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Nbdkit improving volume transfer speeds

Currently handling cloud to cloud migration using a custom toolkit - under the hood we're running volume transfers with single host instances attached to each cloud that serializes/deserializes resource files. Problem is on a 10Gibs network running a 300Gb disk it takes 30 minutes but 700GB disk takes 7 hours......... Any technical folks have any high level optimizations? Not sure of network...

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Re:Ask HN: Product Hunt or Paid Ads? on Monday September 23, 2024 @07:14PM (#41631581)
I can see that, its good to know positioning/alignment is strong but at such an early stage I'm starting to think its probably useful to dig deeper into a sales journey rather than paid ads! Great knowledge tho, thanks for sharing
Re:Ask HN: Product Hunt or Paid Ads? on Monday September 23, 2024 @07:12PM (#41631558)
This makes sense, thanks for the insight!
Re:Ask HN: Product Hunt or Paid Ads? on Monday September 23, 2024 @05:37PM (#41630870)
Love this, sales cures all - appreciate it!

Ask HN: Product Hunt or Paid Ads?

I'm trying to determine the best channel for a soft launch, I've been working on https://luna.apolloapi.io - I'm currently on the fence with Product Hunt, a lot of outbound to date has been through LinkedIn so I'm wondering how I should quantify my approach here. For those who've done PH launches what are some early tips/tricks? For those running LinkedIn ads, anything useful I should know...

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Re:Jeff Geerling – They stole my voice with AI on Sunday September 22, 2024 @05:18PM (#41620164)
It’s not just a problem that’ll stay in one place either. This tech is getting easier, and the consequences could be deadly. Scary times, for sure.

Ask HN: How to Generate Inbound Leads?

Hi all, quick intro - I've learned a lot in the last 4 years of my founder journey but I'm realizing I've never focused on creating inbound interest for some of my projects.... A lot of my efforts have been through cold outreach (which works fine) but at some point I need to keep learning/growing other areas I'm weakest at (marketing, inbound generation), are there any founders with experience...

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Makes sense, what about individual workload migrations tho? Right now I'm looking for something that can act as a push button solution, I've factored in relevant down-time needed for our customers but whats the best approach to migrating individual workloads? I sadly deployed most of our VMs using ephemeral disk and users store apps & data on this disk... running roughly 20 gigs on each VM.
Re:User journey mapping, hope this helps someone on Thursday September 12, 2024 @10:39AM (#41521527)
I've spent time building the wrong thing, one piece of information thats always stuck is building for the use-case and delivering on the promise to customers or early adopters. I found this article online, hope this helps anyone running into similar challenges!
Re: on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @01:46PM (#41370484)
We're working our way up to a MVP, would love any candid feedback on our progress, if something looks off, doesn't really make sense or could use improvement/refinement either in messaging, design or user journey, let me know! I'll attach my email below; [email protected]
Re: on Monday April 22, 2024 @09:57PM (#40127668)
If you're reading this I hope all is well. I helped relaunch Yik Yak to 8M users and now I'm working on a new idea. Since the acquisition I spent time working on other ideas and ventures but trying to refine my focus. If you could give feedback on the google link I've shared it would be greatly appreciated!
Re: on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @09:16AM (#36124503)
sharing new open-source project I've been working on called Apollo. It's a model management tool that allows you to evaluate and compare LLM outputs and build decision making workflows. Test prompt quality and catch regressions.

I'm currently adding support for a full API to manage in-app integrations, user subscription management, and preferences, and would love to get feedback on the tool.

By the way, if you're interested in contributing to the project, we're always looking for new contributors!

Re: on Saturday May 13, 2023 @06:36PM (#35933449)
Long story short, Trust & Safety process can cost you if you're not compliant. Especially when you have 8 Million users to protect. For context on the URL Posted to this post checkout how we lost $400M the first time - https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/28/yik-yak-shuts-down-after-s...

Long story short, https://apolloapi.io creates safer communities and helps reduce overhead. We're building a testing framework for AI inside our open-source toolkit.

Re: on Thursday May 11, 2023 @05:45PM (#35908807)
Ex-lead engineer at Yik Yak, we relaunched in 2021 and scaled to 8M users. Our daily activity was killing our internal tools reliant on Retool. So we went with an integrated approach for task automation instead.
Re:Content moderation is terrible by design on Saturday May 06, 2023 @09:12AM (#35841037)
Content moderation is terrible by design because it requires humans to make subjective decisions on what is appropriate or not, leading to inconsistencies, biases, and issues with free speech. Additionally, moderation is often outsourced to low-wage workers who are subjected to horrific working conditions and mental health issues. With Apollo teams can improve decision making abilities to handle real-time changes in user experience and more!
Hey all, I'm sharing a dev blog that was hacked together to share how easy it can be to aggregate different AI models, connect from any external environment and utilize pandas to transform data all within a few lines of code, [here](https://dev.to/adrbrownx/what-in-the-python-44da).