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I build robots and other stuff. CTO / co-founder @pipedream_labs
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Excited to announce our $1.6M pre-seed round!
We're building underground delivery robots to create an internet for physical goods.
Let's do a deep dive on what we've built:
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I don’t understand pessimism. We live on a giant space rock and make sand do math for us. Why wouldn’t you focus on the things that bring you meaning and joy? Why shit on people trying to do the same?
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If you ever wondered what it's like to develop robots, it's pretty much this on repeat (the robot is ok)
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We're partnering with
@Wendys
to build the future of Hyperlogistics.
Here's why and how we're doing this:
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Iteration is a hell of a drug. These are two months and two generations apart.
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We've been working on a new version of the Pipedream system and I'd like to take a minute to explain it at a high level
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pov: me, building underground robots that enable 30 second deliveries in cities with the smartest engineers I’ve ever worked with. life’s good. dm if you want to join us
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In 1897 NYC installed a network of underground pneumatic tubes that could deliver 6M letters/day. The Postmaster General believed the system would eventually connect directly to every house.
A🧵 on why it failed miserably then and why I believe we should build a new version now
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@celestelabedz
I love everything about this thread. I bet you could get the unit cost of a kitbit down to <$10 if you just had an ESP8266, accelerometer, and small battery. If you kitbitted 1,000,000 cats you could still have 3000 times the station density at a third the cost of current system
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apparently McMaster doesn't sell merch, who wants in on a bootleg t-shirt order?
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@celestelabedz
Bonus, you could throw a gps on the kitbit and provide the owner with a reason to purchase it themselves. If you subsidized the cost it could be a no brainer for owners to purchase them. With that scale you could get good unit prices for the components too.
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Easily the coolest pure pipe robot I've ever seen. I explored a similar design style in the early days of pipedream but unfortunately it doesn't work well with carrying cargo. This is an amazing robot and would be amazing for inspection.
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Introducing BotBot, the latest
@pipedream_labs
prototype. Here’s a short thread on what it does and why.
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DALLE2 is the bag fumble of the decade. They built a magical product and just sat on it while Stability made a worse but open version that builders could actually use
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custom batteries should be posed with like fish I will die on this hill
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Working on hard problems with smart people is good for the soul
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The new Pipedream robot is our best yet for many reasons, but mostly for its cute little eyes
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Every day our engineering team makes a pilgrimage to the gas station next door for snacks
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I wish I could talk about everything that makes this portal so special, but for now I’ll just say that 2023 is going to be a wild year for Pipedream
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You can tell Thomas is a mechanical engineer at heart from the hole dimensions printed on his PCBs
Finally designed my own brushless motor driver! Mainly cost optimised; having to pay $100+ per axis on a multi-axis hobby robot adds up quick. I'll open source when I've worked out most of the hardware bugs.
50x50mm, 50V, at least some amps* and ~$15 for 10+ units.
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This will be an amenity for new communities to attract tenants and will be installed with other utilities during construction, making it much cheaper per home.
Fun fact: we got to show off the prototype to Jeff Bezos last month
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Designed a quick corner for our rail system today and decided to turn it into a cute lil guy with cute lil feet
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Underground delivery robots should look cool even if they’re invisible to the world
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apparently McMaster doesn't sell merch, who wants in on a bootleg t-shirt order?
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Someone should host a hardware hackathon with no computers. Drafting tables, manual machining, and analog circuits only
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Crazy how many of these cars could be replaced by underground robots
do you ever think about how since Doordash started, some amount of cars in a traffic jam are just someone's sandwich. a whole spot on the road just occupied by a guys lunch
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robot train robot train robot train robot train robot train robot train robot train robot train robot train robot train robot train robot train robot train robot train robot train robot train robot train robot train robot train robot train robot train
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I wish the government operated as smoothly as McMaster Carr
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It’s hard to explain how happy seeing this revision of the robot come together makes me. It took so many long nights, failed versions, and tough lessons to get here but it was all so worth it
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My personal rules for travel:
-fuck it
-we ball
These are my travel rules for myself
If you created your own travel rules, what would they be?
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To summarize:
-Pipedream is an impossibly hard business
-We have a flexible product that can provide value pre-network
-It's real and we have multiple customers
-Integrating with other modalities makes us a key part of any autonomous future
-We're making this happen.
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Telescopic actuators are super hard, this is sick
Spent my time on the last couple flights designing PrimeArm, a telescopic arm built only from parts available on Amazon Prime - all for <$100. It's completely parametric using SolidWorks master modelling and equations.
