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Just use Chrome like a normal person.
"How come Google keeps making Chrome shittier :^(" - People who say this
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FAANG Simulator
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#43Game seems to be heavily weighted towards building side projects. If only you could build a single side project without raising any funds and get acquired for 10M with an 80% cut...
Well thats your problem, everyone knows you got to apply to YC to get funded
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#44RAT RACE #1 · ACQUIRED sold the company at 27 · walked away with $13.32M · peak burnout 84% Gotta go grind out some AI B2B Agentic project now...
The hard part for B2B is the sales not tech. You are better off wining and dining a sales guy as your co founder than doing more vibe coding.
I try to resist the urge to vibecode, but yes agree on sales
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#45Really fun project, but doesn't take ageism into account, it gets easier the further you get whereas it should get be getting harder in certain ways
like family/personal time balance... neglect, and you get a message your teenage daughter is pregnant or your son joined a gang. game chugs along...
...and then you just get fired one day.
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#46y38q3 metaphase wants to buy me out for 500mm, my cut is 700k. my portion of the cuts get smaller as time goes on. final net worth 2.50mm. i either retired or died at 60
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#47I wish I could laugh at this. It hits a little too close
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#48I don't know if I should feel sad or laugh at the pain at the same time lol.
what a wonderful way to reflect reality for a good population of devs.
you can hack the game i.e real life
1. live in a cheaper location 2. do things that don't scale & do the ugly work
that naturally extends your runway, you don't need to apply to YC
remember the median Pay in the US - is 61800 based on ADP the largest payroll provider.
so before aiming for millions aim for 85K. yeah a far cry from the FAANG wage - but one - you will never get laid off.
85K - you can live everywhere besides the coastal US cities comfortably.
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#49Whether you can score a remote gig without a cost-of-living penalty affects your ability to achieve FIRE. If you're in the Bay Area at only $200K, you're on a treadmill.
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#50Game seems to be heavily weighted towards building side projects. If only you could build a single side project without raising any funds and get acquired for 10M with an 80% cut...
Really? I did great just alternating between "grind" and "lay low". Retired with $4.8m at 25!
This seemed to work best.
Unexpected given what I know second-hand about the valley - which is to grind leetcode and keep job hopping.