Ishita Arora

Building software or gushing about San Francisco. Techno-optimist. Founding product person 3x + former founder.

[Ishita Arora @iarora_]

The special thing about startups is that once you solve one problem, you're immediately rewarded with another

[Ishita Arora @iarora_]

Sign of the times for SF’s rental market

[Luke Metro @luke_metro]

we need parallel landings in SFO again, the global economy depends on it

[Ishita Arora @iarora_]

The workplace values at RT Rotisserie surprisingly hit

[Nick @nickcammarata]

I love the gym so much I can’t believe this is considered a chore

[Ishita Arora @iarora_]

@jwegener So magical 🪄

[Ishita Arora @iarora_]

@prescottwatson the hyper interactivity of the site is so impressive!! I've struggled to get claude to create sites as creative as this

[Prescott Watson @prescottwatson]

Big national security meetings on Monday. Prepped weeks to get BEAUTIFUL materials.

Only ONE change required.

But my designer goes offline Sunday night.

Zero design skills. Near-zero powerpoint skills. But I hear a monkey can code interactive sites with Claude. Let's try.

[Ishita Arora @iarora_]

@ivanburazin I see most of the flashy announcements as a recruiting play vs. a lead play + an ego scratch for the founders. Esp for startups that don't primarily serve other startups

[Ishita Arora @iarora_]

ok this is literally me! chatgpt is my bestie while claude is my coworker and I have strict boundaries with both lol

[Ivan Burazin @ivanburazin]

Has anyone noticed how we unanimously prefer Claude for work and instinctively switch to ChatGPT for analyzing blood work or making a diet plan?

[Ishita Arora @iarora_]

@ShaneaLeven we need a revival of codesee!

[Ishita Arora @iarora_]

What tools are people using to get visibility into codebases they didn't fully write themselves? like something that maps out what's actually built, dependencies, architecture without having to read every line of code

This feels important for this new ~era of democratized swe

[Ishita Arora @iarora_]

The codebase of a more complex project I'm working on w/ claude code is now starting to outpace my mental model of it.

This feels like the tax of building fast with AI which likely a lot of folks are running into?

[Ishita Arora @iarora_]

@wongmjane niche tweet but I guess we're neighbors!

[Jack Moses ∞ @jackmoses777]

The secret of life is to approach it playfully.

Everything can be approached with a sense of lightness, joy, and ease.

Doesn't matter what you're doing. Working at a cafe. Meeting someone new. Going out to dinner. Taking a work call. Writing a tweet. Going on a crazy travel adventure.

The illusion is that things are meant to be taken seriously.

This morning, I caught myself racing against time.

I had a friend arriving in Thailand.

I wanted to work out, jump in the ocean, and get coffee before he got here.

I was stressed and tense — battling against reality instead of flowing with it.

But everything changed with one mindset shift.

It's what I have tattooed on my arm:

"It's all play."

I decided to see the entire situation as a scene out of a movie to experience — rather than something to control and fight.

Ripping my motorbike through town, jumping in the ocean, and grabbing a cappuccino became an electric experience to enjoy rather than something to rush through.

My friend arrived, and the rest of the day flowed magically because my vibrational state shifted from tension to flow.

So whenever you're rushing, tense, or way too serious — a red flag should go up in your mind.

Life is not meant to be taken so seriously.

Reality is not meant to be controlled and fought against.

This is meant to be a game, a movie, an exploration in consciousness, and a journey your soul chose to experience through the character of you.

Sink into that state of awareness and watch your life play out more magically than you could have ever controlled from a tense, rigid mind.

It's all play.

[Ishita Arora @iarora_]

in other words, I love claude code so much <3

[Ishita Arora @iarora_]

Starting to explore PM roles, so I wrote a script that scrapes 137 startup boards, scores each role by location + comp + recency + resume fit, and outputs a ranked digest. https://t.co/VUd4A3fx6o

Add your resume and preferences + it'll score each job specifically for you

[Ishita Arora @iarora_]

Under the hood: randomized delays between requests to avoid bot detection, single-pass architecture so it doesn't double-hit servers, resume fit scored via keyword matching against your actual CV. Recency-weighted scoring so stale postings rank lower automatically

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

You can just do things (genetically sequence your dog’s tumors and design a bespoke mRNA cancer vaccine to save her life)

[Ishita Arora @iarora_]

@alexisohanian Makes me think of @willsentance

[Ishita Arora @iarora_]

@martyrdison ok that's semi defensible. not the accents (elevenlabs) but costumes (+ maybe merging the role with clown acts) could be a resilient to AI