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thomas_witt

163karma·48submissions·March 19, 2016
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Hi, I am Thomas Witt - a tech entrepreneur & angel investor.

I’m back in founder mode, building Vendis.ai (https://vendis.ai/), a category-redefining AI-native CRM while still backing deep-tech founders through Expedite Ventures.

Coding since age 8 and connected to the internet since ’90, I co-founded my first software company straight out of high school (’97) and, as CTO, built award-winning B2B platforms that served tens of thousands of customers.

Tech Stack: Ruby on Rails since ’09, AWS since ’10, knee-deep in AI for the past five years.

Expedite Ventures is a crew of CTOs/CPOs investing and mentoring at pre-seed, leveraging our network and decades of collective expertise. Got something ambitious? Read our playbook at https://expedite.ventures/playbook

When the screens dim you’ll find me making music, flying, sailing, behind a lens, or in the kitchen.

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DynamoDB is performing fine in production in eu-central-1. Seems to be really limited to us-east-1 ( https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status ). I think they host a lot of conso…
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Seems to be really only in us-east-1, DynamoDB is performing fine in production on eu-central-1.
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I never understood the Behringer hate of the "Pro Audio" community; apparently there are many riders (requirement documents for live shows) which state "No Behringer". I got a Behr…
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From a startup founders perspective, it might be worth mentioning that if you own the business personally in the US, you likely qualify for so-called the small business exemption (QSBS) - that means f…
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As an alternative, you might also want to check out scrypted which offers a lot of cross-integration features and hardware optimized local AI processing (eg on MacMinis M*). Developer is super respons…
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Vendis | Senior Ruby on Rails Developer | REMOTE (EU preferred, US ok) | Full-time • Post-MVP AI-powered B2B SaaS; serial founder-built & self-funded (pre-angel/VC), first customers onboardin…
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In my opinion the whole point of Jekyll is not having to use some npm/JS packages and dependencies.
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Great effort - really happy to see people keeping Jekyll alive. Q: Why did you decide to rewrite the whole image handling instead of just relying on the jekyll_picture_tag gem ( https://gith…
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One thing which is great are the built-in VPN containers. I always have SSH tunnels with SOCKS proxies running and so I can use for certain sites always a VPN. Or just open a new tab which tunnels eve…
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Scrivito is a professional cloud-based CMS built for Ruby on Rails. All you have to do is drop the Scrivito SDK Engine gem into your app and you'll get intuitive WYSIWYG editing, modular page lay…
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