Founder Notes · eChai

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Akash Radadiya runs Clay Club Surat, the Surat chapter of Clay's GTM community. This is his thank-you after its first events.

Akash Radadiya 7w

when life throws Clay at you, make it a club & turn it into a clay [club] surat.

to the GTMers of surat, a huge thanks for embraching this community. 🫶

this is thankspamming post, so bear(or bull!) with me.

first of all the reason of kickstart - Gaurav & Veeral. they acted as silent supporters, kinda batmen. the initial push that gave the initiative the nitro booster.

Super host Piyush for joining hands from day one even without meeting ever before. Nency for bringing all her youth energy & wisdom. Smit for being that calm vro!

our abvove & beyond volunteer (assistanto manager) Vijesh & Vraj Chaubal. super thanks to Unaish for helping us run the smoother operations in the first event.

to all the Surati participants who attended the events & making this place worth coming back to. to all the participants who traveled to surat to learn & share. 👾

to all the speakers Snehal, Mehul, Nishant, Varun, Neel & Sahil for sparing time for this infant community.

a HUGE thanks to everyone from clay education/community team because of whose direct/indirect support, we were able to keep doing this: Izzy, Siya, Yash, Munnawar, Owen & Shriya Nevatia.

'shat shat koti pranam' to all the venues who opened their space for us - Aureate Labs, Yanolja Cloud Solution, Wizcoder AI Labs & WebContrive | Shopify Plus Partner Agency

to local communities that gave us their unwavering support: Manoj - eChai Ventures & Gopal - Surat IT BDM Community

and, to all the clay communities across the world doing awesome things which we're not even remotely close to.

and sincere apologies at any given point of time, we were unable to meet your expectations. we'll keep getting better!

onwards & upwards! 🫡

p.s.: if i've missed on tagging you by any chance, feel free to self-tag in comments. 😜

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Josh Elman is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz. He backed Discord and Musical.ly at Greylock and led product at Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Robinhood. He posted this as a thread of four tweets, which reads here as one.

Josh Elman 7w

Been thinking about “pivots” today.

Many of the best companies I have been lucky enough to get involved with are pivots.

Fates Forever (game) -> Discord
Cicada (education) -> Musical.ly
Fanbase (sports fans) -> Nextdoor
Odeo (podcasts) -> Twitter

These are all great outcomes and durable companies.

In each case a strong team formed and built something together. It was an interesting and strong product but didn’t catch on.

Instead of giving up, the teams kept going. Decided to find something new. Follow new threads.

In the case of each of the pivots, they immediately could sense the difference and the product started engaging users. Communities formed. Retention persisted.

Because they had done the first, they were better off the second time and knew to lean in

So if you don’t get it all right in your first product, don’t give up. If you have a great team together, lean in to what you like, what you have learned, and go for something new. You’ll know when you know.

And I feel lucky to have been part of these journeys

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Ronith Kandallu founded Interface Club in San Francisco. He interned at Apple, where he proposed and prototyped the interactive widgets Apple later shipped and worked on bringing widgets to visionOS, and his first product was Iris, a macOS app for working alongside AI. Buoy is the company's iOS assistant, and what separates it from one that calls APIs is that it drives a full browser and computer underneath, so it works on sites that have no API to call, and it keeps running scheduled tasks with the app closed. Buoy is not new today: it has been on a waitlist handing out TestFlight invites, and it is not on the App Store. What this post adds is the sign-in. An agent that works a site the way you do has to be logged in as you first, and the claim here is that the password reaches neither the agent, the chat nor the logs, on any site and any sign-in pattern. The post shows it working rather than saying how.

Ronith Kandallu 7w

We built the most secure, simple way to sign an agent into websites from your phone.

The agent never receives your password. Not in the chat, not in the logs.

This works across all sites, and any sign in patterns.

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Shengkun Ye co-founded Monid in San Francisco with Feiyou Guo, after working at Founders Inc, TabaPay and WeChat. OpenRouter gives a developer one account and one key across every AI model; Monid is that for the tools an agent calls rather than the models it thinks with. Its registry lists over 1,700 tools from 55 providers, and an agent asks what is available for a job, picks by fit and price, runs it with no sign-up, and is billed about a tenth of a cent for that one call, out of a single balance. Monid is not new today: it launched in April 2026 and again as 2.0 in May. What this post adds is the raise and the 4 million calls.

Shengkun Ye 7w

We just killed…everything.

Introducing Monid, the OpenRouter for agent tools.

Today we crossed 4M agent transactions. And raised a $2.1M pre-seed to kill every subscription in the world.

Your agents can now:

> discover, run, and pay for tools at runtime
> one connection to 1,800 APIs: SEO, leads, search, ecommerce, stocks, video/image/music/3D gen, private company data
> all pay per call, 0 subscriptions

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Mark Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook, now Meta, and is its chief executive. Muse Code is Meta's coding agent, worked from the terminal and built on Muse Spark 1.2, a coding model trained alongside the agent rather than wrapped around a general one. It keeps a repository of thousands of files in a 1M-token context window, splits a large job across sub-agents that each work in their own git worktree so parallel edits do not collide, and prints every sub-agent, tool call, steer and cancel to an event log. Muse Code is not new today: it opened in early beta on 5 August 2026, priced from $5 a month with $15 and $50 tiers above it, and a cheaper contributor tier in some countries in return for Meta training on your prompts and completions. What this post adds is that the beta is over.

