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I think it's focus? Anthropic seemed to double down early on being more business/prosumer focused. While OAI, Gemini, Grok, etc were also doing various side quests like image generation, Anthropic seemed to only focus on 1 thing, and that seemed to pay off
The moat is Windsurf’s custom LLM and the ops around it (training pipelines, fine-tuning, infra).
Codeium (Windsurf’s parent) started as a GPU optimization company, so they have deep expertise there. Unlike most agents that might just wrap OpenAI/Claude/etc Windsurf’s own model powers its code edits, not external API calls.
That’s where the defensibility is. better in-house models + efficient infra = stronger long-term moat
IMO you don’t need to build a full app or company. You could just build a series of niche sites or properties. If your code solves a specific pain point really well, wrap it in a simple front end or paid API and let people use it.
Some possible ideas:
Micro SaaS: Turn it into a one-page tool (log parser, file cleaner, PDF transformer) with Stripe and add rate limits. People pay for simplicity.
Paid API: Use RapidAPI or Plain.com to expose it. Charge per hit or via metered billing. Maybe even a slackbot for some of these would make sense.
Productized utility: Sell it as a $49/month “done-for-you” service to whatever niche audience would benefit (dev teams, SEO people, lawyers, etc).
Digital bundle: If it’s CLI or script-based, package it up with a guide or demo on YouTube and sell on Gumroad.
You’re not necessarily building a startup, and that’s fine! just something useful enough for strangers to pay for which is more than enough
As someone with terrible handwriting but decent cursive, i think cursive provides a better structure for achieving cleaner penmanship compared to non-cursive writing. My theory is that cursive’s consistency of soft, flowing loops rather than a mix of abrupt angles and disconnected lines helps create a more uniform result.
I also remember teachers telling you when writing cursive to seldom lift your hand from the page. I think that act of keeping your pen on the page for most of the writing process encourages a smoother and more natural flow, reducing the chance of jerky, uneven strokes
Totally agree with you.
Most of the responses in this thread remind me of why I don't typically go into the comment section of these announcements. It's way too easy to fall into the trap set by the doomsday-predicting armchair experts, who make it sound like we're on the brink of some apocalypse. But anyone attempting to predict the future right now is wasting time at best, or intentionally fear mongering at worst.
Sure, for all we know, OpenAI might just drop the AGI bomb on us one day. But wasting time worrying about all the "what ifs" doesn't help anyone.
Like you said, there is so much work out there to be done, _even if_ AGI has been achieved. Not to get sidetracked from your original comment, but I've seen AGI repeatedly mentioned in this thread. It's really all just noise until proven otherwise.
Build, adapt, and learn. So much opportunity is out there.
I am not a doctor, but Modafinil is great. Similar effects to that of Adderall/Ritalin (increased focus, elevated mood, etc) but no major comedown or withdrawal type symptoms.
Can get with a prescription or found easily online. Would highly recommend it.
Definitely App Academy Open. App Academy is one of the original bootcamps and they have solid curriculum. They have their entire course for free online
that’s about as dystopian as it gets
IMO a big part of their hierarchies can be attributed to rails default resource routing structure
In this context, do you mean SaaS for small and medium businesses? Or do you mean small and medium (sized) SaaS companies? Or is SMB in this context some other acronym I’m not thinking of?
I think that’s entirely dependent on who you follow and if you’re not actively utilizing your blocked/muted accounts and/or muted keywords from your feed.
The amount of value I’ve gained from threads on people I follow on how to do something or learning something is insane and the “rich, subtle discussion” in those threads on that topic is sometimes just as good if not better than the thread itself.
No denying the default Twitter is loud, and just wants to suck you into mindless scrolling of ads and things to get you angry about, but you are in charge of how you curate your feed.
I agree, which basically sums up this entire thread and all others like it over the past couple weeks.
Air-chair economists pontificating on what will happen to our economy over the next 12-24 months like they know with certainty what they’re talking about.
I thought this article was arguably the most rational outlook I’ve seen. It’s insane to me that a small fraction of companies have had a couple routine layoffs, the market slightly dips as it always does cyclically, and people are already running around saying the sky is falling.
As a primarily backend dev, one thing that has recently helped me with my design skills is to use page builders.
I’ve found that they’ve gotten really good over the last few years and the code they generate is actually pretty solid. I’m the kind of person where I think I can tell what good design is, but I can’t actually design it from scratch myself.
I recently bought a subscription to https://shuffle.dev/ which has a page builder for tailwind, bootstrap, material, and bulma and it’s saved me a lot of time and generated some really slick looking sites.
A $20 subscription is definitely a lot cheaper than a designer and is faster than waiting for a design and then building it yourself. I’m not affiliated with them in anyway, but would highly recommend it as a part of your workflow.
I have noticed that too in myself occasionally. I do 16:8 IF and can eat after 6pm, and I notice sometimes around 3-4pm or so, I start getting “hangry” and impatient with people. It’s not all the time, but enough to where I notice that pattern in myself.
It might not be weird, but I have to recommend Intermittent Fasting. I was able to drop ~20lbs in roughly 6 weeks and the only change I made was a 16:8 intermittent fasting schedule.
