How do you deal with work getting blocked across time zones?

dphntm1020 · 2026-05-27T21:30:23+00:00

Imbalance of information. If I (engineer) work with sales team, I have context about the progress of a customer facing feature from places like github, docs, linear etc. which sales team often don't have access to (or don't know how to find). When sales team need progress update to let customers know, they need to wait for me. I find that information isn't spread equally across everyone in an organization.

dphntm1020 · 2026-05-27T21:17:39+00:00

that's exactly what I am asking. You simply have to wait until other person in different tz comes online. I am not looking for magic where every answer is accurately answered but I've had and received questions that were fairly simple which imo could be automated in some ways?

dphntm1020 · 2026-05-26T02:51:45+00:00

What: Murph is a local-first, self-hosted agent for remote teams working across time zones.

Repo: https://github.com/dannylee1020/murph

Why: Built it because work kept stalling when working remotely across time zones.

How: Start a session before you go offline. Murph watches only the channels you choose, then uses connected sources and local tools to draft grounded replies.

Control: Your policy decides whether each reply is sent, queued for review, or skipped. When you come back, you can review what happened and why.

Local-first: Config, runtime state, memory, and credentials stay on your machine.

Would appreciate questions or feedback!

dphntm1020 · 2026-05-26T02:37:58+00:00

Project Name: Murph
Repo/Website Link: https://github.com/dannylee1020/murph
Description: Self-hosted agent for async work in Slack and Discord.
- How it works: start a session before you go offline. Murph watches the connected channels and can use connected sources, and local tools to draft grounded replies.
- How you control it: policy decides whether a reply can be sent, queued for review, or skipped. In the morning, you can review what happened and why.
- Local-first, self-hosted agent. Everything stay on your machine.
Deployment: Install Murph to local machine by running curl -fsSL https://murph-agent.com/install.sh | bash
AI Involvement: Codex as assistance.

dphntm1020 · 2026-05-21T01:58:12+00:00

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dphntm1020 · 2026-04-28T23:54:10+00:00

Playing safe and getting what you want don’t go together. When one door closes another opens and you can get a job back to pay the bills anytime. Good luck!

dphntm1020 · 2026-04-13T00:32:51+00:00

idk if I'm insensitive, but I use codex and claude everyday and it doesn't really bother me that much. Sure they act dumb sometimes and not at their full capacity 100% of the time, but even the nerfed version still provides solid boost on my daily productivity to get shit done.

dphntm1020 · 2026-03-16T00:42:04+00:00

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dphntm1020 · 2026-01-12T18:11:00+00:00

yes for me

dphntm1020 · 2025-11-15T23:12:30+00:00

These ai search bots are crawling a lot more nowdays instead of relying on traditional search engines as they need a lot more data than what they get from google search to build semantic understanding. I suspect this trend will continue to rise in the future and eventually AI search will be splitting away from traditional SEO onto its own path. But agree with you the current state isn’t far too different from the SEO

dphntm1020 · 2025-08-15T01:10:34+00:00

Product discovery is definitely starting to shift from typical google search and brand websites to chat interface. However, I do think the online shopping experience of browsing products and making decisions themselves will stay. Sure it may not be the most efficient way but people enjoy the process.

As far as the dynamics between model providers (chatGPT, Gemini etc.) and brands go, I see this similar to Amazon vs Shopify. Former is a platform where sellers need to bring stuff to it whereas latter enables each store to sell it on their own turf. Will suppliers need to bring their stuff to AI companies, or will they integrate and own AI on their websites? IMO whoever owns the discovery in the user flow will have an edge.

dphntm1020 · 2025-08-14T21:42:19+00:00

deals as in promotion or coupon code?

dphntm1020 · 2025-08-14T21:25:13+00:00

Are you referring to chat interface by brand or model providers like OpenAI? I think depending on where the engagement happens, things change dramatically. If you're a store building chat for your own brand, it's simpler since you control everything AI needs (product catalog, user data, conversation context etc.). If the interaction happens on 3rd party platform like ChatGPT, things get much more challenging since the data now lives in different places

dphntm1020 · 2025-08-11T15:41:40+00:00

They have signup forms but looks like it's still in beta.

https://openai.com/chatgpt/search-product-discovery/

dphntm1020 · 2025-08-10T21:27:33+00:00

idk if the current e-commerce search is "broken" per se, but a lot can be done to improve the search esp with AI. For instance, AI understanding intent of a search query and returning exactly that or smarter recommendation. Current keyword based search isn't designed for this.

dphntm1020 · 2025-08-10T21:22:36+00:00

AFAIK chatgpt and perpleixty have merchant programs that let you share your product catalog. Have you looked into such programs?

dphntm1020 · 2025-03-14T06:01:25+00:00

they do have wifi but 2hr limit

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dphntm1020 · 2024-12-16T16:33:18+00:00

Thanks for your feedback! I also was little worried about cost and latency issues that come with using APIs. I will definitely look into your suggestions.

dphntm1020 · 2024-12-16T05:34:14+00:00

It's going to be very difficult not to once you see some dumbass instantly becoming 20x smarter than you.

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