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ezl

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Joined
Thu, Sep 03, 2009, 1:04 PM UTC
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About ezl

gmail: ericzliu

Running a bakery

Previous stuff: options trading and risk management, real estate software, original art

Like: whiskey, woodworking

Recent public activity

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    i think the scary thing about onboarding teams onto products like this is the fear that it won't exist in a year. i wonder if the "lite" solution looks something like a chrome exte…

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    I truly admire when someone takes an hint of an idea iterates and iterates and iterates and gets into every nitty gritty detail. I salute you.

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    Comment #33735203

    Can you share more about what you've built? I've got a bakery in Chicago and I'd love to learn more about the things you're building. Contact info in my profile.

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    Years ago I saw a post on HN (or maybe reddit) about using reverse dutch auctions for these sort of situations and how it provided the fairest outcomes for all parties. It was the …

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    i would go!

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    the world's first...

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    yeah! Could definitely do that. I built this years ago, before the pandemic. While QR codes existed, pre-pandemic, it didn't really feel like something that was ever going to get m…

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    oops! Yeah, to be honest, i rarely type my own url... should obviously make the trailing slash optional...

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    Comment #32464006

    Yeah, I'm just a careless person in some dimensions to be honest. Last summer I lost my wallet on a golf course, and twice at bars. I do a "wallet , keys, phone, airpods" check whe…

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    Yeah i have all these ideas for what I would do to market this eventually. Life keeps getting in the way, but because at this point it provides me a lot of utility it doesn't matte…

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    Comment #32461383

    https://www.lost-item.com I lose stuff a lot. It started as a URL ( https://www.lost-item.com/eric/ ) that I can put on a sticker on my stuff so that when people find my phone, wal…

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    Comment #30003360

    I started a wholesale bakery. It does about 20k/mo in revenue (we are not profitable). It's been super fun and rewarding. It's much more like building a software / tech startup tha…

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    i love 33mail. I've been a user for years and I think it's amazing. I pay for it, and I have a custom domain (several maybe?) and use that in addition to the default free @___.33ma…

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    Really loved this: > None of the people who report to me should really be focused on the current quarter. When I have a good quarterly conference call with Wall Street, people will…

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    (Note: Loved this story, so I don't want this comment to be interpreted criticism.) If you strip away the machine learning/computer/math part, the story is: After 88 first dates, C…

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    Comment #25124222

    You're right, of course. We'll ultimately try multiple channels. Actually our first channel we're trying is wholesaling to coffee shops. We are really treating it a bit more like a…

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    Comment #25124112

    Totally true re: bastardization :) I grew up in Houston and had "kolaches" everywhere. It wasn't until Tom and I started working on this business that I even learned the word kloba…