Dushyant Khinchi

@markus_kask The woods without input thing is so underrated. I started doing this about a year ago after reading something similar, and honestly, it's where I've solved more problems than at my desk. There's something about your brain just... working in the background when you're not forcing it. For me, the game-changer has been morning pages – just dumping 3 pages of stream-of-consciousness...

@busmark_w_nika I really relate to this. When I browse launches, I’m not just judging the product - I’m subconsciously judging how much the makers cared. Things like a thoughtful first comment, a clear demo, and even a real profile photo signal that someone is actually standing behind what they built. It doesn’t have to be perfect, but effort is very visible. For me, clarity is the biggest...

@alexcloudstar I’ve felt that shift very clearly while building my own startup. It started the way most side projects do - late nights, curiosity, just trying to see if an idea had any life in it. In that phase, everything feels optional. You can skip a week, pivot wildly, or throw features away without it hurting anything. The moment it stopped feeling like a side project for me wasn’t when I...

Not weird at all. I've been on both sides of this, and it completely changed my perspective. The corporate side: I worked as a data scientist at Elevance Health. Standard 9-5, clear boundaries, good work-life balance. Honestly? Some days I was checked out by 2 PM. Other days I'd hit flow state and resent having to stop. The structure felt arbitrary - optimized for attendance, not output. The...

I don’t think “US-first” is a default anymore -it’s a tradeoff. The US gives fast feedback and revenue, but it also turns product problems into ops problems very early (compliance, support, security, expectations). I can say this because I have personally set up companies in both USA and India, and have lived through the pros and cons of it. Sometimes you end up scaling operations before you’ve...

My experience building an AI chatbot on Genstellar.ai (vibecoded with Replit) Great thread! I recently built "Cosmic" -the AI chatbot for Genstellar.ai, a visual workspace platform -entirely in Replit, and your observations really resonate. How I'm handling chat memory: Full database persistence with PostgreSQL. Each conversation is stored with user context, project awareness, and message...

Thanks a lot for the thoughtful replies here 🙏 One thing I’m intentionally doing this time is building in public and pressure-testing ideas early — especially around how people actually use AI day-to-day, not just what looks impressive in demos. While building Genstellar, I realized the real problem with AI isn’t intelligence — it’s how fragmented our thinking becomes when context, memory, and...