In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy How BuildShip Is Building the Future of Dev Tools (With Harini & Shams)
With Shams Mosowi
About Harini Janakiraman
Harini Janakiraman is co-founder and chief executive of BuildShip, a visual backend and AI workflow builder that lets developers and non-developers alike build products in plain English. Before founding BuildShip, she spent nine years at BlackRock, rising to VP of Engineering and building large-scale data infrastructure for Aladdin, the platform that manages more than 9 trillion US dollars in assets. She holds a master's degree in computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. On In The Blink Of AI, Janakiraman and BuildShip co-founder Shams discussed how the tool is building the future of developer tools.
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Key moments from How BuildShip Is Building the Future of Dev Tools (With Harini & Shams).
- 2:43What makes a great startup partnership work
- 5:23Harini’s AI hack: voice-activated workflows for home and transport
- 7:21Shams’ AI hack: pitch deck evaluator and vibe coding with Claude + Cursor
- 9:40Comparing LLMs: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity
- 14:11Tech hits & misses: Midjourney, Replit, Cursor, Copilot
- 21:44Where to prioritise capital pre-product-market-fit
- 24:49Is moving to San Francisco worth it for AI startups?
- 27:43Remote hiring lessons: trial projects, red flags, and finding fit
- 29:54Why brand is BuildShip’s moat (and how merch plays a role)
- 36:11How to earn BuildShip merch: hackathons and shipping tools
In their own words.
“What's more important is actually solving real problems for real people and businesses. That's what people should focus on.”
BuildShip on Day One
BuildShip is a visual, AI-assisted tool for building backend workflows, APIs and tools for AI agents.
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