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“Defense tech” should not be a capitalist for-profit venture. The incentives are all wrong. The business model is basically “milk the government for as much money as you can get, o…

Yup and this is the reason I just use Apple devices. Google and Microsoft products are design-by-committee garbage, and most open source projects eventually devolve into a mess, un…

No we don’t, and I’m working on solving this problem. There’s no reason for a pure SaaS company to pay these middlemen if the only thing they buy and sell is software. Software ven…

Warren Buffett has a term for this, it's called "float". At my current (active, not abandoned) startup, my guess is somewhere around 30% of active paying customers are also non-use…

You'll be surprised at how many people don't know or don't bother to refund.

You can guess from the number of reviews and downloads as they change over time. Everyone says it "doesn't work" yet people still download and try it, which means they paid for it.…

I think the Flywheel analogy is great. One of the big differences between working a regular job and running your own product/content business is that it's a flywheel - it works eve…

Ooh, I love these points of Conventional Faith presenting itself as Reason. I would argue that most true Knowledge is actually knowing what is not true, yet commonly believed. Actu…

This problem is as old as time itself and a part of human nature that monotheistic wisdom (or even Buddhism) has always cautioned against. People attributing love, protection, ador…

YC was always the dream for me, and I've applied about 25 times over the last 10 years. My work has been all about startups/side projects since I was about 14 years old. I live and…

Who wants to bet that Google will be dead (or as about as relevant as Yahoo) in less than 5 years?

I keep hearing this comment everywhere Claude is mentioned, as if there is a coordinated PR boost on social media. My personal experience with Claude 3.5 however is, meh. I don't s…

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Ok you’ve convinced me to give Aider a try. But is there a way to feed it documentation of a particular library or API? I want it to read the Stripe docs for me for example and the…

For me, Copilot and its sisters have been like self-driving cars: a slightly more advanced IDE autocomplete, analogous to a slightly more advanced cruise control. But it's far from…

Sorry I meant Pushover not Pusher. https://pushover.net/ Pushover is supposedly dead simple to use, but I've been lazy to integrate it and download the apps for my system, setup th…

I want a webhooked Telegram / pusher bot. Email has a 2-3 second delay which is annoying for my deployment notifications.

Curious, have you ever lived for an extensive amount of time in a walkable European city? As a person who was born and raised in suburban East Coast car-hell and then moved to Euro…

It only took 9 years for him to get to where he is now.

150k users supported by one man holy shit! This is obviously a B2C freemium app, right? Would love to see a writeup on how you handled the devops/deployment for this. Load balancer…

If anyone wants some one-man-SaaS ideas, here's a few which I desperately want. Somebody please build these and let me know! I already have my own startup so I don't have time to b…

Even Google has outages sometimes. The chances of an outage happening at that exact moment when you are "drunk and dancing at a wedding" are probably lower than "catastrophic deplo…

Only a government has sufficient power to disrupt the Visa/Mastercard duopoly as a payment network, and even then only within its borders. See what India did with UPI to mandate a …

Yup. Startups like GoCardless and government initiatives like UPI are all about direct bank to bank transfers to cut out the middleman by becoming the new middleman.