Mani Mohan

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Horrible stuff. Life is so unpredictable. RIP Jota. 😓

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Tried booking an autorickshaw in Chennai on Uber and Rapido. The app shows a price, but no driver accepts it. Then I get a pop-up asking me to add ₹50/100/150 to "increase my chances." What's the point of showing a price if drivers just wait for higher bids? The algorithm's pricing is too low for drivers (? from experience, I don't think it's low), so they game the system, and riders end up paying more. The whole experience feels unfair. I might as well hail an auto and negotiate directly - it seems to be often cheaper now. It's always an eye-opener to see what these companies are doing/testing in other markets.

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a nice break after a long time. Second half of 25 is going to be about pivots. Looking forward to building more.

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Bengaluru airport - in a league of its own. Mega impressed.

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Vacationing in Chennai. Realized I'd forgotten my toothbrush. Opened Zepto and ordered with my UPI. My toothbrush arrived in 9 minutes. The quick commerce game is on a different level in India. Understanding quick comemerce UX was on my list of things to do here during vacation. Very impressed so far.

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Preflight safety instructions can be done in 2 mins. But Qatar airways chose to recruit Kevin Hart to make a 346 minutes version. Now my toddler daughter is pissed she can't shut the thing down.

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Neynar AI is pretty cool. I first asked it about general guidance on posts and engagement. Then, I asked it about my casts in specific. Very useful answers. Well done! @neynar @rish @grin

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hobby showcase && testing multiple images embed. What's your creativity outlet?

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There should be a new headspace series for founders narrated by @garrytan .. Loving the videos on his own YouTube channel lately.

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Interesting feature on Dia - custom skills. You can create your own and run it on the chat window when the website is up. I first tried it on LinkedIn to summarize all the AI slop - but it works on FC too.

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Gemini Diffusion is insane fast. It’s not very robust yet, but this shift to diffusion architecture is exciting - looking forward to API release. I wonder if they will pivot to the diffusion models for the v3 flash. fun test: get your feed from neynar and play with it.

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Throwback to Microsoft Longhorn launch

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Built something useful this week: a morning personalized newsletter for both me and the wife. - provides weather, individual portfolio snapshot - latest news in our individual company/sector - day care lunch menu detection (google drive integration - detects PDF file to parse based on date and finds the lunch menu for that day from the PDF) - ai summary of the day based on calendar (ours + daycare calendar) - whoop data integration (sleep/recovery/strain from previous day) - provides a window for 30 mins workout (based on calendar + toddler duties and all the above data) Runs as a cron job on a local machine, using gemini for all the AI part. the goal was to auto-detect my daughter's lunch menu and send it as email. Just built on top of it. Happy progress.

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Past week caster rewards insights: Avg Neynar score = 0.87, median = 0.95. Full data and plots here - feel free to play with it. https://observablehq.com/d/8295f460e9adebc1

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Update on this: Tried imagen4 using whisk (labs) and the results were drastically better. Well formatted text with proper padding, better color choices, much faster for iterating. It did create duplicate texts and missed some items in the image, but iterating was easier with better speed.

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4o image generation consistently fails on text-heavy infographics: typos, poor padding, bizarre color choices despite exhaustive prompting. Even had GPT review image + regenerate prompts. Anyone tried Imagen 4 for this use case? Looking for alternatives that actually handle typography and layout properly.

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Closing the loop. This is the last 1500 transactions (did NOT slice it from the 10001th acct who signed up). FIDs > 1.09M (Newer accounts): 47 (3.1%) FIDs ≤ 1.09M (Older accounts): 1,453 (96.9%) 0 followers: 30 (2.0%) 1-10 followers: 128 (8.5%) 100-1K followers: 551 (36.7%) 1K-10K followers: 400 (26.7%) 10K+ followers: 41 (2.7%) Average Neynar Score roughly about the same. Github repos updated - for anyone interested.

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Last night, I began analyzing the Farcaster Pro data (basescan API + Neynar to retrieve user information using the wallet address). Found some interesting insights. I will write about a few, and attach the GitHub repos for anyone who wants to analyze them further. This is the data for the first 24h.

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I never knew Google Apps Script existed. I used to check my personal, daycare, and work calendars manually — because AI assistants and Google Home only see the default calendar. I was never getting the full picture of my week. Today, I wrote a simple script that merges everything I care about into my default calendar. Now, Claude can give me a complete weekly view. Not sure if this is something everyone already does 👀 ... But if you’ve been juggling calendars manually like I was — this is probably helpful.

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🚶🥾 beautiful redwoods. The Forest of Nisene Marks.

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