This is my second iteration because the first version felt like a simplistic fit and improvement over their existing vendor provided app.

I have now designed a domain model based on my understanding and observations. I have a day job so I can't spend a lot of time in sync with the team. I have created a web app where the NGO management can test scenarios (by recording voice), and the AI (Claude Agent SDK) runs it past the domain model. In case, there is a gap, they can persist the scenario. After every iteration, I read through the scenarios and assimilate them into the domain model.

I’m sure this question has been asked in various forms on HN. While I feel the answer might mostly stay the same, changes with various developments in AI - relevance of concepts like MoE, RL etc change - and the tools like custom OpenClaw bots.

Thanks Sameer

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Initially, I would only click on the links and jump off HN but over the last few years I have been more interested in the comments and the discussion.

Thank you everyone one for such a great community!

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My wife is a teacher and she has been taking classes via Zoom for the last few months. In her classes she wanted to play media clips. However the student experience is not uniform and great. After 1-2 attempts she gave up and tried to assign some of this as homework (but that’s not working either).

Youtube Premier seems to be the experience we need to recreate: Live video where they can watch together. Given the teacher and school perspective, this needs to be outside Youtube / Facebook or any social network. This needs to be transient: only for the purpose of the live lecture.

They don’t need a full blown VOD workflow, LMS etc. What’s the simplest possible way to create this?

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EDIT - explaining the benefits for developers, and therefore consumers.

A "cloud to edge" stack from hardware to the application layer could create new application patterns that can tremendously accelerate autonomous driving, everyday robots, gaming. It could democratize this for small (maybe indie) developer teams. Wouldn't this have a great impact on consumers?

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We used Google Sheets and asked for qualitative feedback on defined headers (skill with KPIs & culture/values), and a rating (1-5). Each of the headers had weightage that changed with roles & levels.

We tried to make promotions and compensation changes as data driven as possible, but they were inline with intuition / general opinion. To the employee it always felt like "Why did we do all this for such little change?!" It sucks but you need to improve the system across many years. With every round try and understand signal vs noise. That's how you build trust.

Consistency is key. A few learnings regardless of the system that I learnt the hard way:

* Communication. You need to communicate before, during and after the process. You need to make it relatable for all levels of employees. Give them specific templates with specific examples. You need to remove the narrative of you-vs-them, doing-this-to-justify-an-increase, and bring focus on reflection.

* Frequency/Cycle. "if it hurts, do it more often" is the quote that applies to this. Never let it slide. Minimum every six months, ideally every quarter.

* Review of KPIs. You need to review the KPIs every week without fail. It forces you to focus on metrics that you can move on a week-on-week basis. Anything that changes in step function over a month/quarter/year can be broken into a smaller metric.

* Rewards and Recognitions. We were always late on this. Always rolling out the red carpet when someone threatened to quit. It always felt like extortion as the manager. Don't wait for the cycle to call out extreme performance (great and terrible). Give negative feedback in private as quickly as possible. Do a non-monetary (Amazon Gift Coupons etc) for great performance. Wait for promotions and compensation.

* Pay performance linked pay well. I think this was what I got wrong the most. I did not plan the company finances well enough to pay out immediately. I would say "Hey great performance! We will pay you $$ but in 2-3 months when our situation improves". That erodes trust in a moment.

* Getting and acting on feedback. I struggled on this one too and made many excuses -- we are going through a curve

Hope this helps. I would love to hear from others.

Thank you HN community! I start most days by reading through the top posts on HN, and it has been super helpful.

I am in the process of winding down my business after ten years. It's been a great learning experience. It consumed 1/3rd of my life and all of my adult life.

All these years I felt I didn't have time to pause and reflect. Now that I have a few months of downtime before my next gig, I want to reflect and extract as many lessons for myself.

However, I don't know how to proceed. Any framework/process that you have used in the past that has worked for you? I am at the moment just reading and flowing one link at a time. I think there can be a better way.

Best, Sameer

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Artoo develops intuitive technology to serve people who live on less than $2 a day. We work across rural primary healthcare, financial services and distribution.

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Hackers for Impact. Full Time

We are improving lives of nearly 7.5Million people by improving access to finance and healthcare in India. We are replacing the cumbersome paper and replacing it with digital intuitive interfaces that can be used in rural India. We are helping companies understand their customers better and provide customized products and services at extreme afforadability.

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The emphasis on gestures: getting as much as done with one thumb

The content on BlackBerry World, Flow and Peek it seems perfect for a work chum personal phone.

Your thoughts?

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