Depending on your relationship with food, it does have _some_ learning curve (learning to not eat most of the day), but it works like magic.
Once your used to your IF schedule, you’ll feel sharper (hungry brain is really powerful in my experience), your skin will be clearer, you’ll have more energy, and it’s a very realistic lifestyle change that in my experience is different than a traditional diet.
I’d highly recommend it.
I'm working on a local SEO tool for a very successful owner of a course/community of local SEO people. It attempts to automate an arduous process he teaches about examining local SEO markets, and turned into that and also measuring markets for local SEO by applying a scoring system to them.
It's almost done, but really kicking my ass about the styling of the app (which is not the best right now).
As a developer who's been working in the field for a while, this is the first SaaS app I've launched, and I will say I have been battling with myself non-stop over "imposter syndrome" and thinking I'm just wasting my time for building it because no one will use it.
Even if it never makes any money, it's something that i wanted to see built, and it's helping me expose my weaknesses (in this case, design/UI/UX) to hopefully become a better "product engineer".
It hasn't launched yet, but has gotten 1 $29 sale, so that's something :D
If anyone with a design background would like to work with me, or give a critique, I'd love to find a way to return the favor.
Also, still thinking of a name for it
this is a really great book on metaprogramming in Ruby
https://github.com/dazhizhang/ruby-rails/blob/master/Metapro...
because it's built in bubble (https://bubble.io/)
Wow, the blatant hypocrisy of this comment. Imagine some cause or topic in your local government that you're passionate about and someone saying, "hey, let's just do what we want because f*ck what the other side thinks".
If you don't like that a group of people have more perceived power than you in your local government then find a way to fix it ethically. Don't bypass local democracy just because you think it's easier to take a shortcut.
for anyone who has been in Startup School and successfully gone through it, would you say it's best to have a Startup that is a "product" instead of say a service-type business?
For example, I am working on a side-hustle that is more of a service that sells a product, versus a traditional app/SaaS app. So I'm wondering if Startup School is more geared towards product/app businesses than a typical service-type business.
wow great information! thanks for letting me know. Will definitely be looking into it
As someone who is interested in taking a guided trip to help with some personal problems of mine, how do you go about finding these people who perform guided therapy sessions w/ MDMA/LSD/DMT etc?
Is there a source for this claim? If so, I'd like to read it and learn more about it
For what it's worth, Reed Hastings founded Netflix when he was 36, and Jeff Bezos founded Amazon when he was 30.
I was kinda in the same boat. Just getting a bit “chunkier”. Was 220lbs (some was also water weight from creatine) and now I’m 180lbs (I’m 6’1 if that helps). I tried intermittent fasting and it definitely worked for me. Related to your questions
1. For me, I never really experienced brain fog while IF. If anything, I seem to get more fog after eating regular/larger meals. When I was really hungry, drinking water and/or coffee (Starbucks double shots) worked for me. After a while you get used to hunger, and I seem to work better when I’m hungry vs when I’ve eaten a typical meal. If I’m seriously so hungry I’m getting a headache (which happens) id only have something with protein, absolutely no carbs (i.e lunch meat, eggs, nuts)
2. Don’t have too much knowledge or experience on gallstones. I took fish oil supplements occasionally and cut out creatine, but that’s about it.
3. Not 100% sure based on wording, but I was doing IF for about 6 weeks and lost ~20lbs. I ate from 6pm to 10pm, slept typically 1am to 7-8am. Only coffee and water during the day.
Now at 180lbs and not on IF or a strict IF schedule, I typically just have coffee in the mornings, a light lunch if I eat, and a typical dinner. 30 mins cardio 2-3 days a week, compound lifts 2-3 days a week.
Source - mid 20’s software developer
The last thing the internet needs is "government regulation". If that were to happen, you could kiss everything you love about the internet goodbye. Governments do a horrible job regulating basically everything else other than critical, necessary services, and the jury is still out even on that one. Why would they suddenly do such a better job regulating something we're still all trying to figure out?
Google maps is definitely filled with spam businesses. I am in digital marketing for side projects, and there is a whole underground industry right now that is teaching people how to game Google Maps to appear as real businesses. It's stupid easy to get "verified" on google maps as a real local business, even though you could be several state or continents away. I've often wondered when google is going to crack down on this kind of thing, but for now, it's still wide open.
Last year, I tried to sue them in Small Claims court (in California) using this as a guide: https://blog.legalist.com/i-won-8-000-from-equifax-in-small-... .
For me, it was unsuccessful. They sent out a representative and we argued away from a judge (forget the term used) and I decided not to see the judge because if I argued before him and lost, I would be "unable" to bring it before a judge again.
I've heard of this tactic working for certain consumers (like in the article above) but for me what was hard to establish via small claims court, was how exactly I was facing monetary damages. Most lawsuits allow punitive damages, but small claims court does not, so you have to prove exactly how you were monetarily damaged.
That being said, I would definitely be down to sue them in small claims court again using a better strategy. I would also join a class action lawsuit.
If you’re looking for a course, Sam Ovens at consulting.com has a lot of good stuff.