Sumit Dagar

Product, UX, Accessibility. @TEDFellow, @Rolex laureate, @echoinggreen fellow, @StateIVLP. ex @google, @intuit, entrepreneur, @hikeapp @frogdesign @1mgOfficial

[Kirk from UI Collective @KirkMDesign]

Half the AI design demos I see are someone spending 5 hours avoiding 40 minutes in Figma

[Deepanshi Mamgain @thepanshi_]

Diwali used to be my fav festival. Every year I fought to be home in Delhi with my family, wherever I was, whatever I was stuck in.

But last night is something I'll remember every Diwali for the rest of my life.

My grandparents, both around 80ishh, couldn't breathe. We have a 1yr old cousin at home. At 3 AM we were ordering more air purifiers on Blinkit. Didn't work. By 5 AM we were rushing my grandparents to the hospital through the thickest smog I have ever seen.

It felt like an episode of Chernobyl. Except this was us, trying to get our grandparents to a hospital.

And the most pathetic scene, the one that's now etched into my heart forever when I think of Diwali: people wearing masks, bursting crackers at 5 am on the main road, at 3000 AQI.

Think about that. You know the air is poison. You've put on a mask to protect yourself. And you're still lighting crackers. Either you're too stupid to realise what you're doing, or you just don't care. Honestly I don't know which is worse. Everything else in this world has a cure. This level of stupidity doesn't.

People were literally begging their neighbours: pls don't, we have old people at home, we have a baby, we have pets. And all they heard back was "we're just celebrating."

How do I even fight these people? How do I tell these Delhi uncles, whose whole sense of pride is having the longest cracker or the most expensive sky shot, that my grandparents can't breathe? How do I make them care?

I have never felt this ashamed to be a citizen of this country. Last night was one for the books, and not the good kind. This isn't about education. It's about basic civic sense. We're choking our own country and calling it celebration. There’s a reason we’re still a developing country. With this level of civic sense, we deserve to stay one.

@CMODelhi @gupta_rekha @DelhiPolice , when will you feel even a little ashamed? This is the capital of India, and we were scrambling at 5 AM to get our grandparents somewhere they could breathe. Where were you?

But honestly, this time I’m more disgusted by the people. Someone is telling you there’s a baby or an elderly person struggling in the house next door, and you still need to light that next cracker.

When do we learn? Does it have to be your family next?

I used to spend the whole year looking forward to coming home for Diwali. From now on, first fucking thing I’m doing is making sure my family is nowhere near this low-IQ, pathetic, inconsiderate bullshit.

Ask anyone with old parents, a small child or a pet what last night was like.

I can’t put all of it into words. And I know a post won’t change much. But pls, if you’re reading this, remember it next Diwali.

[Prachi Singh @Dilli_wali_girl]

PEOPLE IN DELHI ARE SELFISH

they burst crackers then go inside thier house and sleep with an air purifier on and the poor people who cannot afford an air purifier suffer, animals suffer.

[Bruno Faviero @Bfaviero]

How long until get the Apple Watch Duo?

[Akash @ccg33k]

गजब बेइज्जती है यार

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

On a drop this steep, there's a moment where nothing is holding you up. Your back comes off the slide and you're just falling, with the plastic somewhere underneath you.

Beach Park in Brazil has two of these. One is about eight stories tall, and the big one, Insano, is 14 stories and advertised at 65 mph.

It happens because of where you start. Sitting at the top, you're barely moving forward at all, so the second you tip over, your body wants to drop almost straight down. The slide curves toward vertical faster than you can keep up with it, so for a moment it's pulling away from you, and that's the feeling of your back peeling off the plastic. ProSlide, the company that built the smaller one, literally sells this kind of ride under the name FreeFALL.

After that, gravity decides how fast you go.

Drop 82 feet with zero friction and you'd hit around 50 mph. The park says that slide tops out around 37 mph, so the water and your skin eat about a quarter of your speed on the way down. Run the same math on Insano's 135 feet and the no-friction limit comes out to about 63 mph. Beach Park advertises 65, so if my math holds, they're saying you lose nothing at all.

That's also why they make you cross your arms and ankles. You want everything tucked in for the second you're in the air. By the bottom it flips, and the curve where the slide flattens out presses you down into it hard.

The caption on the video says it's one minute of panic for three seconds of adrenaline. Scientists have actually measured what that minute costs you.

