From Singapore to the Bay Area: Come See Us at SF Tech Week
首发于 EPIC Connector Substack（2026-10-09）
Hi everyone! After wrapping up our events at Singapore Tech Week, our team flew straight to the Bay Area to get ready for a few gatherings during SF Tech Week. We’re bringing together founders, builders, and investors to talk about what they’re working on. If you’ll be around, come say hello. We’d love to meet you in person!
Recommended events
SF Techweek 2026 Afterparty: Meet Founders & Investors
Spend the afternoon with founders and investors, see what teams are building, and talk about turning new model capabilities into products people use.
Date: October 9, 3:00–5:00 PM | Location: San Francisco, California
EPIC SF Physical AI Demo Night @Finding next Move
Join researchers, founders, and investors for live demos and conversations on world models, embodied AI, and robotics.
Date: October 11 | Location: San Francisco, California
Alignment 2026 | Valley101 Annual Tech Summit
Valley 101’s two-day summit brings together founders, researchers, investors, and builders working on real-world AI. Our exclusive link applies the EPIC coupon for 15% off your ticket at checkout.
Date: October 10–11 | Location: Sunnyvale, California
North America**Community Growth 101 for AI Product**
A small-group salon about earning trust and growing an AI product through community. There are no fixed speakers or set agenda; bring a launch story, a question, or a lesson you’ve learned. The exact Palo Alto venue will be shared 24 hours before the event.
Date: October 8, 3:00–4:30 PM | Location: Palo Alto, California
The Hell/Heavan? Way to RSI
A conversation about recursive self-improvement and what it could mean for people building and researching AI.
Date: October 10, 2:30 PM | Location: San Mateo, California
China**GEIA CHINA 2026 Embodied Intelligence Innovation Week**
A three-day gathering for the embodied AI and robotics community, with a main forum, technology showcases, founder meetings, company visits, and an AI-and-hardware hackathon. The registration link may ask you to sign in before showing ticket details.
Date: December 9–11 | Location: Beijing, China
Product Hunt & GitHub: Weekly Trends (Sep 28–Oct 4, 2026)
Monospace: Agents Need Clear Access Before They Can Join the Team
Directus’s Monospace took the top spot on Product Hunt this week with 475 points. It gives apps, employees, and agents one place to access data through a governed API layer. That solves a very real concern: as agents take on more work, teams need to decide what they can see and what they’re allowed to change.
Monospace is worth learning from because it doesn’t stop at “we added AI.” It explains the product through the databases and APIs companies already rely on.
Pexo came second with 466 points, and its launch page makes its own value easy to grasp: it helps people make launch videos with precise control. The page also shows feature requests that have shipped, including an Adobe connector and a referral program.
One product is about governance; the other is about video. Both quickly answer the reader’s question: “What can I do with this?” For your own launch, say who you help and what headache you remove, then show the product in action. In the comments, ask people what they want to connect or what still worries them. That gives the conversation somewhere useful to go. See Product Hunt’s weekly leaderboard
Paperclip: When You Have More Agents, Who’s Keeping Track?
Paperclip was among the leading projects on this week’s GitHub chart, with roughly 8,700 new stars. It’s an open-source tool for managing agents at work. Once a team has more than one agent, assigning tasks, tracking progress, and coordinating their work can quickly get messy.
Paperclip focuses on the kind of confusion teams recognize right away: Who’s doing what? What’s stuck? How should the agents work together? That makes the project easier to understand than another model demo, and closer to the way people actually work.
NVIDIA OpenShell is another standout. It provides a safe runtime for autonomous agents. Hindsight adds long-term memory, while VoiceStudio brings voice creation onto your own machine.
Together, these projects tackle the practical gaps that appear when agents start doing real work. Paperclip’s clearest strength is how it turns a complex technical problem into a familiar one: how do we keep the team’s work organized? And don’t judge a project by stars alone. Try installing it, check its permission boundaries, and see how it fits into a real workflow before deciding whether it’s useful. See the GitHub weekly chart
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