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Note that Anthropic specifically called out that usage through Conductor will be metered as "programmatic usage" in their June 15th pricing change: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126438

Just switched from Conductor to Superset and I'm a big fan. I really didn't like the extra stuff conductor added to the UX (the text rendering always drove me nuts).

So far so good with Superset - even as a non-engineer builder.

I bought an Aarke (soda stream comp) and a CO2 hose. Now I use one of the 5lb tanks. It's great.

Strong agree here. I'm a non-technical founder.

I tend to interview 30-50 people initially to find a gap in the market. If I'm into something (strong PMF), a good percentage of those people I interviewed will be future buyers.

I typically have cascading meetings for the following steps:

1 - is this 10X better than what currently exists

2 - does our prototype look 10X better

3 - does our v1 solve the gap we found

4 - what features do we need to build in order to get you to pay for it

5 - what features do we need to get you to refer us to 3 friends

A meeting for each of those goals typically leads to customers (again, if I've found PMF).

I'm curious how you determine what an llm cares about versus what Google cares about.

Love it. Do you have a way of supporting you?

Can you help me understand how that works?

I thought you needed an API key to work with Claude Code

What kind of inboxes are they?

What has deliverability been like?

An allergy clinic can run these tests for you.

Been doing immunotherapy for allergies for 3 years and it is a complete game changer. Last year was the first year I could breathe through my nose for the entire year. No more stuffy months.

Same for me. Though I started weightlifting 3x a week to combat any potential muscle loss.

I cycle frequently and the impact of the weight loss and added strength has made me feel much faster this year (and it's still rainy/cold season).

I find CTV to be pretty good and centered: https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/justin-trudeau-stepping-down...

Sales is hard because it's less about building and more about listening. You need to figure out what customers actually need and that starts with talking to them directly. Here’s a framework I use, based on the Customer Development Ladder I wrote about in my upcoming book. It breaks down the process of learning about customers into four kinds of interviews. Each interview takes you one step closer to a sales call and the last step invites them into a sales process.

1. Exploratory Customer Development - Start with broad conversations. Reach out to potential customers and ask them about their world: their challenges, goals, and frustrations. Don’t pitch your idea, just listen. The goal is to uncover problems worth solving.

2. Focused Customer Development - Once you notice a pattern in the problems people describe, you want to make sure it's shared by a wide subset of customers.

3. Paper Feedback Demo - Before building anything new, create a low-fidelity prototype (mock-ups, sketches, or slides) of how you might solve the problem. Share it with prospects and get their feedback.

4. Real Feedback Demo - When you have a working version of your product, test it with those same prospects and ask for feedback. The goal is to see if the thing actually solves their pain. If it does, you can invite them into a sales process. “Looks like it might help, can we set up some time to explore what it would look like to implement at your company?”

This approach isn’t magic but it works. The best part is that it teaches you how to find customers and what messaging will resonate with them. Resources like The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick are great for learning how to have these conversations without bias.

I enjoyed Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric by Ted Mann and Thomas Gryta

Agree with you re: think for yourselves.

Two things:

1. He's held / seen the phone live, I buy online so won't get a chance to before I decide.

2. He's also held hundreds (thousands?) of phones which I haven't.

While he does have preferences that differ from mine, his perspective is still interesting.

what qualifies them?

19.3m subscribers on yt

https://predictablerevenue-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/customer...

Hope this is ok/helps ^

I run a sales dev agency and your numbers are decent. Here are two things to try:

- message founders in the space with "I'm working on a new startup and could use your advice"

- after each interview ask them for a referral to someone who you could interview

This creates a referral flywheel and eventually will be a function that brings you customers. I have written a blog post on the topic but I don't think linking here is cool.

This for me too.

The reason I pay for tons of extra Google photos storage is it tags and uploads and pics of my kiddos to an album shared with all the grandparents. It's their favourite app in the world and I'm never allowed to cancel.

Could I replicate that here?

Stoicism mixed with CBT helped me get through some challenging anxiety attacks.

I think Seneca shared these 'tenants' in his letters to Lucilius (book: Letters from a Stoic) but I could have that one wrong. Either way, they've stuck with me:

1. Control your perceptions 2. Direct you actions accordingly 3. Willingly accept what is outside of your control

We're fully remote and I was feeling worn out from zoom calls about a year ago. I found that turning off "self-view" was a really nice change.

I use a Rode Videomic NTG and it does a pretty good job. It still picks up a little bit of the room echo but I've noticed that zoom does a better job of noise canceling when I use this mic compared to others.

I've helped a few friends immigrate to Canada. They were also engineers and the BC PNP program was the fastest method we found: https://www.welcomebc.ca/Immigrate-to-B-C/About-The-BC-PNP

I found Dr. Daniel Lieberman 's work helpful. His book Exercised makes his work fairly accessible.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Lieberman

Maybe Airtable?

I worked on something in the space and one of the challenges we ran into was pulling data from Apple Health. At the time there was no API (haven't checked recently) so if we wanted that data we would have needed to build an app. There were companies that had apps/APIs but the price seemed to start at $30k which didn't make sense for us.

Context: we were mostly focused on activity metrics.

Can confirm, we have "(official page)" appended to our LinkedIn company name.

The messy middle was fantastic. Only reason I didn't list it in my comment below was that I read it recently and I'm 11 years in.

Highly recommend the book.

Steve Blank's blog (not a book, I know) + The Startup Owners Manual also by Steve Blank.

Lean Product Playbook by Dan Olsen.

The two helped me understand what it meant to 'get out of the building'.

7 Powers + Good Strategy Bad Strategy helped me think long term about the business model and evolution of the company.

Almost did the same, couldn't believe that it was $29 / month.

"Premium usernames cost $29/mo. You can start with a non-premium username and then upgrade later."

I agree with you and I'm willing to give them some liberties because they worked a pun into the headline.

It sounded super robotic but I wonder if that was a function of how it was programmed instead of the drumming capabilities of the robot.

https://archive.ph/22XML

Reminds me of Seneca:

"However much you possess there's someone else who has more, and you'll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need to exact extent to which you lag behind him."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic