Avinash

Solving for human-computer interface. Building my startup to a billion dollars in revenue and documenting the journey on @tbdshq

[Avinash @avinashonrecord]

For my first 100 followers, I think I owe you an introduction while I find a decent profile picture.

I am Avinash. Born in India, Living in Toronto and currently in SF doing the regular SF things, like building an ai startup.

We are building a workspace for the modern knowledge worker to get the most leverage out of the technology of our time, ai. And by "We", I mean me. Yes, I am the team.

I am a solo founder, currently, building the startup leveraging ai. In a way, I am building a this product for myself and people like myself.

Since "we" are early, and I am very open minded, I had an unusual idea. What if, I document my upcoming adventures in building a startup in 2026, from the start?

The big risk is obvious, what if we fail? That's a fair point. I mean, we can't really guarantee an outcome. The future is not exactly predictable. But I guess we can try our best anyways, and see how it works out.

The upside of this would be, for the first time, we will have an inside look of how to build a venture scale company from day Zero.

"We" are calling it The Billion Dollar Show ( I know ).

While I spend most of my time building the product, talking to potential users, and filming the show ( coming soon on YouTube ), I do keep a few hours free each week, just meeting new people and talking anything and everything.

If you ever want say hi, just DM me and let's schedule something.

If you are a power user of ai products to develop software, design products, produce art or games, research knowledge or just generally use ai to create anything, let me buy you a coffee please. I want to hear it all.

[Avinash @avinashonrecord]

@hiteyjit Truth, a mobilizer of intentions? The other way around seems more plausible. Intention mobilizes truth.

[Avinash @avinashonrecord]

Taste is Truth

[Avinash @avinashonrecord]

@TGUPJ this is essentially what oai is building at its first device

[Avinash @avinashonrecord]

May the best story win

[Avinash @avinashonrecord]

something went really wrong with the whole 2010s SaaS era and that something was Google and Meta

[Avinash @avinashonrecord]

Work is changing, so is user behaviour. A new product category is growing. I call it the Work Surface ( I know ).

Claude/Codex/Perplexity are all early & incomplete glimpse of what it looks like.

Increasingly amount of time is being spent on these work surfaces over the browser and individual applications. Browsers & applications becomes tools. User works from a single place.

Exciting times ahead.

I am building this btw...

[signüll @signulll]

we’re entering the end stage of the address bar, domains, tabs, & all the stupid dumb tech plumbing browsers exposed to normal users.

i.e. i almost never begin at the browser layer anymore. the journey starts in claude, chatgpt, siri, or some other ai system.

which means the browser has been demoted from destination to runtime. you still might land there via links, checkout, dashboards, authentication, & documents. but you rarely *start* there.

websites are no longer competing primarily to be visited. they’re competing to be retrieved, cited, acted on, & represented correctly by agents. traffic becomes an implementation detail.

which is why killing atlas was probably one of openai’s smarter decisions & i have written about it ton a year + ago (search my tweets). the browser itself will matter less & less. the systems that understand intent, choose where to go, & act on your behalf will matter far more.

[Avinash @avinashonrecord]

@mayarox5 how about charging money for advice on a site called intro?

[Avinash @avinashonrecord]

@claudeai Here is a hard question: does Claude train on my conversations?

[Avinash @avinashonrecord]

@adilmania cool concept!

[Avinash @avinashonrecord]

@paulg Was “personal computers” grand or precise?

[Avinash @avinashonrecord]

“Hard questions are great but the hard questions that matters are the ones we ask, not the ones you ask”

[Sam Altman @sama]

"hard questions are great but only if we deem you worthy enough to not silently downgrade you, or even get access at all"

[Avinash @avinashonrecord]

@tekbog Its a gravy train

[Avinash @avinashonrecord]

this exists as a feature because to enable auto selection of models, the agent needs to provide certain level of competency in task, which becomes the responsibility of the product developer. Products with model selection features are essentially outsourcing their responsibilities to the user.

[Avinash @avinashonrecord]

model selection is a dumb feature. If the agents are so smart, why can't they pick the right model for the task.

[sunil pai @threepointone]

steve jobs would’ve hated model selector drop downs and the discourse around comparing versions and thinking levels

[Avinash @avinashonrecord]

@ivnbkrv cool! I am in SF. Can’t DM you though.

[Avinash @avinashonrecord]

@realOldBilly @basedjensen I don’t expect you to see this for another 3-5 years.

[Avinash @avinashonrecord]

execution infrastructure for startups is too brittle

[Avinash @avinashonrecord]

These kind of predictions are never an outlook of the future, but an opinionated view of the current state of affairs.

Good for entertainment, bad for informing your worldview.

[Daniel Kokotajlo @DKokotajlo]

In AI 2027, we predicted that AI would take over the world or irreversibly concentrate power.

In AI 2040: Plan A, we've laid out our positive vision for what should happen instead.