Stanislas Polu

CoderSchool (IT W21) saved $1000+/mo by switching to Lark Suite from Google Workspace, but there's even something more mindblowing about Lark...are you ready for this 🤯? There is a 🧋 Milk Tea Group Order🧋template in their default gallery. In all seriousness, while I originally switched as a cost-savings measure, I'm finding Lark Suite surprisingly delightful to use. It's fast, fluid, and unlike the Google tools, all the tools work together seamlessly, centralized around a "chat-first" philosophy. If people are interested, or even if they're not, I'll continue posting about some of the steps involved in our migration from 9+ years on Google Workspace. It wasn't that hard, although we're not through all of it yet. I'd encourage all startups to take a look - Lark is free for up to 50 users, so most small co's can replace Gmail/Notion/Slack/Sheets/Airbase/Drive for $0/mo. And you can still keep "Sign in With Google" on your old domain. Thanks to Mark Dembitz for the presentation about Lark. I was lucky to be sitting front and center wearing my bright red CoderSchool T-Shirt while you had the slides about why red is a bad choice for a brand color.

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Massive week for agent launches and funding. Here is everything that you need to know.🧵 1/ Mendable released teams, 2x rate limits, map endpoints, a more reliable and developer friendly API, and more. Nicolas Silberstein Camara + Caleb Peffer https://lnkd.in/gv9x8wmf 2/ Salesforce Marc Benioff + Clara Shih Agentforce launch. https://lnkd.in/gd2JTpf3 3/ Adept Workflow Language (AWL) launched to simplify the creation of AI workflows. https://lnkd.in/gkssiYUa 4/ Cohere launched an improved version of Command R/R+. It has a performance boost on agentic tasks. Sandra Kublik, Aidan Gomez, Nick Frosst, Jay Alammar https://lnkd.in/gcRZqF3E 5/ Magic launched a 100 million token context window. That’s 10 million lines of code, or 750 novels + a recent investment of $320 million https://lnkd.in/gbtVmVxU 6/ Bland AI announced $22M in funding.  Their phone agent can talk in any language, handle millions of calls, and never hallucinate. Isaiah N. Granet https://lnkd.in/g99-QgHt 7/ Jack Altman announced $4.4M in funding for Retell AI https://lnkd.in/gg_uXhtd 8/ $2.6M in funding for Agency! We’re building AI agents that are safe, reliable, and accessible to everyone. Alex Reibman shared how thousands of developers, startups, and enterprises rely on Agency every day. https://lnkd.in/gSbfx_2a 9/ Softgen AI has made building websites easier than ever! Marko O. Kraemer https://lnkd.in/gc_ViK3w 10/ An agent that will roast your website built with Composio, Agency, Browserbase, Ollama https://lnkd.in/gC-3yW9e 11/ AI Newsletter Summarizer: Karan Vaidya https://lnkd.in/gYzfsAxb 13/ MattVidPro AI about Lindy. https://lnkd.in/gR3xiCu2 14/ Mert Deveci ✊ shared a video I did with David Ondrej about the best AI Agents https://lnkd.in/ggKtB_Gv 15/ Abacus.AI AI showed off its software planning agent. https://lnkd.in/gq6FfXKR 16/ Angela Strange from a16z "Every white collar role will have an AI co-pilot. Some roles will be near fully automated with AI agents.” https://lnkd.in/gZpbMexe 17/ Klarna's AI support agent does the work of 700 employees, reducing average resolution time from 11 minutes to 2 minutes. https://lnkd.in/gq-ZZjmg 18/ Box CEO Aaron Levie on why AI agents are a $1 trillion opportunity https://lnkd.in/gujCcgAR Follow Agency and Adam Silverman (Hiring) for all things AI agent-related. Last weeks updates: https://lnkd.in/gkcVwyrX

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Open Source is the most effective collaboration model we have where competitors and unrelated needs come together to build the future.

