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I have a startup idea and I’m curious what others think.

Setting up AI agents is way too complicated. I am constantly being sent to GitHub pages with installation instructions that require way too many dependencies, API connections, and more. We’re talking hours of setup and config.

So what if there was an open-source marketplace where you could just search, find an agent, click deploy, get launched into an already configured agent, and just have it do its thing? Essentially a marketplace discoverablity, automated deployment infrastructure and an interface to manage your agents.

I’d also probably create some kind of open-source solution, probably a custom Docker container, so developers can easily build agents and wrap them in a container and upload them for deployment.

Thoughts? Does anything like this already exist?

P.S. No, I don’t want to build or use another crappy AI agent builder. I want to deploy open-source agents already built by actual developers.

Location: Near Austin, Texas

Remote: Preferably. Can do local in person meetings if needed.

Willing to relocate: Maybe.

Technologies: B2B SaaS, Web3, AI, and Cloud. Started out with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript but don’t code anymore. Highly technical, but mostly operate at executive level these days. Although not afraid to get my hands dirty.

Résumé/CV: https://trentlapinski.com/trent-lapinski-resume/

Email: trent (at) productmarketerpro [dot] com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trentlapinski

Calendly: https://calendly.com/trentlapinski/30min

Bio: Experienced technology marketing executive, Trent Lapinski, brings a data-driven approach to product marketing, developer relations, Go-To-Market, cloud computing, Web3, AI, SaaS, growth, analytics, and product development. As a former startup CEO who bootstrapped a startup to $1M+ in revenue and sold for an exit, he has a proven track record of finding product market fit.

Trent first made a name for himself over 20 years ago in Silicon Valley by live-blogging Steve Jobs keynotes on a hacked mobile phone. He was also the host of the Hackernoon podcast.

Location: Near Austin, Texas

Remote: Preferably. Can do local in person meetings if needed.

Willing to relocate: Maybe.

Technologies: B2B SaaS, Web3, AI, and Cloud. Started out with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript but don’t code anymore. Highly technical, but mostly operate at executive level these days. Although not afraid to get my hands dirty with content.

Résumé/CV: https://trentlapinski.com/trent-lapinski-resume/

Email: trent (at) productmarketerpro [dot] com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trentlapinski

Calendly: https://calendly.com/trentlapinski/30min

Bio: A data-driven full-stack product marketer with leadership and dev relations experience.

You can also checkout my book Growth Unchained, which is pay what you want, just enter $0 to get it for free. https://trentlapinski.gumroad.com/l/growthunchained

Location: Near Austin, Texas

Remote: Yes, only.

Willing to relocate: No.

Technologies: Web3. SaaS. Open source, cloud, devops, blockchain, marketing tech, started out with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript but don’t code anymore. Highly technical, but mostly operate at executive level these days. Although not afraid to get my hands dirty with content.

Résumé/CV: https://trentlapinski.com/trent-lapinski-resume/

Email: trent (at) mysticlabs [dot] com

Telegram: @trentlapinski

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trentlapinski

Calendly: https://calendly.com/trentlapinski/30min

Bio: A data-driven full-stack marketing strategist with leadership experience in product marketing, developer relations, Go-To-Market (GTM), branding, growth, product positioning, and messaging in Web3, AI, and SaaS. Holds a track record as a former startup CEO, former host of the Hackernoon podcast, and author of “Growth Unchained – A Web3 & AI Marketing Strategy Guide.”

Areas of Expertise: Product Marketing • Marketing Strategy • Developer Relations • Branding • Market Research Growth Marketing • Analytics Analysis • Data-Driven Decision-Making • Remote Team Leadership Content Creation • Project Management • Budget Development & Management

Location: Near Austin, Texas

Remote: Yes, only.

Willing to relocate: No.

Technologies: Web3. SaaS. Open source, cloud, devops, blockchain, marketing tech, started out with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript but don’t code anymore. Highly technical, but mostly operate at executive level these days.

