This is Pipedream’s first underground delivery system… and maybe my last time seeing it [im starting my own company!]. I was hired to build this when I was but a wee 20 year old lad. With the big updates, I wanna to show yalls a bit of what I’ve... worked on, and how we got to where we are 👇show more

In 2023 we dug a long hole in the ground in Peachtree Corners, GA. It was the first time doing this and we learned many lessons the hard way. Unexpected utilities, flooding during construction, things just not working. It was so rough we began calling any annoying issue a “Peachtree Moment” lmao. But that was the point!

Pipedream was just 10 people and we were spread so thin I was literally the only one on the ground building this system. Somehow, about a year later, we completed our first delivery. A glorious bag of Flaming Hot Cheetos 🔥🔥🔥

In 2024 we made a major engineering change, increasing our tunnels from 18” to 24” as it became clear that was what our customers needed. Consequently, the pilot network became outdated! What you saw in the launch this week was that new system. The robots name is Otter and we love him :)

Thus, we’ve turned the pilot into a demo that anyone in Peachtree Corners can use at the press of a button. Despite no longer being useful for us engineering-wise, the lessons we learned making an actual robot tunnel through a city are invaluable.

If we achieve what we want at Pipedream, I hope the world remembers: this is where we started.

My LinkedIn account got suspended today We onboarded a new admin to run outreach and he didnt follow the SOP He wanted to prove himself First thing we did was review how to mitigate this from happening again (after he got fired) Here is what I came up with: 1- Build a new onboarding form via ChatGPT 2-Put in specific points that talent needs to acknowldge "I acknowledge that if I cause a suspension on the linkedin account due to sending more requests than I am told it will lead to auto termination and a 1 star review on my upwork profile" Attack the process Not the people Ops brain at work over here

@pipedream_labs Is the new network being built in Texas? I heard that your head office was in TX. Congrats on the launch!

@pipedream_labs Yup! Got a couple going and Dallas and Austin this year

@pipedream_labs classic W

@pipedream_labs I’m like that

@pipedream_labs That’s a really cool project! How did you get involved in something like this? Feel like I’m gonna waste away in the corporate world as a data analyst because it won’t be interesting like this

@pipedream_labs I got hired after my first company failed lmao. Honestly pretty lucky, you should apply to some startups!