Stadium
An evening workshop + builders session on @DSPyOSS, an open source framework for building production-grade AI apps. DSPy is a more modular, maintainable & portable approach to building with LLM's.
Event Link ⬇️
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I'll be at New Demos today, showing off some stuff we've built @lab0324, alongside amazing folks like @robjama @aliasaria @TGUPJ & more
Very excited to see Toronto's technology & creative community connect like this. Big love to @internetvin & team for making it happen
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I think @runwayml is doing some of the most interesting work right now, a lot of respect for @c_valenzuelab and that team
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Live at @535Toronto for PROGRAM.01: Agents nitter.app/i/broadcasts/1LyxBgrMj…
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New experiment: PROGRAM LIVE
A new channel for livestreaming PROGRAM events, starting with PROGRAM09 tonight.
We’ll also experiment with live coding, deep dives into developer and creative tools, and more.
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A few big announcements from Golden today:
- The launch of Fund IV (100M) and the Opps fund (20M) 🚀🚀
- @JamieRosenblatt is now Partner! 🥳
Today, Golden Ventures celebrates its 10 yr anniversary and announces two new funds: Golden Ventures IV ($100M) and Golden Ventures Opps Fund ($20M) 💪🇨🇦🇺🇸 medium.com/golden-ventures/g…
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anyone who has met or worked with serge is not surprised even the slightest bit
insane W my friend, big congrats
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Round.space, the rewards toolkit for onchain communities (built by us @lab0324), is now open source and available on Github at github.com/round-space/.
A quick product tour below ⬇
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Very different energy heading into winter this year. The city is more connected than ever before, everyone is locking in, love to see it
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Another amazing PROGRAM in the books. Thanks to everyone who attended, shared their experience building with @DSPyOSS, and for demoing some really cool use cases.
Announcing PROGRAM 07: DSPy on May 21, 6pm at New Stadium
An evening workshop + builders session on @DSPyOSS, an open source framework for building production-grade AI apps. DSPy is a more modular, maintainable & portable approach to building with LLM's.
Event Link ⬇️
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PROGRAM is back with PROGRAM 09: MediaPipe.
July 16 6pm @ New Stadium
MediaPipe is a suite of open source libraries and tools for computer vision - face detection, object and image recognition, hand tracking and more. Stuff like this amazing work from @measure_plan.
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The Shopify BFCM globe is always so cool to watch. What really stood out is how much India is ordering from it's own merchants. Love to see it. bfcm.shopify.com/
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Getting to fund FIVE is no joke - big congrats!!
But if you know @MattGoldenVP, @ameetshah, @JamieRosenblatt & the team - it's not surprising at all. Collectively, Golden Ventures has put _decades_ into helping founders succeed.
And now, a commitment to decades more. Legends.
1/5 We’re excited to share that @GoldenVentures has closed its fifth fund, Golden Ventures V, at just over $100 Million USD. Read more here: bit.ly/3T82fTF
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PROGRAM 04 will be on Wednesday March 26, 2025, at New Stadium (83 Walnut Ave).
We'll cover implementations of the Model Context Protocol by @AnthropicAI, joined by builders who built real product experiences on the standard.
More below
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Days like today make you realize you're working with the best team in the biz. Congrats team @wattpad. instagram.com/p/1jKQCGmXOQ/
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Over the past few months, we've been working closely with open source teams to build Gitwallet - a business builder for OSS projects.
One team is the Interplanetary Shipyard - a collective of maintainers behind IPFS, libp2p and other essential decentralized infrastructure.
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.@floatcard customer care is next level amazing. 3 separate issues over the last few months, all resolved in minutes (my issues were bank related, but Float went above and beyond in all cases)
@rkhazzam you guys are running a tight ship over there, big kudos to the cx frontline
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The first PROGRAM is tomorrow evening at 6:30pm at @535Toronto.
For those who registered, a small bit of setup may be required to get the most of the event (see note below). And yes, there will be snacks.
If you're unable to make it, please update your registration on Luma 🙏
Introducing PROGRAM: A new kind of software workshop series.
Our first event is on November 12 at 6:30 pm at @535Toronto. The theme will be Agents.
Luma Link in the next post + more workshop details coming soon.
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libp2p
ffmpeg
wasm
localfirst stuff like tinybase
the concept of the frontend cloud
repos like slidev
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Some early thoughts on agents, based on very high level learning. Please feel free to challenge, these are probably wrong. I'm just putting them out there to test the ideas.
- Agents are a new medium, a new type of software interface altogether
- There are 2 types - agents that live in existing software, and ones that live on their own, unincumbered by existing interfaces
- For the latter, there's maybe a browser sized opportunity here; current browsers don't quite fit the usage patterns for agents
- I think we'll have agents for fun, for tasks, for learning, for research
- Need to build a simple mental model for agents (e.g. MVC for building data driven websites), looks like it's the task loop (sense/plan/act/adapt)
- Need to create an easy to use open source framework that makes it easy to start building agents of different types (focusing on 0 -> 1). Important to get people to understand what's happening under the hood / behind the UI, but also approachable for non-AI devs to try things out.
- Agents are basically background jobs running in a task loop. Eventually everyone will have background jobs running for them (self hosted + in the cloud, depending on context). Frameworks like Sidekiq feel more important in that context. Maybe a Heroku / Vercel for agents sized opportunity here.
- Sidenote: noticing heavy use of spatial design, not sure if this is memetic or something about spatial that's easier to see all the different directions agents can go in. Feels like you can get pretty far with an interactive to-do list.
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Here's a simple research agent concept we're building in @marketdotdev
The landing page, lead gen forms, CRM and a contract library all come built in when you sign up, with agents tied into as many workflows as possible
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I can wait to share more (I'll still be writing regularly on tarunsachdeva.com).
But for now, I'm about to hop on a plane to New York, pick up apartment keys and get to work tomorrow. Onwards!
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Tap just went worldwide! 🌎🌍🌏 Find Tap chat stories in 10 Languages across 20 countries.
🇫🇷🇮🇹🇩🇪🇪🇸🇧🇷🇮🇳🇬🇧🇯🇵🇰🇷🇦🇷🇨🇦🇮🇩🇵🇭🇲🇽🇷🇺🇹🇷🇵🇹🇵🇷🇨🇴🇵🇦
Play to Win - Tap by Wattpad Launches in 20 Countries Simultaneously - Two weeks ago we launched Tap by... tmblr.co/ZsdpFy2JJ5nk9
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Wasn't sure what to expect when @yasharnejati said "there will be memes in the announcement" but this is hilarious 😂
Very exciting that @beondeck is coming to Canada to create and support more founders. Happy to be in ODF11 with an exceptional peer group of founding fellows 🙏🏽
We're getting started with On Deck Founders (ODF11) kicking off on Sept 25.
Introducing the Group of Seven - talented founders joining On Deck Canada as Founding Fellows 🚀 🇨🇦 @MalloryJGreene @alizhd @BrandonWaselnuk @jsookman @Siddharth87 @tarunsachdeva @swati_matta
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