Ben Cherry

Dad to Izzy, husband to @maggdominguez.

Head of Product at @LiveKit

(he/him/his)

[Ben Cherry @bcherry]

@tylr IT'S SO UGLY

[Ben Cherry @bcherry]

@teostealth @getcasa We call it “the butler”. For instance earlier this year our roof had a leak. I just texted the butler. Now the roof doesn’t leak. Amazing

[Ben Cherry @bcherry]

I’ve been on @getcasa since the start of the year and it’s my #1 new product this year by a mile. Total life changer, seriously.

[Casa @getcasa]

After two years of building under wraps, today we're announcing Casa – your personal property manager. We've raised $27M to redefine the homeownership experience from the ground up.

We believe your home is your most treasured asset, emotionally & financially. It shouldn't also be a second job.

Most homeowners are on their own – expected to have the time, expertise, and relationships to keep things running. Finding a plumber you can trust. Remembering when the HVAC was last serviced. Knowing what's actually wrong before someone shows up to fix it.

Casa gives every homeowner what used to be reserved for the few: a dedicated team that knows your home deeply, handles the work, and stays in your corner. We're enabling this by building a deep, technical understanding of every home we serve – something that's never existed before, across 100 million single-family homes in the country.

For $199/mo, membership includes:

- A complete inventory of your home, built using specialized hardware & software
- 1.5 hours of handyman time every month (and it rolls over)
- Unlimited Concierge requests to take on virtually any home project
- Custom, proactive care plans built specifically for your home
- Weekly package and donation pickups
- Scheduling and payments for your regular vendors
- Utility and property tax monitoring

…and we’re just getting started, with more benefits on the way to make the experience of owning your home as magical as it always should have been.

Available now in the SF Bay Area and Los Angeles. Reserve your spot everywhere else.

→ https://t.co/vTUSR000fC

[Ben Cherry @bcherry]

@teostealth @getcasa Mostly just abstracts all the maintenance of your home (knowing what to do, vetting and procuring vendors, scheduling) into a text based async interface. And does it all superbly well. I’ve knocked so much deferred maintenance off my list this year it’s crazy

[Ben Cherry @bcherry]

@aunder @getcasa HI APRIL

[Ben Cherry @bcherry]

@NateSilver538 your better chart is this one where inflation approval fell off the bottom of the range

[Binh Pham @pham_blnh]

Since livekit-wakeword release, the number one question we’ve been asked is if we support wake word in other languages.

The answer is yes. By leveraging VoxCPM2 from @OpenBMB, we can generate samples in 30 languages and train on them.

All local. All in a single command. All open-source.

[Binh Pham @pham_blnh]

if you have tried to train a wake word model before, you know the pain

today we are open sourcing livekit-wakeword, a tool that lets you train production-grade wake word models with a single command on any platform

compared to openwakeword, livekit-wakeword achieved dramatically better results across every metric:
> 100× fewer false positives per hour
> 60× lower detection error
> 86% vs 69% recall

this is thanks to our improvements with the data generation pipeline (diverse samples and config options), training pipeline (focal loss and label smoothing) and model architecture (attention)

a big bonus: models trained with livekit-wakeword are fully backward compatible with openwakeword, so you can drop in our wake word models into your existing @home_assistant setup or any oww project

check it out here https://t.co/Uubw5tNyd7

[LiveKit @livekit]

Introducing Agents UI, an open-source @shadcn component library for building polished React frontends for your voice agents.

Audio visualizers. Media controls. Session management tools. Chat transcripts. All wired to LiveKit Agents.

Install via the shadcn CLI and own the code.

[Alex Bores @AlexBores]

This decision makes America less safe, today and tomorrow. Pete Hegseth just told the entire U.S. tech sector: don't make a deal with the U.S. military because my next meltdown might mark you as more dangerous than China.

It turns out, nothing is undermining our military capabilities more than Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump's fragile masculinity.

[Ben Cherry @bcherry]

@DavidMavis11 @AnthropicAI @chrisfralic Virtually the entire software industry installs abuse safeguards in their products - set based on regional law, reasonable liability protection, and the company’s own standards of harmful activity. You’d be unable to do business without it.

[Ben Cherry @bcherry]

@DavidMavis11 @AnthropicAI @chrisfralic No one is forcing the pentagon to buy Claude. And companies are allowed to have a ToS that even government agencies must respect if they buy the product.

[Ben Cherry @bcherry]

Claude is the best coder in the world and a true patriot. Anthropic is winning 2026 so far.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

A statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

https://t.co/Gg7Zb09IMR

[Ben Cherry @bcherry]

@noahsloss it doesn't make any sense! put $50M today into a new "stable schools fund" that spends $25M/yr on teachers. commit to fund it with new surplus of up to $30M/yr starting in 2028. get the city to agree to fund the difference, starting '28, if there's no surplus.

solutions exist!

[Ben Cherry @bcherry]

@OurSf49ers @Complex given this context its a miracle he got off the field with his ACLs intact

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

The only thing more powerful than hate is love. ¡Que bueno Bad Bunny!

[Ben Cherry @bcherry]

@JonathanClayba1 @daniel_w_owens They are going back to the table over the weekend. The offer to meet at 9am on a weekday by district staff was in bad faith - UESF leadership are classroom teachers. They can’t just leave their classrooms for this. Btw Maria Su hasn’t attended a single bargaining session herself.

[Eric Neuman @Eric_Neuman]

@ycombinator @amiklas Hey @ycombinator & @amiklas… we heard you’re looking for us 👀

We’d be happy to show you what we’ve built so far, and we may even have a little room left in the round. 😉

DM and check out https://t.co/H8JBdwxujH

[Ben Cherry @bcherry]

@ccarella or, at the very least, stop people from adopting really bad ai practices!

[Ben Cherry @bcherry]

@paulg AKA “giving a shit”. It’s pretty much the most important differentiator you can have.