Grant Gurvis

Building ⚡️@UseHercules
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[Grant Gurvis @gurgrant]

If you think you could crush this interview, DM me

We’re scaling very quickly at Hercules and hiring exceptional engineers to build frontier coding agents

[Brendan Falk @BrendanFalk]

I believe we've found the best AI-native coding interview

We call it the “Composer 1 interview”

Candidates get 1 hour to build a real, medium-sized project live

The only constraint: they have to use Cursor’s Composer 1 model

[Brendan Falk @BrendanFalk]

To check if your Google Workspace has been compromised by the same tool that compromised Vercel:

1. Go to https://t.co/TpuIOW5Fwg
- This is Google Admin Console > Security > Access and Data Control > API Controls > Manage app access > Accessed Apps
2. Filter by ID = https://t.co/uqJnCqp5Ah
- This is the ID of the compromised OAuth app

If you see an app after filtering, you have potentially been compromised

[Grant Gurvis @gurgrant]

@BrendanFalk 👨🏻‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏻 is 22

[Brendan Falk @BrendanFalk]

If you want to work on AI coding agents and think you could crush this interview, please DM me!

We have 100s of thousands of users, millions in revenue, and I would argue an incredibly powerful AI agent harness. Lots more to do!

[Grant Gurvis @gurgrant]

@mikeysee I’d love to see a version of return validators that act more like zod where unknown keys are removed at runtime. This looser validator I think would be a better middle ground for llm generated code since most errors are related to extra keys.

[Grant Gurvis @gurgrant]

@mikeysee @convex We also noticed this @usehercules, we tried getting the model to use return validators but its really hard to get it to understand properly.

Seems like the biggest issues is how return validators don't strip unknown keys (instead erroring) unlike zod and other schema validators.

[Grant Gurvis @gurgrant]

So excited to finally make public what I have been working on for the past 6 months.

Its insane how quick you can ship with Hercules. You can literally go from idea to live app in 10 minutes.

[Hercules @usehercules]

We are incredibly excited to officially launch Hercules: the world’s most powerful AI app builder.

1. It’s unbelievably easy to use
2. It comes bundled with everything you need to build/deploy apps
3. Most importantly, Hercules apps “just work”

Comment below to get 20 free credits.

Get started for free at hercules [dot] app

[Grant Gurvis @gurgrant]

https://t.co/bodDA5oQoA

[Hercules @usehercules]

Very excited that Hercules apps can now publish their apps in Europe!

[Parssa Kyanzadeh @ParssaKyanzadeh]

one of my favorite features i've shipped at @useHercules is milestones

breaks down large apps into testable steps, building them one at a time and keeping the human in the loop

+ users seem to love pressing "build it"

[Brendan Falk @BrendanFalk]

You can now build full-stack applications in @UseHercules.

Backend, auth, and database work out of the box, no integrations required.

Here is "make Twitter" in one shot

[Hercules @usehercules]

Excited to officially launch 😎

👉 https://t.co/aY41GIu8MY

[Brendan Falk @BrendanFalk]

👉 https://t.co/oOIYv4VpQO

[Brendan Falk @BrendanFalk]

I’m excited to officially launch Hercules (@UseHercules)

Hercules makes it easy to build apps, websites, and prototypes by chatting with AI.

We started building this 2 weeks ago. It’s already insanely good. We have a lot more planned.

Please try it, give us feedback, and follow along as we build in public

[Brendan Falk @BrendanFalk]

Launching something new later this week. Link in comments if you'd like to get early access

[Grant Gurvis @gurgrant]

Very excited to show off what we are working on soon 👀

[Brendan Falk @BrendanFalk]

Sign up for early access: https://t.co/0tCFNUCExd

[Brendan Falk @BrendanFalk]

We are pivoting away from doing enterprise AI transformations ("AI-native Palantir"). For now at least.

I've shared our key learnings below. I'll share a detailed blog post soon.

What's next? We are going to start moving insanely quickly on several other ideas. Stay tuned 😎

[Brendan Falk @BrendanFalk]

Looking to hire several people to work on prompt engineering for some of our large enterprise customers. Full-time, part-time, or one-off.

Please DM if interested!

[Brendan Falk @BrendanFalk]

New company is called Zeus. We would LOVE early feedback.

Links to our website and Discord in the comments

It's by no means our final product, tag line, business model, or even target customer. But it's pretty cool, core to what we want to build, and took us 3 weeks!

[Brendan Falk @BrendanFalk]

Pleased to announce I have left AWS and will be starting a new company. Loved AWS and forever grateful for our acquisition, but it’s time to build.