Building Personal AI for the rest of us https://xitter.cf/t.co/K53coeZVL6
Bengaluru, India
Joined April 2010
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Siddharth Jaiswal retweeted
I am so sick of reading my own emails, booking my own flights, ordering my own groceries, texting my own wife, chewing my own food, buying my own sneakers, etc... why isn't anyone building something that just does all of this for me?
Siddharth Jaiswal retweeted
Please DON’T start a personal agents startup (there’s a flood of them right now unf!) unless
(1) you already have large distribution
(2) you are legible to global tier 1 capital
(3) you are a massively differentiated team (leads to 2)
One or more of the above may give you a fair chance to compete.
Without these, you’d get caught in the Series A squeeze irrespective of your traction numbers.
Will personal AI be a hardware device eventually like the smartphone? Ring? Earpiece? Specs? Computer?
This is another question that’s high up in the air right now. We’ve invested in one company & spoken to a bunch more.
If it’s indeed a hardware decide, who is best positioned to win? Apple? A brand new SF startup?
Siddharth Jaiswal retweeted
We aggregated five years of Google Flights data to find the best booking windows for holiday travel this year. Here’s what to know:
✈️ For Thanksgiving travel, flights tend to be cheapest in October.
✈️ For Christmas travel, the sweet spot for booking is 56 days out (October 30th).
✈️ Connecting flights can also be a big money saver. Nonstop tickets are 20% more expensive on average.
✈️ When you travel is key for saving: Departing on a Monday and returning on a Tuesday or Wednesday saves about 14% over weekend flights (and up to 20% domestically versus Sunday).
✈️ Wednesday beat Tuesday as the absolute cheapest day to book a flight, but the difference is negligible — buying a ticket on a Wednesday only saves you about 1.4% compared to Sunday, the most expensive day.
Siddharth Jaiswal retweeted
was asking muse about cancelling xfinity for me and it came back later with some research that it did 🤣
Siddharth Jaiswal retweeted
Reposting to pin this:
- Most personal AI still starts with an empty chat box, which puts too much work on the user.
- Mainstream users don’t know what to delegate and often give up after one bad result.
- The winning UX may be ready-made flows, an AI inbox, or a home screen that proactively prepares work and asks for decisions.
sj.substack.com/p/what-is-pe…
Siddharth Jaiswal retweeted
it is a crazy time to be alive
but what an honor, what a wonderful responsibility to be the generation that sits in this uncertainty, that lives out our individual dharma
of rapidly evolving with intelligence to new ways of being
of building better than what has come before
Siddharth Jaiswal retweeted
if 2017 chatbot craze (also embraced hard by zuck at the time), and the YC startup magic (SMS based human concierge) taught us anything, it's that the chat interface is not the superset, but the subset of consumer use cases.
people confuse the convenience of accessing agents through imsg as a friction-free magic, but form factor alone has never won the war.
rather than trying to boil the ocean by trying to do everything and anything for consumers, they gotta sharpen their wedge and hone in on a few potent and repeatable hero use cases.
applies for muse, dots, bots, instinct, or 32 million other agents that practically do the same thing
Siddharth Jaiswal retweeted
every app has their own agent right now and there's no way it's going to last. it's super annoying.
Just make a way for my agent to talk to your app or you're going to get disintermediated once someone aggregates your supply.
Siddharth Jaiswal retweeted
IDK messaging still feels rather cumbersome. Voice is more delightful, but less efficient. Both still don’t feel native to this medium.
Siddharth Jaiswal retweeted
built 3-4 personal agents. learned a thing or two. wrote about it.
osborne.vc/blog/my-ai-agents
Siddharth Jaiswal retweeted
Wrote something after a while, please share feedback!
muskangupta902.substack.com/…
Siddharth Jaiswal retweeted
every major company is arriving at roughly the same offering:
persistent memory, email/calendar/messages, browser + computer use, background tasks, proactive notifications, voice, app/tool execution, ambient context, & some notion of a personal agent sitting above everything.
remarkable levels of convergence with very little differentiation whatsoever.
Siddharth Jaiswal retweeted
Strongly agree!
Trying to solve the state and personal decision graph at Seek before we ship just another personal AI agent.
Built a small experiment to test our decision prediction with Jev - quiz.seek.ws (gives you an idea of how we want to solve)
The goal is to have our agents answer
“What would Pratyush do?”
on every signal it receives in the background
then surface only the outcomes and next steps
Siddharth Jaiswal retweeted
“Instinct for India” ≠ a conversational WhatsApp agent
I keep seeing the two confused in pitches. WhatsApp is a sensible interface. What interests me about a personal agent is that the state of my life survives the conversation: what I’m trying to do, what I’ve authorised, what’s changed & what’s unfinished
If an important meeting gets cancelled, does it remember why it mattered, find another slot & follow through within the permissions I gave it? Or do I have to brief it all over again?
The same test applies in other categories like personal finance/quick-commerce/services. Research & price alerts can be useful. The harder product remembers why I bought, what would change my mind & connects new information to that context. It follows through on agreed next steps, asks for approval where needed & checks what actually happened
That depth matters commercially. Otherwise, you’re likely squeezed b/w the broker that already has my portfolio/card/spending history & the horizontal agent competing to understand the rest of my life
