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Dwolb

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About Dwolb

building newmoneycompany.com

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    His work may be unsavory, but he's good at his craft. Frank Abagnale committed financial crimes and had a wildly popular movie made from his story.

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    Comment #41622016

    Interesting take. Assumes we all benefit from playing into the system Uber created. Maybe true on a local maximum. But is it true on the global one?

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    Comment #41323175

    Does this plug in to any KYB providers to handle exceptions? We have AiPrise already embedded but it'd be nice to have an agent do a first pass to review exceptions that get flagge…

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    Honestly I love the direction and I do this all the time. If you could 1) integrate directly with iMessage so I'm literally just texting and 2) have your interface provide me some …

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    Comment #38250408

    Great I’ll check them out!

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    Comment #38250400

    This is really helpful thanks. Do you actively monitor how much customers owe you or even cap the size of their bill before they need to pay you? This would be in case they have a …

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    Ask HN: How did you set up usage-based billing?

    For those who’ve built systems that need to charge by an ‘event’, like an API call, how did you meter usage and then bill customers? How’s that system holding up today?

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    Comment #37918842

    The problem most teams have with pricing is they think it’s a sales problem. It’s not. It’s a cross-functional problem that mostly has to do with product (how it’s bundled, which f…

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    Comment #37695422

    A rogue marketer at a former company spent weeks with Zapier "trying to improve analytics". They went way too far to the point of saying, "I almost re-built Segment with Zapier". N…

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    Comment #37518193

    This is really well laid out and digestible. FWIW this is what growth teams think about all day when putting cash to work to grow the business. Revenue = new revenue + expansion - …

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    Comment #37423083

    As someone who's operated adjacent to this company for a number of years, I think it'll be a good thing for your firm. 1) They're doubling down on enterprise-grade features "with t…

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    Comment #36892996

    That interesting. Could have a federated LLM approach with different orgs owning different LLM specialties. Commercial arrangement could look like telco’s roaming agreements.

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    Comment #36706452

    This is why “not invented here” syndrome can kill an organization: >one of the main issues with VanMoof’s bikes is that they are custom designed from the ground up service >The fir…

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    Comment #36654162

    It’s interesting they’re using the FFT. I’m guessing they’re using it for convolutions to increase the computation speed for calculating whether a given object placement and orient…

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    Comment #36620756

    Glad to hear charcoal works. Picked up a Berkey filter years ago because a family member was insistent.

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    Comment #36610939

    Meta does ~3B DAU, so this is about 0.16% of that.

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    Comment #36508905

    Its tough when revenues are costs are mismatched.

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    Comment #36508114

    If your customers are really SMBs it’d make sense to partner with low-code/no-code platforms. Those things are so slow (for reasons which escape my small brain).