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Shpigford

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About Shpigford

Maker. Dabbler.

Recent public activity

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    Show HN: Nurb – Agentic CAD for 3D printing

    I've had a love/hate relationship with Fusion over the years. I can model stuff there but it's just always slow and painful and Fusion has a deep desire to crash on me. I started d…

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    Comment #48331772

    Thank you for the feedback and perspective! Super helpful.

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    Show HN: I built an AI medical-records hub after my mom's cancer diagnosis

    My mom was recently diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. That's both an overwhelming diagnosis but also an overwhelming flood of information, documents, appointments, options …

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    Show HN: Toolstash – Track your tool collection with AI

    Toolstash is a free tool tracking app for homeowners & hobbyists. Keep track of what tools you have & where you put them, remember which neighbor borrowed what, and find out who ne…

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    Comment #38975434

    That means a lot, Mike.

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    Comment #38975432

    Thanks so much for checking it out!

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    Comment #38975424

    Thanks a ton!

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    Comment #38975419

    Thanks! Pumped to see how it goes!

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    Comment #38975417

    Thank you so much!

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    Comment #38973462

    Sure thing!

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    Comment #34234193

    I also would want a lawyer to take a look. Hence the note saying to talk to a lawyer. ;) The reality is, even knowing what to ask a lawyer can be difficult and it's not economicall…

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    Comment #34234131

    We use GPT-3 to summarize it the document data. Then 24 hours later we completely delete all text, URLs and file uploads.

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    Comment #34233681

    Thanks so much!

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    Comment #34232900

    That was the big reason for adding the massive disclaimer everywhere, but I guess we'll see. I also intentionally didn't just give an output of the summary but instead showed it ne…

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    Comment #34232796

    Detangle gives you AI-generated summaries of your legal docs so you can understand what you're signing. Here's the YC SAFE, for example: https://detangle.ai/examples/yc-safe

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    Comment #25045906

    That entire $300k went to employees. As for $3.7 vs $2.9...that was basically the number that, to oversimplify, would roughly give the outcome I wanted for "retirement" when it com…

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    Comment #25045889

    Depends on the employees and when they joined and if they exercised stock options or not. Big range from a few thousand to over $80,000.

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    Comment #25045874

    Investment vehicle was a SAFE. They basically cancelled the SAFE as part of the deal. We've had carryover losses for years, so from a tax perspective, there was no hit on either si…

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    Comment #25045841

    Right. I've been paying myself $100-150k a year for most of that.

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    Comment #25045835

    You're making a veritable crap-ton of assumptions here. Happy to talk about specific concerns, but not if you're going in to this with guns blazing looking for a witch to burn.

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    Comment #25045822

    So true. I could have also hated my life for those 7 years. I make a terrible employee. :)

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    Comment #24347773

    Baremetrics | Senior Backend Engineer (Ruby) | Full-Time | Remote https://apply.workable.com/baremetrics/j/96F891A001/ Baremetrics is a business analytics & insights company. We pr…

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    Comment #22035785

    I threw around the idea but the reality was I wasn't in a strong position to try to negotiate that with a potential buyer. Acquisitions are incredibly closed-door and so finding a …