Ian Keough—CEO and founder of Hypar and the father of Dynamo—on how Hypar is creating the next-generation platform to design, generate, and share buildings, and thoughts on open-source software, visual programming, authorship, monetization, and 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


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  PyTorch
  


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  Unity
  


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  Dynamo
  


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  Grasshopper
  


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  Python and C#
  


• 
  IFC
  


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  OpenAI Codex
  


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  DALL-E
  


• 
  Stable Diffusion
  


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  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

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

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