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Show HN: Interactive California Budget (By Claude Code)

california-budget.com
39 points·by sberens·il y a 5 mois·20 comments

Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product

simonberens.com
832 points·by sberens·il y a 5 mois·405 comments

Tariffs took an emotional and financial toll on founders in 2025

modernretail.co
3 points·by sberens·il y a 6 mois·0 comments

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sberens
·il y a 15 jours·discuss
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
·il y a 24 jours·discuss
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
·il y a 24 jours·discuss
Also fmr cofounder of leap motion, which developed a mouse that didn't you to touch it!
sberens
·il y a 24 jours·discuss
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
·il y a 27 jours·discuss
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
·le mois dernier·discuss
Investors are usually prevented from selling until 180 days after IPO
sberens
·le mois dernier·discuss
> 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
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
Have you seen https://fort.cx?
sberens
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
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
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
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
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
Glad you like it - we're working on improving the airflow right now actually! Thanks for the feedback on the paint.
sberens
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
Thanks so much for the kind words and being an early supporter <3
sberens
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
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
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
We had to remake half the mold, and I split it 50/50 with the factory.
sberens
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
Just made one - use HN100: https://getbrighter.com/discount/HN100 :)
sberens
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
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
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
We use constant current reduction dimming so there's zero flicker!
sberens
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
Thanks! The ups and downs of startups are very real (maybe doubly so for hardware)
sberens
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
It's 60k lumens now, and it draws 580W off the wall
sberens
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
Looking back I agree it was miraculous lol, I don't know if I'd do it again...