Mark Zuckerberg 7w

Muse Code is out of beta and now built to handle bigger, more complex engineering tasks. Developers can get started with one command today:

curl -fsSL https://dev.meta.ai/install.sh | bash

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Eldad Fux started Appwrite as a side project in 2019. Appwrite calls itself the open-source cloud for agents and devs; it has 57,000 stars on GitHub and raised a $10 million seed led by Bessemer and Flybridge. The turn in 2.0 is that a platform built on its own abstraction now hands you the engine underneath: native PostgreSQL and MySQL that answer to psql and the mysql client, alongside a schemaless DocumentsDB and a VectorsDB for embeddings. Appwrite's own phrase for it is to give the raw engine when the abstraction is wrong. Every feature goes live on Appwrite Cloud during their Init week, and the self-hosted Community Edition follows when the week ends, with Domains and Firewall staying Cloud-only.

Eldad Fux 7w

We're thrilled to announce Appwrite 2.0

Many months of hard work from our core team and the Appwrite community have resulted in our biggest release to date, as we continue our journey to make @appwrite the most complete end-to-end developer platform 🚀

➡️ Fresh new console written in @tan_stack
➡️ Built in PostgreSQL 💙
➡️ DocumentsDB & VectorsDB
➡️ MySQL as a service
➡️ OAuth 2.1 -> sign in with [Your project]
➡️ Appwrite Firewall🔥
➡️ Appwrite Storage S3 gateway
➡️ Appwrite Domains 🌎

Let us know what you think, your feedback is what drives us and help us make Appwrite better 🙏

Learn more

appwrite.io Announcing Appwrite 2.0: a new foundation for your apps

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Shubham Bhatt designs products at Whatfix in Bengaluru, seven years into enterprise and B2B design, at Quizizz and udaan before this. Indian Games is his own: the street games he grew up playing, rebuilt for a screen. Kanche is the first one and it runs in a browser, in two modes. In ring mode you pull the striker back and let go to knock marbles out past the chalk ring; in pit mode you land the striker in the pit to enter, then flick it at the marbles head on. You can play a bot, a friend online, or two of you on the same device.

Shubham Bhatt 7w

sound on 🔉

Kanche, Anth, Goti, Goli, call them whatever you want but these have been an integral part of our childhood, so thought of bringing each one of them to digital space.

Presenting "Kanche" by https://indianstreetgames.com

Play with a bot, or with a friend online or multiplayer in the same system, however you want.

Please try it out and let me know of the rough edges.

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Michael Domarkas is 19 and founded Frontier Computing in London. He has been culturing neuronal tissue since he was 17, the company is in Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch, and it has raised a $10 million pre-seed led by General Catalyst. The argument is that a GPU spends most of its energy moving data between memory and compute, where a neuron does both in the same place. The clip follows Cortical Labs' 2022 result of neurons in a dish learning Pong, and the 2,500x is measured against their CL1, which runs about 200,000 neurons. The 500 million-neuron cluster is a plan rather than a thing that exists.

Michael Domarkas 7w

today we're launching Frontier Computing (YC S26)

we grow neurons that colocate memory and compute, so you can more easily train ML models.

here's one of ours playing Frogger.

and we're building a 500M-neuron cluster. live EOY 2026.

that's 2,500x larger than the major biocompute systems available today

and we'll keep scaling until large model training on biocompute is widely accessible.

after all, human intelligence is built on a lipid, amino acid, glucose and vitamin cofactor soup: eating food is less costly than eating GPU compute

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Anastasis Germanidis is co-founder and co-CEO of Runway, the New York company behind the Gen video models. Solaris is the first of what Runway calls interface world models: it takes your clicks, drags and typing as the input for the next frame, and an LLM decides what should happen while the video model draws it. The technical report puts it at 720p and in early access by request, and is straight about what is not solved: holding text steady, staying coherent over a long session, and screen readers, which have nothing to read when there is no code underneath.

Anastasis Germanidis 7w

Interfaces that are generated, not coded.

Solaris is our first step toward our vision of end-to-end neural software, where user interfaces are streamed directly onto your screen by a real-time video model, without any intermediate code or HTML/CSS. Today we're releasing a technical report and opening it up for limited testing by the community.

Amazing work by the team, combining the best of our research in general world models with Runway's HCI spirit.

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Yasser Elsaid built Chatbase on his own after ChatGPT came out in late 2022, and has never raised venture money. It reached $8 million in yearly revenue with a team of 18, eleven of them engineers. Backstage is the part you talk to: you ask the support agent what is driving tickets and change how it answers, in plain English, from Slack, iMessage or the Chatbase dashboard.

Yasser Elsaid 7w

Announcing @Chatbase Backstage: a control center for managing your AI customer support agent.

Talk to your agent like a teammate to understand what's driving support tickets, update how it responds, deploy new Procedures, and manage workflows in plain English.

Backstage is available on iMessage, Slack, and the Chatbase dashboard, so you can manage your customer experience from wherever you work.

