Building @peopleboxai (YC S22) Prev: Product at @practo · @markupwand (YC S12) · @zynga · @yahoo · @hackerrank · NIT Trichy
Bangalore / Hosur / Thanjavur
Joined April 2007
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Looking to completely ship off some long due projects with Vorflux!
Today we're launching @vorflux 2.0: AutoBots, 24x7 coworkers that live in Slack.
I previously co-founded @Rippling, now $10B+, engg team of 1000s. Engg changes crazy fast now.
IDE autocomplete > CLI > Cloud agents > multi-player slack agents
Models deliver predictably now. Bottleneck to parallelism is to initiate, keep track and ping the right people for approvals.
Hire from our directory of opinionated AutoBots or make a new one with a goal. Bring your Codex/Claude Code subscriptions and Vorflux is practically free.
We recently closed a $15M seed round for @vorflux backed by @ycombinator, @peakxvpartners, @alliancedao, along with incredible partners including @parkerconrad, @immad, @typesfast, @jake_zeller, @balajis, @nivi, @metakovan, @lmrankhan, @nikitabase, @0xrwu, @ayushjaiswal, @mattshumer_, @eshamanideep, @sreeramkannan, @dvcoolster, @nusimow, @TeddySolomon11, @ashtoncofer, @rvivek, and others.
Lmk which autobot you’d like to try and we’ll double your credits to try.
Chapters:
0:00 Introducing Vorflux 2.0
0:22 From manager to director
0:44 How an AutoBot works
1:04 Cloud setup
1:25 On-call AutoBot
1:42 Project manager AutoBot
2:03 Customer experience AutoBot
3:01 Designer AutoBot
3:52 Social AutoBot
4:51 Open and frontier models
5:23 Always-on agents
Two of my favourite people on one broadcast today!
Vivek Ravisankar (@rvivek), CEO of HackerRank, and Prasanna Sankar (@myprasanna), CEO of Vorflux AI. Listening in.
teapawt.net/i/broadcasts/1AJEmvMle…
We are live!
Nova from @peopleboxai is a human-like AI that makes sourcing calls, screens resumes, conducts two-way video interviews, and runs live coding rounds in a single automated workflow.
ycombinator.com/launches/Ox2…
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The story of technology is the story of humanity. Without it, we’re just clever apes.
We’ve already beaten most of the natural ways to die. Hunger, cold, infection — all dramatically reduced. The biggest problem for almost everyone on Earth today is not survival. If you fail, you still get food, clothes, entertainment. We live in surplus.
So in some sense, the only real “job” left for humans is to invent new things. Only one person has to discover fire, or write a search algorithm, or figure out how to reach orbit — and the whole species gets the upgrade. Everyone else copies. The benefits compound forever.
Yet almost no one actually invents. Most people never do anything truly net-new. They feel the prospect of failure the way our ancestors felt a lion in the tall grass. The threat isn’t physical death anymore; it’s loss of status. Embarrassment. Being seen to try and fall short.
Worse, that same fear infects the inventor class. Instead of chasing what’s true and strange, they chase what’s cool, consensus-approved, “fundable.” They build incremental, competitive products — not original ones.
Genuine inventors are vanishingly rare. But they are the only source of real change. They tend to cluster: founders who actually respect each other’s ideas, painters who first paint for other painters. They live in a different world. For them, there is no other way to be alive.
All GDP growth ultimately comes from this tiny group. They create the positive-sum part of the human game, and they get to keep a sliver of what they generate. That’s where new wealth comes from — and it’s the only thing the human tribe truly longs for, even if most people don’t know it yet.
Back with a bang
I’m excited to launch today: 0xPPL 2.0 - something I’ve poured a lot of my life energy into. It’s a crypto superapp for all things onchain.
I previously co-founded Rippling.com (worth $10B+), a B2B SaaS superapp. 0xPPL is backed by top angels including, @balajis @alliancedao @peakxvpartners @anagramxyz @wagmi_vc @Decentralisedco @Joel_john @toly @rajgokal @sreeramkannan @akshaybd @sandeepnailwal @Hassan_NY @suji_yan @aniket_jindal08
Web3 is the future of the internet and the trends on these are strong, measured by growth in number of users, revenues, chains or apps. The biggest problem in crypto today is fragmentation. That the users' funds get dispersed and stuck inside these apps across diff chains. The user has to navigate so many diff websites, such as bridges and swap pages to be able to manage his funds and it’s easy to lose track of.
