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Erik Dunteman
Modal
@erikdunteman
Agent systems @modal, previously founded @ButterDev_ (W25, acq) and @BananaDev_. I like running and drinking water (no ice).
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Joined June 2017
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    Some exciting news to share: Butter is joining Modal! Infra is having a moment. Agents need new patterns, new primitives. And importantly, scale like we've never seen before. There is no better team in the world to build this than Modal. It's an honor to join.
    We're excited to announce that @ButterDev_ is joining Modal to help us continue to build the best sandbox infrastructure. Welcome to the team! 💚🧈
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    Replying to @bchesky
    Global membership for nomads. I’d pay y’all a 12 month lease to keep me housed around the world.
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    Current project is building internet-over-laser, also known as free space optics More things ought to be speed of light First milestone was to transmit *any* data across modulated laser. Next milestone is to serve a website.
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    Doing our YC application now Feels like a HAAAARD flex dropping these growth numbers: 51x MRR 95x API call volume since our last interview in February Probably will be our last application. Not because we expect to get in, but because we won't need them soon.
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    The Moshi speech-to-speech model by @kyutai_labs, hosted on @modal_labs, absolutely cranks! Near instantaneous voice chat AI, thanks to bidirectional streaming. Whole startups could be built on this stack.
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    Announcing @PigDev_ Windows Desktops for Agents
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    If I were an ML founder starting today, here's my stack: MVP: - Backend: ML APIs @OpenAI @CohereAI - Frontend: Next.js on @vercel @Zeet_Co @Railway Beyond: - Finding Code: @huggingface - Training: @GoogleColab @roboflow - GPU Dev Envs: @brevdev - Backend: @BananaDev_
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    Fallen into a bad work-life balance recently. Need advice. The problem: 1) I do unfocused work during the day. 2) I feel guilty for lack of output. 3) I stay on my laptop till bedtime, doing guilt work. Anyone fix this in themselves before? What hard rules/habits did you set?
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    Replying to @bchesky
    I set my monthly budget and pay that to you on contract. I'm shown long-term friendly stays by default, and the prices I see are discounted beyond the normal monthly discount, due to my year-long commitment. Unused $$ per month rolls into the next month.
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    "Sorry I'm 5 minutes late, last call running over" - me, emailing from toilet
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    Introducing Piglet: a computer-use driver for Windows machines, exposing a high-level API for desktop automation tasks. Run it standalone, or as a self-hosted machine on @Pigdev_
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    Just closed my preseed round! I made this visual for other founders to see what a process can actually look like.
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    Ok time to come out of my serverless GPU closet: @modal_labs is the best, and it’s not even close. We had many competitors at Banana, with users notorious for always shopping around. The one exception was Modal. A black hole of user retention in an otherwise commodity market.
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    Replying to @braddwyer
    You never sleep the same after accidentally leaving an instance on.