Imran Muthuvappa
FollowEverything Imran personally uses, recommends, or has created — plus things they don't recommend — sourced from their own show and appearances on other podcasts.
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"You can use an Anthropic API key, you also have access to the new router as well."
"By just switching to Hermes agent and OpenRouter, I basically got my token spend down from like $130 every five days down to like maybe like 10 bucks every 5 days. So about like a little bit over a 90% reduction."
"I was never a big Obsidian fan. I kind of just stored everything in my Apple notes and kind of hoped for the best."
"I would not have been able to go through like the painstaking effort of like putting this together by myself every single morning. But now like I have an agent that does it for me and it's just so much easier."
"If it's your first time installing a tool like this on a Mac, you'll probably need to install the Xcode developer tools."
"I highly suggest using Hermes. I've been using it for over 3 weeks now, which in this space is a lot of time."
"I actually ported over GStack by Gary Tan into Hermes before it was widely available on Hermes. If you're working on a startup, it's definitely like a really cool skill to use, GStack."
"This Cookie Monster one is actually running on a Solana Seeker Android phone that I have right here."
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"You can use an Anthropic API key, you also have access to the new router as well."
"By just switching to Hermes agent and OpenRouter, I basically got my token spend down from like $130 every five days down to like maybe like 10 bucks every 5 days. So about like a little bit over a 90% reduction."
"I was never a big Obsidian fan. I kind of just stored everything in my Apple notes and kind of hoped for the best."
"I would not have been able to go through like the painstaking effort of like putting this together by myself every single morning. But now like I have an agent that does it for me and it's just so much easier."
"If it's your first time installing a tool like this on a Mac, you'll probably need to install the Xcode developer tools."
"I highly suggest using Hermes. I've been using it for over 3 weeks now, which in this space is a lot of time."
"I actually ported over GStack by Gary Tan into Hermes before it was widely available on Hermes. If you're working on a startup, it's definitely like a really cool skill to use, GStack."
"This Cookie Monster one is actually running on a Solana Seeker Android phone that I have right here."
"The first thing is that you need an app called Termux. Termux is basically like a terminal inside of Android."
"I tried using OpenClaw and ran into basically three massive issues. I felt like I spent more time setting up OpenClaw than I was actually using it to make my life better."
"If you're looking to have just like a AI co-worker, Nebula is probably the better tool."
"I highly recommend for any of these tools is that you install Tailscale and you configure Tailscale correctly. Tailscale will allow your phone and all of your computers to be on the same kind of virtual network."
"It also uses a typical like normal SQLite database which is the same type of database as you know normal web applications."
"You can also run it on Modal as like a serverless service as well."
"It's built to also out of the box be able to be ran inside of a Docker container in case you want it on your machine, but isolated from the rest of your files."
"I've seen some people install the Honcho dev memory skill. I haven't needed to set that up yet, though I think I probably will because there are some memory limits on Hermes."
"It's available on the F-Droid, which is an open-source Android app store."