Jay Vaidya

building @hotlinesai, previously with @sidewalklabs @microsoft @washu

[Jay Vaidya @jayvaidya_]

Building permissions reform is more interesting than it sounds. Developers are sitting on expensive land, financed at 12%+ the entire time they're waiting to break ground.

[Richa Pinto @richapintoi]

BMC launches ‘CivitTwin’ — India’s first AI-based building permission system at #Mumbai Tech Week 2026, unveiled by CM Devendra Fadnavis.

What it does:

• Virtual pre-scrutiny of building plans before submission
• Detects DCR violations, missing docs & NOCs early
• Auto-checks compliance using AI + digital twin tech

[Jay Vaidya @jayvaidya_]

@ThePradeep_A just pointed out at India produces 6L new residential units per year for a population of 140Cr. I looked it up, and China produces 1-1.5Cr new units per year, and the US about 15L. It's soooo early.

[Arvind Subramanian @arvindsubraman]

In the 2nd piece, Devesh Kapur & I discuss the step-child of governance-the third tier-which also gets overlooked in discussions of federalism

Why does PM Nehru’s lament about Allahabad which he headed 100 years ago echo today across all cities with similar sad salience?

[Jay Vaidya @jayvaidya_]

I keep seeing various versions of "more housing is the best thing ever". The built environment is upstream of almost every big challenge India faces - TFR, industrialisation and women's workforce participation, food hygiene, waste management. These are not separate problems. India needs a 40-year housing supercycle, and we need to figure out how to make that happen.

[Harsh @huntheharsh]

In peak India moment today, I got scolded by an uncle on bike for walking on the footpath during traffic hours. He said and I quote, “pagal hai kya be, footpath koi chalne ki jagah hai?”

[Jay Vaidya @jayvaidya_]

Few organisations walk the talk (lol) like @walkingproject. Consistently great work!

[Walking Project @walkingproject]

We can understand Mr. Pai’s distress. The daily lived experience is jarring.
At the Walking Project, one of our closest areas of involvement over the past 15 years has been the roads of Andheri East and West, with efforts to improve road design, basic road markings, junction design, high-quality footpaths, shade, cleanliness, and more.

Andheri Kurla Road, Sahar Road, Mahakali Caves Road, Cardinal Gracious Road, MIDC, New Link Road, S V Road, J P Road, every single road has seen sustained effort.

From writing to government officials, local councillors, and MLAs, to working with architects and urban designers to create compelling collateral, to public meetings and on-street engagement, we have done it all. We even found our office in Andheri East thanks to the QMED Foundation.

While companies and residents in the area contribute billions of rupees to GDP every day, and everyone likes and shares posts from @andheriwestshitposting when a flaw in the design or environment is pointed out. But when we try to fix those same problems, we struggle to find even 10 donors in Andheri willing to support our advocacy efforts.

Everyone likes to complain. Everyone enjoys the instant gratification of posts and likes on social media. But when it comes to putting in time, money, or sustained effort, most people step back.

Between the K West and K East wards, which together comprise nearly 2 million residents and another million in the floating working population, including the airport and numerous business districts, this is the most populated part of Mumbai at any given time.

Talk is cheap. We have been unable to sustain our engagements purely due to the lack of resources and manpower required to engage consistently with dozens of engineers, bureaucrats, and officers across different agencies for any significant change to happen.

Citizens. Put your money where your mouth is.

Donate at https://t.co/WdUDtZoNOs

@TVMohandasPai

[Jay Vaidya @jayvaidya_]

@an5rag @ProductHunt Looks sick! Congrats!

[Jay Vaidya @jayvaidya_]

@zaidmukaddam @vercel @inngest might be what you're looking for?

[Jay Vaidya @jayvaidya_]

Been thinking about how new 'operating systems' being built can impact productivity at firms using them. If a software models industry best-practices well enough, does it replace training by making employees adopt certain ways of working?

From the Economist:

[Jay Vaidya @jayvaidya_]

@rbkayz @supabase That's pretty clean! We only use direct Supabase requests for client side auth so used a Next.js server route to proxy. That adds a bit of latency though, so will try this. Curious why you still need to proxy if you use a custom domain?

[Jay Vaidya @jayvaidya_]

Never seen anyone think this. It's the opposite: new car without a green number plate feels old

[NDTV AutoMate @NDTVAutoMate]

Problem With Green Number Plate; Why It's Time For India To Scrap Them

Read:https://t.co/a4PeMCDJiQ

[Jay Vaidya @jayvaidya_]

@BadCapitalVC What do you think is common between deployments for a tool like this, and what would need to be more services driven/custom? Does it basically just look like productivity software?

[Jay Vaidya @jayvaidya_]

This same problem exists in sales, which is why at @HotlinesAI we're building coordination management directly into the product. Our agents engage leads instantly, qualify through conversation, then generate assigned, time-bound tasks for the human team with full context. No coordination gap.

[Jay Vaidya @jayvaidya_]

Attended a meeting at the BMC office yesterday regarding the concretisation of a road near where I live.

My takeaway is that government employees mostly want to improve service delivery for citizens, but execution suffers due to badly designed org structures that diffuse responsibility, and poorly planned workflows.

This is why I'm bullish on @BadCapitalVC's orchestration AI thesis. India's real skill gap is large scale coordination, not effort or intent.

[Jay Vaidya @jayvaidya_]

@maitreya_wagh Nice would love to see it! My friend group uses a pre-vibe coded version of this based on Google sheets and the CricInfo apis.

[Jay Vaidya @jayvaidya_]

@avaid96 Another incredible one

[Jay Vaidya @jayvaidya_]

@avaid96 @Bill_Gross That's pretty cool, hadn't heard of them. The internet is full of great free/open content, so I don't see their model working perfectly. Where would Wikipedia rank for example? It's objectively a high quality link, but I can't see them paying for placement.

[Jay Vaidya @jayvaidya_]

@avaid96 @IndiGo6E @openclaw Would be pretty fun to ask a moltbot to give UX commentary like @JeremyClarkson for everything you ask it to do.

[Jay Vaidya @jayvaidya_]

@IndiGo6E is really wild because every time I use their tech I go in knowing I'll find some whack UX and I still come out of the experience shocked at what I find

[Jay Vaidya @jayvaidya_]

@IndiGo6E This is a classic 'Don't Make Me Think' moment.

https://t.co/6M6hycXlOq

Also I have 20 BluChip 6E Prime Passes and zero idea how I'm meant to apply them.

[Jay Vaidya @jayvaidya_]

@IndiGo6E Booking already loaded on the right, but:

Primary UI on the left: “Find your booking”

Empty PNR form I don't need, still enough to make me hesitate.