Avraham Ilyayev

Hey Suman, Respect for making the jump from exploring → building - that’s the hardest step. Most people stay on the sidelines way longer than they should. What’s the first thing you’re working on? One thing that helped me early was being around other builders at the same stage, openly sharing mistakes and progress - it cuts down the learning curve a lot. If you’re open to that, I can loop you...

Honestly, this is the story for a lot of strong builders right now. Building is the leverage - distribution is the hard part. One thing I’ve seen work is treating GTM the same way you treat engineering: small experiments, tight feedback loops, and doubling down on what actually moves users (not what sounds good on paper). Curious - what have you tried so far, even if it didn’t work? Also been...

Congrats on the launch - shipping something like this solo is no joke 👏 Love the focus on self-hosting + AI agents that actually do things vs just chat… feels like that’s where things are heading. Curious - what pushed you to build HiveOps as a full ‘company OS’ instead of more narrow tools? Also, been seeing more builders like you recently who are deep in this space and sharing what they’re...

Love this - especially the point about GTM becoming the bottleneck. Feels like building has been commoditized, but distribution is where companies live or die now. Curious what patterns you’re seeing across those case studies - any GTM motions that are consistently outperforming right now? Also been having some really strong conversations lately with a small group of founders, specifically...