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Kardinal will be open source under the MIT license - we just published the repo yesterday. Give a star to follow along our progress! As Kardinal supports more and more stateful services, you’ll be able to use it on your own architecture to dev and test directly on your remote, stable cluster rather than duplicating and simulating everything in a testbed. Check it out on GitHub 🙌

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"Just connect using our state-of-the-art [SOAP | RESTful | GraphQL | gRPC] API..." - Ughhh! Enabling features that would take months to build in-house has always been the promise of third-party integrations. But often the integration takes just as long, distracting your team from doing what you really need them to do. And that's just the beginning. Now that we've integrated we need to ensure data compatibility, manage security protocols, and maintain performance, which all require careful planning and ongoing maintenance. The key is to approach API integration strategically. Prioritize solutions that align with your long-term goals, and don't get distracted by Shiny New Things. How do you prioritize? What is the actual value add? And who is deciding? #APIIntegration #TechLeadership #Entrepreneurship

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If you missed my talk at droidcon New York 2024, here is the video online 👇 "Whether you're crafting a modern Android app with Jetpack Compose, extending your codebase across iOS and desktop environments through Kotlin #Multiplatform, or even orchestrating layers of components on server side with Ktor, Koin emerges as the central integration platform. Join me for this session through the wide Kotlin landscape and see how Koin, the well-known Kotlin dependency injection open-source framework, seamlessly integrates across the entire ecosystem. I propose to move from the basics of building on each platform, to step on injection patterns on your shared Kotlin code (Android, iOS, Compose …), as well as diving into server-side development. We'll discuss upcoming features of #Koin 4. Get ready for a great journey into the present and future of #Kotlin development with Koin!"

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𝟮 + 𝟭 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀 Last Thursday, the SAM Summit took place in Paris. 1 topic took center stage: How to save on software? Software is the #1  IT spending category + a critical topic for the Comex due to its growing impact on EBIDTA The key drivers for software spending growth are: • Uncontrolled software (Shadow IT) • Unoptimized software spending • Vendor price increases    While solutions exist to ensure software usage is aligned with spend, effectively managing vendor price increases remains unaddressed. 𝟭 - 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘄 𝗜𝗧 • Shadow IT represents ~ 33% of software stacks • Detecting it is a key step to assigning IT buyers • This is the start of monitoring / optimizing spend • Solutions such as Beamy detect all software usage 𝟮 - 𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗘𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 • Around 30% of software licenses are unused • Monitoring actual usage versus contracts is tough • Automating monitoring helps identify opportunities • This enables licenses to be cut when relevant • Solutions such as USU, Zlury exist 𝗦𝗼, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀? What I heard the most on this topic: • We are locked in • We don't have time to challenge renewals • No solutions exist for this While 100% of those who challenged renewals delivered savings, 2/3 of renewals remain unchallenged So we, Vektiq launched an AI-Sourcing platform to ensure you have the most relevant alternatives... ...without extra effort for buyers BATNA is the #1 negotiation strategy according to Harvard, and we deliver it to you. #Software #Sourcing #AI  

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Big news today: XetHub has joined forces with Hugging Face (check it out here: https://lnkd.in/e-jxSeCf). Our missions are a perfect match—creating the GitHub of AI at a time when model and dataset sizes are skyrocketing. We're gearing up to handle petabytes to exabytes of data daily, and it's happening fast! Our experience at AAPL showed us the unnecessary hurdles in AI/ML data management and collaboration. So, about three years ago, we launched XetHub with Jeff Bezos's beer-tasting analogy (https://lnkd.in/gdPnTnPs) in mind: building tech that lets AI/ML developers innovate on their special sauce without sweating the infrastructure. First and foremost, I want to give a huge shoutout to the entire XetHub team for their hard work, dedication, and innovation! Massive thanks to Matt McIlwain and Ted Kummert at Madrona for backing us every step of the way. A personal shoutout to my friends and colleagues who’ve supported me with angel investments over my startups: Arish Ali, Brad Buda, Gordon Chaffee, Richard Dalzell, Cuong Do, Vikas Gupta, Reza Hussein, Boris Jabes, Tom Killalea, Shishpal Rawat, Mikhail Seregine, Anton Vaynshtok, Peter Vosshall, John Z. and Jon Ingalls! With over two decades in infrastructure, I’ve witnessed multiple paradigm shifts firsthand. My time at Inktomi during the dot-com boom (1998-2003) was exhilarating, and the current deep learning revolution brings back that same excitement. I couldn’t be more thrilled to join Hugging Face and unleash new features for the world’s largest ML community! 🚀

