hi everyone! I wanted to share what I've been working on these past 6~ years.TL;DR: Rust is great, but somewhere along the way, I learned that I was too dumb to read and write Rust. As I worked on larger and larger Rust projects, I also became frustrated with the developer experience of working in Rust (slow compile time), so I wanted a better way.Vu's language changed a bit over time but the...
Predicting the future is hard and people are never 100% correct.
As I've transitioned to working on AI, I think the average person doesn't understand how there's a gigantic underbelly that's just purely dedicated to pornographic use – whether that's in erotic roleplaying with LLMs, or generating pornographic images with diffusion models. It's massive, but largely not talked about and remains out of view.
From my experience, when you go from text to image, it's basically an order of magnitude change in the dopamine response.
When you go from image to video, it's essentially another order of magnitude.
What I'm trying to say is... I don't think we're ready for what's to come...
[2] If anyone wants a weekly report, submit your email here: http://eepurl.com/h8Q-UD
From July 30th 2018 to July 30th 2022, price to sales ratio has changed accordingly:
Ecommerce: -21.4%
Travel: -23.8%
SaaS: -27.0%
EdTech: -69.6%
FinTech: -26.3%
Healthcare: +14.9%
Supplychain: -27.9%
$40M revenue, $11B valuation. What were they thinking!?
https://equities.fyi/company/stripe
With the current down markets, we were wondering what private company valuations looked like when compared to similar public companies. We were inspired by the a16z article (https://future.com/framework-valuation-navigating-down-marke...) for calculating valuations and figured out the sales-to-valuation ratio of public companies at the time of the last fundraising round and applied the change...
Uber / Lyft get a multiple of about 1x. DoorDash gets 4x. Instacart did $1.8B in revenue so even at a generous 6x multiple, it's only $11B...
(FYI, your data is only saved on localstorage for now)
I basically just wanted an excuse to create something fun this weekend. I struggled to find a very simple to use app where I could just start writing for the sake of writing. Some other problems I have:
1. Full text indexing isn't great on many of these writing apps (not like I have that right now though lol) 2. Using google docs at night melts my eyes 3. Other writing apps focus too much on publishing, which detracts from writing 4. I want more tools to eventually help me write (no idea what this means)
I collected different "rate me" prompts from various apps and created a survey here.https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ODJ-Q4gBCTdrGDDaXKNaeJGkQ4TmOlCZY6jUREtBU3E/viewformIt'd be great to hear your feedback. I'm an app developer so I'm trying to figure out how to do this in the least intrusive way possible. I'll definitely share the results with the community.All in all, it takes about 30...
I don't know if it's in my best interest to answer this publicly, but screw it. The honest answer is I'm not entirely too sure, but an acquisition is always on the table for any startup IMO. I think whenever you ask a founder, "If someone offered you $100M, would you take it?", it's a pretty loaded question.
There's really three outcomes to a startup: They die, they get acquired, they IPO. The thing is, if you think your company is valued at $1M and someone offers you $100M, of course you're most likely going to take it. It's 100x what you were expecting and it would be unwise not to take it. However, if you deep down believe that your company is worth more or can be worth more than the offering price and you have the proof to back it up, then it'd be unwise to take the offer.
For me, I strongly believe that email has A LOT to go. I mean, it's nearly 2016 and I still can't connect my Dropbox to my Gmail app client or send stuff into Evernote / Trello? Given all the time we spend on email, shouldn't we at least have some better automation / AI integration by now? Something smarter and more contextually aware that can make my life a bit easier?
So many people use email in the world. Literally everyone that has a Facebook account has to have an email account. I think the reason why we haven't seen a billion dollar plus company yet is that it's very ubiquitous and it's hard to build solutions for the masses. So companies give up, sell out, close down, and then we have to start again at ground zero.
So to your question, what's the end goal? Well, if we're right about our beliefs, hopefully we can become the next billion dollar company. If not, then it's the other two options: get acquired or die. Which one will it be? No idea, but we're just working our butts off right now.
I ended up so frustrated I created my own email client in my spare time and half accidentally got into YC S14 haha. You can check it out here: http://www.slidemailapp.com
I'll admit, as a previous poster said, it's not without it's flaws but we try hard and we really do spend all our waking hours improving it since it's our baby and we love it to death. We've been beta testing the private current release with a lot of Hacker News users and I think we're fast approaching something really awesome!
Feel free to email me at [email protected] for a beta invite and would LOVE to hear your suggestions of what you'd like to see in an email client!!
![A graph of tech companies' Price to Sales[1] over the last 4 years by sector](https://i.imgur.com/zKAQiOC.png){kind=link}