Lots of points on AI is just a "tool" and that's where I think misconception and misunderstanding will be most devastating for some.
- Yes, engines did replace horses, it was utility revolution
- Yes, computers replacing pen, paper and calculators
- Yes, internet has revolutionized access, borderless business, communication and digital transformation
All the inventions have been about tool replacing another tool, but AI trajectory does not really fit those models.
Maybe AI utilization today is giving the impression of tool and productivity revolution but it's the only entity challenging the actual human organ. It's brain replacing brain and that's the unprecedented and unfamiliar territory.
Eventually this new brain will get its own limbs too!
This article resonated with me, especially since I've noticed the fund raising hoopla's in my circle has dramatically dropped. Either investors are tightening the belt so founder-investor fit has crossed into the realm of disillusionment
better, more, screenshots or video walkthrough would help why something like this is interesting/needed.
The flood of new tools is truly overwhelming there isn't enough time to setup all of them to validate the marketing claims against actual functionality and benefit
I've had great experience using it for research, debates and constructive criticism. Usually give it a business idea or some tool i'm thinking of creating and then let 4 or 5 models debate it to a go-to-market strategy
I had a SaaS project last year with massive HTMX code base. Code was big and pain was even bigger. A few months back I attempted to convert parts of it to DataStar but the introduction of premature "DataStar Pro" and putting pretty basic but essential utilities behind the paywall killed the vibe. I scrapped the idea and wouldn't go near it.
Having just watched the Vite documentary both HTMX and DataStar have a higher order mission to challenge dominant incumbent JS frameworks like React/NextJS. HTMX is struggling and in my opinion Datastar is DOA!
Win the adoption, win the narrative then figure out cashing in. People behind Vite won the JS bundling race, they now have a new company Void(0) and raised venture money. NextJS solved major React pain points, gave it away for free and built a multi-billion$ infrastructure to host it.
Quick scan of your resume as someone who interviews 20-40 people/year (although not so much lately) ... I couldn't figure what you're actually great at. Strengths, passion and project type gravitation?
FYI, your resume is shallow but still better than a lot I see each year. For someone like me to decide who to interview and spend that 1 hour on, comes down to info presented on resume intended towards the people reading the resume and fit feel to the job description.
Tips:
- Post resume in "doc" format and not "pdf" this is because most recruiters and HR feed resumes to parsing engines that match content of resume to job description for keyword matching.
- Recruiters have a DB of thousands and thousands of resumes, for each job posting, they can only refer top 3. They only get paid if the candidate is hired and bonus if they stay more than a year! So know who your target audience is.
- Interviewers hate doing interviews too! Resume is easiest way to get a feel and reject allocating the interview slot time.
Github open source projects are not at all an indicator of "popularity". There are vast amount RN apps on the appstores and closed source.
As someone who has tried most of the options for streaming realtime mobile app, I landed on RN/EXPO for the sole reason of community size and ease of use. Basically everything is possible!
Typical recommendation has been to build MVPs in RN and then switch to native after your raise funds, but strongly advise against it unless the nature of your app demands native implementation. You can stick with RN all the way to FB/Instagram scale!
Part of it has to do with licensing costs but also "brand-able" ownership.
Say if you use Arial or Helvetica for your logo, then it's a generic typeface easily reproduced by whoever else that has them installed on their computer. So often, many brands for their logo take a generic font and customize it to make it their own. However, when you customize a font for a logo the font file itself is not customized, just the vector version of it for the character of the brand name. So if you want to extend the usage of the font style to say headline text or advertising text, then you need a whole custom built font. Custom fonts cost money, but picking a pre-existing "designed" typeface from other type foundries cost a lot more than getting a custom font. So two birds with one stone, you get a unique font for your brand and don't pay additional licensing since you own it.
The major difference between the 2 is how they're being adopted by customers and the tangible value they return.
AI/ML barrier to entry is far simpler and vastly user friendly compared to crypto. Instant value return or gratification from ML products (GTPs and rest) is far more mainstream friendly.
Another view is the "loss" factor. Nobody, thus far, has has had their funds stolen or lost using ML products. I understand content creators and those who, unwillingly, contributed knowledge to learning systems did get circumvented but i'm talking about users/customers. Compare that to the negative stigma of crypto frauds and stereotypical association to illegal transactions.
I spend a lot time inside vim/neovim on daily basis. I do have vscode open as well but it's mostly for referencing or file exploration on repos I'm not familiar with.
Building a mental and muscle memory is tough but it requires grinding. You have to put in the time! It took me months!
My biggest mistake was starting and playing around with configurations and plugins for days/weeks and constantly having a broken environment!
Configuration hell is the worst path to get into neovim! Start with the starter kit but avoid going into installing 10s of plugins, custom key-mappings and themes until you have learned the fundamental of motions, navigations and editing.
No that's not true! Svelte is a standalone project. Rich Harris, the founder and face behind Svelte, is paid by Vercel to work on it full-time.
From the same link above:
>> "Joining Vercel enables Rich to work on Svelte full-time, giving the project its first dedicated contributor. The governance of Svelte does not and will not change – it's still the same independent, open-source project and community. With Vercel's backing, Svelte can get even more ambitious."
Yes indeed. My Bell.ca ~1gb fiber has a monthly cost of $100 + $20 for dedicated IP. Since it's business line fiber internet it comes with monitored service quality meaning it's prioritized over others using regular/residential fiber internet (claimed!)
That would be dream come true! Everything is automated with Infrastructure as Code tools like terraform, plumi, dagger etc... You can easily point to another K8S and redeploy there then update the domain DNS records to divert traffic.
Interesting to see this article again since it was the trigger of starting a homelab for me. After realizing cloud services are putting a major dent in my pocket to get a lousy startup idea off the ground, I started to wonder if there's "The Cheapest" way? (I'm not cheap but I'm very frugal)
Nowadays internet speed is great to do self hosting. I have a business line internet at home with ~1gb up&down! Bought couple of 6-7 year old enterprise Dell servers (2x12core xeon, 128gb ram each) and no longer pay any cloud provider ... i'm also hosting 2 backend solutions for mobile apps with decent traffic for friends' startups!
The learning experience has been tremendous! It has actually gotten a lot better and easier with new solutions coming out for homelabs. Get started with Proxmox clusters and go from there...
First cable tv prices sky rocketed with a lot of ads and cord cutting became a thing. Now streaming services are raising pricing and subscription fatigue has started the cord 2.0 cutting.
I've gone from about 12 subscriptions (Netflix, Crave, Disney+, Apple Tv+, Fubo, Dazn, PrimeVideo, TSN, SportsNet, Funimation, CrunchyRoll, YouTube Premium) down to 6 and thinking of cutting another 3 and only keeping Netflix for kids, Prime (well because of Amazon Prime) and YouTube for me.
It might be counter intuitive but using general purpose directories like ProductHunt or similar to showcase your project is likely just showing off to off-target, extreme churn, user base with high potential to becoming competitors.
In my opinion, the best and only place you should showcase your product is where your actual target customers are!
Many ideas started out as "it's just for me and my problems..." but end up helping a lot of others. What you're working on is actually humanitarian on many levels. Please continue!
Once ready reach out to community of psychologists and doctors to help get your product in the hands of their patients!
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