0xPPL is here to solve that.
We index all the blockchains and locate your assets not only inside of the chain, but also inside of smart contracts. We are a full fledged wallet where you can see and manage these funds in one place. No more thinking about gas per chain - we run a gas tank for you. To allow you to withdraw/unstake your funds from within a smart contract, we use LLMs to generate AI adaptors - thankfully crypto is open-source and easy to simulate – LLMs are getting great at interacting with these open back-ends.
Crypto is a very fast moving space and most teams here build something quick and see if it sticks. We deliberately take the opposite approach - to lay out deep engineering on the longer term future vs trying to catch the next narrative. The fragmentation of chains and apps is only going to explode. A universal front-end is both very useful and also for the first time possible due to the intersection of LLM code generation and open crypto backend rails.
0xPPL is a wallet, a portfolio tracker, a bridge, an app store, a community and so much more.
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We split our monolith into microservices. It was a mistake.
Before:
- One Rails app
- 200k lines of code
- Deploy time: 8 minutes
- 5 person team
After the split:
- 8 microservices
- Separate databases
- Message queues everywhere
- Service mesh for communication
What actually happened:
- Deploy complexity increased 10x
- Debugging across services became a nightmare
- Data consistency issues appeared
- Team spent more time on infrastructure than features
- No performance improvement
The real problem was not the monolith. It was poor database queries and missing indexes.
We eventually:
- Merged 5 services back into the monolith
- Kept 3 truly independent services
- Fixed the actual performance issues
- Simplified our deployment pipeline
Microservices are not a silver bullet. Sometimes your monolith just needs optimization, not dismantling.
If you’re in Bangalore for Diwali, best place to be is… home. Don’t go anywhere. Don’t go to Hosur to buy crackers.
Left at 8 to pick up dad from Hosur. After 1.5 hrs, reached Chandapura. Google said 1 hr more. Took a U-turn.
2.5 hours for 30km 🤦♂️
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Most easiest way to find if someone has ChatGPT-ed their response.
Look for “—“ the long hyphen.
No normal person uses normal hyphen by themselves.
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I am working on a product for recruiters to screen candidates' resumes against the JD. This should save time and simplify hiring for a fraction of the cost.
Would love to connect with folks who have built something similar in the same or other domain to bounce off some ideas.
Alagu retweeted
Japneet Kaur, Partner, Consulting, Deloitte India, during an interview with PeopleBox, talked about the importance of People Analytics (PA).
Watch now: deloi.tt/4dQSr93
#DigitalTransformation #Technology #PeopleAnalytics
Alagu retweeted
There is a very tiny minority that watches personal finance videos on YouTube, consumes content on Twitter, takes part in subReddits.
They don’t really need to. They already know everything that is required.
They start looking for optimisations and the best possible solution. Often, there isn’t a best because a lot of it is unknown and we are all just making a guess.
The MAJORITY doesn’t bother.
They just do debt (FD + PF) and real estate. While there might be few horror stories, majority of them end up doing pretty well.
The point I am trying to make is simply this - For most of you, how you end up financially is not going to depend too much on how you invest or save. It will be dependent on your career, which in turn will depend on luck and talent.
Personal finance is pointless.
Please unfollow me.
Alagu retweeted
A cruel & heartbreaking act by @IndiGo6E to a poor student. Few days back, my help requested to book a flight from Dibrugarh to BLR for his son & nephew, both college students. They were coming to Blore to find jobs. 1st time in plane. Excited..🧵
@DGCAIndia @MoCA_GoI @JM_Scindia
Alagu retweeted
Got accepted to @posthog for Startups program.
Of all the hurdles that I am personally going through, and trying getting MevinX to the hands of users. One good news like this can bring so much of happiness and increase motivation 10x.
Thanks to @rofldoodledo and @creativesshits for being with me through this journey.
We are this close 🤏 for launch.
#buildinpublic #indiehackers
We are hiring for frontend engineers at @peopleboxai!
Best perk: You get to work with the super talented @galaria_sadik !
#HiringAlert 🚀 We at @peopleboxai are looking for talented folks to join our Frontend team! If you are fresh grad with a passion for building great products, we want to hear from you.
DM me your resume and I'll get back to you soon.
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#HiringAlert 🚀 We at @peopleboxai are looking for talented folks to join our Frontend team! If you are fresh grad with a passion for building great products, we want to hear from you.
DM me your resume and I'll get back to you soon.