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By default you can’t access the latest OpenAI models unless you request access. We requested access for a very straightforward use case and never got it. We switched to Anthropic a…

Helpful link. Thank you. I think that when people are worried about ZDR, what they really worry about is data governance. From what I’ve seen there’s a general distrust of OpenAI. …

> Can I ask what the product was? Software for teachers. Teachers tend to talk to each other, which is great for distribution. On the other hand, they have very little spending pow…

I like this quote: > First time founders are obsessed with product. Second time founders are obsessed with distribution. I have personally grown an app from zero to 100k+ users, wi…

There are 190+ other countries that can also approve it (or that aren’t organized enough to care about drug approvals). If there was an amazing treatment working in Lichtenstein, w…

You can easily simulate an early stage startup by getting together with some friends and each of you calls random people from the phonebook, tries to sell them a product that they …

The sentiment here is right, but redis does make a difference at scale. I built a web app this year on AWS lambda that had up to 1000/requests/second and at that scale, you can hav…

No we are not. The US has a much higher GDP per capita than most of Europe, but not Norway.

Sure, if you just want someone to talk to. But most clinical psychologists are dealing with more severe cases. Would you want your suicidal teenager talking to a licensed therapist…

A PhD in psychology takes 6 years to complete plus another year for licensing. A PsyD is a little bit less, but typically you pay high tuition during that time, whereas most PhD pr…

The amount of equity isn't as important as the vesting schedule. Don't vest anything to your cofounder right away. You should vest on a four year schedule with a one year cliff. Th…

It isn't you. I have a solid resume (I know because I've interviewed hundreds of people in my career), but the market is just much slower. In 2020-2022 I was getting 5-10 recruiter…

I'd bet that YC would love to fund fewer dev tools, but there's a bias towards who applies to YC in the first place. It's not that YC isn't well known outside of tech circles, but …

> While it may seem like YC invests in a diversity of companies across , it is an “Airbnb for X” type of diversity... if you are not building a product that is fundamentally like a…

Neh... web programming is not going anywhere. Sure, the current environment is exposing all of the companies that never really had a business model other than raising more and more…