dshah
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Startup fanatic.
Founder and CTO, HubSpot in Cambridge, MA.
Blogger at http://OnStartups.com.
Twitter: @dharmesh (http://twitter.com/dharmesh)
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Comment · 9 months ago
Congrats on the launch. Sign-up was super smooth and the product is compelling.
Will be testing it with some of the agent work I'm doing on agent.ai.
If you're ever looking for a super low-maintenance indie investor, please reach out. Have lots of YC folks that will vouch for me.
Comment · 11 months ago
One of my favorite books on the actual practice of programming.
The other one is "Code Complete".
Comment · 1 year ago
That's fair feedback. We're working on making the UX better -- especially around the Agent Builder.
Lots of work to do, and we're still a tiny team (but growing).
Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks for noticing my post, building agents.json and open sourcing it.
This is why the Internet is awesome.
Comment · 2 years ago
Very much clicked for me.
Loved this line:
"I’ll discuss a few boring things we do that help us keep things boring."
Comment · 2 years ago
Looking forward to the HubSpot + MySQL integration.
Disclosure: I'm one of the HubSpot founders.
Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks for including a search provider for HubSpot and best wishes with the launch.
Disclosure: I'm one of the founders of HubSpot so a bit biased. :)
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm from HubSpot (I'm one of the founders).
This was our second year doing the "Week of Rest". It was an experiment we ran last year.
It ended up being a good idea and works well.
Comment · 3 years ago
This is a really useful thread with posts from people actually using LLMs.
I wonder if Claude-100k could be used to ingest this entire thread and then answer questions based on it, or summarize or identify the pros/cons of certain aspects of Claude, large context windows, vector embeddings, etc.
Comment · 3 years ago
This is how I've been thinking about it.
Hybrid interfaces that combine visual cues and output and natural language input.
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm Co-founder/CTO of HubSpot.
There are many things I admire about Salesforce.
But, we decidedly don't want to become like Salesforce when we grow up. We have been committed to SMBs for 16+ years now, and not planning to change that anytime soon.
They have grown through a lot of M&A, we built our platform from the ground-up for SMBs.
There is room in the market for both Salesforce and HubSpot to succeed. Salesforce for large enterprises (the Fortune 1000) and HubSpot for SMBs.
Comment · 4 years ago
Thanks for the kind words. I don't consider myself a "brilliant" engineer. More of an experienced engineer. I've been building software products for 30+ years.
I think the role of the CTO varies based on the scale of the company.
This article on the types of CTOs is useful framing: https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/07/the_different_c...
Comment · 6 years ago
Great to hear from you Zack. Thanks for chiming in and sharing your positive experience. Hope all is well.