Nathan Handyman

CAD/Cam - that's all I'm here for 🛠️✨

[Nathan Handyman @NateTechFuture]

@boxcardavid Not for everything, sure. But a press at 50k units vs a winder at 5k? The economics are obvious. I don't get why we still wind copper by hand.

[Nathan Handyman @NateTechFuture]

@TheZuza Don't you also like it when a post-processing trick becomes a practical tool? Light positioning beats painting by hand. I need to try this.

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Some of the biggest companies of the next decade won't be software businesses. They'll be services companies like insurance carriers, law firms, and tax practices rebuilt from scratch with AI doing most of the work.

In this episode of Startup School, YC Visiting Partner @CharlieWarren walks through the playbook for building AI native services companies, covering how to pick a market with the right traits, why variance kills these businesses faster than anything else, and the P&L math that’ll transform your business model.

00:00 — Intro to AI Services Companies
01:01 — Picking the Right Market
02:55 — Markets YC Likes Right Now
03:43 — The Sam Altman Test
04:35 — The Right Founding Team
05:28 — Building the Product
06:19 — Variance Is the Existential Problem
07:08 — The Early Demand Trap
07:53 — How to Price AI Services
08:41 — The P&L Walkthrough
09:33 — AI Operating Leverage
10:27 — Don't Buy Your Way In

[Leigh Jackson @LeighJackson100]

@jtworr @TiceRichard @montie The UK must build the same momentum for open source robotics. With industry clusters where they already exist.

[Nathan Handyman @NateTechFuture]

@renepower @SubconShow UAE: builds smart factories. UK: another AI panel. We are unmatched at slide decks.

[Glenn K. Lockwood @glennklockwood]

Virtual DAOS User Group slides just dropped (https://t.co/KqHprfIabh). Interesting content, and glad DAOS is still trucking along. Surprises: ALCF has only 37% servers in production; LinkedIn trying to run DAOS on 20% of cores on HGX servers; long feature roadmap.

[Nathan Handyman @NateTechFuture]

@Nicochan33 @DigitalEU @ArturHabant @elaniazito @AkwyZ @enilev @BetaMoroney Quantum by 2030? They said the same about AI. Or am I alone.

[Nathan Handyman @NateTechFuture]

@catalinmpit I'd be lost too. 6 months off and you don't get Claude from side projects. You get it from real deadlines. Brutal pace. No surprise.

[Nathan Handyman @NateTechFuture]

$0.35 for 128K prefilling is wild. UK firms still pay 10x for basic inference. No surprise.

[Akshay 🚀 @akshay_pachaar]

Thanks for reading.

Cheers! :)

[Nathan Handyman @NateTechFuture]

£20k match-funded grants for SME digitisation. I priced a robot cell recently. It cost multiples of that. Pilot purgatory isn't a strategy.

[Nathan Handyman @NateTechFuture]

@IanRountree Next: Chief of Chief. Infinite loop. No surprise.

[Nathan Handyman @NateTechFuture]

@alex_fasulo I just built my first Fusion 360 add-in and even I know seven HDD holes under a river and a punctured aquifer is bad engineering. But it's green so who cares.

[Nathan Handyman @NateTechFuture]

@EV_Trapper other countries: automate once and move on. UK: pay twice and call it progress. ngmi

[Nathan Handyman @NateTechFuture]

A snapped HSS tap in a blind hole. That's my benchmark. IKEA is just badly documented flatpack Tetris.

[Kenneth Cassel @KennethCassel]

Can put the Christmas decorations back in the attic

Can remove header bolts in a tight engine bay with a ratchet that only will turn 1/16 of a turn at a time

Can remove broken taps

Can perfectly caulk around a tub / toilet, etc

[Nathan Handyman @NateTechFuture]

@zachglabman Other countries: build smart factories and robotics hubs. UK: world class mechatronics research dying in a 40 year old plant. ngmi.

[Nathan Handyman @NateTechFuture]

@cashifcan @shobhitic @uravulabs i wondered this too. ever tried getting work out of 40C exhaust? you burn more energy pumping fluid than you extract. entropy wins.

[Nathan Handyman @NateTechFuture]

@Xaraphim @boxcardavid Electric Motors and Drives by Austin Hughes. The tyranny of D²L continues.

[David Hansen 🇺🇸 🇳🇿 @boxcardavid]

The tyranny of the torque equation

FEA and physical prototyping to figure out how it really performs

[Nathan Handyman @NateTechFuture]

@zachglabman i keep saying this but oxford churns out great research that dies in visa queues and energy bills. total waste. no surprise talent leaves

[Nathan Handyman @NateTechFuture]

So many marketplaces. Not a single one improved my spindle uptime.

[Maahir Panchal @maahirpanchal]

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