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Yeah Buzz is rough still, but something valuable it offers that Grok Bot doesn't is human-to-human communication. It seems like Grok Bot is just a personal agent swarm. Which is us…

It was the software updates that prevented OpenClaw working for me. OpenClaw broke every update for a month, so I gave up and moved to Hermes. Right now Grok Bot looks a lot easier…

Interesting. A residential IP was enough for me to get my Hermes agent grocery shopping successfully on a website with quite aggressive bot protection. I run Hermes on a VPS, and t…

I want to use Zaarly. But I know it won’t come to Australia any time soon. I want to learn node.js. But to really learn it, I have to build something in it. Anyone else in a simila…

If anyone wants to set it up, get in touch. I write a free auction/marketplace WordPress plugin (called Prospress) that could be used to set up a working prototype in a couple of h…

For starters, their marketing strategy included: - not requiring a 37 step signup process - not requiring a user to choose between a dozen different monthly plans before being able…

Amsterdam NL - great for tech community and the cultural experience Melbourne AU - also good for tech and culture, though it is closer to what you're used to (I'm assuming American…

If you'd be willing to take the time to dig something up on that I'd love to read it. It seems surprising to me that potential damages would not be taken into account. By doing so,…

And as Fannie Mae provided the inside-man with root access to all the main systems, it was apparently just as easy to destroy the backups. Edit: also in reference to this comment: …

Can you share some of the best resources you've found for learning?

if you lost years of your life and have nothing to show for it If you have nothing to show for it, you haven't actually started a startup. You may not get a 7 figure bank balance t…

It's only sustainable if it's making you money. It's always good, even when it's bad.

I really like startuply's idea and the execution is quite good. I'm surprised we don't hear more about them though. I was surprised they'd been around for so long (03/2008 [1]) bef…

I would gladly have 2-3 lines of relevant Google ads shown to me everytime I visit wikipedia if it meant I didn't have to see Jimmy staring back at me for a few days.

Yep, it sure is a great quote, shame he didn't attribute it to Reid Hoffman, who has been saying it since at least 2006: http://www.cambrianhouse.com/blog/startups-entrepreneurship…

I'm submitting this article for the discussion from the HNers. I don't necessarily agree with its content or how the content is presented. I'd love to hear more about the "alternat…