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stickerdaze.com 3mo ago

Show HN: The easiest way to generate AI stickers then get them in the mail

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medium.com 8y ago

Jquery is better than React

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: Who started in cryptocurrency in 2017 and now make money?

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: Where to ask dumb movie questions now that IMDB Message Board is gone?

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stories.jotform.com 8y ago

What I Learned from One Year of Relentless HARO Pitching

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: What's the Best React UI/Nodejs Framework for Angular/Sails Background

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plot.ly 9y ago

Build beautiful web-based interfaces in Python (by plotly)

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www.linkedin.com 10y ago

A comprehensive comparison of Jupyter vs. Zeppelin

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Does Craigslist license its data nowsaday?

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Is twitfox.com, manageflitter.com and tweepi.com legit?

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ops.faithlife.com 11y ago

The truth about OpenStack and how it can get you in trouble

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www.amazon.com 11y ago

Just wrote my first ebook about using Ionic for cross-platform app development

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www.linkedin.com 11y ago

It's time to start eating bugs instead of turkeys

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www.linkedin.com 11y ago

Why your kids should start to learn coding now?

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

How do you monitor trending startups?

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

What companies can do quality startup intro video for a good price?

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Why there isn't any Instagram or Tweets from people live in Gaza?

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www.forbes.com 11y ago

What Happens When Robots Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves?

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

What's the most ridiculous job title at a startup?

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Cheap way to drive from Santa Clara to San Fran?

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

I just want to quit my job but can't

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github.com 12y ago

Famo.us 0.2.1 has fixed jittering scrolling issue

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

What do you like in my first free ebook on Angular, Ionic Framework and Cordova?

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

What's up with Famo.us' logo and Phinergy electric car's logo?

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

I am a new dad and here are some startup ideas for you

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Why isn't there a super awesome mobile first Node.js shopping cart platform?

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Startup on socializing with TV show casts desperately needs feedback

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blog.tivify.com 12y ago

Shit that you can code in two weeks

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tivify2.appspot.com 12y ago

We wrote some code for couch potatoes

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Organize your working day with newborn?

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My teenage son is starting to get very interested in AI coding with Replit, Lovable then Claude. He started to design stickers using Gemini for our preschool daughter. Recently he puts together some mockup and I helped him through the finish line with backend APIs and other integration with Stripe, Supabase, etc..

The idea is simple: anyone can sign up for a free account to generate AI stickers, then order the print and round/square/kiss/die cut sheet for the exact sticker image.

Happy to get any thought or DM me for security issues (would appreciate it).

Not sure if anyone recalls Famo.us which used to focus on web animation and make it programmable although they don't have the client app like Haiku. However, their claim was that they "cracked" the web animation performance. Well it didn't work for them (basic performance test would tell otherwise - duh!). Why is Haiku able to achieve such awesome performance on the web like this for animation? I also saw Greensock and they did a very good job as well. I am curious on what's the secret sauce here and whether there is any performance comparison (sorry for loaded questions there).

Depending on how sophisticated your prototypes are (or something I can google and do myself), there are definitely values. But you need to share more info for me to advise. I do look for HW prototyping services sometime but it'd require someone who knows specialized fields (fluid physics). You should start to test by doing a bunch of videos to post of social media and see what kind of responses there are.

I am very close to making the decision to the same path you took (with family and kid of course). I know each case is different but how long did bootstrapping take for you? I already put saving aside for one year (covering insurance and mortgage plus other minimal living cost). I imagine I need earn at least $85K in a year to survive the second year and so on (based on cost of living in my area). I am also thinking about doing random consulting here and there, to supplement the income of building a product. But I know it's always a trap.

I got a question about severance and new job. Some companies (like mine) will ask you to report new job and they will cut severance (monthly salary). If so, how do you deal with that? Many of my previous co-workers told me they just lied and the company never checked (all verbal or writing).

Here is my process:

1. Search my competitors and collect 3-4 ToS pages

2. Read each of them and copy their paragraphs into mine

3. Re-word some to make sure my ToS is unique. If something is too confusing or too much, delete.

4. Stop worry about it until my startup gets some traction.

The whole process should not take more than 2-3 hours. If you pay $$ or take days on ToS while your startup is not even getting traction, you're doing something seriously wrong (in term of time spent).

Few reasons:

1. Firefox crashes would take down the entire browser, not just specific tab

2. I often load a lot of tweets in Twitter.com tab (back 4 hours). This causes Firefox to freeze.

3. If I refresh the slow tab, I watch memory not being clean and still stay there for several minutes. Chrome clears memory very quickly.

4. Why is the space around address bar so large? They are like 15 px top and bottom. What a waste.

5. Postman is only Chrome

6. Chrome Dev Tools is 10x better

I have no complain about CSS rendering issues or anything like that. It's mainly just performance. Also I tend to use Firefox in the firewall because the Proxy feature works quite well to connect to my internal lab.

I like this comment. A lot of initial sales are just pure relationship: you know someone who knows someone or randomly someone saw or met you at Meetup, website, forum... Maintaining the first deal is hard though because it's a tricky road: Do you have to do what they ask or do you think the market is bigger than just this one specific use case? Eventually the first 10 Enterprise customers are the ones who pay the bill.

Thanks for sharing this. I had similar idea a year ago and ended up didn't do anything after much research. I came up with similar information as you went through during the execution. People won't pay for this (very few). The experts don't care about money either. It's a chicken and egg situation that's hard to bootstrap to something larger. Well unless you find a very specific niche (e.g. Q&A for AI algorithm...). Frontend is too crowded already.

Just curious on binder specific here. I could never got it to work out-of-the-box. In this example, it gave me "ImportError: No module named 'seaborn'" error. Now I could do something like !sudo pip install seaborn but still... Did you guys have same experience?