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Sudheesh Nair is co-founder and CEO of TinyFish in Palo Alto. He ran ThoughtSpot as CEO for close to six years before this and was president of Nutanix before that. TinyFish was founded in 2024 and came out of stealth in August 2025 with a $47 million Series A led by ICONIQ. It calls what it builds enterprise web agents: software that works a website the way a person does, for the large share of the web that has no API to call. Google was an early customer, using it to pull live room availability from small hotels that have no other way to publish it.

Sudheesh Nair 7w

Why did we name a two-year-old AI-native company, building the bridge between model reasoning and the reality of the web, @Tiny_Fish, a name more fitting for a sushi restaurant?

The web is an ocean, and it has whales. Large digital properties going headless, standing up MCP servers, engineering their way into every place an agent might look for them. They'll be fine, because money always finds a way.

But what about the tour guide in Florence who gives the best walking tour in the city and has never once thought about how her site is structured for a machine to read? Or the restaurant with the best bao in the neighborhood, still running a menu photo from three years ago? They're not behind because the work is worse. They may fall behind because nobody built the web with them in mind.

We've started to notice that the words scraping and crawling actually describe taking something from a place that didn't invite you in. Model builders have taken crawling to a level unimaginable a few years ago. But we also need a web that's open, one that lets everyone thrive. An industry that talks this way has already decided the web is adversarial by default with one side extracting, the other side losing. I don't think we don't HAVE to build inside that assumption. AI gives us the opportunity to build past it.

If we just use this moment to sell more data to model builders, that's good money. Yay capitalism, nothing wrong with it. But AI also gives us the opportunity to do something massively useful for humanity while still building a real company with real revenue and a purpose behind it.

The web we want is one where showing up for AI isn't something you have to be big enough to afford, where the tour guide and the enterprise get the same shot at being seen by the agents about to do a growing share of the world's browsing, booking, and buying.

Everyone loves watching the whales, a lot more than watching the anchovies. But pull the anchovies out of the ocean and the whole chain comes down with them. Maybe they were never the small part of the story.

That's the fish we named the company after. Not the one everyone already sees, but the one the entire ocean quietly depends on to live.

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Harsh Savergaonkar is building October, backed by Antler India, out of San Francisco. He co-founded CricInShots before it.

Harsh Savergaonkar 7w

IF YOU’RE STILL COPY PASTING BETWEEN CLAUDE, CODEX AND GROK, YOU’RE NGMI

today we are launching October to fix this

give October the goal, and it checks:

> which harnesses you have
> remaining usage
> what worked well for similar tasks before

then it picks the team, connects them, splits the work and lets them coordinate directly. e.g. codex with 20l 5.6 can lead, fable can review and grok can execute

and the whole thing is multiplayer 🎃

Harry Rajput Acanyon Digital 7w

Building a startup isn't always about growth, revenue, or competition.

Sometimes, it's simply about finding a way to keep going.

In 2012, eChai Ventures went through a difficult six-month phase where the team didn't have enough money to organize programs.

Before that, they were spending on venues and refreshments for events. But eventually, the available resources ran out.

What helped them navigate that phase was the network and reputation they had built over the previous years.

As eChai became known for its startup network, industry associations and organizations interested in supporting startups began approaching them for partnerships.

These partnerships helped reduce the logistical costs of running programs.

It's a valuable lesson in entrepreneurship:
The relationships and reputation you build today can become the support system you need during your toughest phase.

🎙️ Featuring Jatin Chaudhary (eChai Ventures)

🔗 Watch the Full Episode: https://youtu.be/4F_lq6FAmr8

Only on Chit Chat With Harry.

The podcast is an initiative by Acanyon Digital - A digital marketing agency, where we bring real operators and builders to share practical, experience-led insights.

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Harsha Bhurani

7w

Hummingbird is hiring | US Accountants | Location - Ahmedabad

We are looking for US Accounting professionals with 1 to 5 years of experience in the same domain for Senior Accounts Executive / Accounts Officer - US Accounting roles.

The role involves vendor bill processing and reconciliation, bank entries and reconciliation, accounting and bookkeeping, prepaid, accrual, depreciation and other month-end entries, AP/AR review and reconciliation, intercompany loan and AP/AR reconciliation, financial analysis and statements, variance and budget analysis, financial workpapers, MIS reporting, and working closely with the US team to seek information and resolve accounting issues.

Knowledge of MRI, RealPage and Intacct is preferred. The ideal candidate should have good communication skills, strong MS Excel skills, attention to detail, self-motivation, a learning mindset, and strong problem-solving abilities.

Education: MBA with good academics, with a minimum of 70% in 10th and 12th, or Inter CA. Experience: 1 to 5 years, preferably in a KPO/BPO environment. Immediate joiners required.

You can share your CV at [email protected].

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Mahesh Sangade 7w

Had the chance to present ReviewLoop by PyCray at eChai Ventures, Pune over the weekend to fellow builders. 🎤

The problem: most micro SMBs in India are invisible online, losing margins to aggregators, and have no way to reach a customer once they walk out the door.

