Daksh Gupta
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certified lizard boy @greptileai (we’re hiring) @ycombinator, @georgiatech
Joined August 2022
i have nothing against having work-life balance. in fact, i recommend it to all our competitors.
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tech bro: you see, it's called a *positive sum game*. anon: i hate the color of their skin.
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recently i started telling candidates right in the first interview that greptile offers no work-life-balance, typical workdays start at 9am and end at 11pm, often later, and we work saturdays, sometimes also sundays. i emphasize the environment is high stress, and there is no.
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my cofounder a few hours after landing in LA. insane questions like these is why i never leave sf
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waterloo intern candidate submitted their take home assignment and my cofounders and i are sitting on the couch watching his demo video on the TV in complete disbelief of how awesome it is.
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viral on twitter.> 2,000 likes.> 92 site visits. front page of HN.> 122 votes.> 15,000 site visits.
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one of our leads (large software company) ghosted us a few months ago. last week their CTO emailed me out of the blue. he got on a zoom with me and said he wanted to explain why they disappeared. when the work-life balance tweet episode happened, a handful of engineers on.
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unlimited respect for the founders cringeposting on linkedin even when their peers laugh behind their backs. rather be cringe and rich than be cool and broke.
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now that this is on the front page of reddit and my inbox is 20% death threats and 80% job applications, here’s a follow up . - to everyone who is overworked and underpaid at their software jobs esp outside the US, i feel for you, and i’m sorry this struck a nerve. the people
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yc destroys the sf talent pool by funding 1200 of the best devs every year and taking them off the market. thankfully waterloo fills the gap . perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
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unlimited respect to the billionaire founder who made two greptile accounts today to refer himself and get a free month.
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wearing a yc jacket at a party i don’t want to be at to make sure no one wants to come up and talk to me.
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“so the windsurf guy wore a double polo on the YC podcast which was last worn by the openai guy when we was working on his first startup in the early 2000s, signaling that the rumors of acquisition are in fact true”
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guaranteed YC interview is the most insane hackathon prize i have ever seen in my life.
MCP hackathon tracks and prizes are out 📣. Come build this Saturday to win. 1. A guaranteed YC interview with @gustaf.2. Macbooks, Mac Minis and Airpods for your team.3. Free startup incorporation.4. Free Vercel Pro and V0
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Today, we are excited to announce @greptileai's $4.1M seed round led by Initialized Capital, with participation from @ycombinator, @RichAberman and @JdotJdotF. We are building the AI expert that *truly* understands large codebases. (1/5).
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dug up our YC application from almost a year ago to send to someone applying for F24. crazy that our most optimistic goal by demo day was to get to 100 paying users (we used to charge $5/mo). in reality we exceeded that goal before the batch even started, and by demo day we had
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@vkhosla working 70hrs/week at your startup or at a tech job -> very good, history shows the harder you work the higher the value of the expected outcome . doing that in as an underemployed graduate at a median job in india for terrible pay and little room for upward mobility -> upsetting.
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you can roughly carbon date when a startup was founded based on what they use for:. payroll: gusto, rippling, warp. compliance: vanta, oneleet, delve.
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new blog post. when we first released our code review bot the biggest complaint was "too many comments". this was surprisingly hard to fix. we tried:. - prompting.- few-shot examples.- in-context learning.- llm-as-judge.- fine-tuning. what finally worked was a strange semantic
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every day that i am 16 support tickets deep with no time to breathe i like to remind myself how much worse it felt when we didn’t have any customers.
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(sound = on). we will be delivering these boxes of cookies to offices around san francisco today and tomorrow. if you would like one, retweet and comment :). @greptileai
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never got to watch michelangelo paint the ceiling but i do get to watch roy ragebait the internet.
im hiring 50 interns in san francisco for @trycluely. $50/hr. founding engineers. cluely .com/careers
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thank you everyone for coming to the worlds biggest mcp hackathon . love, .@greptileai , @gumloop_ai , @mintlify
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reminder that statsforgit dot com lets you embed your score on your github profile. just paste the little markdown snippet in your profile readme
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something strange that happens all the time -. - we cold email a potential customer.- they don't respond.- check logs two months later.- they have been using and paying for the product ever since we reached out. these aren't even small startups, in the logs today i discovered a.
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a weird hack to move fast in the early days is to get users long before you think your product is ready because it will force you to get ready faster. if you do this, users will tell you your product sucks, and out of fear of losing the users, you will have a deep sense of.