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Ok, so the first thought after trying out the Paywalls feature by RevenueCat is "why did I not try this earlier?" 😅 It is super easy to configure and set up, and I can't wait to try it out in production 😻 One thing that is missing for me though (or maybe I missed it somehow?) is the possibility to set custom fonts. I've seen that it is possible on the native side, and Flutter is just a method channel wrapper on top of showing the views natively... So if we could specify the fonts from the Flutter side, even if linking them on the native side, that would be cool 🥹

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My world is divided into 2 types of people: the ones who love using Apache Kafka and the ones who just can't stand it! 😅 But we all agree that Kafka is almost irreplaceable. And to support your future scale, it needs to be cheaper, faster, and easier to maintain. Typically, this requires costly, time-consuming changes to your data infrastructure, but the potential savings are immense—up to 75% of TCO expenses! There is a solution that simplifies this process and I am happy to take a part in making it! Superstream (formerly Memphis.dev) seamlessly integrates with any #Kafka provider, continuously analyzing metadata to enhance performance, cut costs, and reduce operational complexities. I will be happy to hear what you think ⬇ https://superstream.ai/

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What's THE best SaaS metric to follow user engagement ? 🤔 👉I can understand the best option will depend on each use case and objective. And a great inspiration for that is Equals' SaaS metrics guide which I highly receommend to check ! ➡️ https://lnkd.in/ewZK8Bei BUT what 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗲 can help find a metric that best fits our use case ? 👉We are developping an AI coach that guides startups' teams to maximise their growth efficiency. Daily usage means people express their best self, which turns into optimum performance for the startup. Maybe we could use 𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 (DAUY/MAU) or Equals' 𝘼3𝙭7 (https://lnkd.in/eDJ3GE8N) BUT how to go 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 and develop a metric that specifically fit our use case ? Bobby, Ben ? 🙏 Ideas and comments welcomed ! Thanks ! #AI #saas #metrics #performance

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#codereview: What do you think about the following app? Direct-style OpenAI chat proxy, exposing a web socket interface and streaming responses the user as they are generated The good: type-safe models, error handling (when there's an exception, the web-socket-specific concurrency scope winds down and interrupts any background processes), high-level "functional" APIs to manipulate the streams of messages The bad: ....? What can be improved? And try it at home: just copy-paste and run using scala-cli! https://lnkd.in/d468HKr5

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Things we shipped last week at Riza: - Support for sending input files along with code for execution - A way to add HTTP authentication secrets to requests from your code, without exposing the secrets to your code - New releases of all supported client libraries (Python, node.js, Go) Links and more info available from the changelog: https://riza.io/changelog

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I am becoming an avid user of the http://undermind.ai search engine. A decade ago Olivier Bousquet and me were thinking of how to generate a 'dossier': A search result page that would be assembled "offline" and doing a deep search. How good can you search if you have more time compared to Googles close to real-time response. Can you basically trade latency vs accuracy? Undermind.ai is focused on scientific literature and allows that you can query by giving a description of what you are looking for. In research a 3-4 words query is rarely sufficient to describe what you are looking. Really useful to get a list of scored publications back. I hope the team works on increasing the index (200M). https://lnkd.in/dAHAn7fp #search #undermind #retrieval #science

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API Inventory should be 1) Automated 2) Managed in 1 place 3) not just a list of APIs, but also how APIs interact with each other

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Here are the slides of the talk I delivered yesterday at SREday : How Platform Engineering and SREs are Driving the Evolution of Developer Self-Service https://lnkd.in/eqhMZhis

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I'm experimenting with LLM and have found some tips to boost developer efficiency on your platform. Check out my last article (and don't forget to subscribe ;)) https://lnkd.in/e6P2CAGa).

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🚀 𝐀𝐥𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐝: 𝐀𝐈 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐬 🚀 Last week we launched Alfred, Treblle's AI assistant designed to transform how developers interact with your APIs! 🔍 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬: - 𝐐𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐒𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐩: Integrates with any developer portal in 60 seconds with just 2 lines of code. - 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬: Automate manual tasks and drive 10x faster API integrations. - 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲: Let Alfred handle the heavy lifting and enhance developer experience. Find out how Alfred can help lift your developer portal experience https://lnkd.in/d7ue_R8M. #AI #DeveloperTools #APIs 

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