sberens

15 days agodiscuss

For comparison, openrouter says opus 4.8 is ~55 tokens/s and fast mode is ~102.

750 tokens/s for their largest model is going to be nuts

sberens

24 days agodiscuss

great, just confirm you also have >>$200MM revenue[0] and have also previously founded a hard tech startup!

[0] https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/midjourney-revenue-...

sberens

24 days agodiscuss

Also fmr cofounder of leap motion, which developed a mouse that didn't you to touch it!

sberens

24 days agodiscuss

I don't understand how people can hate on this. It's probably the most novel & ambitious consumer health device ever? Plus they're doing it fully bootstrapped. Let them cook!

sberens

27 days agodiscuss

If all you need is the idea, then the minions could easily start their own company and reach a similar order of magnitude outcome.

sberens

last monthdiscuss

Investors are usually prevented from selling until 180 days after IPO

sberens

last monthdiscuss

> They've got, ballpark, $5t to $10t to make back in the next 5 years

OpenAI's spending commitment is in the ~1T range for the next 5 years, and Anthropic is ~300B.

If they continue to show strong growth, they likely need to be at 100-300B in revenue/yr to support their yearly payments + financing, not 1T.

sberens

2 months agodiscuss

Have you seen https://fort.cx?

sberens

4 months agodiscuss

As someone who likes bright monitors, I'm excited to try the 2000 nit peak brightness! Are there any comparable monitors to the XDR brightness wise?

sberens

5 months agodiscuss

I did use it for this project! While the UI was good, there was a lot of last mile debugging to make charts/animations/responsiveness work well.

sberens

5 months agodiscuss

Glad you like it - we're working on improving the airflow right now actually! Thanks for the feedback on the paint.

sberens

5 months agodiscuss

Thanks so much for the kind words and being an early supporter <3

sberens

5 months agodiscuss

Because the lamp is 6'3" it's only below eye level for people who are 6'7-8.

We had another 6'5" customer who was worried about the height but they said it was totally fine even with shoes on.

sberens

5 months agodiscuss

We had to remake half the mold, and I split it 50/50 with the factory.

sberens

5 months agodiscuss

Just made one - use HN100: https://getbrighter.com/discount/HN100 :)

sberens

5 months agodiscuss

LEDs are pretty insane these days - the ones we use have an L90 (time until they hit 90% brightness) of >50,000 hours (17 years if you use it every day 8 hours a day).

sberens

5 months agodiscuss

We use constant current reduction dimming so there's zero flicker!

sberens

5 months agodiscuss

Thanks! The ups and downs of startups are very real (maybe doubly so for hardware)

sberens

5 months agodiscuss

It's 60k lumens now, and it draws 580W off the wall

sberens

5 months agodiscuss

Looking back I agree it was miraculous lol, I don't know if I'd do it again...