Sunil Nakka

Product meets craft. I care about how things work, how they feel, and why they win. 9 years shipping 0→1 across fintech, blockchain, healthcare.

[Sunil Nakka @sunilnjoseph]

@thepanshi_ this one looks great. but most of the chapters aren't ready/live yet. signed up and following along.

[Sunil Nakka @sunilnjoseph]

Love this. 🙌

Was looking for a fix for this exact problem. Most solutions out there (Notion Clipper etc) don't solve it 100% since most of my saving happens on my phone. Pocket used to be great, but it was discontinued.

Got plans to solve this for saving from phone too?

My current workaround: use the share option on phone and add it to my notion.

[Sunil Nakka @sunilnjoseph]

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Many individual doctors are already adopting AI on their own at different points of care. But institutional adoption is still a huge barrier for wider adoption.

# 1 At the hospital level, there is huge infrastructure gap, and the bureaucratic nature of these systems makes them a bottleneck. Hospitals that move first quietly compound an advantage the slower ones can't catch up on later.

#2 It also comes down to how AI is being adopted. A doctor using a general AI model like a patient would without any verification, no cross check - isn't exercising their own clinical judgment. It's more of outsourcing judgment to a system that has less context on the patient, local disease patterns, hospital protocol or doctor's own clinical style.

Maybe, it comes down to build & adopt models designed for how hospitals actually work - ones that cite their reasoning, integrate with clinical data, and more imp are honest about what they don't know?

[Midjourney @midjourney]

Announcing a new division of Midjourney called "Midjourney Medical"

[How To Prompt @HowToPrompt__]

A toothpaste company has quietly killed the entire market research industry and nobody is talking about it.

Colgate published a paper showing you can predict real purchase intent at 90% accuracy by simply asking LLMs to roleplay customers.

And this is beyond insane.

If you ask an AI, "Rate this product from 1 to 5," it gives safe, middle-of-the-road garbage.

So researchers invented a method called Semantic Similarity Rating (SSR).

Instead of asking the AI for a number, they asked it to roleplay.

They gave the LLM a demographic profile. They showed it a product concept. And they asked it to write down its raw, unfiltered thoughts.

Then, they used a semantic model to translate those written thoughts into a numerical score.

The results are staggering.

Tested against 57 real corporate surveys and 9,300 actual human responses, the synthetic AI consumers matched real human buying behavior with 90% reliability.

They perfectly mirrored how different age brackets and income levels react to price changes.

And they provided detailed, qualitative feedback that was deeper and more critical than what actual humans wrote.

This destroys the economics of traditional market research.

You don't need to wait a month to see if a product will sell.

You can simulate 1,000 hyper-targeted customer interviews overnight.

You can A/B test pricing across every demographic instantly.

[Aviral Bhatnagar @aviralbhat]

Valuation in 2018:
Rapido: $70M
Ola: $4B

Valuation in 2026
Rapido: $3B
Ola: $70M

Tables turn as times change

[Sunil Nakka @sunilnjoseph]

@tankots @WisprFlow Porsche

[Balaji @balajis]

This is the first AI cut.
And it will send shockwaves.

Remember: Jack is one of the greatest founders of all time. He created this platform that we’re all on, and has been early to many technological shifts. And Block was doing very well as a business.

So, for him to cut 40% of headcount in this way is a signal to everyone in tech: get good now. Become indispensable. Work nights and weekends. Learn the AI tools and raise your game. Or you might not make the cut, as an employee or as a company.

I know. That sucks. But capitalism is natural selection. The market is unforgiving, because you are the market. After all, it’s not like you’re buying some random gallon of milk from the store; you’re always buying the best product at the best price.

So too for apps: your customers are always installing the best piece of code they can get. And because AI is going to create new winners, if you aren’t the best in your market, someone may become better with AI. Particularly with the new agentic workflows.

To be clear: Block’s severance is generous by any measure. 20 weeks of pay, six months of health insurance and vested equity, all of that goes far beyond any typical package. Jack did his level best to cushion the disruption. The laid off are a temporarily unfortunate class, as opposed to a permanent underclass.

But had he not leaned into the AI transition, he might have had to lay off more people, slowly, and over time, as faster competitors went after his market share.

How would they do that? Sure, AI isn’t a panacea by any means, but the closer you are to software engineering the more aggressively you need to embrace agentic workflows. The AI companies are already doing that, and places like Stripe, Shopify, Coinbase, and now Block are pushing hard on this area.

There will be overcorrection. But the fundamental technical innovation is real. And you need to either disrupt yourself or get disrupted.

[Ujjwal Chadha @ujjwalscript]

I attended the AI Impact Summit today.

