After our @UpliftCorp a16z launch we received >150 job applications! I just finished reading every single one and we've followed up with a handful. Thanks all who applied!
This was an interesting experience... there was *a lot* of AI. 1/
@UpliftCorp If you make real things and like what we're building at Uplift, take a photo of your work and send it to us! We are nerds here, furiously building. What have you hacked? What do you want to build, what product do you want to fix? 3/4
Ridiculously proud of what we're building. Housing is about as essential as it gets, and we're shipping it!
https://t.co/VijPpwiTt2
Oh, and we're hiring :D
We are launching Uplift, backed by a $7M seed led by @a16z.
We build homes the way cars are built: on a production line.
250 years ago Adam Smith wrote that lodging couldn't travel. A coat is made in one place and worn in another. A home never has. He was right for 250 years. We intend to prove him wrong.
My co-founder @trevoroleary and I built at SpaceX and Tesla. We're applying the same playbook used for Starlink and Cybercab to housing: design for manufacturing, ship volume, drive cost down with each version.
Over the next 3 months we'll deploy our first homes and scale toward a production rate that could rival the largest car companies in the world. Enough volume to house thousands, then millions per year. Enough to move rent.
We are hiring engineers. We are taking orders.
I had Claude build a connector into Altium so it can read my schematics. Iโm now officially sure we humans are cooked.
It reads the entire net-list, all the component data sheets, studies supply chain risk and recommends changes to component selection and the design itself. I hardly have to l tell Claude what the board is for, it just figures it out!
I have an expert electrical engineer reviewing my designs in seconds. So cool.
Now to get Claude to just make the designsโฆ also, anyone got ideas one how to do inference on layout?
@atopile_io how are things going over there?
Alright I am getting into the social media game now
I left @SpaceX's @Starlink last year to build the foundation a dignified life depends on
Millions of people are one disaster, one eviction, one bad month away from having nowhere to go. We're building something engineering-focused and physical for moments like that. At scale in America.
More to come.
@luinalaska I'm a grad student researching disaster housing and recovery. I'd value hearing about what you saw your neighbors and community go through.
No pressure at all. DM if interested, thank you!
@Janabw81 Glad you and your home made it through safely.
I'm a grad student researching disaster housing and recovery. If you saw what neighbors or your community went through with displacement and finding housing, I'd value hearing about it. DM if interested, thank you!