Jishnu Samal

Building @wearefactor

[Jishnu Samal @jishnusamal]

1/4 I realized that finding a valuable problem isn't enough. You also need a way to reach the people who have it.

That's why I left freight brokerages to find a stronger market for me.

[Jishnu Samal @jishnusamal]

@simonw Feels like Google has some great prompt engineers.

[Jishnu Samal @jishnusamal]

Hot take: Problem discovery is harder than sales.

In sales, you know who your customer is and what problem they have

In problem discovery, you're trying to figure all of that out.

And you have to convince strangers to give you their attention before you can offer them anything

[Jishnu Samal @jishnusamal]

4/4 Even if I managed to reach them, discover a problem & build a solution, it might be hard for me to distribute the solution at scale.

And that's a risk I wanted to address before building, not after.

[Jishnu Samal @jishnusamal]

1/4 I realized that finding a valuable problem isn't enough. You also need a way to reach the people who have it.

That's why I left freight brokerages to find a stronger market for me.

[Jishnu Samal @jishnusamal]

3/4 I could've tried phone calls, conferences or industry events. But I felt they are not the best use of my time & resources as a first time founder.

[Jishnu Samal @jishnusamal]

Talked to a 6 people in freight brokerages last week.

Most believe that finding carriers is the most time-consuming part.

But two of them said vetting was the bigger problem.
Because finding the right carrier for a load is more important than just getting a carrier.

[Jishnu Samal @jishnusamal]

@jasonlk Why did they hire a sales team in the first place if they disliked sales so much?

[Jishnu Samal @jishnusamal]

@thecmdrunner Really? Claude can do this on its own? Without any external tools?

[Jishnu Samal @jishnusamal]

@michael_chomsky But how durable are these businesses? I think only a few will still be around in 10 years.

[Jishnu Samal @jishnusamal]

But isn't that's what matters?

Understanding codebase, figuring out problems, and fixing them.

Real-world engineering rarely looks like a LeetCode interview.

[Dmitrii Kovanikov @ChShersh]

Can I say something without everyone getting mad

[Jishnu Samal @jishnusamal]

@betocmn @resend @resend has been my preferred email devtool since so long. I used sendgrid around 3yrs ago last time.

[Jishnu Samal @jishnusamal]

@gregisenberg What's the difference between a software dev and MTS? I'm having a hard time figuring that out.

[Jishnu Samal @jishnusamal]

@levelsio What about building a autonomous cost optimizer that continuously finds ways to cut costs, @levelsio?

[Jishnu Samal @jishnusamal]

@lennysan Beautiful. But where's the RGB?

[Jishnu Samal @jishnusamal]

@jasonlk So what's replacing Canva for you?

[Jishnu Samal @jishnusamal]

Could it mean that models are developing increasingly similar blind spots?

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Something changed in the latest frontier models where cross model review and code review is just less useful now

[Jishnu Samal @jishnusamal]

@garrytan Could it mean that models are developing increasingly similar blind spots?

[Jishnu Samal @jishnusamal]

@ChShersh That's too harsh. Maybe try resigning from @Google, @spacexai, @Meta, @NVIDIAAI and others too. You might get lucky somewhere.