CTO telling a CEO why a rust rewrite will save the company:
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Soohoon Choi
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Soohoon Choi
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sibilance and lisps | cto @greptile
- Every repo becomes better when Greptile is hooked up to it. You'd be surprised how much it helps.
- We are running a new YC batch this fall! Applications are now open: ycombinator.com/blog/yc-fall-2…
00:00 - this would have blown my mind back in college. it blows my mind that i will be there.YC is coming to @GeorgiaTech! The founders of @greptile will share their advice for starting a startup after college, and YC Group Partner @bradflora will also hold office hours for students thinking about doing a startup or already working on one. Sign up ➡️
- It's been just over 4 years since first meeting @dakshgup and @vaishaaant in college and hacking on stuff together. Now we are trying to change the future of software.Greptile has raised $25M to Kill The Bug. The round is led by Benchmark with @ericvishria joining our board. Today, code is written by humans and a variety of coding agents like Devin, Claude Code, and Cursor. Greptile serves as the independent and universal code review layer.
00:00 - Replying to @tulpapilledchuck was right until the last episode of bcs.
- just got back from the @paulg and @jesslivingston talk at @ycombinator, was looking forward to this since we got in last year, and boy was it everything i had hoped for. truly amazing people.
- my take as his cofounder: - yes we work hard, the nature of startups require a lot of fucking work there is high urgency to get as much work done as possible as fast as possible. @dakshgup he wants people to know what they are getting into. - @dakshgup and @vaishaaant are somerecently i started telling candidates right in the first interview that greptile offers no work-life-balance, typical workdays start at 9am and end at 11pm, often later, and we work saturdays, sometimes also sundays. i emphasize the environment is high stress, and there is no
- doing YC and living in SF pushed us beyond what any of us thought was possible with our startup. we wrote this application a couple months into living in SF, we were doing startups for a year or two at this point yet we had no idea what 'good' looked like. we still have ways todug up our YC application from almost a year ago to send to someone applying for F24. crazy that our most optimistic goal by demo day was to get to 100 paying users (we used to charge $5/mo) in reality we exceeded that goal before the batch even started, and by demo day we had
- i really need some help over at @greptile. please dm me if you are able to help. thank you (yes this means we are hiring)a new repo started using greptile every 2 minutes and 41 seconds this week
- Replying to @swyxcrazy how they dont care about their own principles. you can just say things
