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Don't reinvent the wheel. Create something that makes it obsolete.

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www.zackliscio.com 5mo ago

A Simple Playbook for Replacing SaaS Vendors

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www.zackliscio.com 5mo ago

RIP Low-Code 2014-2025

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www.naytev.com 7y ago

Commercial “Deep Fake” Technology. It's Coming

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: Why hasn't Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes resigned?

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www.austinchronicle.com 10y ago

Local developers step in after Uber and Lyft pull out of Austin

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blog.naytev.com 10y ago

Is there really a teen exodus from Facebook?

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blog.naytev.com 10y ago

What We Learned Setting Up Facebook Instant Articles

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www.aei.org 10y ago

Seattle restaurant jobs have fallen -900 this year vs. +6,200 in rest of state

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blog.naytev.com 10y ago

The Bursting Advertising Bubble Is a Win for Facebook

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blog.naytev.com 10y ago

How to #stopTrump with A/B testing

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blog.naytev.com 10y ago

Reasons to Be Wary of Free Social Plugins

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blog.naytev.com 10y ago

How to write a data-driven blog post

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www.nytimes.com 10y ago

Media Websites Battle Faltering Ad Revenue and Traffic

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blog.naytev.com 10y ago

Publishers Must Adapt to a “Distributed First” Model

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blog.naytev.com 10y ago

The One Thing Facebook Announced at F8 That's Already Affecting Your News Feed

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blog.naytev.com 10y ago

What is BuzzFeed, really?

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intelligence.r29.com 11y ago

3 Ways to Immediately Make Your Facebook Posts More Shareable

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: How do your enterprise customers pay you?

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: How do your enterprise customers pay you?

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sprezzy.com 11y ago

My top 3 picks from Brandery Demo Day

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www.joshhannah.com 11y ago

What Series A Fundraising Looked Like in 1999

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techcrunch.com 11y ago

Multi-Factor Analysis of Y Combinator’s Summer 2014 Class

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techcrunch.com 11y ago

Naytev (YC S14) Enhances Social Media Shares to Drive Website Traffic

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sprezzy.com 12y ago

Coding, startup syndrome, and sales

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blog.naytev.com 12y ago

Optimizing "Yo" messages for engagement.

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www.youtube.com 12y ago

Scala: The Movie.

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techcrunch.com 12y ago

Rapportive Is About To Get Less Useful

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spin.atomicobject.com 12y ago

Create Your Own Font Awesome Icons (2012)

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www.ctahr.hawaii.edu 12y ago

Study: Using Houseplants to Clean Indoor Air

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www.theatlanticcities.com 12y ago

Google Naps

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Sorry to hear about the customer churn, but the MCP-first strategy makes sense to me and seems like it could be really powerful. I also suspect that the bring your own agent future will be really exciting, and I've been surprised we haven't seen more of it play out already.

Agree there will be a place for no-code and low-code interfaces, but I do think it's an open question where the value capture will be--as SaaS vendors, or by the LLM providers themselves.

It would probably have been more accurate to say "the cost of writing code" -- and you're totally right about the rise of other duties (and technologies) that expand to fill that gap.

As a dev team, we've been exploring how we grapple with the cultural and workflow changes that arise as these tools improve--it's definitely an ongoing and constantly evolving conversation.

This is a good example, but the build vs buy decision in this case also includes viable open source options, which become even more attractive when LLMs reduce the implementation + maintenance barriers.

Great point, and I agree the catch-all nature of the category feels overly broad. At our company, we've felt this shift most clearly on the app-building side so far but I'm curious to see how the low-code data applications fare as context windows grow and the core LLM providers improve their collaboration tools, governance, and improve the UX of on demand app creation. And nice to see you, too!

For what it's worth, releasing something and finding little or no adoption of the product is often where the interesting learning begins.

I can't tell you whether or not it's worth pursuing, but I know that in my own experience it was. Our team spent almost a year building and launching a product that we ultimately shut down. We could have stopped and gone back to our day jobs, but the silver lining is that the core technology became the foundation for our current (seemingly unrelated) company.

While the now-forgotten product we launched was a failure, pushing past that resulted in a product that has been far more successful (funding, product-market fit, etc). There's no guarantee you'll pivot into success, but there's zero chance you will succeed if you stop iterating.

Like most "Uber for X" companies, there will certainly be details to sort out in the short term, but a service that efficiently connects two sides of an otherwise obscure market has a strong chance of succeeding.

I'd be really curious to see best practices for smaller startups. We've never been hit with a DDOS, but bot attacks seem pretty commonplace. I'd love to see the open source community come together to create some mitigation strategies, though I admit I don't know what they would entail.

Prism Button 13 years ago

Thanks ivanca -- www.prismbutton.com is now updated to reflect your changes.

Prism Button 13 years ago

Totally agree, and would love to open source if anyone is interested in helping out.