Résumé/CV: https://trentlapinski.com/trent-lapinski-resume/

Email: trent (at) mysticlabs [dot] com

Telegram: @trentlapinski

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trentlapinski

Calendly: https://calendly.com/trentlapinski/30min

Bio: Experienced technology marketing executive, Trent Lapinski, brings a data-driven approach to product marketing, developer relations, Go-To-Market, Web3, SaaS, growth, analytics, and product development. As a former startup CEO who bootstrapped a startup to $1M+ in revenue and sold for an exit, he has a proven track record of finding product market fit. Trent has made an impact in industries such as DevOps, Web3, DeFi, NFTs, remote team management, open source projects, team chat, WordPress, The Graph, podcasting, public speaking, and content creation.

Trent first made a name for himself over 20 years ago in Silicon Valley by live-blogging Steve Jobs keynotes on a hacked mobile phone. He was also the host of the Hackernoon podcast.

Location: Near Austin, Texas

Remote: Yes, only.

Willing to relocate: No.

Technologies: Web3. SaaS. Open source, cloud, devops, blockchain, marketing tech, started out with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript but don’t code anymore. Highly technical, but mostly operate at executive level these days.

Résumé/CV: https://trentlapinski.com/trent-lapinski-resume/

Email: trent (at) mysticlabs [dot] com

Telegram: @trentlapinski

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trentlapinski

Calendly: https://calendly.com/trentlapinski/30min

Bio: Experienced technology marketing executive, Trent Lapinski, brings a data-driven approach to product marketing, developer relations, Go-To-Market, Web3, SaaS, growth, analytics, and product development. As a former startup CEO who bootstrapped a startup to $1M+ in revenue and sold for an exit, he has a proven track record of finding product market fit. Trent has made an impact in industries such as DevOps, Web3, DeFi, NFTs, remote team management, open source projects, team chat, WordPress, The Graph, podcasting, public speaking, and content creation.

Trent first made a name for himself over 20 years ago in Silicon Valley by live-blogging Steve Jobs keynotes on a hacked mobile phone. He was also the host of the Hackernoon podcast.

Location: Near Austin, Texas

Remote: Yes, only.

Willing to relocate: No.

Technologies: Open source, cloud, devops, blockchain, marketing tech, started out with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript but don’t code anymore. Highly technical, but mostly operate at executive level these days.

Résumé/CV: https://trentlapinski.com/trent-lapinski-resume/

Email: trent (at) mysticlabs [dot] com

Telegram: @trentlapinski

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trentlapinski

Calendly: https://calendly.com/trentlapinski/30min

Bio: My name is Trent, and I am a marketing technology executive who made a name for himself nearly 20-years ago by live-blogging Steve Jobs keynotes on a hacked mobile phone. I have successfully bootstrapped a startup to over $1M+ in revenue which I sold for a successful exit. I am data driven strategist with experience in marketing, product marketing, branding, product management/development, remote team management (10+ years), business development, and developer relations. Managed up to 10+ people before.

I have made an impact on multiple open source projects, crypto, DeFi, NFTs, team chat, cloud computing, SaaS automation, remote work, WordPress, podcasting, public speaking, and content creation. Former host of the Hackernoon Podcast.

Location: Near Austin, Texas

Remote: Yes, only.

Willing to relocate: No.

Technologies: Open source, cloud, devops, blockchain, marketing tech, started out with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript but don’t code anymore. Highly technical, but mostly operate at executive level these days.

Résumé/CV: http://trentlapinski.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/TrentLap... or https://trentlapinski.com/trent-lapinski-resume/

Email: trent (at) mysticlabs [dot] com

Telegram: @trentlapinski

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trentlapinski

Calendly: https://calendly.com/trentlapinski/30min

Bio: My name is Trent, and I am a marketing technology executive who made a name for himself nearly 20-years ago by live-blogging Steve Jobs keynotes on a hacked mobile phone. I have successfully bootstrapped a startup to over $1M+ in revenue which I sold for a successful exit. I am data driven strategist with experience in marketing, product marketing, branding, product management/development, remote team management (10+ years), business development, and developer relations. Managed up to 10+ people before.

I have made an impact on multiple open source projects, crypto, DeFi, NFTs, team chat, cloud computing, SaaS automation, remote work, WordPress, podcasting, public speaking, and content creation. Former host of the Hackernoon Podcast.

You do realize anyone can edit Wikipedia, and its basically controlled by a bunch of Google executives?

They’re not an accurate source of information for anything, let alone anything even remotely political.

The sun dictates the weather, and always has.

$cientists don’t understand how plasma physics work, and don’t include climate forcing in their predictive models. The underlying theories for how climate change works are not based in reality, they’re cherry picking data and using models that purposely exclude factors like the sun.

This is basically like trying to explain to someone the earth is round 5,000 years ago when the “scientific consensus” at the time was the earth was flat.

People who believe carbon controls the weather are basically equivalent to flat earthers parroting political propaganda. It’s like malware that was installed in their brain in childhood that gets activated any time anyone suggests looking into the actual science.

Go research climate forcing. It’s how the weather actually works.

RIP.

So let me get this straight:

Medium pushed all their 3rd party community publishers off the platform, in many cases destroying said communities. Even ended 3rd party domain support.

Went on a censorship spree, hired 80 people to create their own publications, started pushing mainstream media narratives, and stopped driving traffic to individual users to drive traffic to their publications.

Those publications then failed to grow without Medium driving their traffic, so the 80 paid writers tried to unionize, which Medium busted, so now Ev is basically publicly daring his staff to quit by making it sound like it is a fair and reasonable pivot for Medium (when it clearly isn't)?

Did I miss anything?

Why should anyone trust Medium at this point?

They've pivoted so many times, and every time they do they screw their users over, and now even their own paid staff.

Distasteful.

There would be no Reddit without Aaron.

RIP.

Location: Napa, CA / Bay Area

Remote: Yes - 15 years experience remote managing teams of up to 18 people

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: Cloud, devops, Docker, open source, WordPress, frontend.

Résumé/CV: https://trentlapinski.com/trent-lapinski-resume/

Email: [email protected]

Former startup CEO and VP. Bootstrapped a startup to $1M in revenue then sold it for an exit. My latest startup just had our previously committed funding pulled due to the global pandemic costing me my VP position.

Majority of experience is in business development, sales, product marketing, remote team management, and product development. Highly technical, former frontend coder, but now more focused on the business, marketing, scalability, and lead generation side of things.

Former VP and startup CEO. Business development, sales, marketing. Just got laid off due to the pandemic. Management experience of up to 18 people remotely. 15+ years of remote work experience.

  Location: Napa, California
  Remote: Remote only due to pandemic.
  Willing to relocate: Maybe.
  Technologies: Experience with cloud computing, devops, crypto, blockchain, open source, WordPress, PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript. Don't really code much anymore.
  Résumé/CV: https://trentlapinski.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/TrentLapinski.pdf
  Email: trent at techpost dot io

Not sure.

Wouldn’t classify biofilms as a disorder, it’s how many bacterial, parasitic, and fungal infections work. It’s a mechanism for survival for these pathogens. Just because pharma companies and our corrupt medical system ignorantly ignored them doesn’t mean they haven’t been an ongoing health issue for all mammals on this planet forever basically.

Plasma EMF therapy is something I’ve tried but it requires proximity and a frequency generator tuned to specific frequencies to target biofilms. While the sun is the largest emitter of plasma available we can’t exactly tune it to a specific frequency, you get what you get depending on UV and weather conditions that day. I can tell you sun light is a disinfectant for some pathogens but for Lyme disease biofilms I can’t tell you.

Hyperbaric oxygen chambers work because they’re pressurized. The medication Alinia also has action against biofilms and cyst forms of Lyme disease although more research is needed.

Biofilms and persister cells are the problem with chronic Lyme disease.

https://rawlsmd.com/health-articles/understanding-biofilm

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6287027/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6521364/

It's pretty simple, if the disease is able to enter the form where it starts producing biofilms it can use them to evade antibiotics. A patient then must explore treatments to break up biofilms, and eradicate whatever infections or co-infections are present within them. There's medications that do this and more functional methods such as hyperbaric oxygen chambers.

The people who have symptoms after antibiotic treatment and the people who relapse after antibiotic treatment still likely contain Lyme disease biofilms and persister cells which are capable of causing a full relapse given enough time and the right conditions.

Those who receive early treatment and success with a single round of antibiotics are the lucky ones, and not the standard patient experience.

