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New comment by namanyayg in "The relay market powering token resellers and fraud"

namanyayg — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 22:06:04 +0000

I should have added that I ran my first startup in India for 8 years before moving to the states, that's why I have an insider view.

New comment by namanyayg in "The relay market powering token resellers and fraud"

namanyayg — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:17:29 +0000

One aspect that seems to be missing is the abuse of the free credits provided for new companies by AWS, Azure, and other providers.

I know of a friend's company in India who purchased inference, at 4% of the actual price and states that it gave him an unbeatable competitive edge in their large running video influence pipelines. Any new competitors could not offer their pricing at all.

Primarily that operated because registering a new company getting free AWS credits was a very tiny cost

New comment by namanyayg in "Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work"

namanyayg — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:19:18 +0000

I respect your opinion and experience, but FWIW for the readers, I had the completely opposite experience.

The batch did divide into groups. Some people were learning functional programming, others focused on Transformers architecture, while yet others on dynamic programming. But I quickly found a small group of people who were building things that I was interested in, games and AI applications.

In the unstructured time I was able to set my own goals, ship a lot, write a lot, and give a lot of talks on topics that are very interesting to me.

I didn't expect or get any free food from the Recurse Centre -- I was in New York, I had the world's cuisines available to me. I often went on lunch along with other RC members to reasonably affordable places within walking distance.

RC is not a college course with exams and a fixed syllabus -- It was unstructured and self-directed -- and that's what made it so special.

New comment by namanyayg in "Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work"

namanyayg — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:52:35 +0000

Thanks for making Recurse so awesome Nick, and it was great running into you at demo day.

I learned so much and made great friends at my six weeks in Brooklyn.

Without Recurse Center I probably wouldn't have made it into YC with a startup of my own today. Long live RC!

New comment by namanyayg in "Google copybara: moving code between repositories"

namanyayg — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:31:24 +0000

Nice, I built something similar ~5 years ago using nested git repos and scripts to accomplish a similar purpose of combined private and public repos.

My shell script definitely wasn't google scale tho!

New comment by namanyayg in "My Mathematical Regression"

namanyayg — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:10:36 +0000

This was one of my favorite Project Euler problems, but getting to the mathematical solution admittedly took me a couple of weeks.

Perhaps because I was pigeon-holing this as a programming optimization problem.

I wrote about it too! [0]

[0] https://nmn.gl/blog/vibe-coding-gambling

New comment by namanyayg in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

namanyayg — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 06:10:31 +0000

Amazing and industry-changing. Is he able to update it by himself now?

New comment by namanyayg in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

namanyayg — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 05:35:33 +0000

I have a similar story with my washing machine repair. I went through 2 service technicians not being able to diagnose it. Gpt did it and I told the 3rd what to do and it worked.

New comment by namanyayg in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

namanyayg — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 05:34:10 +0000

Yup it's gotten good enough that it mostly works (thats why i built my startup around this idea)

New comment by namanyayg in "The real cost of owning a home"

namanyayg — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:12:10 +0000

You can live in a house, but you can't eat stocks

New comment by namanyayg in "Wake up! 16b"

namanyayg — Sun, 24 May 2026 06:48:45 +0000

One of the linked demos, "rainbow surf", got me hypnotized. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKLhH_ANwIc

New comment by namanyayg in "Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder"

namanyayg — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:15:40 +0000

very true! we sandbox and keep it independent of the main codebase, which makes it easier to build and share new features.

New comment by namanyayg in "Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder"

namanyayg — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:21:32 +0000

Nice article. That's basically what we do. We also make the created code saveable and shareable so they can reuse what they've already built

New comment by namanyayg in "Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder"

namanyayg — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:18:51 +0000

Yup! That's one of the biggest things we build while shipping this for a Series B SaaS. It's invisible but one of the hardest technical challenges.

We've got guardrails before any code is generated and we put three layers of validation after the feature is ready to make sure it's using the correct data and it's functioning for the use case that the customer asks for.

New comment by namanyayg in "Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder"

namanyayg — Wed, 13 May 2026 04:39:11 +0000

Yep, even our use cases are 80% read-only, and the rest where we write is very constrained and guardrailed.

Giving non-technical users the freedom to create new backend objects is definitely scary and not worth it imo!

What did you build, any links?

New comment by namanyayg in "Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder"

namanyayg — Wed, 13 May 2026 01:47:36 +0000

Our solution to that age old problem is to scope each new feature into its independent "app", which is sandboxed and walled off from the main source code

New comment by namanyayg in "Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder"

namanyayg — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:25:40 +0000

Thanks for the new tagline ;)

New comment by namanyayg in "Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder"

namanyayg — Tue, 12 May 2026 23:10:42 +0000

Manual qa, evals, prompting, and inhouse validation steps. AI is not 100% perfect but it's working well for most use cases.

New comment by namanyayg in "Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder"

namanyayg — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:09:20 +0000

Yup 80% of the usage is for new frontend features and that's actually quite valuable for our customers who serve traditional enterprises like manufacturers, hotels, labs.

Only some (very well guardrailed) backend functionality is being used.

New comment by namanyayg in "Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder"

namanyayg — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:24:36 +0000

We're live with five businesses and 2000 daily users! The technical challenges in setting the mapping, ai model, and dsl that creates reliable outputs is the engineering value we deliver.