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Re: FAANG Simulator

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Post by Exoristos »

himata4113 wrote: post #37

I think this would be a lot more fun if there were different "starting" charasteristics. High starting money, but low tolerance for burnout. Poverty, but extremely high tolerance for burnout. Can't find a job debuff. Low skill, grifter, false promises, lie to win. (Rolling chance to end up in prison). High skill start, low tolerance for burnout. ADHD debuff. Picking the opposite option of what you want debuff. Also a…

> Poverty, but extremely high tolerance for burnout.

Slanting toward the fantasy genre here.

Re: FAANG Simulator

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Post by jeremyjh »

abeyk wrote: post #16
xmprt wrote: post #14

Game 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...

this is possible now with AI

In all seriousness, where are these stories? There are so many "entrepreneurs" vibing away, but who is getting paid? I feel like there should have been some decent exits by now but all I've found are a few lifestyle businesses and a lot of hucksters.

My experience: I feel like I could build a real product solo much more quickly than ever before, but the reality is my side-projects have been mostly futzing around with coding agents and related infrastructure - like building my own command proxy system with LLM review/classification & deterministic approval policy - for sandboxed agents to manage cloud infrastructure in controlled ways - building the builder who never builds. I see a lot of that kind of stuff on Twitter too.

Re: FAANG Simulator

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Exoristos wrote: post #24
xboxnolifes wrote: post #22

I'm not sure what the run it back button is doing, but it consistently manages to cause a graphical bug where all of my open firefox windows fully grey out until I refocus on them. Never seen that before.

Just use Chrome like a normal person.

That was sarcasm. On the other hand, it is certainly a normal experience to have to use Chrome for reasons like this.

Re: FAANG Simulator

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MeetingsBrowser wrote: post #59
dzonga wrote: post #48

I 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…

> 85K - you can live everywhere besides the coastal US cities comfortably. This is far from true. There are plenty of expensive places to live away from the coasts

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Re: FAANG Simulator

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dzonga wrote: post #48

I 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…

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Re: FAANG Simulator

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Post by daemonologist »

MeetingsBrowser wrote: post #59
dzonga wrote: post #48

I 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…

> 85K - you can live everywhere besides the coastal US cities comfortably. This is far from true. There are plenty of expensive places to live away from the coasts

Only if you seek them out (ski resorts and such). I've lived in both of the most expensive major inland cities (Chicago and Denver) and $85k is plenty in both, even for a small family.
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