Back in 2006, a team at Emory put 32 people in a brain scanner and gave them electric shocks. Before each one, they were told how strong it would be and how long they'd have to wait for it. Then they got to pick. Nine of them, 28%, chose a stronger shock just so they wouldn't have to wait as long. For those nine, sitting there was worse than the extra pain.

Their brain scans showed the dread living in the part of the pain system that handles attention. The people who hated waiting most were locked in on the foot that was about to get zapped.

On the smaller slide there's no runway before the drop. You have to scoot yourself off the edge. Gregory Berns, who ran the study, said the way to take the edge off dread is to put your attention somewhere else. Tough to do when you're staring straight down at the spot your back is about to leave.

[Gumroad @gumroad]

People will pay for clarity. If you can make something confusing feel simple, you have a product.

[Sumit Dagar @dagar]

Idea looks crazy good. Hardware looks a bit shabby still.

[sabesh 📟 @sabeshbharathi]

The next interaction unveiled @AinaInterface - congratulations on the launch! 🚀💍

[Rohit @Iam_Rohit_G]

Why India will never become like Europe and America!!

Blinkit's Founder started Free Ambulance Service in some cities to handle emergency cases.

What Indian's did? - Started Booking it for routine checkups, hospital visits and hospital-to-home transfers.

They could have easily hired a Ola, Uber and Rapido for checkups, hospital visits and transfers but they wanted to save that money!!

Now blinkit will be charging 2500 rupees for each non emergency bookings and it will be free for emergency bookings!!

The 2500 will go to trusts which manages these Free Ambulances!!

Indians will never have the civic sense and they don't deserve good services!!

[Tanya Das @tanevo_design]

📣 I'm hosting an art meetup at Cubbon Park this Nov.

Where strangers sit together, paint each other's portraits & hopefully leave as friends

Just an afternoon of painting, conversations, laughter & meeting people you probably wouldn't have met otherwise!

DM if you wanna join

[Sumit Dagar @dagar]

Harness is the new Website.

[Vikram Pai @vikpai]

DoorDash is worth more than Swiggy, Zepto and the entirety of Zomato/Blinkit COMBINED.

🇮🇳 Swiggy + Zepto + Eternal: ~$44B
🇺🇸 DoorDash: ~$78B

People need to understand building in India is veteran mode difficulty. Our entrepreneurs are real life heroes.

I’d argue that, difficulty-adjusted, the founders of Swiggy and Zepto have had to be 100x better operators than their American equivalents.

Take food delivery.

DoorDash was built in a market where roads, addresses, payments, smartphones, credit cards, logistics infrastructure and digital literacy were already mature.

Swiggy had to build while the infrastructure itself was being built.

They had to onboard delivery partners with wildly different levels of literacy and smartphone familiarity. Deal with chaotic addresses and roads. Build around cash and UPI. Navigate fragmented regulation, compliance and payments. Serve customers at dramatically lower AOVs while maintaining insane delivery expectations.

And then somehow make the unit economics work.

The crazy part is that the market doesn’t reward competence proportionally.

A founder can solve a 100x harder operational problem in India and still build a company worth a fraction of the equivalent American company because the underlying customer spends less and the capital markets value the revenue differently.

American founders aren’t better. They just get to play on a much easier map with much more valuable customers.

India produces some of the most difficulty-adjusted competent founders in the world. @ReferRush has been insanely difficult.

However, the market just doesn’t price difficulty.

[Sumit Dagar @dagar]

@ritwikpavan @AinaInterface 👀

[gatsby @0xg4tsby]

This is f*cking insane. SpaceXAI senior engineer (ex-Cursor):

"I run 60+ Grok Bots like a company. A Chief of Staff runs my day, 3 PMs hand out the work, 50+ workers ship it overnight"

In this 1-hour workshop, he builds that team from scratch, step by step

Job → Chief of Staff → PMs → 50+ Workers → 60 Bots, One Budget

Most people think 60 bots means 60x the bill. It doesn't, if every bot only reads what its job needs

Pay for clear roles once, instead of paying every bot to re-read the whole chat

Worth more than most $2,000 agent engineering courses

Bookmark and watch it today

Then read the full setup: "Grok Bot: 6 Bots, 200+ Agents, a Smaller Bill" ↓

[Halven @halvenruns]

This is f*cking insane. Anthropic Research Lead:

"Prompting is basically over

99% of our engineers already run swarms of 300+ self-improving agents. Now everyone is shifting to graphs"

In just 20 minutes, she explains how graph engineering turns separate agents into a system that improves itself

One Agent → Loops → Plan Mode → Graphs → Self-Improving System

Prompting was the old workflow. The graph around the model is the new one

Worth more than most $1,000 agent engineering courses

Bookmark and watch it today

Then read the article below ↓

[angel @angeldot_]

ANTHROPIC ACABA DE MATAR EL “AI SLOP” EN DISEÑO WEB

Se llama Frontend Design.

