Hi *|NAME|*—

Ian is the CEO and founder of Hypar and is known as the father of Dynamo.

I visited Ian at his single-family home in Culver City, California, in July 2018, where he took me out surfing after recording a podcast at his kitchen table. Ian had just started Hypar out of his garage, "a platform for designing, generating, and sharing building systems."

Last September, we recorded a conversation in a hotel room at St Joseph Street, New Orleans. We didn't surf this time but got a beautiful 6.7-mile run in at sunrise along the Mississippi River with Zach Kron.

Enjoy this episode on how Hypar is creating the next-generation platform to design, generate, and share buildings and Ian's thoughts on open-source software, visual programming, authorship, monetization, and generative AI.

Thanks to everyone who chatted with us during the YouTube premiere.

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Warmly,
Nono

Recorded in New Orleans on September 2022.

Chapters

• 00:00 · Introduction
• 02:08 · Hypar
• 12:02 · Hypar Elements
• 14:11 · Visual programming
• 16:59 · C Sharp
• 18:24 · Grasshopper on the cloud
• 19:57 · Do I need to code?
• 22:11 · Toil
• 24:03 · Sharing
• 26:00 · Authorship and knowledge dissemination
• 37:16 · Remote work
• 39:27 · Gather
• 40:44 · Monetization
• 48:18 · Advice for young people
• 49:11 · A $100 purchase
• 50:47 · Artificial intelligence
• 53:32 · Sustainability
• 55:37 · Exercise
• 57:33 · Generative AI

Connect with Ian

• Hypar
• Hypar Elements
• Hypar on Discord

Favorite quotes

• “What would we have to build to have [our new AEC software stack] decoupled from all of the historical and legacy software?”
• “I just can’t stand toil.”
• “You don't wanna penalize the customer for using the system more.”

Links

• Revit
• Tekla
• AutoCAD
• PyTorch
• Unity
• Dynamo
• Grasshopper
• Python and C#
• IFC
• OpenAI Codex
• DALL-E
• Stable Diffusion
• GPT
• Runway ML
• Gather
• Visual Studio Code
• GitHub Copilot
• NVIDIA’s Omniverse
• Calendly
• Zebra G-750 retractable gel metal pen

People mentioned

• Andrew Heumann
• Matt Campbell
• Serena Li
• Chuck Driesler
• Eric Wassail
• Eric Bass
• Anthony Hauck
• Brian Ringley

Bonus

🎥 The AI Dilemma. Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin discuss how existing A.I. capabilities already pose catastrophic risks to a functional society.

📨 Don't Reply to Your Emails by Taylor Lorenz. The Atlantic. 2019.

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