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Comment #49172839
Yes but at the very least they are an insurance against the big companies deciding to Enshittify their product. For example if (when) open ai decides to 10x their price once every …
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Comment #49161656
It's called "engineer's disease" which is pretty appropriate for this community: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/engineer%27s_disease
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Comment #49101594
wouldn't the analogy be Wagyu farmers?
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Comment #49050023
Rent control is just one of many factors that affect an incentive to build. For example (and these are hypothetical numbers just to show the point), if rent control made developers…
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Comment #49049026
If anything, being against monopolies is actually pro small business because monopolies make it harder for small businesses to compete
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Comment #48909913
I'm not sure what point you're making, but if anything, that makes this MORE impressive not less, if they can do great work with little resources.
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Comment #48878038
Friendly reminder: since Musk now owns Cursor, there are a bunch of really good open-source alternatives you can use.
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Comment #48796091
They all moved to Substack.
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Comment #48663373
Sounds like a great opportunity to build a markplace of these entities, where sellers can sell them to buyers and the marketplace automates as much of the paperwork as possible.
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Comment #48556214
Theres several open source options you can use. The highest github stars one is called `zed` another one i've heard about is `Cline` theirs also a few that yc backed ones: `Void` `…
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Comment #48548033
The value is not in the literal buildings, the value is in the people, the managers,engineers,etc and the owners who know how to run it. The people who are hired and organized by t…
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Comment #47958639
Beautiful website.
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Comment #47825877
There's literally an ancient text called `The Satire of the Trades` which bacially just pumps up nice it was to be the ancient world equivalent of a white collar worker.
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Comment #46408071
According to your research paper you should have made this post a "Tell HN:" rather then a "Show HN:", lol
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Comment #46304591
That's litterlly the job of a founder. You talk to cusomters and learn from them.
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Comment #46304573
If your customer base is so broud that you can't define a clear outcome for your nitche, your company probably isnt focused enough. Especially for a start up.
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Comment #46280547
When you go the website the first line is literally “Say hello to Freedom Chat—a next-generation messaging app that keeps your conversations actually private
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Comment #46222721
Bob is a citizen of X, the site formerly known as twitter where their are no laws
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Comment #46222629
How about and.... this might be too radical for you but here me out...... no one with "dominance for humanity overall"