Dan Stern

Building for hardware engineers @Nominal_io / prev @Palantirtech / sold NoXX Tech to @beckettcollect / building AI Note Copilot to explore ideas

[Dan Stern @danstern_]

I always struggle to remember the things I've read or learned in the past when I need it most, even while keeping tons of notes.

Easy to consume the content but hard to retrieve the knowledge when you need it

Bc of that, I'm shipping an AI Note Copilot that I use myself built on @cursor_ai @vercel and @Railway that takes notes and helps me ask questions like:

- What have I changed my mind on?
- What did I think about xyz 3 years ago?
- How did I approach this situation in the past and what did I learn?

It ended up generating really powerful results

[Josh Wolfe @wolfejosh]

From ZERO to $1B in 3.5 years.

We wrote their first check at Lux…

Here’s how they did it.

[Dan Stern @danstern_]

Let’s go!! Thrilled to be a part of this team

[Nominal @Nominal_io]

Ambition is timeless. Tools are not.

Today @nominal_io is announcing an $80M fundraise at a $1B valuation, led by @traestephens and @zebulgar at @foundersfund.

Since our Series B 10 months ago: 7x revenue growth. 2x team growth.

Hardware engineers are stuck between 1980s-era tools and .com software built to be replaced. We're fixing the data supply chain so the industrial sector can adopt AI and enter the next era of ambition.

We’re also releasing Volume 1 of the Nominal Product Catalog: "Tools for Progress."

https://t.co/tdpswqw0ek

We're grateful for continued participation from @sequoia, @generalcatalyst, @Lux_Capital, @lightspeedvp, @redglassvc, @avenirgrowth, and @haystackvc.

All Systems Nominal.

[weisser @julianweisser]

Our first solo founder just hit $1M ARR in under 2 months.

Announcing the 3rd cohort of the Solo Founders Program.

"SFP gave me a new framework to think about how fast I can go."

Apply today to build "solo, together" in January.

[weisser @julianweisser]

For the first time in history, over 1 in 3 startups were started solo this year.

Introducing The State of Solo Founding: exclusive data from Carta + commentary from top founders and investors.

https://t.co/QG2seoE9LQ

Solo founders seem odd today.

Soon they'll be the default.

[Dan Stern @danstern_]

@simonsarris I do this with my almost 2 year old and sometimes she doesn’t even want to get out of her bed!

[Dan Stern @danstern_]

@kylascan Congrats!!!!

[Dan Stern @danstern_]

@nabeelqu Have thousands of notes I like to ask questions of on how I approached similar situations in the past

https://t.co/o4L1UXik6i

[Dan Stern @danstern_]

@crixlet @danshipper You can check it out here: https://t.co/Wv0EbgGPab

If you try it out would love to hear what you think

[Dan Stern @danstern_]

@chrisman A

[Dan Stern @danstern_]

@packyM Maybe that’s the only benefit - govt is dysfunctional, but set up in a way that everyone benefits (politicians included) from private innovation

[Dan Stern @danstern_]

Beginning of Infinity by @DavidDeutschOxf is one of those books that takes a few tries (I think) to figure out what he’s actually saying, but once you do, hard to look at anything going on the same way again

[Dan Stern @danstern_]

@levelsio I built an app for myself to do something kinda similar, haven’t tried uploading stripe data tho. If it’s PDF it should work!

It’s https://t.co/8ZxKs3aMKM give it a try and I’m curious if it’d work for you for this use case

[Dan Stern @danstern_]

@EricJorgenson Thiel. In the moment his ideas or predictions seem far fetched but you look back any number of years and he’s usually right

[Dan Stern @danstern_]

@jackbutcher Exactly why I built this lol talking to AI feels like talking to yourself

[Dan Stern @danstern_]

I always struggle to remember the things I've read or learned in the past when I need it most, even while keeping tons of notes.

Easy to consume the content but hard to retrieve the knowledge when you need it

Bc of that, I'm shipping an AI Note Copilot that I use myself built on @cursor_ai @vercel and @Railway that takes notes and helps me ask questions like:

- What have I changed my mind on?
- What did I think about xyz 3 years ago?
- How did I approach this situation in the past and what did I learn?

It ended up generating really powerful results

[Dan Stern @danstern_]

@nabeelqu True, or also ideas that you can’t stop thinking about for weeks that you know you aren’t going to forget

[Dan Stern @danstern_]

@NithurM Maybe a handful of lines myself but 99.9% cursor

https://t.co/o4L1UXiRVQ

[Dan Stern @danstern_]

new feature shipped in ~6 minutes

Save any generated response back to your knowledge base to be used as context in future questions

Sometimes you get 💎 you want to save

[Dan Stern @danstern_]

@CJHandmer This was great

Why do you think there’s such a strong force against pragmatism in CA?

Clearly some strongly intertwined groups benefit against pragmatic solutions, so how does that get unwound to actually execute on the common sense ideas?

[Dan Stern @danstern_]

@PalmerLuckey I actually had the same problem myself @PalmerLuckey so just built something that keeps context at scale better

[Dan Stern @danstern_]

I always struggle to remember the things I've read or learned in the past when I need it most, even while keeping tons of notes.

Easy to consume the content but hard to retrieve the knowledge when you need it

Bc of that, I'm shipping an AI Note Copilot that I use myself built on @cursor_ai @vercel and @Railway that takes notes and helps me ask questions like:

- What have I changed my mind on?
- What did I think about xyz 3 years ago?
- How did I approach this situation in the past and what did I learn?

It ended up generating really powerful results

[Dan Stern @danstern_]

@PalmerLuckey Takes a slight amount of upfront work to get rolling, but https://t.co/Wv0EbgHmZJ

Embeds, chunks and stores all your files (.md, .doc, pdf, whatever) and makes it all available for retrieval. Can keep uploading docs as you create more

No total size limit like ChatGPT/claude has