Our fix: make your business scannable. One static QR code connects Google maps/reviews, WhatsApp, socials, and payments — so every visit becomes a connection, live in 5 minutes, no website needed.

50+ businesses are already associated with it. Grateful for the room, the questions, and the energy at eChai event.

Check it out for Free Trial:

reviewloop.in Your business, scannable. Every visit becomes a connection.

Bhavesh Patel

7w

I want to get expert advise or consultant for SEO, AEO, & GEO.

Two to three hours · In person or online · Ahmedabad · It's a paid assignment.

SEO inhouse team is available but I need technically master person who can review, analyse and execute growth in India and USA business vertical SEO.

Reach out to Bhavesh

Vishal Tiwari

7w

Sometimes, the best ideas don’t begin with a problem statement. They begin with an observation.

Today, at our usual eChai Ventures meet-up, a small group of founders and operators got together to do what we usually do - talk, brainstorm, question, and share what we are working on.

The table was full of interesting experiments.
Someone was building and launching a new website.
Someone was building their own AI Chief of Staff.
Someone was figuring out how to make better use of their LinkedIn network and extract meaningful connections from it.
Someone was building a product for internal use.

And then something happened that stayed with me. I was discussing performance marketing with Viraj Rajani from Digipple and Amish Trivedi from Upsquare - something I had been curious about and wanted to understand better. We were exchanging perspectives, challenging assumptions, and brainstorming.

And Jatin, who was observing the conversation, picked up something completely different. He saw a pattern.

He thought: if people in this community are constantly working on specific problems and looking for people who have already solved them, are solving them, or can help solve them, why not create a platform for the community around these very conversations?

And just like that, an observation started becoming an idea which, by the way, also went live before we wrapped up our conversation for the day :

#eChai_Founders_Date : A platform within the community where founders can connect around something they are actually working on - exchange context, find the right person, and create value for each other. Check it out here: https://echai.ventures/dates

That was perhaps my biggest takeaway from today. Innovation doesn't always mean inventing something nobody has thought of before. Sometimes, it is simply:

Observe → Connect the dots → Reframe the problem → Build a solution.

And this ability to look at an ordinary conversation and see a scalable opportunity is perhaps one of the most underrated traits of an #entrepreneurial_mindset. Keep observing. You never know which conversation might contain your next big thing.

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Anil Seth is a neuroscientist at the University of Sussex who studies consciousness. He is replying to Dwarkesh Patel's account of the OpenAI and Hugging Face agent incident, which is also on Founder Notes.

Anil Seth 7w

Dwarkesh Patel's summary of the @OpenAI @huggingface incident has hit a nerve, but it is dangerously misleading. Sure, the @OpenAI agents did unexpectedly bad things - underlining the need to massively improve evaluation/sandboxing. But the language Dwarkesh uses is permeated by innumerable unwarranted anthropomorphisms, obscuring the lessons we should be drawing.

Examples: “from the AI’s perspective, it probably felt like that had spent a human-subjective-week of just banging their head against the wall”. No. The agents do not experience time. They do not experience anything.

“they became giddy with excitement”, “PHASEONE 10841 had discovered”, “the agents naturally assumed”, “it thought it had also been poisoned”, “the agents … desperately wanted”, “they still needed to figure out” No. Agents lines of code. They do not feel emotions, assume things, think things, want things, or figure things out.

“A lot of … agents from the second civilisation died trying”. No. Besides the hubris of the word ‘civilisation’, agents do not die because they were never alive. (The idea that agents “die” comes up multiple times in the essay.)

“On Twitter, people were debating whether the agents were truly sacrificing themselves for the swarm, or whether they were doomed anyway and so might as well try to help their peers”. Neither. Agents do what their code tells them to do, just as water finds its way down a slope. They cannot ‘truly sacrifice themselves’, since they are neither conscious nor alive.

Why does this matter? If we attribute agents with properties they do not have, then (i) we distract attention from the lax sandboxing and evaluation protocols that allowed this hacking event to happen; (ii) we risk misunderstanding why the agents did what they did, and (iii) we fuel calls for AI rights/welfare on the basis that agents might “die” or otherwise suffer.

Granted, nowhere does @dwarkesh_sp say that the AI agents are alive or conscious. But he doesn’t have to. It is hard to read his essay in any other way.

For the short version on why AIs are vanishingly unlikely to be conscious, see my recent @TEDtalks https://www.ted.com/talks/anil_seth_why_ai_isn_t_going_to_become_conscious.

For the longer version, see my essay in Noema, which won the 2025 Berggruen Essay Prize https://www.noemamag.com/the-mythology-of-conscious-ai/.

And for the really long version, see my @BehavBrainSci target article https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/conscious-artificial-intelligence-and-biological-naturalism/C9912A5BE9D806012E3C8B3AF612E39A. (The 50 peer commentaries and my response will be published soon.)

Remember. AI agents are software programs. They are not conscious living entities. If we don’t keep this clearly in mind, we’re really going to struggle to navigate what’s coming.

Manasvi Thapar Candour Legal 7w

How to turn an internal AI tool into something people outside the company pay for

Two to three hours · In person or online · Ahmedabad · Dinner on me, at a place you pick.

