Darshan Ponikar 🧑🏼‍💻

building @huddle01com | xFounding engineer @nintee_official | Public Speaker 🔈 | new experiments on weekends ❤️

[Mandy Lu @mandylu]

daily reminder

[Darshan Ponikar 🧑🏼‍💻 @iponikar]

Codex is so far the best AI Coding agent in terms of both quality and limit.

[Darshan Ponikar 🧑🏼‍💻 @iponikar]

Meta literally spent this much on AR and shut it down earlier this year.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Google is raising its AI funding target to $84,750,000,000.00.

[Darshan Ponikar 🧑🏼‍💻 @iponikar]

Life is all about exploring side quests.

[Siddhant Khare @Siddhant_K_code]

Since December, I’ve primarily built 3 open-source products on weekends.

They still don’t look impressive if you only judge them by GitHub stars, but all three have led to VC interest. More importantly, the first two have also started getting meaningful enterprise usage.

Distill was the first one that helped me connect with some good VCs, but after building AgentTrace and AgentAuthz, the conversations became much stronger, and now there are actual enterprise users as well.

the reson I’m writng all this that you don’t always need a huge number of GitHub stars to get interest, users, or investors.

Stars can help, of course. But people who actually need the tool will find it, use it & sometimes even invest in it

[Darshan Ponikar 🧑🏼‍💻 @iponikar]

@aakhriastha You wanna try? 🤣🤣

[꩜ @faeslily]

me

[Darshan Ponikar 🧑🏼‍💻 @iponikar]

I've been using MiniMax with my OpenClaw agent recently. We've been brainstorming heavily and setting everything up from scratch. What surprised me most wasn't the model quality, but how generous they are with the limits. Offering 1B tokens is pretty wild, especially when most providers are becoming more restrictive.

[Darshan Ponikar 🧑🏼‍💻 @iponikar]

@PolymarketMoney What about SpaceX?

[Darshan Ponikar 🧑🏼‍💻 @iponikar]

I miss touchbar.

[Sick @sickdotdev]

The touchbar was too early and didn't deserve to die

[Darshan Ponikar 🧑🏼‍💻 @iponikar]

that's how private equity funds buy companies.

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

If Dario cannot joyfully take your job, this guy sure will try

[Darshan Ponikar 🧑🏼‍💻 @iponikar]

@Daavya_vaishnav is this Livestream Cafe?

[Prompter @PromptLLM]

understanding the first hour of the day is self hypnosis for the rest of the day

[Edward Lando @edwardlando]

A lot of succeeding in startups is just surviving long enough to catch a wave... have experienced many such examples recently.

[Darshan Ponikar 🧑🏼‍💻 @iponikar]

I think the idea of a “job” is being redefined.

The days of optimizing for interviews alone are slowly fading.

Technical skills still matter, but communication, ownership, decision-making, and the ability to work across domains are becoming increasingly valuable.

We’re already seeing small teams build things that previously required entire departments.

The future seems to reward people who can learn fast, adapt quickly, and take responsibility beyond a single box on an org chart.

[Harshit Jain @jain_harshit]

🚨This is really serious!

Without an “emergency fund” of 1-2 years, you are sitting on a disaster waiting to happen.

How much runway do you have if you are affected by layoffs today?

[Darshan Ponikar 🧑🏼‍💻 @iponikar]

@PKodmad This is interesting project Polsia which manages your entire company by AI. They research, cold dms, run tasks in the background.

[Darshan Ponikar 🧑🏼‍💻 @iponikar]

Have you visited this place recently? Half of Mumbai is at Marine Drive.

[Chai Met Toast @bythewaynikhil]

In the script of love, Marine Drive is always a supporting character

[Darshan Ponikar 🧑🏼‍💻 @iponikar]

According to bollywood logic someone who is making around ~₹60K/month can afford a sea facing 1 BHK apartment in Mumbai.