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If you're reading this... yes, I posted about this a second time, because I did a horrible job of describing it the first time.

Hey HN! Philippe, Tyler, and Viet here. We're the cofounders of GetWhys, and we built Compass ( https://www.getwhys.io/compass ). Our customers (incl. Docker, DocuSign, Typeform...…

You either need: - distribution: have some community effect, where the more users you have, the more valuable the product is (and the harder it is to replicate) - a proprietary dat…

I figure that I should (finally) post about the thing that we built / launched. Compass is an AI product trained to give you specific answers to challenging questions about softwar…

Importantly... the behavior is self-reported (by dog owners), who almost certainly have some bias about their dogs. I know I do. :)

Haha. Assuming this isn't sarcastic—I would assume that (1) sentiments on the last day are probably similar to many of the days before it, and (2) you should weight the wisdom of t…

Nobody in these threads is saying that housing them is the silver bullet. But shelter is part of the foundation of a human's hierarchy of needs, and being anything but single-minde…

_What if they want to sleep on the street?_ Let's start by sheltering as many people as we can, and when our problem becomes "too many empty beds", then we can move on to that prob…

Yeah, that was fantastic

I think you're right -- if only because it's probably the most viable path to growth. If your value prop is 'we're stable and you can trust us', and your buyers are 'large enterpri…

I think blackmailing someone in the closet is almost always wrong -- I'm sure there's some contrived edge case that could be thought of, but as a whole, it's never okay. Just becau…

This is a really smart acquisition for Twitter to make. I'm subscribed to a number of substacks (and Patreons) that I only discovered through creators on Twitter. Job #1 for twitte…

My read is that they're spinning off the professional services wing.

I never thought I'd do sales. For B2B, read: - The Challenger Sale - Value Based Fees - Pitch Anything

Think of how much worse tight connections are when your connection leaves earlier than it was supposed to!

Red notice is different from an arrest warrant.

Good question. I'm certain it isn't, but also, you can't give all things for all people. These thought experiments are useful, interesting, and appealing to certain segments of peo…

Honestly, even if it was 10% less efficient, I'd be on board with that just to spectate. I'd also invest heavily in barf-bag stocks and neck pillows.

Ebola is really small too! More seriously, to your point about historical growth + pollution -- (1) this stuff is cumulative and (2) the world is polluting more now than it ever ha…

Ah, the rare exception to Betteridge's Law ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... )!

To add to this -- even when it was a secret, they were still protesting the idea of providing those incentives.

They're noting that the way that West Antartica is laid out encourages a powerful feedback loop with negative effects. The more it melts, the more it gets into warmer water, which …