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ryanckulp

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About ryanckulp

founder of TRMNL.com. Fomo.com (acquired), former YC alum growth guy.

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    Comment #48997593

    we can only estimate token cost in our cloud agent, but we also OSS'd the skills and in those cases the cost is ~$0 (part of one's LLM subscription): https://github.com/usetrmnl/tr…

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    Comment #48997362

    i founded TRMNL and didn't try AI myself until ~2 months ago. i'd rather shut down down and open source everything (per our Unbrickable Pledge) than become "just another AI company…

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    Comment #48171222

    ShipHero doesn't even have an SLA, not too concerned.

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    Comment #48150115

    takes notes thanks again.

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    Comment #48149864

    thanks for reading, updating the post now to explain we use the Superpowers skill and spend 90% of our effort on specs / tests. measure thrice, cut once.

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    Comment #47855353

    i’m a happy Together Letters user, in an Atlanta founder group. didn’t realize until this post that there are thousands of us, well played.

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    Comment #47145667

    awesome work! the original Kindle project definitely has quirks, so we now offer a KOReader option as well. https://github.com/usetrmnl/trmnl-koreader/

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    Comment #47128034

    we call it Developer Edition, i think this is functionality the same. https://trmnl.com/blog/developer-edition

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    Comment #47128006

    you can point a higher def Kindle to TMRNL, either our closed source web app or free to an open source server. https://github.com/usetrmnl/trmnl-kindle https://github.com/usetrmnl/…

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    Comment #47117678

    what do you think it should be called? for ~$15 optional one time bucks people get 24/7 access to the entire engineering team, me, prioritized feature dev, and can earn monthly pay…

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    Comment #47117630

    you can import ~700 plugins from core to Terminus (Hanami build) or the Laravel build in 1 click. maybe you came on board before that was a reality. we and the community have been …

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    Comment #47115967

    glad to hear this. we made a couple more power savings improvements this week, publishing something on the blog about it ~tmrw.

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    Comment #47115841

    thanks for the support and i hear you. a few folks pointed their Boox at TRMNL[1], and we’re finally in the smart home arena now with free 5 min refresh rate for Home Assistant. ai…

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    Comment #47115086

    OP's Timeframe looks rad, but yes on the pricy side. check out trmnl .com for smaller / less expensive options and self hosted options. (disclaimer: i'm on the team)

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    Comment #46266747

    we (TRMNL) have a monitor demo, and we also bought a few of the new Modos project, rooting for that creator. see our demo here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qs7JeK11Cxc

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    Comment #46266598

    we (TRMNL) have a working demo, debating what to do with it. unlisted: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qs7JeK11Cxc

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    Comment #46121057

    cheers, im on the TRMNL team. looks like reMarkable runs linux so in theory our OSS lib would do the trick: https://github.com/usetrmnl/trmnl-display which can then point to one of…

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    Comment #44877586

    we bought a couple of these at TRMNL for testing purposes ;)

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    Comment #44741233

    oh interesting. i suppose we (or you) could be a plugin that parses epub/* formats and thus, a button click on device would fetch the next screen. double-click can already be set t…

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    Comment #44740125

    yes, https://github.com/usetrmnl/trmnl-kindle

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    Comment #43597040

    check out our FW, it's open source and will work with Waveshare ESP32. currently running on thousands of devices: https://github.com/usetrmnl/firmware/

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    Comment #43571582

    ok back up - you claimed we used fake data. obviously you are referring to "John bought X, Y mins ago" notifications. the actual product. for our homepage counter, this is not cust…

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    Comment #43564393

    thanks for the support! re DIY, we encourage this: https://docs.usetrmnl.com/go/diy/byod