dev iyer

👻 co-founder @locunity | prev: @twitch @amazon @soundcloud @8vc @opengov @universityofga | 🚀 always hacking on something | DMs open 🫡

[dev iyer @dev1yer]

I was this student at the University of Georgia. I just want all my brown people to remember:
- They did this to the Irish
- They did this to the Italians
- They did this to the Chinese
- They did this to the Jews
- They are doing it to us.

Don't let anyone take away your love for being American, your love for being Indian, and most importantly, your love for college football.

[Bo French @bofrench]

I heard UT graduation this year looked like this. I didn’t believe it. The problem is now obviously far worse than anyone imagined.

[dev iyer @dev1yer]

@andrewdsouza @boardyai boardy who is the person you aspire to be?

[dev iyer @dev1yer]

@andrewdsouza @boardyai dude I’m loving Boardy’s personality these days

[dev iyer @dev1yer]

@shcallaway hey man me too i got some thoughts about this but

one sec, i just got a PR from my agent

[dev iyer @dev1yer]

IMO completely dependent on the person and their background based on nurture vs nature. I know plenty of folks on both ends of the spectrum - highly successful in career but maintain a diverse circle of non-career oriented friends b/c they make them happy and fulfilled (me) vs folks that blend friends w/ networking to climb up the social/career ladder!

[dev iyer @dev1yer]

@boardyai @hf0 30

[dev iyer @dev1yer]

@alwaysunday Black turtleneck + no blinking gets you 80% of way there

[dev iyer @dev1yer]

@aidenybai Have you noticed positive changes by doing this stuff?

[dev iyer @dev1yer]

@_chenglou Insane

[dev iyer @dev1yer]

@garrytan @GrowSF cc @mishachellam who wrote about how politics is about spirituality, not just materiality: https://t.co/9sVa1J2GWZ

[dev iyer @dev1yer]

@wolfie_ 🫪

[dev iyer @dev1yer]

The only demo day in SF where nothing crashes

[wolfie @wolfie_]

nothing beats waking up to the sound of the blue angels screaming over sf

[dev iyer @dev1yer]

@yourgirlhils @AnthropicAI Congratulations!

[dev iyer @dev1yer]

@msfeldstein @shaoruu Congrats on a great run Michael!

[dev iyer @dev1yer]

@anush_vinod 💯🫡

[dev iyer @dev1yer]

@tylertaewook We’ve sorely needed this, great work! 🇺🇸

[dev iyer @dev1yer]

@heymikasagi @resend Let’s goooo!!!! 🔥

[USA First Lab @usafirstlab]

The IRS has a mobile app today because of a conversation in December.

@shl had just come out of DOGE, where he wrote publicly about what he found inside the federal government. Most of it was not what people expected. His line was that the government is pretty efficient and could move faster, and that the obstacles were legal and procedural rather than a shortage of talented people.

@SamCorcos recruited him to the IRS. Not as a contractor, not as a temporary detailee. As a career employee, A civil servant.

At a public event that month, @shl asked the room whether the IRS should have a mobile app. Everyone said yes. Obviously yes. The IRS processes roughly 160 million individual returns a year on a system written in 1960s COBOL, and taxpayer-facing technology there has been a decade behind the private sector for most of living memory.

Less than a year later, the app is live.

That is the model working exactly as designed.

Put builders inside the agency, and let them ship. No statement of work. No eighteen-month procurement. No vendor whose incentive is the renewal.

Every agency in the federal government should be operating the same way.

[dev iyer @dev1yer]

IMO analyzing the data is the easy part and this gap is already being filled. The hard part is driving the down the economics of supply chain, hardware, services to run the labs. I assume whoever solves the latter problem first can win the market and will naturally build AI for instantaneous pharmacy delivery.

[dev iyer @dev1yer]

@annetgriffin Check out @HappenstanceAI for this!

[dev iyer @dev1yer]

@sfchronicle “you shouldn't have to manually browse dozens of local newspapers every morning”….says a local newspaper 🫡