Lokesh Sanapalli (@LSanapalli) profile picture

Engineering Manager, Ranting on software engineering, AI. Lifelong learner, loves to blog. Building SaaS products on the side. Follow to get more updates.

Bengaluru
Joined December 2020
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Looks scary! We would be wasting a lot of time if using deepseek via OpenCode Go.
🧵 DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017 - Same prompt, same harness, same reasoning effort, but two different providers. DeepSeek Platform (45m 38s): • Cache hit: 99.7% • Tokens: 136,590 • Cached input: 44,212,736 tok • Output: 226,572 tok OpenCode Go (3h 25m 3s) • Cache hit: 96% • Tokens: 1,409,656 • Cached input: 33,611,264 tok • Output: 224,378 tok
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Well said! One thing to note is that in the process of building hard things, don’t be blinded away by building a simple idea in a harder way
If building is easier, build harder things.
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Is it via Opencode Go plan or via their free tier?
Operation Cheepseek Phase 4: $100 of usage for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
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+1 — find problems that are hard to build
If building is easier, build harder things.
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Lokesh Sanapalli retweeted
Replying to @yasser_elsaid_
This. AI made building accessible to everyone. Now the scarce skill is knowing what's actually worth building and having the ambition to go after the hard version of it.
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What? 17 billion dollars… that’s huge man…
DoorDash agreed to acquire Instacart for about $17 billion in cash and stock.
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Mac app solo founders, attack him…
Just got this bad boy delivered What should I install first ?????
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Dude charges $7500 for a 1:1 and fundraising here…
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Do we require CLIs when we already have UIs? What are the usecases and who are the target audiences?
Introducing 'stripe pay', for instant business-to-business transfers. Find companies using their Stripe profile handle and send funds for free. Available in the Dashboard and CLI.
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Find your person. Marry that person. Then make a little person. Watch that little person grow and achieve newer goals
Find your person. Marry that person. Then make a little person. And watch the little person grow 😘
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Suggestion: Instead of using pre-approved oauth apps for each social media, add adapters for popular social media API routers/facades and let people easily switch. That way, if one app is banned, others won’t be impacted
Introducing Postiz-cheap 🎉 Many are paying $99/mo for Postiz just to schedule content That's $1188 a year. Forever. Crazy expensive So I built a free open-source alternative No subscriptions, no lock-in, no limits Have fun 🥳 Repo :- github.com/Anil-matcha/Posti…
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In the age of AI where the code generation had become cheap, you can literally build anything you want… But, what’s important is what to build? That’s why I started working on “find app ideas” project. For a given idea, it finds current android/ios apps in the market, it scrapes through the reviews and tells you what to build. Also, it’s important for us to look for other open source and self-host-able alternatives before building anything
Paying $99/month was getting a little too expensive... So I built my own open source alternative that now costs me LESS THAN $1/month to run. YES, 99x CHEAPER! 🤯 Introducing Open Post, an open source alternative to Post Bridge that lets you post to all your social media accounts from one dashboard. I'll be open sourcing it on GitHub this coming week once I finish testing each social media integration. And just to be clear... This isn't about taking business away from an existing SaaS. I simply wanted to build something cheaper for myself that does the exact same thing. If you want a ready-to-use solution and don't mind paying $40-$100/month, definitely check out the original SaaS! But if you prefer self-hosting and saving money, Open Post is coming soon for free. 🚀
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Arc was my favourite browser for sometime… I was in love with their UX. I only switched when I find it difficult to navigate between favourites and bookmark folders
We've decided to sunset Arc on December 22, 2026. That's not an easy sentence to write. We spent years building Arc and celebrating each and every release along the way: we have so much pride and love for what we made alongside the Arc community. Our priority is to deliver best-in-class security for our members. Keeping a browser secure takes constant, dedicated work that is only increasing in the age of AI. Dia was built from the ground up to meet today’s security standards, so that's where our engineering and security teams will focus moving forward. We've worked to make switching to @diabrowser as easy as possible for Arc members. Here's how: · Your passwords, bookmarks, extensions and history come over to Dia seamlessly. · Spaces, Folders, and Tab Groups are in Dia and import over with your data intact. · Dia now surpasses Arc benchmarks in stability, speed, and security. · The browser features you use in Arc are free in Dia, and the AI is optional. Thank you for using Arc, for pushing us to make it better, and for building alongside us. The team that made Arc is the same team behind Dia, and some of our most ambitious work is just ahead. We'd love for you to be there with us when it lands.
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❗️LiteLLM was compromised (Again). The latest version 1.107.0 contains an infostealer and RAT. All 7 compiled wheels are backdoored. Anyone who ran pip install litellm==1.107.0 on any platform should assume credentials are compromised. More details soon!
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Railway competitor is much needed now. Huge market opportunity I see… Work on developer experience and you can win the share of market
Spent multiple hours now evaluating Railway alternatives to move my shit to. Conclusion is that Railway's product is uniquely good and nothing comes close to a drop in replacement 🙃 Minimum cost to replicate my setup today is 3x higher than I am paying them currently
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What? It’s just 4… why? Are people lazy to fire a OpenSSL command to generate proper key pair
I don’t understand? How
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