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Re:Ask HN: Where do you hire when scaling? on Thursday June 20, 2024 @09:36AM (#40738638)
thank you.

In my OP I asked "where" to find these people. Is it Upwork or...?

Ask HN: Where do you hire when scaling?

When you went from 1 to 5 employees, where did you find these people?And how do the best do this?How did the guy who started Coinbase went from 1 to 3 people? Where did he find them? Or the guy who started Airbnb where did he find employee number 2 and 3?Are they using Upwork to find talent?Or many of you guys here with successful businesses and agencies. Where are you hiring?How do the best...

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Ask HN: Can you make this app?

I would like an app that compares CPC across multiple platforms (google, meta, quora, reddit, etc), so that for example if I want to advertise a product, let's say a bicycle, I can compare immediately CPC across multiple platforms and buy ads where it seems more convenient. I think this can be a profitable idea and advertising agencies would find it useful.

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Re:Ask HN: How to find AI models for various niches? on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @07:52AM (#40143253)
thanks brother, interesting how bloomberg thought about this 1 year before me, my idea was exactly to build something to sell to bloomberg :D

Ask HN: How to find AI models for various niches?

I am looking at the financial/stock market niche. How would you go about finding an AI model to use for an AI app for it?For example, if I were to scrape hundreds of reports about various stocks and feed them to chatgpt to get predictions and analysis, I think it would lose it after a bit (I noticed chatgpt works better with smaller queries), so how and where you find various models for various...

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Re:Ask HN: Which AI model are AI porn generators using? on Monday April 22, 2024 @10:06AM (#40114523)
thank you brother! I appreciate it. So basically it seems that civit is already using this bundle of tools somehow. Hehe, how ignorant am I.

So basically where would a person run all these tools? like what is the set up? (background: all my experience so far online is running wordpress blogs on shared hosting, so this is a big leap :D

Re:Ask HN: Which AI model are AI porn generators using? on Monday April 22, 2024 @10:02AM (#40114486)
I gotta take this back. I just learned that it's all about having a fucking detailed prompt up to the camera type and lens.
Re:Ask HN: Which AI model are AI porn generators using? on Monday April 22, 2024 @06:52AM (#40113085)
Thank you for the help brother!

Although now I am more confused than ever with these 6 words that when I google seem to not even have their own sites but just some github code. This stuff is getting way more complex than what I thought would be (I thought they were simply using some api from a main site and white labeling it as their own brand)

Confusion in my brain how these pieces fit together:

QLora SD 1.5 ControlNet AfterDetailer Automatic1111 ComfyUI

Re:Ask HN: Which AI model are AI porn generators using? on Monday April 22, 2024 @06:46AM (#40113060)
As a side note, I contacted civit.ai and they told me these porn generator sites (pornx , promptchan, seducedai, etc) are not using their API
Re:Ask HN: Which AI model are AI porn generators using? on Sunday April 21, 2024 @10:52AM (#40106192)
I signed with civit ai but the quality of the output is not close to the sites I am referring to
Re:Ask HN: Which AI model are AI porn generators using? on Sunday April 21, 2024 @10:51AM (#40106180)
I just signed up for copilot now to try and nsfw didn't work
Re:Ask HN: Which AI model are AI porn generators using? on Sunday April 21, 2024 @09:50AM (#40105794)
ahahah exactly, or asking for someone who wants to create a similar app :)
Re:Ask HN: Which AI model are AI porn generators using? on Sunday April 21, 2024 @09:50AM (#40105791)
I was not specifically referring to deepfake or taylor swift stuff, I don't want to mention site names here, but I am talking about AI generated porn, which makes unbelievable realistic looking images. Stuff like this: (this pic is just a girl in bikini but you will get an idea) https://prnt.sc/68VDJeikmpCH
Re:Ask HN: Which AI model are AI porn generators using? on Sunday April 21, 2024 @09:46AM (#40105757)
Could you please expand on this? I thought it was stable diffusion, I contacted stability.ai and they told me they don't support these sites and don't allow nsfw content.

Ask HN: How to validate MVP with HNWI as target customers

Happy easter everyone! :)How do I put an MVP in front of 1000 very rich people (deca, centi millionaires) to validate if it could work?Service for sale has a price tag of $1M.Any lateral thinking ideas?If you're very rich, please send me an email (see profile), I would love to discuss this with someone in that demographic, maybe run a mom test on you :)

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Can you share any of these whatsapp groups names?
Hmm I thought so, I was wondering if there was something that had an even higher concentration

Ask HN: How to get invoices from un-registered freelancers?

Most freelancers I know are not registered in their country for various reasons (example they come from countries where the figure of "freelancer" isn't even a legal thing yet). But our company needs legal invoices, which they cannot provide.We're currently using a freelancing platform simply for this problem, which means he's losing 10% and I am paying an extra 5% just for this.Any better...

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Re:Ask HN: How many of you are self employed? on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @04:14PM (#39280697)
self-employed here (company owner)
Do you know if there's anything similar for TikTok native app? Like something that can block parts within the tiktok app on iphone?
Thanks @komoD! Do you know if there's anything similar for TikTok native app? Like something that can block parts within the tiktok app on iphone?
Thank you, anyway I tried uBlock as per suggestion from someone else and it works well.
I am gonna try this. Does it work to a granular level without blocking the sites from working?

Can you make me an app that removes distraction from Reddit, YouTube and TikTok?

I would pay for a tool that lets me see the question title in reddit subs, let me answer it and that's it. I don't want to see anything else, I don't want to see replies, I don't want to see karma or not karma. I don't want notifications. I don't want to see usernames of other people. Just the question and I answer it, in a completely zen state with zero distractions around.Same for tiktok and...

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Re:Ask HN: Where to launch MVPs for free for testing? on Thursday February 01, 2024 @11:45AM (#39217943)
Don't you think indiehackers readers represent a very narrow demographic, interested in tech stuff, and are probably not interested in many other things?

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