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I’ve had similar experiences. I now have an explicit line in AGENTS.md to not use subagents unless explicitly requested. It also helps that for the tasks that are big enough to ben…

Recently ChatGPT released an Ultra mode, it's "highest-capability setting, coordinating multiple agents across parallel workstreams to finish complex tasks faster" on their latest …

I'm beginning to build/host a series of own-use, self-hostable products for personal benefit, starting with an LLM chat for me & my wife, a photo manager, our personal calendar, "w…

> Ironically, the biggest multiples it’s generated for the industry have been from a low-dazzle text forum written in Arc Lisp. Wholeheartedly concur. I'm yet another datapoint for…

No, please no. Hyperlinks exist, and they work just fine. HN is one of the last few sites that doesn't glamorize the UX (nothing wrong with that). I'd rather read a thousand words …

I guess it's a bit of this and bit of that. The products I've sold before or discussed with others were on the former side. I think that was largely due to the metrics that are usu…

From my experience, x arr is not a reliable metric for products of this size. They don't exactly have risk covered returns due to their size and they're usually bought for their gr…

I've thought about it in the past, but the risk/reward ratio is better if I just run it myself. Also, the whole selling process was a huge turnoff for me as the offers were at most…

I did fell into that pitfall when I built keenly. Just wanted to build something new. But then, only when I received good feedback I thought to proceed with it. I won't deny, the n…

I'm in a bit of conundrum and any help or guidance is highly appreciated! I've built a SaaS app (rosterbird) that has grown organically to $1600/MRR without any marketing from my s…

I'm in a bit of conundrum and any help or guidance is highly appreciated! I've built a SaaS app (rosterbird) that has grown organically to $1600/MRR without any marketing from my s…

That’s the thing though, it’s a Google engineer’s market salary, and likely the author’s as well. But the OP was drawing the conclusion that whoever’s running the business has to b…

Valuing a profit-generating business that's making $1m in revenue as zero is reductive. Valuation of business isn't necessarily determined by profits (perhaps for commodity busines…

I initially built this one for myself. When working from home and with multiple clients, I had to manually add my appointments so that my colleagues wouldn't accidentally book that…

Agree. There’s definitely use to get a general pulse of whats happening. This isnt directed towards storytell or such apps, sorry if that came off that way. I was addressing the pa…

Thanks for this! I’m very surprised about the overwhelming support for Altman in this thread going as far as calling the board incompetent and inexperienced to fire someone like hi…

Don’t be. Almost all of it are speculations at this point and no one from inside is going to reveal the secret in a random HN comment. And also, think about this, unless you’re a s…

I used to write them several years ago. It was always fun writing about challenges we've faced, how we've solved them, and new tools we discovered, etc. Most of the tools I knew, I…

Sure. Broadly this is the list. Many of these are my go-to's for all my products. Only the Project management, I had to keep trying new things. Most favorite for now is Trello. Als…

I wouldn't say this one to be frugal, but then frugality varies by different parameters. What they priortize (Eg: a dedicated marketing tool vs sending marketing through app itself…