What is Invara Going to Be…

After a bit of an internal struggle and throwing some ideas around in my head, I decided that Invara is going to change directions entirely and try to find a niche problem in some space that can be solved. There will be a lot of things that are still going to be open source because I like the ethos associated with it and hopefully people will find value in that. But, at the end of the day Invara (although not quite a 100% direction yet) is going to attempt to solve a problem in one of the spaces below:

• Public Sector (As a research lab) -> This is particularly interesting to me because there seems to be a lot of research labs that are targeting other private sectors, which is great, but who is directing research towards the betterment of the public sector for whatever reason available. This could be associated with any of the government sectors that would be willing to work with a research lab and feel that they need that “edge”.

• AI (As a research lab) -> Particularly in infrastructure (cloud), compilers, and kernels. My personal dream here would be to ultimately be in a spot where Invara would supply off the shelf infrastructure that just works for ML Engineers to use without any hassle of setting up a dev environment themselves. Of course, there are are a few other people doing this, but they aren’t giving an entire development environment… They’re giving pieces of a development environment.

• Defense -> This would mean competing with certain people that I’d prefer not to (maybe, at some point). The truth is, that I think this particular idea is the most noble (and possibly most necessary). But, one thing that I don’t like about this in particular is the controversiality that comes with it. This has been seen with both Anduril and Palantir. Invara would likely take a different approach than either of them considering what Anduril (and also, Shield AI) are doing is capital heavy, whereas strictly software solutions are for the most part not capital intense.

Not Quite Sure

Ultimately, not quite sure which option or direction that Invara is going to go. All I know is that I’d like to stay away from capital intensive business and would also like to stay away from web slop. Building technology that is interesting and useful to people is ultimately what’s most interesting to me, but the truth is that everything that I can think of is simply just hard to execute… At least without starting first :) And, that’s where I’m at, I will likely start one of these things in the coming weeks and there will be an initial blog post here (maybe), and then continue to work on the problems that I find interesting until I either succeed or fail, wish me luck (or don’t) :D