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I’ve been thinking about where humanoid robotics is heading and I’m curious what others here think.

One thing that stands out is how different the production environments are between China and the West. China has huge manufacturing scale, tight supply chains, and the ability to turn solid technology into consumer products at very low prices. That usually ends up being very attractive for buyers who just want good value for money.

A comparison that comes to mind is electric vehicles. Tesla was clearly ahead early on in terms of R&D and innovation. But once the market became interesting at scale, Chinese companies like BYD entered with EVs that were competitive and significantly cheaper, and

Humanoid robotics is getting cheaper, smarter, and a lot more capable at moving through the world. But construction sites are a different beast with uneven terrain, unpredictable workflows, and tasks that vary wildly from day to day.

I’m curious whether robotics aimed specifically at construction has kept up. Not the glossy demo videos, but actual sector-focused systems that show real progress on tasks like material handling, layout, inspections, drilling, or repetitive onsite work.

It actually feels like construction is one of the few fields where purpose-built robots should make far more sense than humanoids. Most site tasks don’t need a human-shaped form factor at all.

Are there ad hoc

I’m fundraising right now and finding reliable info is a mess. Funding round details are scattered across news sites, TechCrunch articles, founders’ blog posts, random VC announcements, and whatever pops up on social media.

I know there are paid platforms like Crunchbase, PitchBook, Dealroom, etc., but they get expensive fast. I’m wondering if there is any community driven or open source effort that tries to collect this data in one place. Something lightweight, not necessarily as comprehensive as the commercial tools, but still useful enough to understand what is happening in the market.

So far I have seen small projects and niche datasets here and there, but nothing close to an open alte

I’ve got friends in other fields, like law and software engineering, who say AI has completely reshaped how they work. They’ve baked chatbot-style interactions into their daily routine and are cutting out a ton of repetitive work, like drafting the same contract templates over and over.

I’m curious if you’ve shifted to any AI driven workflows yourself. If so, what tools are you using and for which parts of your process?

I keep seeing a wave of startups building vertical AI agents for fields like law, construction, and similar industries.

Ex. https://legisly.app https://howie.systems https://trunktools.com

Most of them glue together an agent SDK, handle documents, plug into email, and wrap it all in a workflow. At the end of the day it all looks very similar.

So how are they supposed to survive once Google, Microsoft, or other big vendors ship the same capabilities directly inside their suites?

Is there any defensible space where these vertical agents can actually outperform the horizontal platforms like Google Workspace or Microsoft 365?

Hey everyone, I’m getting into growth hacking and have a bunch of unrelated ideas that serve different markets. I know I should probably focus on one project at a time, but as a beginner, I fully expect my first idea might fail—so I need to test multiple projects, which is the essence of growth hacking.

I’m debating whether to buy a separate domain for each project or just use one domain with subdomains. Separate domains mean more cost and rebuilding SEO/domain authority every time, while subdomains seem better for branding and social media shoutouts.

What’s the best approach? Anyone with experience handling multiple projects like this?

Hey folks!

I’m an engineer with a passion for open-source (GitHub addict) and movies/filmmaking. To blend the two together I was looking for some open-source movies to watch and only found this results:

• Blender Open Movies
• This wikipedia list of open source movies

Both seem to be open-source in terms of transparency, like sharing the final assets etc. but did not crowdsource or collaborate at scale on the project.

This left me wondering if creating a fully open-collaboration short film—transparent and community-driven, where anyone can contribute ideas, art, code, or feedback is even

Hey folks!

I’m an engineer with a passion for open-source (GitHub addict) and movies/filmmaking. To blend the two together I was looking for some open-source movies to watch and only found this results:

• Blender Open Movies
• This wikipedia list of open source movies

Both seem to be open-source in terms of transparency, like sharing the final assets etc. but did not crowdsource or collaborate at scale on the project.

This left me wondering if creating a fully open-collaboration short film—transparent and community-driven, where anyone can contribute ideas, art, code, or feedback is even

Hey folks!

I’m an engineer with a passion for open-source (GitHub addict) and movies/filmmaking. To blend the two together I was looking for some open-source movies to watch and only found this results:

• Blender Open Movies
• This wikipedia list of open source movies

Both seem to be open-source in terms of transparency, like sharing the final assets etc. but did not crowdsource or collaborate at scale on the project.

This left me wondering if creating a fully open-collaboration short film—transparent and community-driven, where anyone can contribute ideas, art, code, or feedback is even