Krishna Binzani

Boardgamer 🃏

[yashGPT @yashgpt5]

Tried this new #boardgame w @Invictusbinz
Endless winter (BGG 7.6, wt 3.22)

- very cool elements around the theme, 3d printed figurines are damn cool
- was a bit like “the White Castle” in terms of worker placement and how engine grew in rounds
- since it was our first game (4p) we took 3.5hrs to complete lol

Looking forward to play Brass Birmingham soon

[Krishna Binzani @Invictusbinz]

@yashgpt5 Wish I had a chance to read this before/during my last break. Very comforting. Bookmarked for my next few breaks to follow.

As you said, “taking breaks is AWESOME!”

[yashGPT @yashgpt5]

Taking a bet on yourself seems scary - but regret is worse

wrote my 1st substack blog post 💙

it’s raw, honest, and it’s about how 17 months without a “stable job” changed how i see fear, work, and self-worth

[Krishna Binzani @Invictusbinz]

@Skyscanner Can you please let me know once it's fixed?

[Krishna Binzani @Invictusbinz]

@somani_utsav Let’s go! 🚀

[Andrew Hart @AndrewHart]

Craziest DM I ever received, from a VP at a global retailer: "Our app is shit and we know it's shit". I met her for coffee and she asked me if I could solve the biggest unsolved problem in retail.

This is a deep dive into why and how Hyper built a 1m-accurate indoor GPS.

This DM arrived in 2017. My outdoor AR navigation demos had just gone viral, and my new open-source project for Apple had elevated me to be the top trending iOS developer on GitHub.

The retail exec told me they wanted to bring indoor maps and navigation to their retail stores, so customers could find what they’re looking for, and they could pop up relevant promotions along the way. It turns out that every office, university, events venue, hotel, airport, warehouse, factory — basically everywhere indoors have some need to navigate people around, provide relevant information, and improve efficiency.

I assumed this was a solved problem. No. They do have maps on their app, but they aren’t able to navigate people because GPS doesn’t work indoors. They tried every solution out there to provide the blue dot, but nothing worked.

I did know something about maps and location already — the first startup I worked at built an early version of Pokemon Go. I’d been tasked with generating the gamified maps, and populating the monsters and rewards. So I knew a bit about maps, coordinates and GPS — and monster training. But indoor navigation was new to me.

Over the years, I’ve slowly become an expert in this, so let me explain. For indoor navigation to work well, the blue dot location needs to be 2x as accurate as a strong GPS signal. An aisle in a store is usually about 2 meters wide, so an accuracy wider than 2 meters would be fixing you in the wrong aisle.

There are many research studies aimed at solving this, and Apple and Google have made acquisitions to help them in this area over the years. There were also many startups who claimed to have solutions, but when I spoke to their customers, I discovered that they weren’t happy with anything they’d tried:
- Bluetooth beacons. Install thousands of these small sensors, which are a bit like AirTags, and use them for triangulation. But the bluetooth signals are noisy, making the location about 5 meters accurate, so it would jump you between multiple aisles in a store. Plus, lots of infrastructure to maintain.
- WiFi. More promising than beacons, because every business has WiFi installed already. But the same radio signals problem means the location isn’t accurate enough.
- Magnetomers, which use the earth’s magnetic field. This one sounded more promising. But it takes several minutes of walking around until it will give you a “blue dot”. So this was a bad user experience.
- Computer Vision, which works like Google Street View. The user holds up their phone to scan the environment, it recognises their surroundings and locks them in. But this is clunky for the user, and they need to do this repeatedly every time they want a location update. Once again, bad user experience.

Here’s an example of Apple’s own accuracy using WiFi. (I’ll show our own performance on these same sessions further down).

[Kiran Motwani @FrenchHalwai]

Attended the launch of Bunco’s third store w @Invictusbinz and now I’m low key obsessed!!!!!!!!!! 🫠🫠🫠🫠
The Ginger - Lemongrass Berliner was giving🤌🏻🤌🏻

[yashGPT @yashgpt5]

In 2025, your relationships will either be built on dopamine manipulation or genuine connection.

Game designers chose manipulation.
I’m not a parent, but this #book taught me how to choose connection: 🧵

[Krishna Binzani @Invictusbinz]

what your orders look like when you're highly optimistic wearing good gym clothes is gonna make you a gym girlie 🏃‍♀️💪

#gymfit #girlmath

[Krishna Binzani @Invictusbinz]

@saarimk21 @yashgpt4 hiiiiiiii first ray of sun ☀️
I’m in! 🏃‍♀️

[yashGPT @yashgpt5]

every time I visit #pizza4ps I love to go through these
it’s super fun!

let me show you the TOP 3 WINNERS 🏆

[Krishna Binzani @Invictusbinz]

BLR, if you’ve not been here yet, what are you doing?

literally the best pizza place in town 🍕🤤

go go go! 🏃‍♀️
#pizza4ps #indiranagar

[Krishna Binzani @Invictusbinz]

🎨

[yashGPT @yashgpt5]

this bday spontaneously decided to do #art with buddies
made a short film 🕺

[Krishna Binzani @Invictusbinz]

did something fun on @yashgpt4’s bday 👩‍🎨

🎬in🧵

[Krishna Binzani @Invictusbinz]

@Jagaaa_s @yashgpt4 can confirm @yashgpt4 did his research before sharing this nugget 🕊️
#wingspan

[Krishna Binzani @Invictusbinz]

why is everyone not doing this? SO MUCH FUN!

join us next time?👩‍🎨

[yashGPT @yashgpt5]

this bday spontaneously decided to do #art with buddies
made a short film 🕺

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Simple habit with high ROI: Taking a 15 minute walk before making an important decision.

[Krishna Binzani @Invictusbinz]

@freesukhapuri @_sumantS @yashgpt4 @shl maybe it wasn’t @shl - could’ve been auto-blocked due to @X’s Safety Mode feature

Sahil can either unblock you manually or you’ll get auto-unblocked in 7 days

🧘‍♀️

[Karteek @hkarteek]

they just sent me photos of the places we’ll stay at in Kenya and these are so fucking beautiful 🥹 we’ll be doing Masai Mara, Amboseli, Lake Naivasha, and Nakuru.
I’ve got 5 slots open! really want to make this happen. pls dm or share w someone who’d love to go

[yashGPT @yashgpt5]

how did this happen 😮