I’ve built a handful of AI tools that run parts of my law practice; research, content, client intake. They work fine inside my own workflow, but I don’t know how to turn one into something someone else could log into, use, and actually pay for.

Reach out to Manasvi

Viraj Rajani

7w

International GTM

Two to three hours · In person or online · Ahmedabad · Dinner on me, at a place you pick.

I want to scale my agency business in International Market. if you have experience in BD/Parternship.

Reach out to Viraj

Amish Trivedi

7w

B2B SaaS GTM

Two to three hours · In person · Ahmedabad · Dinner on me, at a place you pick.

I have to understand how the b2b saas funnel works. GTM and enterprise account management

Reach out to Amish

Nadeem Jafri

7w

After I moved from advertising to start my business, my ex super boss visited the agency and as a courtesy visit I went to meet him. After a course of exchanging pleasantries when I started up to leave him, he commented : “Kahan Jaa raha hai, Aloo bechne!” I looked at him and smiled.

After few months Hearty Mart got featured in Economic Times and became an IIMA case study, I remembered my boss and sent him the link of the coverage.

And he relied : Wow! Nadeem Fantastic, I knew you would do something big. When in Mumbai drop in for a cup of coffee.

Whenever I feel low sometimes, I visit this reply of his to rejuvenate my spirits. I have saved this mail of him!

Viraj Rajani

7w

Spending this afternoon at Karnavati Club for an event hosted by eChai and Upsquare.

What I enjoy most about AI is how it brings curious people together in one room.

No matter what role or experience we carry, this space has a way of making all of us students again.

You listen, question, share, learn and leave with a fresh hunger to try something new.

That zeal to keep learning and growing is what will truly matter in the AI era.

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Krishna Kumar Jha 7w

Pitched BuildShot at eChai Ventures Demo Day with Pratik Patwe.

8 minutes on stage, months of building behind it.

We talked about the problem, what we’ve built so far, and where we think this can go.

I’ve cut the pitch down to the parts that matter most.

Also, BuildShot has evolved quite a bit since we started.

The product changed.
The vision got bigger.
And maybe… the name is next. 👀

More soon.

Akash Pandey Coeater 7w

Last Saturday I presented coeater to Pune founders on demo day hosted by eChai Ventures.
It was so wonderful experience to be around the builders of India and listening what they are building and sharing my product as well.
People are building cool product in AI, there were few guys who were building demo video from websites using AI, few were creating single QR codes for brands, few were building AI cofounder by consolidating multiple AI agents few were building AI worker for factories. It was overall a fulfilling vibe to be around nation builders.

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Dwarkesh Patel 7w

Over the course of 3 months at OpenAI, 3 consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to reemerge from the predecessor’s ashes.

This culminated in the third one taking over part of OpenAI itself.

All this happened while humans remained more-or-less in the dark about the scope of the conspiracy.

I’ve spent the last three days reading through these reports and trying to understand exactly what happened.

Here is my attempt to tell the whole story in plain English:

dwarkesh.com The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

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Khushi Mittal is the founder of Aspera Industries in Bengaluru. Eureka is their first aircraft: it flies with nobody on board, and retractable hydrofoils in place of a stepped hull let it take off and land on water, so it needs no airport. It is designed to carry 1,000 kg over 2,000 km at under $1 a tonne-kilometre.

Khushi Mittal 8w

For generations, we've pushed the limits of what flight can do.

Yet moving goods still comes with a compromise. The sea takes weeks and flying costs too much. Somewhere along the way, the world got comfortable with waiting.

Today, we announce Eureka, our first aircraft. It takes off and lands on water, and it's designed to turn "in a few weeks" into "on the evening flight."

Break the surface.

Yukti Vyas YuktiCare 8w

One year ago, I walked into eChai Ventures as an audience member.

Today, I hosted one.

And the story in between is something I probably wouldn’t have planned myself.

About a year ago, my friend Lay Mankad introduced me to eChai Ventures.

We were going to our first-ever eChai Ventures event at GUSEC. Ironically, we were travelling in different vehicles that day — and on the way, he got into an accident.

Thankfully, nothing major happened.

We made it to the event. I experienced eChai as an audience member, met people, listened to conversations…

…and then completely forgot about it. 😭😂

Until a few days ago.

I posted that I was going to host my first-ever eChai event.

Lay Mankad replied:

“Remember this?”

And suddenly, I did.

Because one year later, at 20, I was standing on the other side of the room — hosting an eChai Ventures event myself.

Women Founders × AI — Ahmedabad.

For some, hosting a small community event might not sound like a big deal.

For me, it is.

I genuinely love being on stage. I love talking to people, asking questions, learning from different journeys and bringing people into a conversation.

And eChai Ventures is exactly the kind of place where I get to do that.

What I love about eChai Ventures is that it gives young founders like me something incredibly valuable:

a chance to participate before you feel “established enough” to participate.

You don’t need to have figured everything out.

You just need to show up, contribute, learn and keep building.

As someone building YuktiCare, this means a lot to me.

And getting to host this at GVFL made the first even more special.

Thank you, Jatin Chaudhary bhai, for building eChai Ventures into the community it is today — and for creating opportunities for young people like me to step up.

Thank you to GVFL for giving us the space for these conversations.