• 185.000 estrellas en GitHub.
• +760.000 instalaciones.
• Open source y mantenida por Anthropic.

El problema que resuelve es común:

Le pedías una web a la IA y siempre salía lo mismo.

→ Inter como fuente
→ gradiente morado
→ layout genérico de startup
→ el mismo hero de siempre

Frontend Design lo corta de raíz.

Obliga al modelo a comprometerse con una dirección estética ANTES de escribir una sola línea de código.

y ahí cambia todo.

le puedes pedir:

→ brutalista
→ editorial
→ retro-futurista
→ lujoso
→ maximalista
→ orgánico

Y te devuelve HTML, CSS, JS, React o Vue listos para producción.

Tipografía, color con variables CSS, motion y composición coherentes entre sí.

Cómo instalarla:

1. npx skills add https://t.co/RmS4nQ9fKP --skill frontend-design
2. Describe la web o componente
3. Elige la dirección estética
4. Claude monta el sistema visual completo

Una sola instalación.
Disponible en todas tus sesiones.

Funciona en Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode y más.

+760.000 instalaciones dicen más que cualquier review.

[Altaf Ganihar @altafganihar]

Today we're launching @snaptrude Agent, the most advanced agent for building design.

It does real design work with you, from a site to a construction-ready LOD 400 model with structure, MEP and drawings. Then can go back to your existing software with your families intact.

About a year ago we bet the company on AI. Honestly the insight came from software engineering. It wasn't long ago that autocomplete felt like a big deal, and now engineers direct agents that write a lot of the code. I think the same shift is coming to how we design buildings, and it's already started.

Most designers I meet aren't short on skill, they're short on time. Take the call every design team dreads, the client cuts the budget by 30%. Today that's a bad month for everyone. With the agent you're the director. You decide where the cost comes out, and it updates the layout, coordinates the structure and MEP, and redoes the drawings. So when design exploration gets this cheap, we go from 3 options to 300, and more options means better buildings.

Since August our users have gone through more than 140 billion tokens, and firms like Jacobs, Studio+, Kajima, VMDO, Dekker and hundreds of others use Snaptrude today. In our early access, more than 2,000 designers have run over 25,000 tasks through the agent since September.

We also built a benchmark for this, AECBench, because in AEC an almost correct answer is still wrong. It gives AI the same brief an architect would get, has its design in a real BIM model, and scores the result against the brief and against how architects review design. We're publishing the first results today, link below.

Thank you @prashanthp at @Accel and Shub and the team at @foundamental for backing us when this was still a bet, and the Snaptrude team, who built every bit of this. Really proud of you all.

Thanks to our investors, @scottbelsky, @andreasklinger, @thilokonzok, @immad, @CindyXBi, @DanilaVladi, @jmwass, rahulchaudhary, @adamecourt, Zach Ginsburg, Alex duff, Paul grossinger, really appreciate all the help along the way.

[Farza 🇵🇰🇺🇸 @FarzaTV]

Today, we're shipping real-time graphics.

Using Sol 6.1 Ultrafast we can generate custom overlays, diagrams, and even interactive 3D scenes right on a user's screen, no chat.

It's a new visual interface for AI.

Here's me learning about LLMs + hardware.

Demo:

[Aarush Yadav @AarushYadav47]

We’ve raised $1.3M from YC & Afore Capital so you never have to type or speak again.

Typing is slow. Talking into your computer is awkward. Subvocal fixes both

Our glasses give you the speed of speech without you making a sound or touching a keyboard.

It tracks your internal speech muscles with non-contact sensing and decodes silent, almost invisible mouthing into text at more than 200 words/min.

Pre-orders are now live at:
https://t.co/DzrwIpg3GR

[Sumit Dagar @dagar]

Was a matter of time.

[shirish @shiri_shh]

Wisprflow CEO opening X this morning to find his $2B product shipped as a FREE feature inside Granola 😭