5 made in India AI Products BLEW my mind:

1. EkaScribe: A doctor in a busy rural clinic see 5 patients without touching a keyboard. The AI handles the prescriptions, history, and filing.

2. Ottobots: Made in India autonomous robots that can deliver medicines in hospitals, navigating elevators and cooridors by themselves (no more family members rushing to pharmacies).

3. Sarvam Kaze: Sleek, Made-in-India AI spectacles that "see" what you see. They don't just record - they explain the world to you in your local language via bone conduction like a genius translator whispering in your ear.

4. Sarvam Edge: AI that runs on your phone with zero internet - translates 22 languages in real-time even while you're in a basement.

5. Mankomb’s "Chewie": AI native kitchen appliance that literally eats your waste. It converts wet waste - bones, meat, and fluids into nutrient rich "RegenSoil" in hours using real-time AI sensors.

[Sunil Nakka @sunilnjoseph]

@vikpai @ReferRush @aaryantwt Wild! So some good came out of Trippy Goat being closed.

PS: They really need to update their Google Maps status.

[Nakshatra Sain @nakshlife]

There is one major thing that India should develop for hosting such big events, it’s the ‘Event Infrastructure’

I attended GITEX last year, which has an insane scale and the management really thought of all worst case scenarios and they were prepared for everything.

• One of the major thing is commute and the management had 1000’s of Kareem’s cab lined up in a different parking zone nearby to the venue so people don’t waste time in booking the cab, they can just sit and leave.

• All the local dubai residents were pre informed regularly not to visit those festival area unless important on those days

• Free shuttle service to and fro for the 2 venues of GITEX and North Star

• There were lakhs and lakhs of people still as exhibitor you could leave anything at the booth and you will find it the next day at the booth. We left packet of 6 water bottles, it was at our stall even the next day.

• If the shut down time is 5, they start informing people at 4 and at 4:50 the entire venue was empty only exhibitors allowed and they also left in 15 minutes

• All the Dubai’s leadership was there but no chaos

We really need to think about all these problems, India has world attention when it comes to AI but building these right infrastructure is very important.

[Sunil Nakka @sunilnjoseph]

@shilpiagrawal55 DTDC works. Call the nearest DTDC office - they’ll handle pickup and packing too - regardless of the size.

Sometimes they take it to their office, pack it there, and send you a picture and the bill.

[Sunil Nakka @sunilnjoseph]

Instead of pushing for a rename, Anthropic should have tried to make it Claudebot.

[Varun Dubey @varundubey]

For years we’ve been told:

“India can’t build deep tech.”
“We do services. Not systems.”
“Real AI is built in Silicon Valley.”

Today, that narrative dies.

We just launched SuperOS — the world’s first AI Operating System that is already running the hospital.

Not assist.
Not generate notes.
Not make PowerPoints.

Run. The. Hospital.

Thread. 🧵

[Vladimir @vlelyavin]

@AnthropicAI releasing the sabotage risk report the same week your head of safety quit to write poetry is a timeline that writes itself

[Sunil Nakka @sunilnjoseph]

It comes down to who owns these hospitals. Hospitals are no longer doctor led, but PE led.

Many Indian hospitals chains are now owned by Private Equity firms that buy hospitals only to sell them for a massive profit in few years - KKR (Max, BMH), Temasek (Manipal), Backstone (Care, KIMS) - this is exactly what dismantled US healthcare.

While PEs say it is to streamline ops and cost cutting, it comes down to maximising revenue per bed. Mandatory min number of tests is a function of this.

Its all about revenue per hospital bed, not lives saved.

@SwatiJaiHind

[Divya Gandotra Tandon @divya_gandotra]

Hospital rooms priced like 5-star hotels,
medicines pushed at full MRP instead of generics,
insurance claims rejected without accountability. https://t.co/X6PzAVdYAn

These aren’t slogans.
These are daily middle-class nightmares.

Credit where it’s due… @SwatiJaiHind is raising real, lived issues in Parliament, not WhatsApp optics.

Healthcare shouldn’t bankrupt citizens.
Parliament shouldn’t be silent on it.

[Dilip Kumar @kmr_dilip]

Sir, more people travel within Bengaluru city than inter city. It took 1.5hrs to travel 27kms from one point of the city to another today. It will be a greater social and economical impact if there is a way to reduce the travel time within Bengaluru. Please!!

[Sunil Nakka @sunilnjoseph]

@atharva_ajit Hahaha! Tech bromance gone rogue! 😛

[Sunil Nakka @sunilnjoseph]

@christenobrien @akothari Love this pov! Adds to what Akshay wrote.

[tylercowen @tylercowen]

A Call for New Aesthetics: https://t.co/vsU8GfWVs9