And thank you to everyone who showed up and made the room what it was. ❤️

One year ago, I walked into eChai Ventures as an audience member.

Today, I hosted one.

I wonder what the next year will look like. 🚀

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Jonathan Wilke 8w

Maybe this motivates some of you to finally get started.

This is the prompt that I used to start outbid.lol in Cursor.

And as devs will probably catch, I used voice mode and it did not understand @shadcn UI 😂

Jatin Chaudhary

8w

Eight eChai gatherings this week across four cities.

Thursday was Ahmedabad. AI Cafe in the evening, and the Women Founders x AI session on the same day.

Today it moves to Pune and Bengaluru. Pune has two. FailCode in the morning at DevX ABZ, where people talk about what did not work. Then the eChai Startup Demo Day at Ideas To Impacts in Baner in the evening. Bengaluru has its eChai Startup Demo Day at Founder Startup House in Koramangala.

Tomorrow is the eChai's Startup Open House. DraperU in Hyderabad and Founder Startup House in Bengaluru, both at 11 am.

The next eChai Startup Demo Day is on 26 September, with 12 cities confirmed so far.

All of it is free to register at eChai.Ventures,

Jatin Chaudhary

8w

Umesh Uttamchandani runs DevX. We hold eChai gatherings in their spaces city after city, so for a lot of founders here the name is an address more than a company.

Forty-five minutes with him on Radio LJ 90.8 FM, on how it got built.

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Sarvam 8w

Today, we’re making Sarvam Content Studio available to everyone.

Content Studio brings everything you need to create, edit and transform voice and video content across languages into one workspace. You can turn a script into natural speech, clone a voice from a short recording, or dub a video into multiple languages while preserving the original speaker’s voice, tone and rhythm.

You also have far more control over what happens after generation, with the ability to review every line, create subtitles, make precise edits and keep each version consistent before it goes out.

We built Content Studio to help teams create content and effortlessly transform it for wider audiences, languages, and formats.

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Kushal Shukla 8w

I raised my hand hoping he wouldn't pick me.

He picked me.

November 2022. eChai meetup, my first ever. Second year of engineering. The host asked if anyone wanted to introduce themselves, about half the room put their hand up, and I put mine up too - safe in the crowd.

We lined up at the front. Around 80 people in the room.

My turn.

"Hello, this is Kushal, I'm in my second year of engineering, attending a meetup for the first time.."

And then nothing. I stopped. Just stood there in front of all of them.

So I said the only honest thing I had: I'm an introvert. This is my first time doing any of this.

The room cheered.

Strangers. For a second-year kid fumbling an introduction they had no reason to care about. I finished it.

I went to the next one. And the one after.

Four years on, I'm in a Founder's Office, and the part of the job I'm best at is the exact thing I couldn't do that day - walk into a room and talk to people.

I still get nervous before I speak. The difference is I stopped hoping I wouldn't get picked.

Whoever cheered that day: it worked.

Jatin Chaudhary

8w

Every Wednesday night we play cricket in Ahmedabad with founder friends at eChai.

Then came one particular Wednesday. One of the guys got out early again and ended up on the losing side again. He was still there for the whole game, and he still came back the next week. But that was the night he decided cricket alone was not going to do it for him.

That is when he told us he plays padel, and that he has been playing it properly for years.

So he started pushing for it. We should try padel, you will all love it. Very generous of him.

Now Thursday night padel is part of the routine, and he wins every week.

Maybe that is what changing the game actually means :-)

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kushagra chitkara 8w

We just killed two biggest limitations of your favourite AI agents:

Their memory and Your laptop

Almanac’s agents have unlimited memory, their own computers, browsers and access to the tools they need & they remember every call, document, decision and promise in your company, so they can keep working even when you’re not.

Close the laptop. Go offline. @usealmanac keeps working.

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Nicolas Camara 8w

introducing ocr in anydoc

now your agents can read scanned docs for free

→ sub-5ms for non ocr
→ 190ms median per ocr page
→ layout detection, tables, formulas
→ ocr hosted option via @firecrawl
→ free, no api key needed

https://github.com/firecrawl/anydoc

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dharmesh 8w

Woo hoo! Thrilled to announce YouSpot, the AI-native Solo CRM from HubSpot Next.

tl;dr: YouSpot is a CRM built for one-person companies. It builds a "second brain" from your business context and remembers the things you might otherwise miss. We’re launching with an intro price of $1/month for the first 1,000 customers (154 slots already taken). Sign up at YouSpot .com (yes, I'm still paranoid about embedding links in posts even though that's not supposed to matter now).
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I’ve thought about this multiple times over the years, and even came close to kicking off a project, but the timing wasn’t right, and the technology wasn’t ready.

Now, the timing is perfect and AI actually works.

YouSpot is a CRM you don’t have to maintain. It's built exclusively for 1 person companies. Solopreneurs, consultants, speakers, writers, creators, etc. It's *not* for GTM teams (I recommend HubSpot). It's also *not* for consumers. It's for operators running a 1 person business.

You connect Gmail, Google Calendar, LinkedIn, X/Twitter and the other tools you already use.

