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yurylifshits

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About yurylifshits

Co-founder/CEO of Openland (YC W18)

https://openland.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48030077

    Gianluca Vialli won UEFA Cup Winners' Cup with Chelsea as player-coach in 1998

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    Comment #42438984

    Our limited tests show that yes, Hunyuan is comparable or better than Sora on most prompts. Very promising model

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    Comment #42437831

    There's another important contender in the space: Hunyuan model from Tencent My company (Nim) is hosting Hunyuan model, so here's a quick test (first attempt) at "pelican riding a …

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    Comment #41745989

    Hi zoogeny (and anyone else here) — you can try our new app Nim to address the Runway problems you describe https://alpha.nim.video We offer both image-to-video (same situation as …

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    Comment #34822125

    Google started as a research project in 1995 and incorporated in 1998. Susan was an employee number 16. 25 years sounds about right.

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    Comment #24796485

    Yes, we follow them closely. Key differences: — Mighty's main focus is on top-down content, not messaging with organizers and among members. — Mighty's communities are all separate…

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    Comment #24796468

    Yes, Openland is primarily built for organizers who have the audience but need better tools for onboarding, engagement, moderation, and monetization. Happy to email/chat/talk in mo…

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    Comment #24792973

    We think that sustainable people-first social networking will follow from the new business models. Openland's bet is on SaaS model for community organizers + revenue cut from membe…

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    Comment #24792176

    Dave, congrats for launching your own group on Openland so quickly. We'll help you find members among people who are already on Openland.

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    Comment #24791989

    I like this analogy! Key differences from Openland to Reddit — Most users use their real name — Focus on direct and group chats, not posts — Ability to save people in contacts, pro…

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    Comment #24791438

    There are two business models here: 1. Community is free for members, organizers pay Openland for premium features. This is useful for businesses who use communities for volunteer …

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    Comment #24791391

    Fair, there are groups in various languages on Openland and the group language isn't always obvious from the group name. We need to make our community recommendations more aligned …

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    Comment #24791267

    Would love to talk more about your community. How can I reach you? I am at yury@openland.com We guarantee easy export for all organizers. If something goes wrong or you simply want…

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    Comment #24791077

    Readability is a big priority for us, we'll keep working to make it better across all devices. Yes, the web version is only resizable with the browser itself. For more control over…

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    Comment #24790927

    Thanks Sasha! The magic of new messengers and new communities is that early on, its always a special group of people. There is culture of trust and collaboration. Hopefully, we'll …

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    Comment #24790809

    Yes, this is high on our priority list. In general, we'd like to work with every business-in-a-box platform (Coursera for teachers, Shopify for sellers, Spotify for musicians, etc.…

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    Comment #24790789

    Thanks! Openland is almost intentionally very close to FB Messenger, WhatsApp, and Telegram in its user experience. We want to make it super familiar and easy to participate for ev…

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    Comment #24790734

    Thanks! Indeed, we strive for simplicity. It's still too hard for people and organizations to start a chat group or multi-chat community. More to be done here with community templa…

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    Comment #24790697

    Very interesting! We actually use the system fonts. I.e. Openland is set in San Francisco on Mac/iOS, Roboto on Android, and Calibri on Windows. We do this to minimize distraction …

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    Comment #24790559

    Openland advantages over Slack / Discord: - Member onboarding - Integrations (CRMs, Zoom, etc.) - Automated messaging - Hashtags for messages and profiles - Threaded comments (Disc…

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    Launch HN: Openland (YC W18) – Community platform with automation

    Hi, it's Yury and Steve from Openland ( https://openland.com ). We make it easy for any person or business to build a chat community. We believe that in the next five years there w…

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    Comment #22601428

    The quality of the demo is very impressive. I can imagine a lot of use cases, particularly in mobile apps. People want to consume more content from Apple Air Pods. E.g. this can be…

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    Comment #22536852

    I use TakeCommandHealth ( https://www.takecommandhealth.com/ ) for this. How would you compare Savvy to their service?