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As someone who makes a living in PowerPoint but loves tech and FOSS, congrats. I'm not sure I fully follow how collaborating works, you may want to write an explainer that assumes nearly zero engineering knowledge. Looking forward to the docx and xlsx version, I'll follow on gh to stay up to date

The examples shared are impressive but based on extremely high ISO and looking at noise on a 10x cropped area of worst case scenarios. To most of us it won't make a noticeable difference on all but a small handful of images per year, if that.

My dad went to one when his cancer entered the terminal phase, I think he knew it was bullsh*t but it was a more human « treatment » than everything else he went through so he liked it. I still think it was a charlatan preying on him but I guess no more amoral than crystals moms and essential oils MLMs.

I'm a non engineer, never-coder but fairly technical guy and about a year ago I had Lovable.dev write me a static site generator because I understood the value of it to host cheaply/freely and thought it'd be a good exercise. It takes .md files with a basic YAML frontmatter and publishes just the blog part (each .md file is blog post) of the site, but it was a good learning process and I think most people don't understand how simple the web can be when the goal is to publish content efficiently.

Business/Office productivity tools can be productive at that rate. Core systems like ERP or arguably CRM can't, but MS Teams is probably already that low, Figma, Canva and several others could absolutely afford to be one nine before it affects their churn materially. I suspect OpenAI and Anthropic make most of their profit on business use cases rather than dev use cases (likely higher revenue but less profit) so this may be what sets the standard of uptime.

Car seats have also deterred me from a few trips, short and long. They're a hassle to get an uber and store at destination (say a sporting event), and they are a nightmare to lug around airports and add to the effective travel time by if you end up checking them in as luggage (and then waiting for them at the carousel).

And in the type of work where AI arguably yields productivity gains the workers have high agency and may pay for their own tooling without telling their employers. Case in point, me, I have access to CoPilot via my employer but don't use it because I prefer my self-paid ChatGPT subscription. If Ai-lift in productivity is measured on the condition that I use Copilot then the resulting metric misses my AI usage entirely and my productivity improvement are not attributed to their real cause.

Agreed, the content implied by the title but not delivered would be substantially more interesting, especially if compared to Product Hunt, or other places fraught with launch announcement of small solo dev projects.

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AI gives you the average of all expected answers (steered a bit to one side or another via prompt), I think people come to HN to hear decidely non-average viewpoints. So from that standpoint I'd say yes forbidding AI answer would go a long way towards preserving the differentiation of HN vs Reddit and other more mainstrean (i.e. average) communities

I’m working to convert a pure services coaching business into a coaching augmented by technology. I want to keep the human coaches front and center but simplify operations and have tech/AI fill in where it helps both the clients and the coaches.

Excel work of people who make a living because of their excel skills (Bankers, VCs, Finance pros) is truly on the spectrum of basic coding. Excel use by others (Strategy, HR, etc.) is more like crude UI to manipulate small datasets (filter, sort, add, share and collaborate). Source: have lived both lives.

Sales (CRMs are all in browser now), Marketing (entire stack, include some creative (Canva) is in browser now), Strategy is half in powerpoint/xls (creating content) and half in browser (researching info), HR (Workday, LinkedIn, etc.), product (Figma, Miro, Aha!, Linear), support (Asana/Jira) probably spend at least 50% of their working time in browser. Also the time people are at their desk but not working, is usually in browser (check news, stocks, blogs, personal email, etc.)

Very true, and also users aren't naive, it just signals that the greed factor is now winning over the pride into the product and it's the end of the product line as a truly DIY platform. I expect they'll wait a few months then find another way to achieve the same goal, like gating some features to NASes with official HDD only, or throttling 3rd party I/O

I use Inoreader and it removes duplicates (useful for rss feeds of google alerts), and can filter feeds so your feed is a tad less raw

I only hit that problem in voice mode, it'll just stop halfway and restart. It's a jarring reminder of its lack of "real" intelligence

Kirk spread misinformation and voiced opinions that were contributing to making the lives of several demographic groups more unsafe, repeatedly, for years, to a massive audience.

Violence isn't the answer and I wish yesterday's event didn't happen, but his actions were a far cry from just "saying something someone might not like"

The first amendment is important, but it has boundaries, and Kirk made a living from being very close (arguably sometimes over) these boundaries. I think his message, which I wholeheartedly disagree with, will be carried on by others, as is their right. But I hope they do it in ways that are more firmly within the healthy boundaries of the first amendment. And if they don't, it should be the courts that decides if they should be penalized, not a lone armed civilian.

and these $12-24k are net dollars so the parents needs more like $20-40k of gross income to pay for it, but now they can have a small job or small business that nets them even as low as $15k and still come out ahead

Bolt.new has a nice IDE and Roo.code is literally just a VS Code Plugin

Would like to learn more, I tried the same recently using existing tools (clay, CRM, make/zapier, instantly) but the cost of the GTM stack was not sustainable

(Disclaimer: "vibe-coded" with bolt)

I have several breathing apps on my phone and watch and find each of them to be strong at one thing but weak at others (e.g. on has nice visuals but no way to customize the length of the exercises, another has good suggested patterns but a gimmicky UI, some don't have dark mode, etc.) so I decided to try to scratch my own itch.

Roadmap: maybe add sounds

A social advocacy platform for small and medium sized B2B businesses. LinkedIn is more or less the only social platform for B2B social selling and smaller firms could benefit from their posts getting a bit more augmented and coordinated engagement. So we’re building a solution for a marketing manager to request advocates (employees, partners, others) to engage or reshare (tweaked in their own voice if they want) their content. Not world altering but shockingly underserved market. With few players who raised money and therefore have to price expensively, whereas as a bootstrapped side-hustle we can offer it in a flat-fee way that doesn’t “penalize” growth by charging per-user or for inactive users.

(Pre-launch [https://www.sevenbaton.com] would welcome feedback from marketing folks)

Anecdotally I believe Chicago has also become more chronically gridlocked, mostly for the same reasons the article cites.

But what does it do? The landing page is very rough and gives me no idea why I should entrust it with my OpenAI API key

This is neat, a simple tweak could be to allow change in the number of players, right now it kinda works if you just drag a player out of the field.

The invites market has been such a weird spot, with tons of small apps and sites and such low appetite from users to pay for this that this feels like a perfect opportunity. it's the kind of thing that should be a feature of iOS or Google Calendar but doesn't deserve to be it's own product market.

I think the appeal can also be that suddenly a weekend in Paris/Rome/(choose your destination) is as feasible (time-wise, if not budget-wise) and logistically light as a trip to Cancun. I for one don't usually go to Europe unless I can spend at least 4-5 days there, just to make the lengthy journey 'worthwhile', but I'm done cross-US weekend trips numerous times.

Or the investment was made under the assumption the business model to gain traction isn't the same as the future one that generates cash flow. Plenty of company start with a free or cheap product then up their pricing once the value is proven and there's a percentage of their users that fears the switching costs

Chicago is, sadly, very segregated, and if you exclude the south and west side where frankly no white collar workers live you’d be looking at much more comparable numbers. I don’t say this to downplay the tragedy of 500+ lives lost, but if you choose to live in Chicago you know that practically speaking it’s as safe as any other.

is x.com HIPAA compliant?