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amix

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Remote-first and async-first Founder/CEO of Doist.com (the company behind Todoist and Twist).

Twitter: https://twitter.com/amix3k

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www.doist.dev 11mo ago

Bitmapist: We built an open-source cohorts analytics tool that saved millions

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halist.ai 3y ago

Halist macOS AI: ChatGPT on the Desktop

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

Why Lego Won

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halist.ai 3y ago

Halist Browser AI: An extension that brings GPT-3 to the browser

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blog.doist.com 5y ago

Can Remote Teams Be Innovative?

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www.sachinrekhi.com 6y ago

Architecting an Intuitive and Powerful Offline Experience in Notejoy

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doist.com 6y ago

The Complete Guide to Mastery

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doist.com 6y ago

The benefits of a more asynchronous workplace

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tentimezones.com 9y ago

Why we’re betting against real-time team messaging

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medium.com 10y ago

Why we don’t have an exit strategy

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medium.com 11y ago

Flux vs. MVC (Design Patterns)

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github.com 12y ago

2048 for Vim

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amix.dk 12y ago

One slide that shows why WhatsApp is worth much more than $19bn

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qz.com 12y ago

Why major creative breakthroughs happen in your late thirties

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amix.dk 12y ago

Zen room for Vim: Focsuing only on the essential

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github.com 12y ago

Information Architects has patented usage of NSLinguisticTagger? (Writer Pro)

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todoist.com 12y ago

Todoist for Gmail: A more powerful todo app for Gmail

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www.imdb.com 13y ago

Das Leben der Anderen: East Germany's Secret Police Listened to Your Secrets

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amix.dk 13y ago

Releasing bitmapist.cohort - or how we saved over $2000/month

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amix.dk 13y ago

Bitmapist: Realtime analytics with Redis 2.6's bitmaps and Python

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: Best island to live and work from?

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amix.dk 13y ago

The complete guide on how to migrate from GoDaddy to AWS Route 53

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amix.dk 13y ago

Why HTML5 will revolutionize web-applications

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todoist.com 13y ago

HTML5 version of Todoist with offline support and stunning perfomance

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startupchile.org 14y ago

Start-Up Chile opens a new application process

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www.youtube.com 14y ago

God wrote in Lisp code

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www.startupchile.org 14y ago

Start-Up Chile application process #3 now open ($40K no equity grant)

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www.startupchile.org 15y ago

Start-Up Chile application process #2 now open ($40K grant)

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Offer HN: Free project management

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amix.dk 16y ago

Monitor anything and get free notifications on your iPhone (via notifo.com)

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Most of the company are working on Todoist, and we have a big update coming in October. For the past two years, we have worked on an initiative called Todoist Foundations, which is redoing and rethinking some of the design and tech debt we had (e.g., the web app has been rewritten to use React and Redux).

I understand the frustration, but it was critical for us to spend time on improving the core.

Slack is a great product, but with a wrong communication model. We have for the last three years developed Twist, which focuses on asynchronous communication by default. It includes some of the best features of Slack and email. We currently have about 1000 teams actively using it. Read more of our reasoning here: “Why We’re Betting Against Real-Time Team Messaging” https://blog.doist.com/why-were-betting-against-real-time-te...

I doubt The Berkshire Hathaway is successful because of their processes. They are successful because Buffet and Munger are geniuses in their respective field and to build the internet version of The Berkshire Hathaway, you would probably need to copy the wisdom and not merely their processes.

There’s an interesting video about how Magnus Carlsen makes his chess moves. He makes the next move in seconds and then thinks if it’s the right move, ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZFS0kewLRQ -- And maybe Buffet does a similar thing, he can look at balance sheets and quickly decide if it's a business worth buying or not.

In the current iteration, this only implements feed forward neural networks -- which are basic and can only resolve basic correlations.

For more advanced stuff (like image or video processing) you have to move to recurrent neural networks.

Most dev teams probably run Redis in production and having neural networks as a datatype could be incredibly powerful -- it will make neural networks much more accessible.

While this was a 48h personal hackathon (insane!) by Salvatore, I hope it makes it into Redis core.

I will be spending my weekend on playing with this and trying it out with different internal datasets.

Also, the documentation is a treat. It teaches the basics of NNs very well.

Tried API.ai a few months ago and was very unimpressed with the results (things were slow, expensive and not very powerful. Rebuilding the models was also broken at times). I am unsure why Google are acquiring them, especially given that they have DeepMind and TensorFlow teams.

Doist - https://doist.com/ - REMOTE

We have 3 development positions open: iOS, Front-end (JavaScript) and Backend (Python, Golang).

At Doist, we specialize in productivity software. We create tools that simplify and organize the day. Our main mission is to help people become more organized and productive. We have made Todoist, one of the most popular task management apps. Contact me at amix@doist.com if interested.

If you pay for a product on a recurring basis you expect improvements and not only support of the status quo.