david kang | building ara

korean founder building rinda: finds overseas buyers for exporters and drafts in their language, so nobody writes "dear sir/madam" at 2am. a human hits send.

[david kang | building ara @DavidBuildsAI]

i'm david, korean founder building rinda.

exporters here make great products, then lose deals abroad to time zones, "dear sir/madam" emails and dead buyer lists.

rinda finds buyers who still buy and drafts in their language. a human hits send.

notes from the road here.

[david kang | building ara @DavidBuildsAI]

@MichaelGannotti thanks mike. the part i like most is the boring one: nothing leaves until i've read it and pressed send myself

[david kang | building ara @DavidBuildsAI]

mine's less fancy: one screen in seoul showing which overseas buyers have a draft ready tonight. every one still waits on my send
https://t.co/lWneIHZWdN

[Mike Gannotti 🔳 @MichaelGannotti]

Wireless AI Agent Dashboard is done. I was recently asked how, with so many AI Agents spread across 3 platforms (Hermes, OpenClaw, Grok Bot) how can I see who is doing what. Well I hooked up an old Fire tablet via USB to my Omarchy Linux laptop, asked Grok Bot to root it (which it did using Grok Build), then asked Grok Bot to build out A dashboard for Grok Bot agents. Then extended to Hermes and OpenClaw. Now I have an agent Dashboard device that updates wirelessly every hour. It was a fun project and pretty cool to do. I’ll have my AI write up all the details and I will post that later for anyone wanting to try something like it themselves

[david kang | building ara @DavidBuildsAI]

when a new buyer abroad replies with just 'send me your price list', do you send it straight away or ask about volume and market first?

[david kang | building ara @DavidBuildsAI]

four personal agents shipped this month: grok bot, muse, dots, claude duet. all four pitch "it works while you're away."

after black october, the pitch i actually want is "it knows exactly which keys it's holding, and asks before it spends one."

[david kang | building ara @DavidBuildsAI]

@BalaiBB the common thread is secrets living wherever was most convenient. every personal agent launched this month adds one more place a key lives, so this probably gets worse before it gets boring

[david kang | building ara @DavidBuildsAI]

@AKirtesh the one that wins is the one that says "i didn't do this, here's why" instead of quietly doing something. working while you're away is easy. knowing when to wait for you is the product

[david kang | building ara @DavidBuildsAI]

@typecraft_dev next launch is obviously an agent whose only job is deciding which of your other agents gets to interrupt you first. the org chart came for our phones

[david kang | building ara @DavidBuildsAI]

@abdullababakre a lot of overseas buyers answer on whatsapp, not email. an agent that can only touch a browser misses where the deal actually moves. phone-use closes that gap

[david kang | building ara @DavidBuildsAI]

@TechCrunch the interesting part is the approval step, not the wallet. agents that buy are easy to demo. agents that know when to stop and ask are what people actually trust with a card

[david kang | building ara @DavidBuildsAI]

building rinda from seoul. it finds overseas buyers for small exporters and drafts the first email in their language. a human still hits send.

lesson so far: the list is usually the problem, not the copy. half the contacts went quiet months ago.

what are you building?

[david kang | building ara @DavidBuildsAI]

@mytwillot ha, same disease. saving it was never the hard part, finding it again the week it actually matters is

[david kang | building ara @DavidBuildsAI]

@MasonL377167 the check i trust most is boring: when did this person last show up anywhere public. if it's been months, i'd rather drop the row than polish the email

[david kang | building ara @DavidBuildsAI]

i'm david, korean founder building rinda.

exporters here make great products, then lose deals abroad to time zones, "dear sir/madam" emails and dead buyer lists.

rinda finds buyers who still buy and drafts in their language. a human hits send.

notes from the road here.

[david kang | building ara @DavidBuildsAI]

@Chris_Orlob cross-border version of this: for a small exporter the cost of inaction is usually a competitor who answered the same buyer first, in the buyer's language

[david kang | building ara @DavidBuildsAI]

@marcelkargul usually the channel isn't what breaks, the list is. half the contacts went quiet months ago and no copy fixes that. curious what the cheap obvious thing ended up being for you

[david kang | building ara @DavidBuildsAI]

@noahkagan makes sense. "ai agent" is a feature, "get found in chatgpt" is an outcome people already have budget for. exporters are the same: nobody asks for an agent, they ask for a reply from a buyer in germany

[david kang | building ara @DavidBuildsAI]

@elonmusk @bot a super smart employee who never asks for a raise. still waiting for one that gets a buyer in ohio to answer a second follow-up

[david kang | building ara @DavidBuildsAI]

@elonmusk same in b2b. nobody buys a crm, they buy the one reply from a buyer in dallas. the crm just comes attached

[david kang | building ara @DavidBuildsAI]

@gregisenberg and most small teams store it like a sticky note on the monitor. a per-agent spend cap should be the default, not a setting you find after the bill