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New comment by dazzeloid in "Show HN: ADRs for AI – Deliberation records for human–AI work, versioned in Git"

dazzeloid — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 18:02:03 +0000

very cool. do you think of this primarily for engineering work or more generally collaborating with AI?

New comment by dazzeloid in "Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?"

dazzeloid — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 16:09:15 +0000

mid-level output, clearly had more capability than his output suggested from his ideas and some particularly strong contributions

New comment by dazzeloid in "Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?"

dazzeloid — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 16:08:18 +0000

trust. he was not forthcoming when confronted with the "this other company says you are full-time and just went to their offsite - is that true?"

New comment by dazzeloid in "Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?"

dazzeloid — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 16:07:14 +0000

funny thing was he had other places on his linkedin under "active employment" but we never really dug into it (until we learned he was full-time there) because he just seemed like the kind of person who wouldn't keep his LinkedIn up to date.

New comment by dazzeloid in "Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?"

dazzeloid — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 16:06:18 +0000

He was a solid middle of the pack contributor on net, but it was clear he was way stronger than his net output just from interactions with him (he had great products ideas, clear technical understanding of many areas, etc).

New comment by dazzeloid in "Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?"

dazzeloid — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 21:39:06 +0000

he's a really talented engineer, crushed our interviews. the funny thing was that he actually had multiple companies on his linkedin at the same time, including ours. we just thought they must have been internships or something and he never updated them (he felt a bit chaotic). but then it turned out he was working at all of them simultaneously.

worked for us for almost a year and did a solid job (we also let him go when we discovered the multiple jobs)

New comment by dazzeloid in "Command AI Bought by Amplitude"

dazzeloid — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 00:25:58 +0000

Cosign, Spenser and I are aligned on this :)

New comment by dazzeloid in "Command AI Bought by Amplitude"

dazzeloid — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 00:24:33 +0000

<3 thank you!

New comment by dazzeloid in "Command AI Bought by Amplitude"

dazzeloid — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 00:24:12 +0000

I both think this comment is spot on (acquisition theater / cope-core is very real) and what I said was true :)

Obviously, the better financial outcome is to grow huge independently and go public, etc, but there are a lot of good outcomes that are not that.

New comment by dazzeloid in "Command AI Bought by Amplitude"

dazzeloid — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 00:21:05 +0000

Command AI co-founder here. What I'll add to Spenser's nice comment is that there was this strange tension when we were deciding to do this between: (1) Feeling like the only right outcome for a growing startup with runway is to keep going and try to build a massive independent company, (2) Realizing that we can probably grow faster as part of Amplitude (obv with less upside capture)

Obviously if your growth is so epic and you're a top 1% company, the choice is obvious. But there are a lot of companies that are doing well outside of that group that I don't think allow themselves to consider the acquisition route. We were like that until Amplitude reached out and we got good counsel to seriously consider their offer.

New comment by dazzeloid in "The Arc Browser: Lessons from a product that shouldn't work"

dazzeloid — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 19:27:44 +0000

I'm going to be following very closely how Arc approaches monetization. Don't think they've talked much about this yet. Right now they are towing the line between art project and business extremely well so far, but I wonder how this will work at scale once they're through the honeymoon early adoption phase.

New comment by dazzeloid in "Why does no one measure prompt velocity"

dazzeloid — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 16:12:08 +0000

Love the concept of prompt velocity. Although it doesn't capture the initial quality of the prompt or whether the changes are effective.

Show HN: Hyper-personalized, built-for-one user walkthroughs

dazzeloid — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 15:41:54 +0000

Hey HN, I'm the founder of CommandBar and today we launched Magic Tour Links, which are a way to send hyper-personalized walkthroughs to individuals users.

The premise of our company is that most tools that aim to help users are actually annoying (even if they lead to sugar-high-rushes on engagement metrics).

We’ve all experienced pop-up hell on websites. CHECK OUT THIS NEW FEATURE followed by DO YOU HAVE FEEDBACK FOR US.

Some ways we're seeing people use these tour links:

(1) Embed them in empty state text. When users are first exploring, let them opt into a tour of the place. Like a welcome “Come on in” door mat that can talk.

(2) Create them for sales prospects “Hey, you know that feature you said you were super excited about: try it here” (nice thing about this vs. a standalone loom is that it gets them back in the product).

(3) Create “Help me” buttons on your most confusing pages that trigger the tour. Wait, you probably don’t have confusing pages. Ignore this one.

(4) Include them in your drip campaigns and changelog entries. “Show, don’t tell” — your 6th grade english teacher and me

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37064371

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by dazzeloid in "A Closer Look at LangChain: The Guide That's Been Missing"

dazzeloid — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 19:47:16 +0000

A frustration I have with langchain is the number of primitives and terms -- insane how long this blog post needs to be to explain everything.

New comment by dazzeloid in "Creating Gmail"

dazzeloid — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 18:08:09 +0000

It is completely mind blowing to me that the first version of Gmail was built in a day. YC mindset before YC.

Creating Gmail

dazzeloid — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 18:08:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.commandbar.com/podcast/episodes/1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36246126

Points: 6

# Comments: 3

New comment by dazzeloid in "LlamaIndex raises $8.5M seed round, led by Greylock Partners"

dazzeloid — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 18:05:30 +0000

Here for the "I could build this in a weekend" comment so I can bookmark for the IPO :)

New comment by dazzeloid in "Show HN: HelpHub – GPT chatbot for any site"

dazzeloid — Wed, 24 May 2023 20:32:13 +0000

I'm not super familiar with chatbase (which looks awesome in its own right). Some things that I haven't seen before: -Semantic search added -Ability to open source docs in the widget -Recommendation sets -Personalized suggested question

Also we're pretty focused on embedded use cases and looks like chatbase is more generically usable (e.g. on discord, via API).

But honestly, I expect these products (including our own) to grow so much over the next few months than this answer could totally change.

New comment by dazzeloid in "Show HN: HelpHub – GPT chatbot for any site"

dazzeloid — Wed, 24 May 2023 20:29:58 +0000

Right now it's hitting OpenAI, but we want to try out other LLMs in the future.

New comment by dazzeloid in "Show HN: HelpHub – GPT chatbot for any site"

dazzeloid — Wed, 24 May 2023 20:29:10 +0000

it's a main quest now!!