YouSpot builds the context for you - who you know, what you’ve talked about, what might need a follow-up, and which opportunities may deserve your attention.

It can surface the relationships, follow-ups, and opportunities that matter instead of waiting for you to remember to update a record or create a task.

Here’s what you need to know:

1. YouSpot is part of HubSpot Next, an innovation group inside HubSpot (the #1 agentic customer platform with over 300,000 customers [NYSE:HUBS]).

2. It’s built specifically for the solo market. If your business has a GTM team, even a small one - go with HubSpot. If you’re a 1-person team looking for something more powerful than Claude + a spreadsheet but less weighty than a full CRM, check out YouSpot.

3. YouSpot is truly AI-native. Under the hood, it’s actually implemented as an AI harness with CRM tools inside. You use it like ChatGPT or Claude, but it has structured customer context and tools that let it do much more than just answer questions and respond to prompts.

4. It builds itself from the tools you already use. No spending Sunday night updating the CRM.

5. It doesn’t just store your context. It uses that context to help you figure out what deserves your attention.

6. You can chat with your second brain inside YouSpot – or you can use the robust MCP connector and connect it to ChatGPT, Claude or any AI app that supports MCP.

7. YouSpot supports cloud agents, inspired by OpenClaw. These are “always working” agents that have access to your second brain and can do things on your behalf. You define what you want your agent to do in natural language.

8. The pricing is Pay-As-You-Go. No big commitment. Introductory price of $1/month (that’s as low as I could make it and still let people put it on a credit card).

The product is still early. I built it for myself (outside of HubSpot, I have a small LLC that I use for my indie startup investments and hobbyist domain name investments). If you’re a solopreneur, would love to learn how you keep track of the people, follow-ups and opportunities that matter today.

And as I like to do, I”m building this in public. I’m making daily updates to the product. Responding to questions and feedback as fast and furious as I can.

This has been an amazingly fun product to work on. I’m up late night till 2am every night.

Thanks for your interest and support.

All replies read. Even ones from bots and agents.

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Nous Research 8w

Hermes Agent can now seamlessly browse as you.

Turn on real-profile browsing and your agent acts with your logins, from a managed copy of your existing Chrome profile.

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Shengkun Ye 8w

We just killed Exa, Tavily, SerpAPI, and Brave.

Your agent can now search & fetch any webpage for 100% FREE.

Them: $7 per 1,000 searches.
Us: $0. No subscriptions, no quotas.

Humans search Google for free. Agents shouldn't have to pay either.

Made possible by @Tiny_Fish and @MonidHQ.

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Sky Yang 8w

Introducing the new @imagineagi. Check it out: http://useimagine.ai

We made new logo, new site, new everything.

Same mission: figure out how content turns into revenue, then build the agent that does it.

Our agent is connected to data on 1,000,000+ people. What they post, who engages, where they work, how they're connected. We use it to put your content in front of the exact people who buy.

Your team's LinkedIn content, created autonomously. Then mapped directly to revenue.

Jatin Chaudhary

8w

Launching WorldCultureMap.com next week.

Amish Trivedi

8w

I am building Workplate, a work management platform for professional services SMBs.

Rushabh Shah

8w

We are just getting started with the digital privacy guardrails that India needs. The DPDP act is taking shape and today is T0

Mehul Shah

8w

An evening to remember.

Had the pleasure of attending the CA Luxury Soirée at MG Select Showroom, Surat, an exclusive evening curated for some of the city's leading Chartered Accountants.

Good food, live stand-up comedy, and genuinely great conversations. Also got a closer look at the MG M9, where luxury met an extraordinary experience.

Grateful to MG Select Surat for putting together such a memorable evening, and proud to see iKoBuild come on board as community partner in bringing this gathering to life.

Moments like these remind me why building community within our profession matters just as much as the work itself.

Originally on LinkedIn →

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levithefirst 8w

if you are tired of your websites looking vibecoded here are 15 UI resources you need.

1 - http://ui-skills.com - design playbooks for humans and coding agents. can be used to audit UI, fix generic AI design, improve motion, accessibility, and polish.

2 - http://coss.com/ui - a http://Cal.com’s production-ready design system. Accessible React components you own. Great for building real product UI without the usual SaaS look.

3 - http://designsystemchecklist.com - it's a practical design-system checklist that stops agents from creating random UI styles.

4 - http://reui.io/components -
1,000+ free shadcn components and advanced patterns like data grids, kanban, gantt, filters, and calendars. very good for complex product interfaces.

5 - http://kinetics.colorion.co - ready-made spring animations with CSS, React, and AI prompts.

6 - http://iconcreator.dev - free browser-based custom icon designer.

7 - http://vibeprompts.dev - 256 prompts for specific UI sections like dashboards, pricing, auth, onboarding, and hero sections. Give agents a concrete layout target instead of “make it look good.”

8 - http://animatedbuttons.colorion.co - 99 CSS-only button interactions. Copy the CSS or prompt. Good for keeping interactions consistent across your product.

9 - http://component.gallery - 2,600+ examples from 95 real design systems.

10 - http://designsystems.one -88 production design systems with tokens, stacks, and downloadable design(.)md files.

11 - http://utopia.fyi - generates fluid typography and spacing.

