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We’re doing video to text transcribe on the phone then sending to LLM to turn to structured data happy to chat armin@kuky.com if you need help

I appreciate your candid feedback. Kuky is actually built on evidence-based peer support principles. Key research supporting our approach: • Shalaby & Agyapong (2020), JMIR Mental Health – Peer support improves wellbeing and reduces stigma. https://mental.jmir.org/2020/6/e15572 • Cooper et al. (2024), BMC Medicine – Peer-led interventions boost empowerment, hope, and connection. https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1291...

Thanks for the feedback, we thought about dating but it’s a saturated market & not really our passion. We care more about mental health if people meet & date because of Kuky, we’re okay with that as a byproduct

“A nation is not lost because of the actions of the wicked, but because of the silence of the just.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

I can say for myself that seeing the wars have had a detrimental impact on my life & faith in humanity. Hearing people try to justify a genocide makes me completely checkout. The algorithms also don't help when you keep seeing kids & families decimated constantly on your reddit, instagram & x feed with genocide drones. I'm convinced that we are living in one of the most regrettable times in our century.

thanks for the recognition we'd love to help more companies support & fund their dependency tree :)

Absolutely, There’s hope in initiatives like https://osspledge.com/ & https://thanks.dev

I can't tell you how many developers feel this way, there is no reason for this to be the norm. Be sure to seek professional help but if you'd like someone to talk to someone who can relate feel free to book a time https://calendly.com/thanks_dev/30min

It says he used the money from redundancy to continue with his work. Pfizer would have a hard time winning that case because the discovery was made past their employment. Having field knowledge doesn't make it a crime. Coding is different because it's easier to copy paste functions & classes, it also doesn't help that everything has timestamps. Your best bet is to rewrite everything.

Hi HN Community,

Microsoft recently announced they have generated 2Billion in ARR from Github Copilot. As part of corporate social responsibility, do you think Microsoft should give back to the open source community given that Copilot is technically trained by OSS maintainers??

Yes it’s a start & it helps optimize queries by suggesting alternatives

If you like using psql, you might want to try out https://pxlapp.com/home

It's great that this is getting coverage but I'd love to see more solid tangible actions. I think simple & solid commitment frameworks like https://osspledge.com/ will do more in terms of helping to recognise & reward the eco-system.

Thanks for sharing this, happy to answer any questions.

The team at frontend masters are doing that well https://frontendmasters.com/blog/how-were-supporting-open-so...

I got a DM from a maintainer asking to elaborate so here's my personal opinion "The Geomys model feels a lot like the Tidelift model but it doesn't really create an eco-system that's more inclusive & exciting to be a part of. We want to create a community where more maintainers are excited by contributing to open source instead of them saying ohh this is too hard lets pass it onto someone else with the resource. The other issue is that how do you determine if something is critical & if something isn't, it's really subjective."

I personally like Sentry's approach more, their program focused on supporting the breadth and depth of their dependency tree rather than just the critical components https://blog.sentry.io/we-just-gave-500-000-dollars-to-open-... Disclaimer: I work for thanks.dev

One of the biggest risks for companies is securing dormant code, it's perfectly fine for a project to be no longer sexy enough to maintain. Platforms like thanks.dev have already proven how reward & recognition can help promote development in an ecosystem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5FV-AnKPlo&t=1s

I've been working on thanks.dev for over two years now & reading this report is disappointing to say the least. Why not spend the time to explain the value XZ Utils created for all the commercial users & what companies can do to better supporting maintainers with hundreds of issues experiencing burnout from their unpaid work? OpenSSF should instead promote FOSS programs like https://frontendmasters.com/blog/how-were-supporting-open-so... & how they help their open source community stay active. Working in open source is a social contract & corporates need to be better citizens if they want to reduce their risk profile.

"Made in Japan" won't have the same issue because culturally Japanese people will always buy a Japanese products even if there's a cheaper alternative. Visit Tokyo & count how many people drive Hyundai. "Made in US" doesn't have the same local advocacy because it's driven by different market dynamics (Consumerism & Immigration). Japanese work culture still cares for craftsman ship but they have fallen behind in advance tech compared to other nations like Taiwan & Korea.

Here's what Chinese train factories look like for context https://www.alamy.com/180326-shijiazhuang-march-26-2018-xinh...

Would be great if people could share their app demo, host & model used/trained for better context.

would have been smarter if they just partnered with Shopify. A lot of people are leaving amazon & setting up their own stores with Shopify.

The demo looks awesome, I’ll definitely bug you once I’m ready to implement it for my project. How long have you been working on this?

I’d love to hear your feedback on this approach to funding open source.

thanks, we got the feedback & it's a valid point :)

We loved working with Sentry & they have been huge champions of thanks.dev & the OS community.

You know GitHub sponsors is a broken experience when you find out GitHub only supports 7 people on their own platform https://github.com/github companies really need to fund their dependency tree…

We’ve built a micro transaction engine that helps reconcile payments really quickly & cheaply. This means that creators from anywhere around the world can create amazing content & reward each other instead of having to sell merchandise. We’ve tested the model with two labels so far & we’ve seen it even promotes collaboration “can I pay you for this tune to remind in my track”. This could never happen on any other platform & we think it’s something special.

yeah fair point, we need to do better with the site... thanks for the feedback..