Kavita

Congratulations on the launch Sushil!

Twitter for sure

- How to get your first 100 customers - What channels you used for your sales, and what the process of picking sales channels, trying them out and choosing the few you stuck with looked like - What were the challenges with scaling so quickly? - Looking back, what are some things you wish you had done differently? - Looking back, what are things you did that made a step change in your growth?

Here's my Twitter! I'm also part of the #buildinpublic community there: https://twitter.com/kkavita92

Hoku is aiming to remove all the friction around your health journey (both practical and psychological) to make it easy to become the healthiest version of yourself.

I have always had massive imposter syndrome - this usually meant I was always apprehensive about speaking up meetings even if I had ideas, or offering my opinion. I was always worried that I might be wrong or that I might sound stupid. At some point,I started thinking "so what if I am not completely right". It is my opinion anyways, and what is the worst that could happen? The more I spoke up...

We had a rough 3 step approach: - Used GPT-4 to give us an initial list of 100 names which were 4-5 letters long and ended with O and U. Our other two criteria was that it had to be simple, and should be easy to spell (and hard to misspell). - Once we had an initial list, we shortlisted the 10 that we liked the most. For each of the 10, we checked its domain availability, whether there were...

Keep pushing yourself out of your comfort zone - it's the best way to acclerate your learning.

It can be a good rubber duck in many ways: - Using it to debug problems when you are stuck. - If you come across lines of code you don't understand, you can get GPT-4 to explain what the method or function is doing. - Explain any coding concepts or jargon that you might come across. - To give you a learning schedule for any programming language you might want to learn.

Figma for clothing is a brilliant tag line. Looks like a very intuitive UI - congratulations on the execution and launch!

This is awesome statistics. How did you go about getting those 400 followers for your teaser? It would also be great to know what kind of pre-launch and on the launch activity your team did to get those incredible numbers.

Coffee

Hoku is your AI health coach that aims to remove all the friction around your health journey so that it is incredibly easy to become the healthiest version of yourself. https://heyhoku.com

This is incredibly helpful, thank you! Did you have a Coming Soon teaser page as well?

Definitely being able to teleport across time.

Our entire team works remotely. Some of the things we do: - Make sure we are always communicating asynchronously (overcommunicate when in doubt). Things like end of day work summaries on Slack are useful to keep everyone on track. - Two weekly check-ins with the team to touch base on goals for the week and progress made so far. - Embrace having a flexible schedule. We focus on output delivered...

We used to host it on AWS, and then switched to Vercel recently. We also created a copy of an open-source LLM model for a project which we deployed using HuggingFace.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kkavita92 When is your launch?

https://www.instagram.com/hoku.h... Hoku is your AI health coach that syncs with your data, learns your health preferences, and gives you all the guidance and tools to optimise your health.

I love Zapier for the ability to automate a lot of workflows easily.