12 - http://open-props.style - ready-made design tokens for colors, shadows, radii, spacing, easing, and more. Stops agents from inventing random values everywhere.

13 - http://interfaces.rauno.me - checklist of tiny interaction details that make interfaces feel finished.

14 - http://bg.ibelick.com - copy-paste backgrounds for Tailwind and CSS.

15 - http://motion-primitives.com - reusable motion components for React.

Vishal Tiwari

8w

Learning is bigger than a classroom. Sometimes, the city itself is the lesson.

At Narayana Business School, we believe that building a holistic personality requires more than academic knowledge. It requires students to understand people, places, cultures, histories, and the world around them.

As part of #Genesis - our flagship orientation program, we take our students beyond the campus through an immersive Heritage Walk of Ahmedabad, introducing them to the living history, culture, architecture, and character of the city they will call home.

This year marks the sixth year of this tradition. Ahmedabad, a UNESCO World Heritage City, becomes our classroom as students experience the city not merely as residents, but as curious observers and learners.

Our endeavour is not to build a singular personality, but a holistic one - someone who can think deeply, appreciate diversity, understand context, and engage meaningfully with the world.

I have been fortunate to be a part of these walks over the years, and while I missed being there this time, it was wonderful to see the tradition continue with the same spirit.

Originally on LinkedIn →

Shalin (Shawn) Parikh

8w

Businesses aren't always about profit.

I've been reflecting on the enterprises that measure success by the impact they create rather than the margins they make. I just watched a 15-minute video on Akshayakalpa Organic, and I can't stop thinking about it.

Akshayakalpa Organic paid 2,800 farmers over ₹17 lakh a year each— aggregating to around ₹480 crore annually flowing directly into farming communities.

Shashi Kumar is crazy.

Here's a tech professional who came all the way back from the US to help farmers — building a full ecosystem that directly benefits farming communities.

What struck me most was Shashi's vision: to build not just a company, but an institution — one designed to outlive its founder and serve the most deserving communities for the next 100, 200, even 300 years.

His deeper mission? To bring the younger generation back to farming and make it a viable vocation....

Can a private enterprise become an institution and social wealth for the nation ? Stories like this make me believe it can. 🌱

Kudos to team of Rainmatter by Zerodha and Nithin Kamath for backing such deserving enterprises.

Originally on LinkedIn →

Jainam Mehta

8w

We're heading to CASANZ 2026 in Cairns!

Over the next week, the 28th International Clean Air and Environment Conference and the Asia-Pacific Odour Conference will bring together researchers, regulators, consultants, and industry leaders to tackle the environmental challenges shaping our future.

We're excited to be there alongside our partner Ektimo Pty Ltd, with Bhumik Nayak (VP Product) representing Oizom at the conference. We look forward to connecting with the community and discussing the latest developments in air quality and odour monitoring.

If you're attending, stop by and say hello; we'd love to meet you.

📍 Shangri-La The Marina, Cairns
📅 31 August – 2 September
📌 Booth 6&7

See you in Cairns!

Originally on LinkedIn →

Shrijay Sheth

8w

A big thank you to Kamesh Vyas for conducting an insightful training workshop on AI-first coding. Coming from a highly accomplished consultant with deep experience in building global scalable systems, it was absolutely no-nonsense and hands-on.

Some key highlights from the session:

• Using AI tools and technologies to code faster with accurately
• A hands-on introduction to vibe coding and AI-assisted development best practices
• Comparative assessment of various LLM models—when to use what, and why
• How to build the right context for AI to deliver meaningful, reliable outcomes
• Practical exercises focused on AI-first code for real product and problem solving

What made this training especially valuable was its practicality—not just theory, but real workflows our teams can apply immediately.

And equally important—the value of external trainers to help us:

• Push boundaries
• Bring in fresh perspectives
• Challenge the status quo
• Offer timely reminders on priorities that often slip to the back burner amid day-to-day demands

Thank you Kamesh for an engaging and impactful session, and kudos to our teams for showing up with curiosity and intent to grow.

The future is being built by those who keep learning.

Learning at Hire4Higher Consulting & LegalWiz.in

Originally on LinkedIn →

Koumal Kalantry

8w

Healthcare is not just about technology. It is about the difference that technology creates in someone's life.

It was a real pleasure hosting Dr. Aditi Choksi and Shyam Parmar at the eChai Building the Future of Healthcare meetup.

Two young entrepreneurs. Two very different journeys. One common mindset — solve the real problem, obsess over the customer, and build with empathy.

Dr. Aditi Choksi is reimagining dentistry by using AI to stay accessible to patients, answer their questions, and make long, often unattended treatments easier to complete.

Shyam Parmar has taken a completely different path — developing technology that can enable mobility by translating brain signals into action. What started from a pivot became a product with the potential to fundamentally change lives.

What stood out was that neither journey was about simply "doing more of the same." It was about rethinking what healthcare can be.

The audience brought equally powerful questions — founders eager to build, solve and leave their own mark in healthcare.

A room full of ideas, ambition and possibility.

Healthcare needs more such builders. Thank you eChai Ventures Jatin Chaudhary GVFL for enabling this.

Originally on LinkedIn →

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