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Hey HN. I'm Michael, founder of Matterbeam. Been chewing on the core ideas of it for over ten years, building toward it for three. demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuhujARUmhA…

Given yesterday, May the 4th. Ended up with a lightly unhinged Star Wars/data infrastructure rant about centralized warehouses, and dark data. I think it was funnier in my head tha…

Made me think, is there an opportunity to build a management layer for this? Handle subscribing and cancelling automatically when you want to watch certain things? Would probably b…

Data lakes promised schema-on-read flexibility but became swamps. The industry responded by turning them into databases again, defeating the original purpose. We built Matterbeam d…

We gave our first employees restricted stock agreements instead of ISO options, with the exact same legal terms and vesting schedule I got as founder. 2-6% equity grants, six-year …

Founder here - happy to answer any questions!

Founder and CEO if you want to ask me any questions! :)

This is a little triggering :) Reminds me of all the promise back in 2005 when I built my first startup Grazr. It was: - a widget that was a mini RSS reader that let visitors to yo…

It’s not ftl but there are ideas and projects to do interstellar travel in a lifetime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot

So many memories. That was a big part of my first startup in 2005. Grazr was the “next level of rss”. Unfortunately the first level never quite took off. https://techcrunch.com/200…

I've toyed with OSS'ing it or releasing the code. It would be a non-trivial amount of time and energy to package it in a way that people could host it. Gamescape was a hobby thing …

Very nice! :) I also had a similar itch a while back and built https://gamescape.app (during the pandemic). Different focus -- all about shared maps and tokens rather than a "full"…

I posted to get ideas and maybe help other startups. We dipped a toe into posting on Reddit. Targeted community, sharing a white paper, asking if people wanted to share their pain …

I'm a technical founder of a startup. I am not naturally a marketer (obv.) but I do believe that there is such a thing as good marketing. Do you agree? What would you consider good…