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Curious about preference stack:
A) Within their favorite LLM, data sharing with Plaid and the frontier lab.
B) An entirely self-hosted agent on their computer with open source LLM models + WhatsApp / SMS communication channels.
C) I don't care about conversational finance.
I’m not raising a question about his rights or generosity.
He and other independent political pundits have large audiences and as a result generate valuable content for the platform.
If the game theory above plays out and cynical actors act cynically, it will ultimately hurt YT in the long term run and drive users to other platforms (I’d assume Twitter).
I think YT may be opening a can of worms for themselves.
As a disclaimer, I’m not a Brand content consumer and I’m also not commenting on the validity of the claims.
I’m aware that he’s a popular populist and the slippery slope is obvious here, independent of the particulars of the specific case.
The playbook to silence a relatively loud political voice is now obvious from the YT response. It is a given that cynical actors on all sides will evolve to further exploit this strategy, especially so if accusers do not have to testify under oath.
YouTube, on a common sense basis, should have recognized that political reality today and tred more carefully — much more so than for a travel influencer, for example.
The long term game theory here, like brand boycotts, is hopefully that the exploitation of this strategy by all political players would lead to the strategy losing power due to general fatigue and whataboutisms.
Great question! Presently the AI is primarily used as a tool for our human experts and end users to generate ideas for prompt responses, captions, etc. It’s not meant to be entirely self deterministic but it’s quite useful practically speaking.
Which of those options do you plan on using personally? :)
If others agree that the Promotions tab could be greatly improved, what are some theories as to why the Gmail team has maintained this version?
Founder here, let me know if you'd like to chat about working together!
It’s really just a fraud concern in the short term if money is involved but definitely planning to change that
I love surfing and skiing so should be planning those too. See my email that I’ve included a bunch in this thread and I’ll add you to a “village”
Ben@villagersapp.com, reach out!
I use vendors rather than storing myself. Tokenization only :)
Appreciate the feedback! I’m personally less rules based as well aside from no parties, that’s probably strictly required by most lodging. Aside from that I agree.
Keep in mind these are all configurable by the trip planner in the UI
Yes for sure. Email me at ben@villagersapp.com and I’ll add you to an internal list of founders
Thank you, that’s really generous of you. It’s a dead simple stack — which is helpful as a solo founder — of rails as an API and react. I make liberal use of other saasy services.
It’s more complex than Facebook events in that there are fintech (payment) mechanisms built in. I’d describe it as Kickstarter meets FB events but with a focus on travel UX requirements
Yes it is solo developed and I sincerely appreciate that!
That’s exactly my thinking as well :)
Yes, I'm really focused on the commitment mechanism -- Kickstarter for group travel effectively.
I had thought that was already eliminated so thanks for pointing that out! I just pushed a fix to remove the AirBnb requirement.
As for more complex itineraries, certainly want to tackle that in the future...
On a related note, I'm willing to personally act as a travel agent for a remote co-working trip among coworkers as a non-scaleable way to grow the platform initially and get user feedback. If you're interested in exploring in a fun 4-10 person trip with colleagues, email me at ben@villagersapp.com.
I completely understand this objection. Ultimately, this was a tough trade off that I made for reasons that I can elaborate on at a different point.
In most cases, the goal is to have an organizer create a quick video describing the trip to communicate enough info for you to then declare your preferences. Here is an example:
https://villagersapp.com/t/gkkfv
Either way, I just pushed a change to make the modal escapable.
I'll just reiterate what I said below which is that, while I think you point of view has a lot of merit, there are compelling "Why Now" counterpoints that I think you're undervaluing. Only time will tell though!
Interesting, I'll check that out. It's presumably a javascript error that I can't reproduce but here is the direct link to plan a trip:
This is a great and valid question along with a helpful citation. Here are some counterpoints:
1) I would argue that that perspective misses a number of travel consumer apps like AirBnB.
2) I've bootstrapped this business and, while I do think that it could eventually morph into a regularly engaging social network or a tool for professional trip leaders (who would invalidate the limited usage point as power users), a healthy lifestyle business outcome would be reasonably ok (if not desirable) by me personally. I don't believe that I could have bootstrapped this company in 2012 (the date of that article) given the startup ecosystem and, frankly, this is a passion project after having previously worked at and founded SaaS fintech companies.
3) I do expect group travel to grow a ton over the next few years if people continue to work remotely. The evidence of mass social alienation is clear and folks have previously unheard of flexibility to travel.
Any other locations / dates that I could propose that would interest folks?
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I'm just using (bad) third-party projections for now with the assumption that people who want to use my tool will be bringing their own projections to the table.
I also feel for Danilo...so many surgeries.
Just wanted to release it as quickly as possible. Referral codes coming soon.
Point of this tool is that you plug in your own projection values and it computes the best possible lineup.
Ha, that's awesome to hear. That last sentence is gold.
It's a side project for now. But, in theory, I'd like to continue building cool utilities for daily fantasy sports betting leagues. That market is growing quite quickly and the tech is pretty poor.