Ashwin

Product Designer @snaptrude, previously at Les Amis, SuperShare, Idiom Designs | Communication Design - NIFT ‘20

[Ashwin @okayashwin]

@altafganihar @snaptrude Godspeed ⚡️⚡️⚡️

[Altaf Ganihar @altafganihar]

Today we're launching @snaptrude Agent, the most advanced agent for building design.

It does real design work with you, from a site to a construction-ready LOD 400 model with structure, MEP and drawings. Then can go back to your existing software with your families intact.

About a year ago we bet the company on AI. Honestly the insight came from software engineering. It wasn't long ago that autocomplete felt like a big deal, and now engineers direct agents that write a lot of the code. I think the same shift is coming to how we design buildings, and it's already started.

Most designers I meet aren't short on skill, they're short on time. Take the call every design team dreads, the client cuts the budget by 30%. Today that's a bad month for everyone. With the agent you're the director. You decide where the cost comes out, and it updates the layout, coordinates the structure and MEP, and redoes the drawings. So when design exploration gets this cheap, we go from 3 options to 300, and more options means better buildings.

Since August our users have gone through more than 140 billion tokens, and firms like Jacobs, Studio+, Kajima, VMDO, Dekker and hundreds of others use Snaptrude today. In our early access, more than 2,000 designers have run over 25,000 tasks through the agent since September.

We also built a benchmark for this, AECBench, because in AEC an almost correct answer is still wrong. It gives AI the same brief an architect would get, has its design in a real BIM model, and scores the result against the brief and against how architects review design. We're publishing the first results today, link below.

Thank you @prashanthp at @Accel and Shub and the team at @foundamental for backing us when this was still a bet, and the Snaptrude team, who built every bit of this. Really proud of you all.

Thanks to our investors, @scottbelsky, @andreasklinger, @thilokonzok, @immad, @CindyXBi, @DanilaVladi, @jmwass, rahulchaudhary, @adamecourt, Zach Ginsburg, Alex duff, Paul grossinger, really appreciate all the help along the way.

[Ashwin @okayashwin]

@GiovanniIncasa @216AJ @Logitech This helped for now. Wasted 2 hours trying to reinstall. I am so damn late with work. Thank you @GiovanniIncasa !
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@Logitech you suck fr 💔

[Ashwin @okayashwin]

@snaptrude This is a huge milestone for the team ❤️

[Jared Friedman @snowmaker]

(0/25) Here's a list of 25 YC companies that have trained their own AI models. Reading through these will give you a good sense of what the near future will look like.

[Ashwin @okayashwin]

@davidcinema Watched #Chaaver today. A socio-political poetry painted with blood; around betrayal & beliefs. The visuals + sound put you right next to the characters & it's quite haunting to be in their shoes. Personally, it was also a free privilege check since the issue is still quite real.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

The most important things I learned during the past ten years:

[Ashwin @okayashwin]

It’s funny how I simply didn’t use this feature after a few initial attempts driven by its visual appeal and novelty. The experience is super unpredictable and embarrassing when it doesn’t work. I’m sure mine is not an isolated experience. Looks pretty when it works though :/

[Ashwin @okayashwin]

The airdrop update, along with Namedrop & contact card is hands down my favourite update on iOS17
#WWDC23

[Ashwin @okayashwin]

@theadityadas @Abi_A_B & now zooming out a little bit 🌞❤️

[Ashwin @okayashwin]

@theadityadas Design: 2% retro, 98% sus
Product: 100% sus

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

In Steve's words:
Our goal is to make the best personal computers in the world and make products we are proud to sell.

There are some stuff in our industry that we wouldn't be proud to sell.

We don't ship junk.
https://t.co/0P8uUz6AqS

[Faisal Ahmed @iamnottomriddle]

TIL that Siri will sing classical music if it tries to read Kannada text.
#EmergencyAlert
@peakbengaluru

[abhay @abhaydesign]

Portfolio update ✅

Check it out here → https://t.co/0aMRScQy38

With that, I am actively looking for product design roles ✨

#designtwitter, please do your magic 🪄 😄

[Aditya Das @theadityadas]

📷 Lakeside

29.6.23 | Bangalore, India

[Ashwin @okayashwin]

@thesunnymishra Hey I fed the DMs in batches to extract key principles and work ethics. This took 90% of the time 😅 Once I had a long list of the extracted pointers I fed them to GPT and asked it to remove redundant/repetitive content.

[Ashwin @okayashwin]

Used GPT4 to concisely package 3+ years of design feedbacks & work principles from founders slack DM 🤌✨
#ChatGPT #poe

[Andreas Storm @avstorm]

blur trick for the optical fit

[Ashish Singh @ashzingh]

High-tech

[Ashwin @okayashwin]

Will wait for Vision Pro SE 💸🤲

[Ashwin @okayashwin]

Want to buy Vision Pro so badly, but I've also seen enough Scary Sci-Fi films at this point.
#WWDC23

[Imran Chaudhri @imranchaudhri]

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