jonathan-adly

4 months agodiscuss

I can’t believe this has 1 point, and buried.

This is great find, very juicy, and would kill a few hot startups.

11 months agodiscuss

Basically- the same math as modern automated manufacturing. Super expensive and complex build-out - then a money printer once running and optimized.

I know there is lots of bearish sentiments here. Lots of people correctly point out that this is not the same math as FAANG products - then they make the jump that it must be bad.

But - my guess is these companies end up with margins better than Tesla (modern manufacturer), but less than 80%-90% of "pure" software. Somewhere in the middle, which is still pretty good.

Also - once the Nvidia monopoly gets broken, the initial build out becomes a lot cheaper as well.

jonathan-adly

11 months agodiscuss

We have been running this playbook for the last 2 years in healthcare, and we have been super successful. Doubling every quarter over the last year. 70%+ profitability, almost 7 figures of revenue. 100% bootstrapped.

People are still mentally locked in to the world where code was expensive. Code now is extremely cheap. And if it is cheap, then it makes sense that every customer gets their own.

Before - we built factories to give people heavy machinery. Now, we run a 3d printer.

Everyday I thank SV product-led growth cargo cults for telling, sometimes even forcing our competition to not go there.

jonathan-adly

last yeardiscuss

One of the most pleasant experiences I had writing code, is early AI days when we did hyperscript SSE. Super locality of behavior, super interesting way of writing Server Sent Events code.

eventsource demo from http://server/demo

    on message as string
        put it into #div
    end

    on open
        log "connection opened."
    end

    on close
        log "connection closed."
    end

    on error
        log "handle error here..."
    end

end https://hyperscript.org/features/event-source/

jonathan-adly

last yeardiscuss

Lots of YC companies copy each other process and selection criteria. Basically- they all have the same blind spots and look for the same type of engineer.

So, super easy to scam all of them with the same skillset and mannerism.

jonathan-adly

last yeardiscuss

I send this article as part of onboarding for all new devs we hire. It is super great to keep a fast growing team from falling into the typical cycle of more people, more complexity.

jonathan-adly

2 years agodiscuss

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