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1/ This is very cool 2/ What a beaut of a domain Will deffo try this out.

Hey folks, I built this as a side project as I couldn't see a list of privacy-focussed tools specifically aimed at startups (rather than consumers). The project has languished a bi…

Another great place to look is Open AI’s example list: https://beta.openai.com/examples/

Hey folks, like many of you I'm a bit mind-blown at how AI has exploded in the last few months, and as a developer I'm keen to stay up to date on what the best developer tools/pack…

I think this is a good point I didn't convey in my hastily-written-in-10-minutes-blog-post-that-I-didn't-expect-to-reach-the-HN-front-page. I can fall into perfectionism, but I fin…

100% with you on this smitec. It's what I tried to capture in the post, but probably could have put better. The sense of just taking the steps I can today, rather than burdening my…

The other key difference here as far as I understand, is that Telnic required you to register .tel domains, you couldn't bring your own domain and store contact information against…

yep, it's still down, failing to install packages for me, says they're working on a fix

Hey folks For the past few months Barry ( https://twitter.com/pace ) & I have been talking to a bunch of young'uns about their news habits and one thing that keeps coming up is tha…

Hey ohazi, thanks for sharing your thoughts here. A point of clarification that didn’t make the article: we’ve not technically raised VC funding yet, we’re in an incubator. But we’…

Hey ausjke. Sounds tough, but congrats on getting this far. I'm not best placed to give advice here, and might need more context to do so properly anyway. I know a good group for b…

That specific point was that people often start a business because they want the freedom of not having a boss, but in many ways you always have someone you're serving, be it a boss…

Hey Andrew, appreciate your perspective here. I agree bootstrapping itself wasn't the problem. The problem was that I felt my focus on building a business on the side of my day job…

Appreciate your thoughts here Dave, agree with what you say. A quick point of clarification on my situation (author of the post), I didn't take a failing bootstrapped company and g…

I would say you gain different* experiences, not necessarily more valuable. It depends on your circumstances and your goals. Hopefully my perspective on that came through in the po…