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Curious about preference stack: A) Within their favorite LLM, data sharing with Plaid and the frontier lab. B) An entirely self-hosted agent on their computer with open source LLM …

We're a team of founding Plaid engineers, backed by the funds of the Plaid CEO and Max Altman. https://res.cloudinary.com/dxxog3y9j/image/upload/v177246957... We've to build a conv…

I’m not raising a question about his rights or generosity. He and other independent political pundits have large audiences and as a result generate valuable content for the platfor…

As a disclaimer, I’m not a Brand content consumer and I’m also not commenting on the validity of the claims. I’m aware that he’s a popular populist and the slippery slope is obviou…

Great question! Presently the AI is primarily used as a tool for our human experts and end users to generate ideas for prompt responses, captions, etc. It’s not meant to be entirel…

SmallTalks was born from my personal experience dating in NYC, where I struggled with the apps for quite a while before eventually figuring things out. Initially, this app is focus…

Which of those options do you plan on using personally? :)

I've been contemplating this question on the heels of the passing of an older relative. It dawned on me that most people know little about their grandparents and that deficit is li…

If others agree that the Promotions tab could be greatly improved, what are some theories as to why the Gmail team has maintained this version?

In the course of brainstorming about a product, I've been forced to check out my Gmail Promotions tab. I normally avoid it as I find it too noisy -- filled with repeat emails from …

Founder here, let me know if you'd like to chat about working together!

It’s really just a fraud concern in the short term if money is involved but definitely planning to change that

I love surfing and skiing so should be planning those too. See my email that I’ve included a bunch in this thread and I’ll add you to a “village”

Ben@villagersapp.com, reach out!

I use vendors rather than storing myself. Tokenization only :)

Appreciate the feedback! I’m personally less rules based as well aside from no parties, that’s probably strictly required by most lodging. Aside from that I agree. Keep in mind the…

Yes for sure. Email me at ben@villagersapp.com and I’ll add you to an internal list of founders

Thank you, that’s really generous of you. It’s a dead simple stack — which is helpful as a solo founder — of rails as an API and react. I make liberal use of other saasy services. …

Yes it is solo developed and I sincerely appreciate that!

That’s exactly my thinking as well :)

Yes, I'm really focused on the commitment mechanism -- Kickstarter for group travel effectively. I had thought that was already eliminated so thanks for pointing that out! I just p…

On a related note, I'm willing to personally act as a travel agent for a remote co-working trip among coworkers as a non-scaleable way to grow the platform initially and get user f…

I completely understand this objection. Ultimately, this was a tough trade off that I made for reasons that I can elaborate on at a different point. In most cases, the goal is to h…

I'll just reiterate what I said below which is that, while I think you point of view has a lot of merit, there are compelling "Why Now" counterpoints that I think you're undervalui…

Interesting, I'll check that out. It's presumably a javascript error that I can't reproduce but here is the direct link to plan a trip: https://villagersapp.com/app/trips/new/edit