superphil0
Re:The Founder Files
on Saturday September 06, 2025 @10:15AM (#45149436)
3 years ago just when we started sequel.co we built a tool for founders to improve their pitch decks
Today we are releasing a 50 page white paper, with the largest quantitative analysis of startup pitch decks 250.000 slides from 121 countries
It Includes
Median ARR of funded pre-seed, seed and Series A startups
Founder traits that raise the most money
Which nationalities create the best decks
Why traction is king
If you have any questions I will be more than happy to try and answer them
Deel: Court Dismisses Rippling Claims
Claude Code System Prompt
Re:Ask HN: Is Firebase Down?
on Thursday June 12, 2025 @03:07PM (#44261821)
Some of our services started to recover
Firebase Global Outage
Only in Austria
Building a pretty big storage system, S3 (2023)
Hessendalen Lights
Re:Road resurfacing during the daytime without stopping traffic [video]
on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @04:51PM (#40291325)
Invented in Austria in 1999
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly-over
Re:Ask HN: Which JavaScript lib for metering APIs should I use?
on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @04:35AM (#39286435)
Thank you, very useful
Re:Ask HN: Which JavaScript lib for metering APIs should I use?
on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @04:35AM (#39286433)
Thanks, didn't come across them!
Ask HN: Which JavaScript lib for metering APIs should I use?
Currently building out an API that will be billed on a per-request basis. I don't want to reinvent the wheel, I could use stripe, paddle.io or chargebee for charging, but I was wondering if there are any good express plugins that would make my life easier. Any experiences would be appreciated
Check if new Apple commission structure is better for your app
Copilot Workspace
Re:Apple Announces M3
on Monday October 30, 2023 @08:24PM (#38078014)
M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max have all been announced
Apple Announces M3
Re:GPT-4 Outperforms Humans in Pitch Deck Effectiveness
on Saturday June 17, 2023 @04:43PM (#36374383)
I personally can't really trust this. Their description of how they got the numbers leaves a lot of room for speculation
Show HN: Pitchleague.ai – Perfect Your Pitch Deck
Hey H,We're excited to share that we've already assisted over 800 founders in refining their pitch decks with our recently launched Pitch League AI.Created during a one-day hackathon, our tool harnesses the power of GPT-4 to help founders iterate and enhance their pitch decks. We've observed founders uploading their decks multiple times and making improvements based on the AI-generated...
GPT Jailbreaks
Re:Show HN: Laudspeaker – open-source customer journey automation
on Friday February 17, 2023 @04:29PM (#34840812)
Just too bad react native support is lacking many features. We Probably will have to switch because of this.
Re:Bendix central air data computer
on Monday February 13, 2023 @04:25PM (#34780800)
Thanks, absolutely fascinating
Bendix central air data computer
How (not) to market an open source library
Re:Digitally sign PDF files from your commandline – open-pdf-sign
on Monday December 19, 2022 @02:02PM (#34056137)
Re:Digitally sign PDF files from your commandline – open-pdf-sign
on Monday December 19, 2022 @12:02PM (#34054456)
No, but would be cool if they used it
Re:Digitally sign PDF files from your commandline – open-pdf-sign
on Monday December 19, 2022 @11:05AM (#34053634)
We thought about it from the other side, we want to make it easy that just every PDF gets signed. We know it is not perfect, but it is better than not signatures at all. Inspired by LetsEncrypt
https://github.com/open-pdf-sign/open-pdf-sign-configurator/...
Re:Digitally sign PDF files from your commandline – open-pdf-sign
on Monday December 19, 2022 @10:04AM (#34052885)
Hi, Philipp here (one of the creators)
Haha, this is so funny, this is one of the BIG reasons why we built this in the first place
Show HN: Open-pdf-sign, a CLI for digital PDF signing
Link: https://openpdfsign.org/Hey HN, we want to introduce you to open-pdf-sign - the open-source solution for automatically signing PDFs from your CLI.As developers, Thomas and I (Philipp) were frustrated with the lack of options for easily signing PDFs. Most solutions were either proprietary or had restrictive licenses, making it difficult for us to use them in our projects.That's why we...
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2022)
on Thursday December 01, 2022 @01:45PM (#33820667)
Sequel | London/Miami
Sequel (https://joinsequel.co/) is a community of the world's best athletes investing in the world's best startups making a positive impact. The team have several exits under their belt as founders. The company is currently in stealth but is already backed by top investors and athletes.
Currently, we are building out the mobile app and investment platform and it is still very early stage. (Firebase / React Native)
- Fullstack Engineer (London)
- Senior Product Designer (London)
- Venture Operations Specialist (Miami)
More info here: https://sequel22.notion.site/Sequel-Careers-885d7fa47d3b4b38... or email [email protected]