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barrrrald
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About barrrrald
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Comment #48274087
The iPhone 5C of Ferraris – and I am sure it'll have the same fate. It's doubly a shame because Jony actually owns one of the all-time most beautiful classic Ferraris – the 250 Eur…
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Comment #47470908
Who hurt you?
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Comment #46965657
I mean the whole product is a Hex clone, literally every feature is something Hex has had for a long time...
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Comment #45816269
I don't think an LLM wrote it; this has been their brand voice for a long time...
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Comment #45816155
Not surprised - this stuff isn’t fully mature yet. But I interact with their team a lot and know they have a commitment to it (I’m the other guy in that video)
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Comment #45813776
One thing I admire about Snowflake is a real commitment to self-cannibalization. They were super out front with Iceberg even though it could disrupt them, because that's what custo…
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Comment #45755743
I’m surprised not to see a discussion of the biggest drawback: despite being fewer characters, “uv” is harder to type than “pip”. It requires two different hands to participate and…
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Comment #45571357
VCs often help companies find homes within their portfolios
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Comment #45118068
no idea how the product itself works but they have set a new standard for small startup launch videos with this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jKOVAa1KAo
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Comment #45109425
Windsurf didn't not go through because of regulatory or MSFT issue – that was always a fig leaf. OAI walked.
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Comment #44771718
The implication of her article is that they’d have a hard time raising that money and/or that they somehow aren’t doing well - I don’t see any evidence of this cited anywhere in he…
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Comment #44768922
This post didn't age well – 3 weeks later Substack announced a $100m fundraise at $1.1b valuation. [1] Ana's contention that Substack is "rickety" seems motivated by her conviction…
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Comment #44527175
Keep the vested equity and move on. Anything else is asking too much.
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Comment #43984512
congrats to Nikita and all the wonderful folks at Neon!
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Comment #43861723
Congrats to everyone. Some of the smartest and kindest people in data coming together!
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Comment #42699881
Congrats to everyone, very excited to see how these come together
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Comment #42119783
Component dependency is pretty wild and could massively simplify some complex apps
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Comment #42021360
Congrats Taimur!
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Comment #41581316
Seems like it's mostly died off, most people I know have moved to hosted solutions like Hex or Colab
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Comment #40849337
Either! Basically any measure an objective observer could look at and be like, "oh yes this is a breakout hit with a bright future ahead of it"
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Comment #40849301
GitLab is a really interesting example, but I don't know if it'd have positioned itself as an "open source alternative" As for Mattermost, RocketChat, and Outline – I think these a…
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Ask HN: what are examples of successful "open-source alternatives"?
It seems like every day there's a Show HN post for another "open source alternative" to a popular SaaS app. And indeed, this search shows 34 pages of results, with clones of everyt…
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Comment #40805132
Packaging on this is interesting – from pricing page: How much will Figma Slides cost when it is generally available? Figma Slides will be included in all Starter plans for free or…