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introducing StatsForGit. a modern, AI-native alternative to github-readme-stats. - enter your username.- it scans your commits.- summarizes your most notable contributions.- grades you out of a 100.- easily embeds on your github profile. try it at statsforgit dot com
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doge emailed federal employees asking "what did you got done this week?". then founders and managers emailed their developers the same thing. if you're a dev and your boss just asked you what you got done, we built you a website. whatdidyougetdonethisweek dot ai
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nader convinced me (a stranger at the time) to move to sf, a move that changed my life. he represents everything that makes sf special, energy, generosity, optimism, and endless ambition. congratulations friends ❤️.
Exciting news. 🚨 has been acquired by NVIDIA! ❤️🤙. We started Brev with the goal of building the best damn developer experience possible. We’ve been working closely with NVIDIA since August, and we couldn't be more excited to team up. I'm
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the vibes are incredible at the World's Biggest MCP Hackathon right now
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YC application deadline is in two days. for first-time founders like @soohoonchoi, @vaishaaant, and i, YC showed us where the bar is, pushed us to dream bigger and push harder, and genuinely believed in our potential before we did. if you're thinking of applying, drop your.
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Introducing multi-repo support for 🚢Onboard. You can now chat with multiple repos in the same session. Add Stripe docs + your codebase to a chat session -> get custom instructions on integrating stripe. 🤯. Here's one with @embedchain and @nextjs . Try it now!
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fourth time on the front page of hacker news this year! . two observations in the comments:. 1. people are much more LLM-fluent than before, several people have great suggestions on techniques we can try that indicate they have spent a lot of time playing with LLMs. 2. at the
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at the office at 2:30am to ship a big release without interrupting service but logs show dozens of customers actively using @greptileai this hour. inspired and annoyed
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for the next 24 hours, if you comment here, @greptileai's PR review bot will review all your PRs for a month for free. @greptileai has *full codebase context*, so it catches things you don't.
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📣 We’re co-hosting the World's BIGGEST MCP Hackathon with @gumloop_ai and @mintlify. Sponsored by @AnthropicAI and @supabase. Hosted at the YC office in San Francisco. No pre-built projects. $10K+ in prizes. Fast sub-challenges. A room full of people pushing the edge of AI
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nearly every entry here is a customer being onboarded. our code review bot being used by 100+ companies now. bringing our total to nearly 600. if you are a 100Xer, join us in making every engineer on earth a 100Xer. DMs are open <3
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someone screenshotted my tweet about linkedin cringeposting and cringeposted it on linkedin. this is modern art
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when the vp engineering brings a locked-in indian head of finance to a call about pricing i save us all thirty minutes and give them whatever price they want.
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One of the biggest barriers to wide AI developer tool adoption is concerns around security. That's why I am really excited to announce Onboard for Enterprise. 100% on-prem ChatGPT for your codebase. Your code never leaves your servers. Want to use AI dev tools but concerned
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one throwaway tweet and next thing you know i’m live on NBC being be interviewed by a guy with 12 emmy awards.
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a fairly large fintech company signed up for greptile without ever talking to us. they went through their internal procurement process (their billing email address is finance@company), judging by their size had to go through security/legal/compliance review, and did all of this.
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Yesterday was 1 year since we wrote the first line of code for Greptile at the Scale AI hackathon, and therefore also 1 year since we wrote our application for Y Combinator's W24 batch. It's been a wild year, and I wanted to write down everything I've learned. Hopefully this
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our internal tests show deepseek R1 absolutely cooks o1 at reviewing pull requests. will release full analysis on our blog later today.
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this is the coolest announcement video i have ever seen.
Today, marks a major milestone for us. We’ve closed our series A with $22M in funding. As we emerge from stealth, we wanted to formally introduce you to Bland, Your newest AI employee. Bland is a customizable phone calling agent that sounds just like a human. It can:
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last night i spoke to a hall full of students @GeorgiaTech with @soohoonchoi, @vaishaaant, and our YC group partner @bradflora . later i was told that for the attendees, the most impactful parts of the talk were the random photos of the three of us at the office or late hacking
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every time this happens i make up some insane features that no one wants and say “all our enterprise customers are asking for this”. joy in the little things.
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We have always closely followed the 📙 YC advice of being *relentlessly* focused on growth. There are little plateaus and downward trends scattered throughout the graph below that look insignificant now, but felt like the beginning of the end when they happened. It might seem
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this startup has been squatting at our office and they won’t leave @garrytan please help.
