Hi there.I was engineer number 3 at Eventbrite and founding engineer at Reforge. I've created a dozen or so startups myself and have worked in many others, like Instacart. All this time, no one knew that I was a convicted felon.It wasn't exactly a topic that came up, but it was certainly something that I never brought up. When you're a convicted felon, people look at you as if you are tainted.I...
I was using claude to create a codex of characters/lore/etc. I also had it auto-build a website promoting the books.
Most of the random data sets that I ran ended up with a two body system, where the third body was flung far into space never to return. However, some of these were misleading. I had one running for 15 minutes at 5x, and the third body did eventually return.
Steps:
1. have two panes open
2. In pane 0, have your cursor or a line or multiple lines of code
3. :VtrSendLinesToRunner
4. In pane 1, the lines are performed
This, I think, is finally the last straw for me.I've already moved my databases off heroku long ago, tried many various PaaS (render, fly) and tools (kamal) for VMs on places like DO and Hetzner. All my newer apps are running this way with lots of learning curves.I just can't fathom an enterprise business being down this long.Rest in peace, Heroku. You were great once.
In the product itself, social is part of the value. So the more they interact, the more value they get. Similar to any social network you see today.
I do this a number of ways, none original. Reactions, upvotes, achievements, streaks, creating summary videos (like Spotify year in review), public recommendations, etc
But I see products like submagic doing $1m arr and I'm at loss. How are they doing so well? It can't just be their editor.
So I think the way forward for my product, if any, is to just target b2b for API usage or target users who want long form video cut into viral clips automatically. I need to niche it down.
I also have it posting to a slack channel so we can quickly scan any urgent ones while I'm working.
Bugs pop in heavily on new feature launches but then it's the usual "my email didn't arrive" type of questions.
1. First one I started 10 years ago. I built a bot that auto DMed people in various internet forums. My first 100 users came from that. The product is highly shareable, so it quickly grew. Now it's 1.6M users (most of them free).
2. Second started 3.5 years ago. My first 100 users came from simply emailing the newsletter list from my first company. This product has no free plan, so it became profitable instantly.
3. Third started 1 month ago. And it's been a struggle. I got 10k free users just by emailing my list, but 0 paying users. So I tried ads and had similar results from the ads. Now I'm taking a step back and understanding why they aren't paying, which involves just emailing them.
Summary: once you have an email list and viral social loops built-in, marketing gets easier.
Europeans tend to use the same review apps as Americans, so it could lead to the same problems (expectations at least). We do the same things with other review systems like Airbnb.
I've only been a user of tabelog as a person looking for a meal, not a reviewer. So I'm not sure the experience they have.
Japanese reviewers seem to understand that 3 is an average meal, and anything higher should be above average.
I wonder how tipping culture of the western world impacts star averages. Americans tip on just about everything. Do we inflate our star rating because it's in our mindset to 'be nice'?
Whereas Japanese are courteous on the outside, but uphold strict scrutiny on the inside. So when they rate something as 3 stars, it truly was a satisfactory meal, nothing more or less.