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Internet comment of the day awarded to CharlesW.

I'd love to read more about your setup. I'm doing about half of what you have.

It will be replaced with private networks soon. Last step of anonymous internet.

No, I wrote them myself (training my wetware to write more as I get older).

I was using claude to create a codex of characters/lore/etc. I also had it auto-build a website promoting the books.

Just chipping in to say that I've never seen it churn for more than 20 minutes in two years worth of usage. The longest I've ever seen it churn is when I had it give extremely detailed analysis of five fictional novels simultaneously.

Fun random fact, Eventbrite was first a security company called Molly Guard. I spent years cleaning out the 'mg-' prefixes from the code.

I spent a long time playing with the sim. Nice work.

Most of the random data sets that I ran ended up with a two body system, where the third body was flung far into space never to return. However, some of these were misleading. I had one running for 15 minutes at 5x, and the third body did eventually return.

TOME can be natively performing with tmux panes.

Steps:

1. have two panes open

2. In pane 0, have your cursor or a line or multiple lines of code

3. :VtrSendLinesToRunner

4. In pane 1, the lines are performed

I'm a tmux/vim user and heavily use claude code. It's good.

I've been using a very similar setup with vim/tmux for about 20 years. I've tried all the new IDEs but still keep coming back. With AI, I thought I was going to have to change until Claude code. Now I'm back in my happy place.

Elena's article is content marketing. It doesn't look dead to me.

Yes, I generally build new products around my current audience.

I thought they were still doing one free lesson. It's been a while since I was on Reforge though.

If you want some great reading material on this, I recommend Reforge's viral loops info. I believe it's free.

Any b2c product I build has huge incentive to share the product, creating more users.

In the product itself, social is part of the value. So the more they interact, the more value they get. Similar to any social network you see today.

I do this a number of ways, none original. Reactions, upvotes, achievements, streaks, creating summary videos (like Spotify year in review), public recommendations, etc

I'm realizing this a bit too late I think. My only value over something like capcut is the API, which most users don't care about.

But I see products like submagic doing $1m arr and I'm at loss. How are they doing so well? It can't just be their editor.

So I think the way forward for my product, if any, is to just target b2b for API usage or target users who want long form video cut into viral clips automatically. I need to niche it down.

I have them all wired up to helpscout. Then a contractor checks the inbox every 8 hours to clear them out. She covers the hours I'm asleep as well.

I also have it posting to a slack channel so we can quickly scan any urgent ones while I'm working.

Bugs pop in heavily on new feature launches but then it's the usual "my email didn't arrive" type of questions.

I'm a founder of 3 small saas companies that I run by myself, generating about $1M ARR.

1. First one I started 10 years ago. I built a bot that auto DMed people in various internet forums. My first 100 users came from that. The product is highly shareable, so it quickly grew. Now it's 1.6M users (most of them free).

2. Second started 3.5 years ago. My first 100 users came from simply emailing the newsletter list from my first company. This product has no free plan, so it became profitable instantly.

3. Third started 1 month ago. And it's been a struggle. I got 10k free users just by emailing my list, but 0 paying users. So I tried ads and had similar results from the ads. Now I'm taking a step back and understanding why they aren't paying, which involves just emailing them.

Summary: once you have an email list and viral social loops built-in, marketing gets easier.

Any plans to support other backends besides javascript?

Andrew Kane and Chris Oliver are the best of the best in the ruby community IMO. Even if I don't use all their contributions, they are most welcome.

Agreed. I live in Europe and have the same experience.

Europeans tend to use the same review apps as Americans, so it could lead to the same problems (expectations at least). We do the same things with other review systems like Airbnb.

I've only been a user of tabelog as a person looking for a meal, not a reviewer. So I'm not sure the experience they have.

I'm also impressed with tabelog.

Japanese reviewers seem to understand that 3 is an average meal, and anything higher should be above average.

I wonder how tipping culture of the western world impacts star averages. Americans tip on just about everything. Do we inflate our star rating because it's in our mindset to 'be nice'?

Whereas Japanese are courteous on the outside, but uphold strict scrutiny on the inside. So when they rate something as 3 stars, it truly was a satisfactory meal, nothing more or less.

Like what?

I also use Hotwire/Stimulus and haven't run into any issues yet. Happy to share links with you on anything I know about.

A lot of creators have to realize that Patreon is a stepping stone to sponsors.

I run Casting Call Club, which is basically where amateur Patreon creators go to collaborate on projects and ideas. Many of the CCC members will only stay until they either A) fail, or B) get big enough to have sponsors.

Yes - Jon was the person I alluded to in my comment from above as well. Great guy and very knowledgeable.

Likely this is true.

I also think that the Techstars staff members were not adequate. Every single staff member had left by the next year. And when I would email the subsequent MDs about anything, I'd get no reply.

Having done a Techstars program myself, I was also surprised at some of the companies that were allowed in.

I did Techstars in London in 2013 (an early cohort there) after spending a decade in the Bay Area. Back then, it felt like the glue holding the entire program together were the founders themselves and one particularly good Techstars staff member.

I felt proud going through the program until I learned about the branded programs emerging "Techstars Disney" and "Techstars Barclays". It felt like the prestige was vanishing, and I rarely mentioned it on my CV afterwards.

Funny though, I raised about $1M through the Techstars program, and over $10M through other VCs. The Techstars VCs were the least helpful (but this could have been the London ecosystem at the time. London, these days, is quite good when it comes to early stage, especially some of the syndicates like Ventures Together. I digress).

Am I the only one who never actually types in IRB?

I edit directly inside my code and use tmux's send-to-pane to send my current line(s) to IRB. Ex: https://cln.sh/xXNlf51m

Underrated comment. Japan still runs on fax machines.