> become friends with seed stage startup founders.> use their office on the weekends. don’t know why more people don’t do this
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july 14 2023, one day before we wrote the first line of code for what would become greptile
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we at @greptileai are hiring our first BD/GTM person, in-person in SF. we’re building an the AI expert on any codebase as an API, so software teams can build custom internal AI dev tools. double digit % weekly growth, 600+ customers, on track to hit series A metrics this year.
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the funny thing about dunking on startup founders is that because the prior probability for failure is so high, you’ll get to be right very often. on the other hand your life would be so much fun if you correctly predicted a startup would be successful years ahead of time!.
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we have been LONG overdue for a full refactor. we have been pushing this back in favor of customer facing features but our codebase is starting to slow us down. in the next two weeks we will be refactoring our entire codebase. to make it more fun, we’re making a short-form
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we are once again hiring software engineers @greptileai . we're building AI that understands large codebases, which you can query using an API. 700+ teams are using it to review pull requests, generate instructions for JIRA tickets, ask questions about their codebase +++. we're
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excited to go back! 🐝🐝🐝.
YC is coming to @GeorgiaTech!. The founders of @greptileai will share their advice for starting a startup after college, and YC Group Partner @bradflora will also hold office hours for students thinking about doing a startup or already working on one. Sign up ➡️
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nearly two years since our first paying user and the thrill of a complete stranger loving something you built hasn’t faded in the slightest.
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Introducing RepoRoast by @16BitNarwhal . RepoRoast scans your codebase using @greptileai and finds dumb decisions. Then it generates a meme to roast you. Try it at reporoast dot com.
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not to put the bro in tech bro but this is like when you been hitting the gym for 12 weeks and some big dude hits you with a "lookin huge king"
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Excited to announce our partnership with @storybookjs, the industry standard for building and testing UI components in isolation. For the last few weeks @greptileai has been reviewing 100% of pull requests made on their open source repo!
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looking for 2-3 early stage founders / indie hackers to demo at our demo night in sf, mid march.
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the @ycombinator retreat was some of the most energizing 4 days of my life. pic 1 is me doing a mini-talk on how i helped start and scale my college band - parallel park, not knowing @garrytan was in the room and referred to me as "the frat rock band guy" for the next three
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our dashboard ranks customers by number of PRs reviewed by greptile in the last 24 hours. most weeks it’s effectively a list of companies from largest to smallest . this week the stack was perfectly inverted. christmas for giants, shipmas for startups.
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World's Biggest MCP hackathon co-hosted by @AnthropicAI, @gumloop_ai, @mintlify, and @greptileai . Hosted at the @ycombinator office in San Francisco. One of the best lineup of judges I have ever seen . Have you applied yet?.
🚨 Judge Reveal for the MCP Hackathon 🚨.Guillermo Rauch (@rauchg) - Vercel CEO.Gustaf Alstromer (@gustaf) - YC General Partner.Swathi Subramanian - Anthropic Member of Technical staff working on MCP. Registration for the hackathon closes this Friday May 9th!
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getting deja vu from the comments here.
when you step into the office and your founding AI engineer is on his 3rd all nighter. this team never stops shipping
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full codebase context has been my personal obsession for the last three years, long before we started working on code review. if you have a big, complex codebase and want an AI code reviewer, there is one *clear* answer.
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i'm redoing our landing page hero again, would you say it's clear what we do from this?
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greptile is the most expensive AI code review bot. the reason is simple. - our costs are high because we always use the SOTA models, multi-step chain them, maintain a real-time index of your codebase and give the models all the context they could need. - we believe $30/mo to find.
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a @greptileai user was owed a gift card for referring multiple people, asked for more greptile instead. is *this* pmf?
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vanta and greptile combined are worth BILLIONS.
YC alumni features live launch, which happens every 2-3 weeks. So much great energy. Watched @christinacaci from @TrustVanta, @dakshgup from @greptileai, and more today.
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for the next 30 days if you sign up for a free trial of greptile and use it review 10 PRs, we'll send you this sick t-shirt
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Introducing Chameleon - open source changelog generator built on top the @greptileai API, right in your CLI. Select a repo, a timeframe, and a format (internal, external, or @mintlify's update component), Greptile grabs the net diff and uses it to generate a simple summary of
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codebase context is cool until you realize your codebase is cooked so every bad pattern simply propagates.
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Hi guys we made a podcast!. We will be interviewing cracked engineers to get their advice on how to be a better engineer. If you know someone that should be on this pod, tag them below!. The first three episodes with @heysaik, @justinstorre and @WickJordan are out now, find them
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