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Summited the highest peak in the lower 48 yesterday, hiked 21 miles in 13 hours and caught an amazing sunrise
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dm me if you’re a designer in Austin with some free time tomorrow. We’re wrapping up a demo build and I could use a hand making some screens beautiful (paid ofc)
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I’ve been a startup CTO and CEO. Being CTO is way more fun, hands down.
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Made the move to Austin yesterday, who should our Head of Talent (below) and I become friends with?
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We’re looking for a few engineers and a machinist to join the Pipedream team.
We build fast and have fun, come join us
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He’s way too humble to tell anyone it’s his birthday but happy 31st to the king of the pipes and the hardest working guy I know
@thegarrettscott
🚬
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Our robots travel through city-wide networks of 12" utility pipe.
They complete deliveries between nodes that are placed in homes and neighborhoods.
They do not travel between cities, just the last mile in a city (where most of the costs come from)
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@celestelabedz
You wouldn’t need to stream too much data constantly either. You could just send notifications from the kitbit whenever accelerations over a certain threshold are hit. On the other hand, how cool would it be to see how much half the cats in LA move in a day.
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Building hardware is fun because you get to turn a bunch of shapes on a computer into physical parts on a table
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This may seem impossible, and Pipedream might not succeed, but I believe that underground delivery is inevitable.
Let's build towards the future we want, even if it's hard
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Prediction:
@pipedream_labs
will be the first company to complete 100 million autonomous deliveries and will hold the record for fastest delivery time of any modality
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Tara and I both turned 24 today and our 3 month anniversary was yesterday. I might have gone a little overboard with the birthday balloons
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Early networks will consist mostly of Neighborhood Portals, but our long term plan is to put a Portal inside of homes.
The Home Portal would be a new appliance that enables cheap, fast, and environmentally friendly delivery of groceries, food, and packages.
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This is what the people want
A restaurant in Prague where food and drink orders are delivered to your table by train
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It's official. We're officially launching the unofficial event app for (formerly unofficial) official Miami Tech Week 2022. Find the best unofficial events to attend and have an officially good time🌴
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Met with the owner of a machine shop last week to discuss manufacturing one of our latest prototypes. I’m so lucky and thankful to work with such a talented team.
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I've been a fan of
@Jason
for years so you could imagine my surprise when I saw Pipedream was covered on today's This Week in Startups episode!
It was a great analysis of what we're building and what the future could look like. Props to Jason and Molly for nailing it!
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Our long term goal is to create city wide underground delivery networks that enable fast, near free, autonomous delivery.
Imagine having a magic drawer where you can get your groceries, Wendy's order, or Amazon packages within minutes of ordering.
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great robots are built not with love, but with hate and contempt for their inevitable flaws
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The portal can cache multiple orders at a time.
This means robots don't need to time deliveries to match up when a person can receive it.
It's effectively a smart locker that can teleport things to other smart lockers in the city.
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Mac, observing his domain, disappointed and yearning for more. Faster, smarter, better dear robot
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True 10X engineers had a Lego stop motion animation phase growing up
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These next two months are going to be the craziest in Pipedream’s history, I can’t wait to share our progress with y’all
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I cannot express how wild 2023 is going to be
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And a mandatory hiring shill:
We're looking for a senior mechanical engineer and a senior controls engineer to join our team to work on the next iteration of our system.
Reach out if you like solving tough hardware problems.
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If you’re a technical founder I can’t stress enough how important it is for you to learn sales. You will make a better product in less time
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The robot has a theoretical top speed of 110mph.
Realistically, the robot won't travel that fast because it still needs to slow down for turns.
The top speed will be limited by network geometry, but will still deliver faster than a car since its free from surface congestion
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We've put ~1,000 hours of raw CAD work into the Pipedream system in the past year and it really shows. It's at least two orders of magnitude better now than it was this time last year. Can't wait to share the finished results
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Lastly, a huge shoutout to our investors:
@balajis
@starshipventures
/
@ItsHoagie
@ShaanVP
, Sequoia Scout,
@spacecadet
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@WizLikeWizard
@CortadoVentures
@CapitalFactory
@vibe_cap
@jjeremycai
Asymmetry,
@PrimalNick
@Techstars
@chris__lu
and
@araghougassian
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I want to spend my career taking big bets on polarizing ideas that have the potential to change the world for the better. The hate is apart of the journey, and Garrett's approach to dealing with it is spot on.
I got a fair amount of internet hate today haha 😅
I've seen friends really struggle with dealing with online hate, so just thought I would share our framework for dealing with it.
Quick thread:
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