satyajeet

glorified mattern patcher • recovering perfectionist • sambar fiend • subtext junkie • purveyor of fine axioms • conspicuously ignoring the abyss

[satyajeet @SatKanetkar]

smug dinosaur doodle

[satyajeet @SatKanetkar]

I've been monitoring this impending nightmare for what's going to happen to Android going forward. This needs to be fixed, as Google is taking away freedoms that we have been enjoying for more than a decade.

https://t.co/5xmGqkUUqT #KeepAndroidOpen

[satyajeet @SatKanetkar]

feels good to finally put out 4 years of effort :)

[Julie Zhuo @joulee]

Sundial has raised $23M to build the analytics platform for the AI era!

Our work is personal to me (though many have asked: Why? Aren't you into intuition and taste and experience which is ultimately unmeasurable?)

But hear me out: I love building, and I have a deep respect for it. Making something people love is one of the hardest and most humbling endeavors.

The art comes down to making high-quality decisions, which comes from an obsession with the cliff’s edge between customer understanding and product capability.

You need to know what’s working and what isn’t.

That’s why data matters. Data is *information* about how reality works. At Sundial, we live by the mantra: diagnose with data; treat with design.

What does masterful decision-making look like? It comes down to 3 things:
1. extreme alignment
2. shared curiosity to unpeel deeper and deeper layers of truth
3. urgent execution

The very fact is that good intuition and taste comes from data internalized across many, many reps.

Yes, reality is infinitely more complex than what can be measured. But measuring gives us a better grasp of reality.

Alas, using data well is like learning a new language. It requires years of skill and context building. It's easy to misuse, whether misguidedly or intentionally. I know this all too well.

Mastery requires everything from how to break down an ambiguous question, to fluently reading triangle charts and dense tables, to remembering the specific name of a specific column using a specific dialect of SQL.

Too many people, like me, regularly feel frustrated by
a) how long it takes to get answers
b) how to draw the right interpretations
c) how much noise I have to wade through to find actually actionable insights.

Instead of greater confidence and quality, we get conflicting signals, cherry-picked facts, and analysis paralysis.

Sundial is our attempt to solve those problems.

We’re bottling up opinionated intelligence to guide decision-makers towards faster and more confident decisions. We envision a world where *everyone* can be their own expert analyst.

Sundial uses AI and expert analytical techniques to make insights accessible to every decision-maker. Exemplary analysis takes the listener through a story. Data should speak the language of business, not the other way around.

Sundial is also smart in the ways you’d expect of an AI-native tool. It’s not just about looking up data (“What’s India ARR last month?”), which has become table stakes; rather, Sundial can also tackle deep, complex analysis (”Why did ARR decline? What are my levers?”).

In a crowded landscape of fragmented data tools—dashboards, notebooks, ETL systems—Sundial brings it all together into one intuitive platform.

We believe this era of AI will see teams doing far more with less, and moving faster than ever before.

Our mission is to build the data brain for the next generation of AI-powered companies.

We're thrilled to be backed by @dpatil at GPV—the first U.S. Chief Data Scientist and coiner of the term "data scientist”, alongside industry luminaries like @amasad, @tobi, @fidjissimo, @alexschultz, @shishirmehrotra, @rsanghvi, @avichal, @drewhouston, @howietl and firms including @sequoia, @TribeCapital_, @sunflowercptl, @Unusual_VC.

The best part of building Sundial is the people we get to work with. Funding announcements are nice and all, but what really fuels us is the feedback and growth trajectory of our customers.

There’s nothing better than working on interesting problems with people you like.

Onward!

(P.S. We’re hiring for AI engineers, data engineers, and data scientists in the Bay Area -- DM me if you resonate with our mission, love dissecting big problems down into smaller ones, and appreciate the consistent practice of craft.)

[satyajeet @SatKanetkar]

@themotorinc seeing a bunch of test notification spam on your android app, is this an intern with prod access

[satyajeet @SatKanetkar]

@nickcammarata the "true" hedonist is found off the treadmill :)

[Sam Altman @sama]

Let yourself occasionally get a little screwed in exchange for not having to live with your guard up all the time. It’s worth it.

[satyajeet @SatKanetkar]

can emacs do this

[zack @zack_overflow]

Added gratuitous explosions and particle effects to the code editor I'm building

[Dune Quotes @DuneQuoteBot]

"Paradox is a pointer telling you to look beyond it. If paradoxes bother you, that betrays your deep desire for absolutes."

[satyajeet @SatKanetkar]

all python tooling in 2023 is a significant downgrade from what was "basic" table stakes for static-typed languages like Java in 2013

[satyajeet @SatKanetkar]

a puppy is killed every time someone asks an LLM to write a poem

[satyajeet @SatKanetkar]

use magit

[Robby Russell @robbyrussell]

How do we help devs unlearn the usage of `git add .`?

[Alka Dhupkar @Alka_Dhupkar]

National Atheists Conference happening in Pune today.

[satyajeet @SatKanetkar]

@param108 "hydrogen bomb" :O for a second I though this was satellite imagery :) then I remembered it is diwali

[Sidu Ponnappa @ponnappa]

The modern internet based global economy was not created by capitalism.

It is almost entirely built on foundations laid by unpaid volunteers contributing to open source because doing so made them feel good.

[satyajeet @SatKanetkar]

@param108 I'd be disappointed if they didn't expose your kid's school performance metrics on an API

[satyajeet @SatKanetkar]

@param108 > build a company

> Essential and Effortless

good one

[satyajeet @SatKanetkar]

@iAbheejit that your Twitter needs a refresh possibly?

[satyajeet @SatKanetkar]

Do you still fight the battle against email top-posting? How long since you gave up?

[satyajeet @SatKanetkar]

GitHub needs a UI where you can just submit a .patch file and it opens a PR on a repo

[satyajeet @SatKanetkar]

Has anyone figured out how to get GitHub to open a PR by emailing it a .patch file?

[satyajeet @SatKanetkar]

clearly living under the wrong rock, given that I had no clue #IndiaFOSS was happening today