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Wow, American AI labs are now quite close in ethical competition to their Chinese counterparts heh.

It seems we're truly in a power war rn.

the whole database is an AI slop tbh

What these models are doing - migrations, new feature releases, etc? What does your setup look like?

I was bad in being on meeting discipline. The only thing that consistently works: start on time, end on time, and don’t wait for late arrivals. If someone joins late, they catch up from notes/recording.

There’s a famous example from the Lucasfilm/Pixar deal: a Lucasfilm exec used to arrive late as a power move, until Steve Jobs started the meeting exactly on time without him. The exec walked in 5 minutes later and had already lost the room. And Jobs gets the deal.

I think the assumption that political parties represent two completely distinct sets of values is overly simplistic. In reality, there's a significant amount of overlap between them—what often differs is the style of messaging and the framing of ideas.

Personally, I find it hard to fully identify with either the left or the right. I share beliefs and values from both sides, depending on the issue. This makes it difficult to adopt a clear-cut political label, and I think that's true for many people.

Politics today often feels more like a battle of narratives than a clash of core principles / values.

p.s. my perspective is non-US one.

the playbook works relatively well outside west hemisphere. grab, gojek, gozem, yassir scaled well beyond services to fintech.

cool! happy to connect with you folks! my twitter: kidrulit

love it. but that makes me think that development is no longer the bottleneck —distribution and positioning are. and my bet that the ASim fucntionality will find it place in the current media platfrom.

say, if tiktok launches an ai app store, it won’t be for complex software—it’ll start with low-friction, high-retention apps: ai-powered video enhancements (think face-swaps, lip sync, object replacement) or micro-utilities, something like ASim does.

for platforms, it’s obvious—more engagement, higher monetization, and a new vertical.

for creators, it’s a no-brainer—why funnel traffic to some app store when you can keep users inside tiktok, get them to install, and even monetize directly?

even the infamous 30% app store cut could be creatively sidestepped—imagine launching your own meme coin for in-app purchases instead.

folks mess "cookie banner" with "consent banner". many people do conflate them, but in some jurisdictions (e.g., the EU under GDPR), a "cookie banner" typically includes a consent mechanism.

if you're tracking users for analytics using cookies, fingerprinting, or any other method that identifies them (even probabilistically), you generally need explicit consent under GDPR and similar privacy laws. The key point is that it's not just about cookies; any persistent tracking requires consent.

Unfortunately, data on Cypriot companies is quite limited. There are far more products built on the island than what is officially listed. Speaking as a founder of a CY-based company, SpatialChat

Good question, Portuguese traded not through Fujian but Macao, where chá is used.

The term cha (茶) is “Sinitic,” meaning it is common to many varieties of Chinese dialects. Meanwhile, the word tea comes from the Min Nan variety of Chinese, spoken in the coastal Fujian province, where the character 茶 is pronounced te.

my favorite example of trade routes influenced the spread of a word is "tea". the word for “tea” comes from either a variation of “cha” or a variation of “te,” reflecting distinct dialect pronunciations in China.

countries receiving tea overland (e.g., via the Silk Road) adopted forms of “cha,” while those trading by sea through Fujian ports adopted forms of “te.”

The project visualise perfectly this distinction.

i doubt you can ever effectively scrutinise the logistics. just look how creatively people can transfer drugs across the borders.

I’m investing in EM startups. Talked to the founder of the leading food delivery company there.

Will try to visit the country in March and share some notes in public web

I’m not arguing that it’s an unnecessary element. Rather, I don’t agree with the original statement that the government should shut down the services.

I recently learned that a courier in Panama can earn around $1,400 a month. Yes, you likely have to work six days a week, but that's well above the average salary in the country.

I'm not sure how the sentiment is in developed countries like the US and the UK. Still, here in Latin America, this presents an opportunity for poorer communities to provide dinner for a family.

I wonder who you are referring to when you say "we"

Great job! It seems you have around 200k companies to list. How do you handle scraping at that scale – all websites are different. What if the schema and markup change? interested to hear what the DevOps aspect looks like.

that's the reality of the post-LLM Customer Support business.

Feel free to correct me on that, but here's my understanding. The comprehensive support products cover four main sub-products:

1. FAQ/Knowledge bases with search functionality.

2. Conversational mediums and agent notifications (e.g., live chat widget, messenger support).

3. Ticket management systems and agent management, which is the core of Zendesk/Intercom. This is the most difficult to operationalize as it requires process architecture, SLA management, etc.

4. Orchestration and workflow management, which can be done inside #3, though some products are available as well.

Most new post-LLM startups target #2 but face platform risks as they rely on companies covering #1, #3, and #4 (e.g., Zendesk, Intercom, Gorgias).

I feel InKeep doing some combination of #2 but emphasising that you can support client whenever they are (ie Github, Discord, Slack) instead of asking them to submit tickets in the website widget.

Another issue for AI support startup is the verticalization/horizontal trap. Most LLMs require solid tuning per client, especially for enterprises like us. Startups often avoid this initially, opting for a more horizontal general path (e.g., AI support for Shopify merchants). This is where enterprise players are more beneficial. Thus companies like ServiceNow, Zoom, and Oracle offer products for support and implementation services.

Neat business imo.

sounds like a neat use-case!

Sorry, I distinguish here an AI agent that basically automate the visual lookup and scraping to feed into LLMs by big tech. I don't see any problem with the first one tbh.

any differences from nango or supaglue?

What's wrong with AI agents accessing website content? We seem to have been happy with Google doing that for ages in exchange for displaying the website in search results.

It reminds me of legends: "YouTube listens to you and then recommends videos based on your offline chats"

He is a French citizen after all [0] https://www.forbes.ru/milliardery/446937-pavel-durov-polucil... (ru)

WhatsApp is still quite popular and it’s not blocked.

Many would oppose the idea, but if any service (e.g. eBay, LinkedIn, Facebook) were to dump the snapshot to S3 every month, that could be a solution. You can't prevent scraping anyway.

I wonder how new payment solutions compete with the growth of Visa in emerging markets and what impact they have on the company's strategy overall. Here in Brazil, I usually use PIX for payments, although card payments are still possible. I imagine a similar situation exists in Southeast Asia or even India.

Have I overlooked anything? I'm not sure if, at the age of 95, he needs money from Russia