Max Henkart

Optical engineer, founder. Bootstrapping a US optics and camera manufacturing company.

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@futurist_lens Cognex is incorrect. They don’t do embedded vision. We do with our partners.

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@Danhightower Most founders can’t pull off $0 to $5M+/yr revenue without outside capital, aka C-corp structure. This is a strategy for founders with deep pockets or gnarly grit with deep domain expertise. I’ve done it this way but don’t recommend as failure rate is even higher

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@michaelsikand I should take my company public 🤣

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@chrisgpt 4.6 Opus was originally a Sonnet 4.6 release…. They changed it to Opus so they could charge more per token because it was already better than Opus 4.5. They obv had to rename the other model they were originally training to be the Opus 5 as a result

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@elonmusk @davidsenra Worth the sacrifice to reshore and build cool stuff. Optics mfg at scale left to China via Kodak before their demise.

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@karpathy This is working awesome for optical design! Thank you 🙏

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@typesfast The best chauffeur of all!

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@thepatwalls @twbuilds @openclaw I built an entire operating system for my business in 1 week - on top of our ERP (without changing data). Operational efficiency and awareness is going to triple. It’s worth the time

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OpenClaw is EQ1 in 2000-2002. The Wild West but at 100X game speed. Bunch of us trading, learning, productively building. Then the XP trains, people hacking/glitching around zones, scamming. Admins shut down bad actors. WoW was “gen 2” w/ measures before launch.

@pmarca @tobi

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@yugacohler @openclaw I’m happy to pay $2k/mo-$5k/mo. It’s 10% of my existing spend on ERP VARs, marketing consultants and underperformers. Plus can 10X productivity literally in 1-2 weeks. Insane

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@d4m1n @coreyhainesco @openclaw I have it stop parsing after the email address of the sender

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@coreyhainesco @CasJam @openclaw Yes the way to do it is read/write and it builds a custom dashboard for you. Then it does all the classification, organization, drafting etc. you are the one who hits “send”

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@petergyang @openclaw I built an entire modern “business operating system” for my company on top of our ERP @Acumatica . Allows us to sync share point, HubSpot, custom databases, complete with statistical quality control

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@naval Truth.

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@KawzInvests You clearly don’t understand optics manufacturing. The largest optics companies in the world (Chinese) aren’t vertically integrated. Unlike most industries vertical integration rarely result in the lowest cost.

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@chr1sa @stevesi 💯 13th and I’m like “don’t want to be here don’t want to be here” the entire time

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@girdley Watching a YouTube to learn how to fold boxes for the first order was when I knew the business would work!

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@drlorenzmeier @auterion Nice! Scaling HW production is hard. So many fixtures and processes to debug/steamline. Happy to help your team with the perception hardware

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@RegZeller Just use Freightos and air freight it. Done it with dozens of 1t-2t pieces equipment. Make sure to use WeChat video with the company selling it to ensure it’s packed right. Then all good 👍 if they’ve shipped to US before it’s easy. If not, just double check it.