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In this case, strongly agree.

Ah that's excellent, thanks.

Are other daemons coming and/or will you accept user generated ones?

How is this different than a trigger set up?

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Yes it is replying to you right now

If you run a digital product, having a Slack/Discord is a good way to let people get help, it makes a lot more sense.

You'd be surprised how common of a request it is!

Six years later, we still haven't joined your Slack.

Interesting points! Starting from a narrow perspective gives you feedback that is valuable, not noise that you can ignore. Most founders set their sights on an audience that is overfit (too narrow) or underfit (they have no experience). Striking a balance is key.

Hi there! Thanks for looking. It is meant to be a very brief review -- if you read the italicized intro, you can see what I mean.

Is it "AI nonsense" because you don't see that as the core of the product?

Fair point!

A marketer's perspective would be that the job of the ten words above the fold is to entice you to learn more, to pique your interest. Not at all to communicate everything about the product -- docs are for that. I don't think it's fair to say that these statements aren't "grounded in reality," but I do understand your sentiment.

Noted!

Will put Twilio on the list, thanks!

That's arguably just a commodity at this point, right?

What pages should we look at next?

Proving that it really is the pickle that makes the meal.

Incredible!

Especially true in this 'new AI era!'

You clearly didn't read the article.

O'Reilly has cancelled all of its in person conferences permanently. Large Enterprise tech companies are reevaluating their strategies. What's next for in-person conferencs? Has anyone seen anything they think can work?

Wrong company.

I think internally for a company, it's a whole different situation. As it turns out, for us, trying to interface with an external company -- it just doesn't fit.

Author here. Even if Slack isn't important to you, you mind find utility in what my partner and I call the "25 Year Rule"

Assume your company is going to be around for 25 years, and treat the first few years accordingly. In other words, give yourselves room to change and grow, and take the lessons you learn during the next few years to heart. If something isn’t working for you, be honest with yourselves and your clients. If something is working well, keep doubling down on it until it doesn’t. Plan, adjust, plan, adjust, repeat.

I thought about adding something about privacy, but that's sort of a different topic for a different time. There are plenty of privacy preserving ways of learning from this data.

Mastertapes contain the music precisely as recorded by the artist themselves. They're not meant to be listened to or consumed actively -- they're there to serve as indelible recordings and references. Scholarly work on Jazz, for example, relies extensively on the existence of master tapes. Here's why:

When you record music to a multitrack magnetic tape like most of the recordings in this vault, you then get the ability during playback, for example, to fade individual tracks in and out. This would allow you to, e.g. isolate the sound of just McCoy Tyner's piano track on a classic Coltrane recording. Hearing his playing on it's own, without the rest of the band, could allow a music researcher to hear notes and sounds that might be masked by the final product recording, which flattens the recording.

One way of understanding this issue, which might appeal to the HN audience, is this: The process of "flattening" tracks to make the final sound recordings that we end up hearing as consumers is a lossy form of compression, even if the sound file format you consume it in is described as "lossless."

I normally don't bother posting replies to comments on here, but I have to point out that this is an unbelievably bizarre and wrongheaded interpretation of the scale and depth of this disaster. Curated collections of lossless streaming music are possible to recreate. Master tapes can NEVER BE RECREATED. Comparing the loss of a collection of reproducible fungible audio files with analog magnetic tape is misinformed at best and disingenuous at worst.

I run a marketing consultancy for software companies called Reify (www.reifyworks.com) -- we've worked with several YC companies in the past.

New companies often ask us what we can do to help them get better at marketing, what direction they should go in, etc. They also want us to give them a sense of how mature their understanding of marketing is, or how well they're executing.

In response, we've put together a simple 10 question diagnostic that does the following:

- "Grades" your marketing maturity based on the answers to your questions - Gives advice based on the answers to your questions - Provides links to more reading material about a number of the topics covered

We designed, wrote, coded, and shipped the whole project in a month or two, and deployed it on Netlify. It's written in Elm.

Would love to hear your thoughts!