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Having attended startup school this weekend, we were told how, in the past, companies were reluctant to try new technology from startups, AI products, etc., because they were unval…

I'm curious about how the LLM-based detector worked. How often did you run into a false positive? (I'm assuming you leaned on the more sensitive side due to the importance of the d…

Do you think customers trust it either? I'm trying to differentiate between "good enough" and when enterprise customers actually care. I mean, it doesn't matter until a customer as…

I agree. I'm trying to sell to enterprise right now and this is a blocker. Basically, my product stores emails in S3, but metadata in Supabase, and caches in Redis. It's all fragme…

For people building SaaS with data across multiple systems (S3, DBs, caches, etc), do you actually have a clean way to manage retention/deletion across all of them? (Especially whe…

I think UI quality is going to stop being as important when anybody can just generate an "average" UI that is good enough in minutes. Ultimately, this really just shifts the focus …

How many emails does it usually take for you to lock something in? And do you end up following up manually if they don’t respond?

How much of this issue is availability vs just getting them to respond and commit to the meeting?

I think the back and forth is one of the most time-consuming parts. How do you manage it?

Interesting. Do you end up just accepting the meetings or do you try to push back?

^^ title says it all. Looking to see what parts people hate the most, and what could be made easier.

I’m more curious how this impacts trust than anything else. In the span of basically a week, they accidentally leaked Mythos, and then now the entire codebase of CC. All while many…

Thank you for your response. I think the ICP needs some refinement. I've found it pretty hard to prospect because it is so broad. > People generally don't have problem with email s…

I'm not sure how AWS logs work since I'm just used to looking at Cost Explorer... But I would assume they actually store the history themselves, and you can just pull it.

Fair, I think I'm certainly in the minority. Especially now more then ever with an increasing amount of non-technical people exploring vibe coding, 'good enough' really is good eno…

Yes on the satire. This post made me laugh :). I agree with this framing a lot, especially the idea that judgment is the bottleneck In my experience building Persona, an AI schedul…

Well unfortunately, that’s just how I write. None of my posts are LLM-generated, so I'm sorry they come across that way.

Historical tracking is useful, but only if it’s dead simple. If it requires standing up a DB or service, I probably won’t use it. I've been trying to track down cloud waste recentl…

While this may be true for casual users, for dev native products like Codex, the desktop experience actually matters a lot. When you are living in the tool for hours, latency, keyb…

Thanks for your thoughtful reply. I really like that quote -- hopefully I start another company and think about distribution straight off the bat. Can I ask what the product was? E…

Interesting! I bet now with AI, you can create an agent to do this. I'm glad that worked, however, we're targeting founders of b2b saas companies who are early stage, and that is q…

Hi everyone, I’m building Persona, a platform to delegate email scheduling to AI. Lately, I’ve been working hard to get those first users on board, but it’s been quite challenging.…

The “lump of cognition” framing misses something important. it’s not about how much thinking we do, but which thinking we stop doing. A lot of judgment, ownership, and intuition co…