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Looks very powerful. Would you consider other interfaces apart from a table? I would love to use this with something that looked like Notion.
Re: on Monday November 04, 2024 @03:47PM (#42045833)
Intersect.com will invest $10k USD in 10-20 startups in Q1 2025 for startups that are outside of Silicon Valley and want to relocate to Silicon Valley.

The $10k investment will be via a post-money SAFE at a $1-5M valuation with pro-rata rights.

The requirements for the startup are:

1. The startup must have raised a minimum of $50K USD (50% can be founders capital)

2. At least one of the startup’s founders relocates to Silicon Valley for a minimum of 1 month in April 2025 and all founders have plans to be based here in the long-term.

3. The startup is currently based outside of Silicon Valley

4. Are a US based entity (Delaware C-Corp preferred)

What you get:

1. February 2025 - 8 week program to help you prepare your startup for relocation to Silicon Valley

2. April 2025 - relocate to Silicon Valley for a minimum of 4 weeks during which Intersect will help you raise a pre-seed round, find customers and release your product.

3. We are partnering with accommodation providers and co-working spaces to get you affordable options for living here for a month - but there are no obligations to use these options.

4. There are no obligations to use any Intersect services or products

Please comment below your one-liner and I will reach out to you with more information. If you know a startup that might be a good fit, please tag them below.

We are doing this because:

1. Getting a startups off the ground is really hard and its a problem I have faced many times

2. It's just a good investment opportunity for the arbitrage between startups outside of Silicon valley and those in Silicon valley

3. Intersect might get some customers out of the program but that isn’t the primary driver

Re: on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @03:32PM (#41928543)
Intersect is working with a few talented designers to do a free design review of your site for free.

We'll record and share a video looking at your page and suggest improvements. The only caveat is that we will post the feedback in the comments as well.

Please comment your URL if you would like a design review.

This is day 23 of building Intersect

P.S. Intersect will be releasing its new site built from the ground up in the next 2 weeks (think Apple).

Exclusive for hacker news comment readers: this was a 7 figure purchase but full details will be released later.
Today is a triple launch – firstly we are excited to launch Intersect with the goal of helping technology startups solve their most challenging technical problems.

This is no easy feat. Solving technical problems at scale is incredibly complex.

So, how do we do this?

Two phases:

1. Build core software and infrastructure solutions for startups to solve their most challenging technical problems - giving the startup a perpetual license to the IP, and retaining the IP for future projects.

2. Apply our repository of software to similar problems startups face. Over time, this allows us to be the fastest option for startups looking to solve challenging technical problems.

In other words, we use Palantir-like services to build a core suite of core software products that can be reused across projects.

This allows us to be faster, cheaper, and higher quality.

The number one question we get is would a startup be comfortable allowing Intersect to own part of the IP developed during a project - and our answer is that most technology companies don’t mind that they don’t own the IP for their database, web framework, or payments infrastructure for example - and there are many core components in the same bucket.

Intersect's long-term goal is to be the number one place founders turn to build out core software and infrastructure. We want to be a software and infrastructure layer that powers the next generation of tech.

Our first products are a full text search that is 200x faster than Postgres, the lowest latency sync system available, and a video-conferencing platform.

If you are a startup with a tough engineering problem - please reach out.

Secondly, we are announcing our purchase of the domain intersect.com but holding off on the details of the acquisition for the time being.

Thirdly, we are launching a community for engineers and founders solving hard engineering problems in the SF Bay Area: https://www.intersect.com/community

(Photo below of Intersect’s founder @anindha (0000) and @maxmarchione, our first investor (1000). All investors in this round will have a number starting with 1 and all team members with 0.)

Re:Ask HN: Has anyone scaled Postgres to over a billion rows? on Sunday September 15, 2024 @04:29PM (#41550121)
That's pretty impressive for that price for 2015!
Re:How to process 100gb tsv and XML files? on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @12:30PM (#41381305)
Re:Advanced React Course on Maven on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @05:05PM (#39210065)
I am running a course on Maven that will deep dive into React.

I have taught 100's of students previously and here are some comments from former students:

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"Anindha is a great teacher. He is able to break down and explain difficult concepts in a way that not only makes them easier to understand but also memorable! His teaching style is engaging and interesting. He has helped me a lot on my learning journey as a software developer."

I am offering a 50% discount for the next week using the coupon code EARLYBIRD50 (normally $500).

Re:Get everything in writing on Thursday May 04, 2023 @04:57PM (#35821968)
I was taken to court by previous employer, but I had all my claims in writing so I was protected.

Ask HN: Can you help with crowdsourced live courtroom strategy?

I have been taken to court by my former employer. They have engaged, it seems, a high cost legal team. I have no means to engage my own legal team.The legal system is overly complex and archaic. Even to file a few documents with the court requires days of work to just understand the process.I was given just over 24 hours to prepare for my court hearing, and I believe this puts me at severe...

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Re:Selling a Side Project on Sunday October 16, 2022 @06:26AM (#33222579)
For anyone following this here is an overview doc: https://docsend.com/view/spqk8tri2393i8ya
Re:Selling a Side Project on Sunday October 16, 2022 @06:25AM (#33222577)
Its uses MediaSoup but everything else is our own stack.
Re:Selling a Side Project on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @08:54AM (#33176203)
It’s not a secret haha

Tocky is a fully featured video conferencing software with the following features: - browser-based using WebRTC - supports up to 8K video resolution - all users in a room can simultaneously screen-share - optimized matching system for allocating users into breakout rooms so that matching is biased towards meeting new people - different modes for presentations, collaborative working, and matching - Google or email magic-link for authentication - share an event link for easy join

Selling a Side Project

I am looking at selling a side-project for around $25-100k. Is anyone here experienced in doing something similar? The technology is quite valuable and would cost 3-4x that amount to build.

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For jobs that I am excited about I wouldn't mind doing a take home test as long as the project was interesting.
Re:Show HN: Trunk – One linter to run them all on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @05:47PM (#29398433)
Cool idea. I tried to install the VSCode extension but not sure if its working because there was no feedback.

Ask HN: Interested in Online Web Development Bootcamp?

Hi all,I have been a software engineer for 12 years both in Sydney and Silicon Valley. I have been teaching software engineering full-time for the last two years. I teach 3 month web development bootcamps through McKinsey/Generation.I am currently producing a 6 month full stack web development bootcamp for YouTube.The topics that will be covered: - HTML - CSS - Javascript - React - Node -...

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Ask HN: Did you get a YC interview?

Today is the day that results are scheduled to come out. I haven't received a result yet. I thought it would be good for people that received interviews to collaborate on possible questions and maybe do some mock interviews. If you didn't get an interview maybe you can share any insights for reasons why you didn't get an interview.

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Re:What Color Is This? Part 2 on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @09:23PM (#24772234)
The do really well in areas like middle America where the options are limited. I am not surprised they are doing so well.
Elon disrupting another industry.

It was so obvious that bricks should have slots so they fit together like Lego. Why didn't anyone else think of that?

I like the idea. Would be good to have an example resume so I can see what it looks without creating an account.
Re:Firetable – Spreadsheet-like UI for Firestore on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @04:28AM (#24636687)
This is open source under Apache-2.0 License.

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