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marc

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About marc

Marc Köhlbrugge.

Currently building: startup.jobs betalist.com wip.co buildinpublic.com roomai.com yay.camera highscore.money and more

https://x.com/marckohlbrugge https://t.me/marc

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    Over the years I noticed many of my friends collect all kinds of different photos. One takes a photo whenever he sees an exotic car to share it in a group chat. Another told me and…

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    Comment #48676071

    For many years we explicitly denied any startup that was already launched. This was back in the day where most startups had a long "pre-launch" phase where they would be collecting…

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    Comment #48676033

    Haha you're welcome. Thanks for letting us share it with our audience :)

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    Comment #48676025

    Generally you can just reach out via a contact form. I should link to those

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    Comment #48676022

    Yeah PH launched a few years after us :)

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    Comment #48588908

    Fun story: I built BetaList 16 years ago which was one of the first "product discovery" platforms. Years before Product Hunt, etc. I manually reviewed every submission and unfortun…

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    Comment #46076740

    The reason new social networks rarely adopt domain-based handles is that usernames are one of the few forms of “currency” they have. Scarce handles create urgency. People rush to s…

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    Comment #43321365

    I’ve had this idea for many years, but never found the time to build it. Now, with AI, it only took about an hour to build. The objective of the game is to put all arrows in alignm…

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    Comment #42727584

    OpenAI doesn’t take security seriously. I reported a vulnerability to them that allowed you to get IP addresses of their paying customers. OpenAI responded “Not applicable” indicat…

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    Comment #42655624

    Can you share more about your OpenObserve setup? I’d love to know: 1) How it compares to Sentry in terms of insights you get 2) How you set it up as an accessory I’ve used various …

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    Comment #42566004

    Hope it’s okay I shared it here. Saw it in my RSS reader and figured HN would enjoy it. Glad to hear it served as inspiration. The video looks promising!

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    Comment #40547622

    I had my Apple Pro Display XDR stolen from the office in Lisbon, Portugal. They also stole my AirPods Max which has Find My technology built in. It happened over the weekend and wh…

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    Ask HN: Have you coded any productivity software just for yourself?

    I posted this question on my Twitter and got a lot of interesting replies[1] Curious to hear what HN is building for private use. [1] https://twitter.com/marckohlbrugge/status/1786…

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    Show HN: I made a site for sharing 'work in progress' updates

    I've always been fascinated by seeing other people work. Not just their end result, but the process that got them there. Over the years builders have become more willing to share t…

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    Comment #40103209

    I discovered emoji .to domains ~7 years ago and put up a site listing all the available ones [1] Within a few days almost all of them sold and made a couple grand in affiliate comm…

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    Comment #39366450

    I don't have a Vision Pro yet (I'm outside US), was curious to see what apps are being developed. So I made a list! I spend a lot of time on making it easy to navigate and if you a…

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    Comment #38263849

    Last year I made the first Stable Diffusion app [1] to redesign your interior (upload a picture of your room, and it restyles it to a different design style). Last week, GPT-4 Visi…