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Congratulations Anisa!

Hi guys! I'm John, co-founder of SendBird. We've just released a tutorial for building twitch-live video chat app. Let me know your thoughts! :)

Hi guys, I'm one of the co-founders at SendBird. We've been making social games and community apps previously, and have been looking for better ways to build messaging/chat features. So we made something that we could use ourselves repeatedly. Would love to get your feedback and shoot me any questions!

This is exciting. Not sure how they will go from electron-positron creation to protons which needs quarks, but according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_creation

Summary: Matter creation is the conversion of massless particles into one or more massive particles. Since all known massless particles are bosons and the most familiar massive particles are fermions, usually what is considered is the process which converts two bosons (e.g. photons) into two fermions (e.g., an electron–positron pair). This process is known as pair production.

So technically, it is a matter creation.

When RFID came out, investors and media argued that all products will have RFID embedded in just a few years.

Fast forward 10 years, we see RFID applied across logistics industry and some parts of finance/security, but it wasn't cut out for everyone everywhere. In the beginning, people argued that the distribution wasn't happening because RFID wasn't cheap enough, but with the recent production costs nearing cents, now it's evident that it's due to lack of clear use cases.

I do agree that the development of use cases requires more creativity and has a big room for innovation, but saying there's going to be a chip in every physical item sounds similar to "there's going to be Uber for everything."

I don't want to sound pessimistic, but I think as with all startups, you have to start with a clear problem (other than gaming/entertainment startups) and develop a customer value proposition compelling enough for an industry to emerge.

I'd bet more on VR having a broader implication in the next 10-20 years, and expect to see more digital items produced vs physical item ever created in the history of mankind.

It's been a crazy year.

- even smart people will react very differently to same events, mostly because of their context/interest/values.. but most of all, emotions.

- until the money is in the bank. many people will bs you, but you never really know everything until someone actually takes action or commits.

- scalability of an organization depends on its people. the leadership, the hubs(influentials), and the values/culture. the structure comes after.

- never give up. we got accepted to YC on our 2nd try.