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Re: on Friday March 15, 2024 @01:38AM (#39712377)
50-page manifesto on the space. Everything you've ever wanted to know
Re: on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @12:17AM (#39271044)
Made an app called Nerve where "players" complete "watcher" dare requests on livestream for money.
Re: on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @01:21PM (#37311024)
YC Partner Daniel Gross recommends buying .3mg melatonin from AMAZON for resetting sleep schedules. Anyone recommend a good melatonin to buy?
But many ppl don't have notifs turned on, that's why

Can someone's Venmo/PayPal balance be approved to show up in a 3rd party app?

If I create my own app, can I get a user to authenticate their Venmo/PayPal OR allow access to their Venmo/PayPal, so that their balance shows up on their account on my app?I want to be able to pay users within my app, and have their Venmo/PayPal balance reflect that change. Without them needing to leave my app to check their Venmo / PayPal app to see if the payment arrived.

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Aspiring founder (but no co-founder and problem) – should I work for a startup?

I’m a student and aspiring founder. But since I don’t have a problem + co-founder that I want to go all-in on yet, I assume that for my internships and full-time job, working for a pre-PMF startup (as opposed to working for big tech or a VC company) would be the best option for me?But what if the startup (that I’m working for, post-grad) fails? Is it most optimal for me to hop to another...

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Best Technical Outsourcing Company?

I'm looking to build something that automates healthcare coding in EHR that uses ChatGPT API, that van integrate into EHRs. What's the best place I can get this work outsourced? (I'm just looking for MVP quality, for a cheap price, nothing fancy)

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Short Text for Individuals?

Is there some way to send short texts from one individual to another individual? Say, between two friends. Or from one guy to 10 of his friends? In other words, a much simpler, B2C version of the short-text things that B2B businesses use (Twilio, SlickText, TextMagic, etc.)

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How do I quickly see how good a VC firm is?

Without having to do the diligence myself, of looking at the portfolio, fund sizes, returns, etc. on Crunchbase/Pitchbook.Looking for VC firms that hire interns/analysts, specfically.Is there any website that "ranks" how good a VC firm is? Obviously, you can't necessarily put them all in a linear ranking. But you can, for example, have rough tiers like SWE: T1 (FAANG), T2 (Uber, Microsoft,...

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Learn to code or Find technical co-founder?

I'm a non-technical person (College junior) who can build solid web app prototypes on Bubble.io (and I can convert them to native apps).But most of the technical people I know aren't good co-founders / don't have great chemistry with me (even though I go to a very good school). If I know I want to do a startup within the next <4 years (one that will likely be consumer and have an app...

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