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What do you care about?

Total market funds like VTSAX (the largest mutual fund in the world) will have to buy it as well.

> not having a network to bounce ideas off of or even try the app makes that part difficult to go from 0 to 1 This wouldn't change if you quit your job. Keep your job, stop buildin…

How can someone steal MIT-licensed software? The license says: Permission is hereby granted [...] to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies o…

Wow I had no idea ngrok had raised $50M, that's wild!

purple.com had a similar page for years, and eventually the mattress company rolled up with a dumptruck load of cash

IBM has ~300k employees and uses Slack.

Don't forget Underscore!

Node also has a built-in server and SQLite these days though? Or if you want a lot more functionality with just one dependency, Hono is great.

Who do you want to hear from that you're not seeing make statements? Hakeem Jeffries? Chuck Schumer? Ken Martin?

I had no luck generating full-size, NYT-style puzzles, but was able to generate 5x5 minis! I pre-defined a handful of layouts (minis generally just have corners blacked out), and b…

Have you checked out Linear ( https://linear.app )?

$300k puts you in the 94th percentile for household income, so objectively no, it's not that common. In tech though, especially in the Bay Area, it feels like the norm.

Yeah $1,000 a month would be $250 a week, which is 2-3 person hours of a housecleaner or landscaper's time, so like a 2 person crew for an hour or 90 minutes. If you and your spous…

At $250/visit, that's just weekly landscaping and housecleaning. More than I pay for myself (we have a housecleaner that comes monthly), but not unreasonable, especially for a well…

At that point it's not really B2C, but dual-funnel?

Contrast that with B2B where churn rates are generally <10% (or better yet, net-negative revenue churn) and LTV is often $10k+, and you can see why it's a lot more appealing.

At $15/month with 10% churn (which would be an unbelievably good churn rate for a paid B2C product) would make your LTV $150. An optimistic conversion rate from visitor to paid wou…

The Medallion Fund does use a better strategy than REIF. It only worked up to a certain scale where they started moving the market though, which is why they ended up kicking out ou…

If your visitor-to-paid conversion rate is actually 1.5% (12% of 13%), with an LTV of $23 you break even at $0.34 per per click. And again, I'd expect the conversion rate of ad-dri…

If we assume your LTV is $30 and a 5% conversion rate (since your organic traffic is likely to be higher intent than people who clicked an ad), a visitor is worth $1.50 on average.…

Tailwind Plus (formerly Tailwind UI) has landing page templates that are widely used and look similar to your examples: https://tailwindcss.com/plus/ui-blocks/marketing/page-exampl…

Yeah Observable has raised $45M, I imagine the ELT is paid well.

> It feels kind of odd that almost no one is talking about self-driving now, compared to how hot of a topic it used to be Probably because it's just here now? More people take Waym…

RenTec did this successfully, but their strategies didn't scale up beyond ~$30B AUM before they started moving their markets too much (with the Medallion Fund).