I have a story to tell, Long thread, Late last year a friend started a food delivery business then i taught of how i could put my skills to use to help the business. So i though creating a web based store where users can order for food and get their food delivered to them...⬇️
We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.
https://t.co/r0qFLdvd6c
You don’t need to be Nigerian to speak out🗣 what’s currently happening is devastating! My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone affected across the world. This need to end💔 #EndSARS#EndPoliceBrutality
earshot v0.3 is out!
added:
- a library of 201 sounds, all made with code
- earshot kit can create a whole sound kit
- earshot sfx times a sound to the exact frame (improved)
plus earshot is now used in cinetic (skill for creating motion design)
will continue improving it!
Sunday watch? I sat with the team at @Zikoko_Mag Overthinkers Anonymous to discuss “Money,” including when you stop feeling poor and how money alters you.
https://t.co/kTjcnEJSRm
mapcn recently crossed 12,000 GitHub stars! Kinda insane.
It's becoming the go to map library for @shadcn projects and agents, and the traffic has been over the top.
Giving mapcn a little refresh:
- New homepage
- Design improvements
- New agent skill
More exciting things on the way. Thank you, everyone!
Databases in Brimble’s Lagos region are now encrypted at rest with AES-256.
No extra setup. No configuration needed. Every new database gets encryption by default.
Building Brimble is the hardest thing i've done in my life and to be honest I am kind of suprised to see it's still standing, it's so crazy because we don't support local builders enough and if it's in S.F it's the other way round
1) You get constantly compared to vercel/railway and it's sad because if you want to get people in this space to use it to you need to ship features to the quality they have already set (either same quality or you go higher)
2) After shipping almost the same quality, local users here still force you to make decisions by cutting cost of your product, just because you want them to use it and at the end of the day, you still get compared and you even have no choice.
3) I and abraham have been constantly bootstrapping the product for the last 4 years, so we only scale on demand. We don't have the luxury to throw money into compute unncessarily.
4) There were different iterations of the product just to get PMF, the directions changed about 2-3 times between the years.
5) oh fine, "enterprise" has the money. But at the same time, you need a good amount of money to get the licenses to support enterprise and at the same time, some enterprise will look down on you especially when it's just 2 engineers managing the product, ever since we got the idea in 2022.
You do performance and security audits yourself, you need to be extremely stable (just with a team of 2 and after all that, you still get compared. It's very much fine, but nobody gives a damn)
6) Brimble literally has everything (databases, sandboxes, fullstack deployments, autoscaling, static outbound ips e.t.c). Strived to succeed
7) You are also trying to pitch to investors, in a case where some of them don't have a clue or the nuances involved in what you are building. The best everyone has to do is support local products, supporting local products even gives you as a user a ton of advantage. You control the type of features you want, the prices is very affordable for you, you'd get the maximum support you need without having to send emails or wait for 3 business days to get feedbacks.
A few angels really believes in the vision and fingers crossed, really love it.
But at the end of the day, it still seems you aren't good enough for people to use you.
I'm extremely grateful for people that took all of these out of their mind to actually support us in terms of using the product end to end. Sharing reasonable feedbacks and also sticking around even when it had issues.
If i have the opportunity to do this again, i would peacefully decline.