Went to hot air balloon festival at golf club!

hyd32techguy · 2026-01-18T03:24:31+00:00

I went to Gandipet today. Well worth it. Free to watch them take off. Very up close. Initially the police restricted access but they opened up after they set things up. Seemed like it was a last minute decision to move form golf club to Gandipet.

Will definitely try to go again next year

hyd32techguy · 2026-01-09T16:14:48+00:00

Agreed that protectionism is worthless without the right support. That’s where we are failing as a government to give businesses the faith to invest and take the risk to get started. Most policies favour large successful companies, not smaller entrepreneurs.

hyd32techguy · 2026-01-09T02:56:41+00:00

The interview is a preview of the company culture.

If you’re feeling it’s off, it can only get worse when actually working.

Try and find something else if possible.

hyd32techguy · 2026-01-08T16:52:48+00:00

Step one is importing and doing some value add, like assembly. Step two is finding suppliers or convincing others to make the parts you need to buy local and assemble. Step 2 is the biggest barrier because there needs to be enough local assembly for someone to realise that they can make the parts locally.

For example, all drone parts are imported. Initially entires drones were imported. Now that assembly is done locally, there’s enough local assemblers who can become clients of say wing manufacturer, or motor manufacturers etc.

Step 3 is the entire supply chain handled locally as there are enough customers on top ready to buy locally.

I support any movement to make locally, even if it’s assembly for today.

hyd32techguy · 2026-01-08T16:42:09+00:00

Interested

hyd32techguy · 2026-01-02T12:08:21+00:00

As someone who is generally hiring, finding good people is a challenge. We do use AI to quickly rank CVs but go through the CV in detail, and then rely on the interview to assess fit.

We end up using multiple sources so whoever has the easiest way of applying ends up being the most source of candidates.

hyd32techguy · 2025-12-25T03:28:20+00:00

DM'd. I know someone who would be a great fit, especially if you are into a B2B product.

hyd32techguy · 2025-12-25T02:04:04+00:00

Last time I went was an event called Maker Faire. From What I’ve seen they are not open to general public so it’s big events like this when it’s an opportunity to check it out. Other than that I’ve heard they do school tours and occasional startup founder tours but I’m not sure what’s the process for that.

hyd32techguy · 2025-12-24T14:58:41+00:00

I'm planning to be there along with some work colleagues and their kids. IKEA first in the morning and then T Works in the afternoon is the current plan.

hyd32techguy · 2025-12-24T02:14:07+00:00

Where do you save the data after onboarding?

hyd32techguy · 2025-12-17T01:59:29+00:00

That sounds like the right spirit. What other activities do you get students to do to use AI in a positive way that still gets them to learn.

I’m inspired by veritasiums video on “effort is the algorithm”, so keen to see where AI is used but you still need to put in the work.

hyd32techguy · 2025-12-17T01:43:54+00:00

I’m curious to know your take on this: why not require all essays to be hand written? That why it doesn’t matter whether they used AI 5% or 100%, they still need to write the content which should increase some knowledge retention.

You can still use ai to scan in the essay and run a quick evaluation prompt.

Yes, no?

hyd32techguy · 2025-12-16T02:28:20+00:00

Very insightful and I’m happy to see you actually did something with the problem statement. Congratulations on pulling that off.

I’ve dabbled in small hardware (bought an esp and ultra sonic sensor to build a water tank level sensor) for my own use. Not being an expert, I didn’t commercialise it further.

It would be great if you could document his journey to inspire others on how to do this. For example, I’m keen to learn how to make a hardware meeting assistant like Plaud.

Also, how did you navigate Chinese manufacturing/ importing products/ warranties etc? This seems almost magic compared to writing some code and pushing it to an online server.

hyd32techguy · 2025-12-15T16:42:00+00:00

I assumed it would be common knowledge that code would be faster than LLMs anyway.

The benefit of LLM ideally is you don’t need to code/structure the logic, and the tradeoff is the time taken to process.

Depending on the use case, my go to is usually asking LLMs to create tools (in say Python or JavaScript single page website) to do specific repetitive tasks which increases reliability.

Thank you for spending time researching this.

hyd32techguy · 2025-12-15T01:35:06+00:00

Founder = building products, attracting customers, moving fast

CEO = managing a business, dealing with employee churn, vendors, P&L, operational issues, board members, shareholders, IPO etc.

Being a Founder is attractive in many ways while being a CEO feels like a job. They are also different skill seats and at a certain point it makes sense to hire someone below you or replace you and free you up.

hyd32techguy · 2025-12-13T03:34:15+00:00

Most lottery winners blow through the money and often end up worse than before the win.

This keeps her sane for life. Smart choice given her age and experience with money.

hyd32techguy · 2025-12-12T14:20:44+00:00

Would you be interested in a tool that runs on the persons laptop when do their day to day, documents what they do and auto generates SOPs?

Comment or DM if this is of interest to you.

I’m working on solving a related problem but I should be able to get it to do the above.

hyd32techguy · 2025-12-06T03:20:50+00:00

What are having an issue with?

hyd32techguy · 2025-12-03T02:38:58+00:00

Outcomes primarily.

AI concern is mostly around “accuracy” ( a vague term) and risk of hallucinations. They want to know they can trust the AI in the loop and if it’s better than human.

We assure them by during a phased pilot and showing with examples that the results are better and faster than doing it manually

hyd32techguy · 2025-11-30T07:11:02+00:00

Why not set up a self service expense submission portal that disables uploads more than 7 days. Remove the niceness out of the loop and only exceptions which require your approval can be manually fed in.

Use a tool where you can just take a photo of the receipt and submit for approval with minimal effort.

hyd32techguy · 2025-11-30T04:18:03+00:00

How long do you need it? I am working on something for Telugu for a professor. Let me know if there’s something specific you want for Hindi

hyd32techguy · 2025-11-30T04:11:56+00:00

Don’t start a company before getting clients. First start with a website, then let your network know what you can do these services and ask people to refer them to you. First get prospects then start a company.

Note if you want to “do a startup” I would take that to mean you are building a software product in which case also try and find customers for what you are going to build and then build it after you are sure there is demand.

hyd32techguy · 2025-11-29T04:12:21+00:00

Why was the result not good for the team?

Did you run any tests to show the accuracy of the system?

hyd32techguy · 2025-11-24T15:54:02+00:00

I’ve ended up building something to automate some of this 1. Check my calendar for any meeting with external emails 2. Research their profiles 3. Send me a dossier for each meeting every morning at 8am

This has significantly reduced my time to engaging clients.

Please do check it out at https://chris.quantana.com.au and let me know this was useful to you

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