Even people who have been bitten by a tick, immediately started antibiotics, and caught it immediately can still get chronic Lyme disease, especially if their initial round of antibiotics was for too short a duration.

There is a lot of shit on the Internet, and what's happening to the people who have Lyme disease is an absolute travesty and crime against humanity due to our corrupt and failing medical system. The actually science and research on this is clear though: biofilms exist, Lyme disease can become chronic due to biofilms and persister cells which can evade antibiotics.

Everyone talks about how theres super bugs and infections that evade antibiotics, well Lyme disease is literally a super bug that evades antibiotics and is probably one of the most successful super bugs of our lifetimes and yet people try to deny its capabilities despite countless medical research studies proving otherwise. It's baffling really.

Anyone in the medical profession who denies the existence of biofilms, and their capacity to harbor antibiotic resistant infections is an idiot.

There's plenty of research to explain how late stage Lyme disease can evade antibiotics, and cause a longterm chronic infection.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6287027/

https://rawlsmd.com/health-articles/understanding-biofilm

The science is clear that the spirochetes that cause Lyme disease can and do hide within biofilms and evade antibiotics.

As someone who has Lyme disease, and who has undergone multiple therapies to overcome it I can tell you that biofilms and persister cells are the reason for chronic Lyme disease. It is very real, perfectly logical, and the science on how Lyme disease becomes chronic is overwhelming and supported by medical research.

Those social features existed on LiveVideo.com which was an early YouTube competitor. https://techpost.io/why-you-cant-compete-with-google-the-dep...

Not really.

I could maybe track down Toan, I still check in with his brother occasionally. But Brad is in the wind, tried to track him down but it seems he doesn't want to be found.

Not sure which 2006-2008 you lived through, but this was pretty standard web design back then. YouTube from 2007: https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/timeline/youtube-2007

Had the company been allowed to exist and compete fairly, it would have evolved into something more modern and mobile friendly. Judging a startup from before the pre-mobile era, and blaming the design for its failure is kind of silly.

This was the norm back then, if I were creating a video sharing website in 2019 of course I'd approach it differently, but alas there's no point in even trying.

Yes. It had live video, and live streaming in 2007 that is better than what YouTube even offers today. LiveVideo.com had way more features than YouTube even has today.

Justin.tv which eventually became Twitch actually struggled and almost failed before they were able to capture the live streaming gaming market.

You're confusing stats from my other company with LiveVideo. Those numbers are from my second startup that Google messed with. It was a much smaller operation nowhere near the size of LiveVideo.com. The amount of traffic I did in a year with my startup was a weekend for LiveVideo.com.

Occasionally something adult slipped through but we caught it as quickly as humanly possible.

The government never had an issue with us, and we worked with them. The only company enforcing anything was Google, and they kept moving the goal posts every time we talked to them until it became clear there was nothing we could do to resolve these issues to meet their standards, standards they themselves have not met in the past 11+ years.

There was absolutely no pornographic content on LiveVideo.com itself. Nor was it ever intended for LiveVideo to have adult content. We created the family filters for mature content. However, sexy content is just simply what people started uploading. We deleted anything that was even remotely pornographic, but there was still some sexy content as there is still plenty of sexy content on YouTube right now.

We did not promote any adult content on LiveVideo.com itself. So LiveVideo.com itself wasn't in violation of these rules.

Some of the other sites in our network possibly had more adult content in nature, but were not adult content websites and were not running AdSense on them.

The launch of LiveVideo was not the issue. We had more traffic than we knew what to do with, and way more than YouTube at the time.

Honestly, things didn't go sideways until Google decided to mess with LiveVideo and the rest of our web properties in search results. Had Google never purchased YouTube, LiveVideo would have probably won that battle hands down.

Without Google money, YouTube would have failed, not LiveVideo.

The sites were delisted from search engines despite content moderation being put in place. That is deplatforming.

The adult content was put behind a mature section where ads weren't run against the mature content.

LiveVideo and the parents companies network of sites were deplatformed from search results.

Delisting competitors from search results who are meeting all of the requirements of their advertising policies at the time is the issue. The mature content was moderated and put behind mature content filters.