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High skilled welding pays pretty decent too. I know people making $200k doing stuff like welding titanium at chip fabs or stainless steel at rocket factories.

Manage your energy, not your output. You have a finite amount of energy per day and you get to decide where to use it.

Are they really sharing anything without your consent though? IMDB is part of Amazon.

Not personally, but I've got friends who are now giving engineers interviews like "Use Claude Code to understand this codebase and explain it to me" or "Use Claude Code to find the cause of this bug".

Those seem practical to me.

Gotcha. I don't use iOS so I haven't had that experience. On OSX, Ubuntu, and Android it's been just a few taps to connect to a network printer and install drivers.

I think that might be a clue for you. This might be a problem most felt by iOS users. Could determine how you market such a a device.

Interesting. I personally don't mind installing drivers as the OS makes it just a few clicks but I'm sure there is an advantage of not having to.

These already exist. I see wired ones on Amazon for $50 and wireless ones for $60.

Is your device different from what's already on the market?

I think you'd have to also support Android apps or something somehow otherwise it's not going to support the apps people rely on and few people will adopt it.

The app stores are a big moat today.

I regret grinding on classes so much too.

In grad school, I was allowed to make one B. Any more and I couldn't graduate. Once I had one class left and made all As, I decided I'd be lazy and get a B. I worked 50% less and still made an A. It made me realize how much extra I had been working for marginal improvements.

Have a well rounded college experience. Make friends, join clubs, do extra-curriculars, etc. Your ability to socialize and work in groups is as equal, if not more important, to your career success as your coding skills.

Sending a couple of personalized hand written emails or LinkedIn messages per day works. Spinning up an email system to mass cold email just lands you in spam and is generally a waste of time.

It's against their terms to use the subscriptions for business use. You have to use their more expensive per usage payment model. Having a bunch of subscriptions looks like you're circumventing that.

I'll tell you I upgraded from the $20 Claude plan to the $100 plan after I started using Claude Design. I was routinely spending $10-20 of extra usage per day. The $20 plan was enough for my coding alone.

Meta has hit me with over 1,000 requests per second. Luckily it tripped my rate limiting but geez.

I haven't looked at it in over a year. I haven't bothered trying to ask a question in 10 years. They were killing themselves before AI by being openly hostile to people asking questions.

I'm normally not a fan of AI being shoved into products but I love it in PostHog. I can ask it a product question, ask it to slice and dice data, etc and it does a really good job of sifting through my events, doing analysis, building dashboards, etc. It's normally boring tedious work to do that stuff in PostHog so I'm impressed and glad it works.

If you're non-technical and just wanting to play around with UI, I highly suggest you explore Claude Design. It's programming under the hood to make prototypes, but the coding is 100% hidden away from you. It can help you explore design ideas pretty quickly.

Cool idea!

FYI. Something is off about the data. It said there was one route and that scooter was 7 minutes faster than biking. E-bike was 16 minutes and scooter was 24 minutes.

Companies are happy to pay for SaaS products that are being run by a team of people who are experts in that domain and are also responsible for anything that goes wrong. Cloning something in house, no matter how it's done, doesn't bring you the subject matter experts and it shifts the responsibility/blame internally.

The $20/mo plan was almost enough for me coding daily. Once I added Claude Design, I'd easily spend $20-50/day in extra usage. Upgrading to the $100 Max plan, I never come anywhere near the limits.

I don't really like the model of scrapers paying small fees. I think it devalues things.

I make money when people use my website. I don't make money when AI scrapes my content and answers the question without the user coming to my website.

I'd need scrapers to pay me 5-6 figure payments to replace the revenue they'd be taking from me if my content was easily scraped. I doubt that's ever going to happen.

That's interesting because about a month ago, I noticed Claude Code starting to use about 5x as many tokens. Just my rough estimate.

With the advent of buying online, from sites like Newegg, I felt like the local stores were much less exciting even back then. It was nice to be able to buy something same day but browsing Newegg and having broad selection was more fun for me.

They dry up in unrepairable ways if you don't use them often enough.

How have you made money?

I haven't had any issues like that. Maybe your system is some kind of bad state?

Don't worry about title inflation, it doesn't matter. In lots of companies, everyone is called an executive.

Google killed my startup in a similar way many years ago. In my case, they turned quota on services I needed down to 0, refused to tell me why, and closed my appeal. I never figured out what went wrong.

I'll never again use a cloud service where I'm not big enough to get quality customer service, which rules out the big clouds. It's too much of a business risk.

What's your marketing look like? A bad product that gets put in front of a lot of people will gain more traction than a great product only a few people see.

A competitor with funding may simply be able to kickstart product awareness with lots of lost spend on advertising. Whereas a bootstrapped company will have a much more difficult time getting off the ground.

Presumably being able to influence their roadmap is worth it