chrisfrantz

Getting back into sci-fi. Just finished the first book in the third body problem series. Also have earth unaware (Enders game prequel) and We are legion (we are bob) ready to go.

From a work perspective I just finished creative selection which was excellent.

Reactive generative music would so cool

Congrats on the launch!

Congrats on the launch!

I tried with the Quest Pro. It’s cool to see the giant screens and set things up, but the pixel density and resolution is really not there yet. It’s like working off of a 65 inch 480p TV.

Congrats on the launch!

Congrats on launching Louis!

This is from July 28

Congrats on launching Aman!

Agreed, if you have to include the word torture in the descriptor of food production than there’s already an ethical problem to solve.

Feels like both written and voiced by AI after listening to it. There were some tangents that felt a bit off. The Gizmodo bit was probably about the iPhone that was left at the bar but they never actually addressed the subject matter which was strange.

We had users, early PMF and revenue :)

Correct https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/19/unbounce-snags-snazzy-ai-t...

We did this! Built and sold. https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/19/unbounce-snags-snazzy-ai-t...

Read this article a few years ago and was glad it was published! It definitely reduced competition judging by the popularity on HN when it first debuted.

We were building our company on the back of GPT-3 and soon sold it for a life-changing amount of money.

So starting a business around GPT-3 ended up being a very good idea :)

Thanks! Just purchased a more balanced one with plenty of EPA. Really appreciate the detailed reply :)

Any reasonable vendors you could share? I’ve been taking a vegan capsule daily for years that’s DHA 225 and DPA 35. Retails for ~$22 for 60 capsules.

Thanks for the feedback. :)

You’d be surprised! Those companies might be well-known to you but they’re not nearly at 100% market saturation, especially if you’re not in the target demographic. Beyond that, work at a startup from YC and Key Values are both great resources I often recommend that many folks aren’t aware of.

Just to clarify for those confused, this is not Google Forms. Google Surveys was apparently an entire separate product.

Our last company went that path. We planned to build one product, but first we had to build an initial feature set to support it. That initial feature saw early traction and we never got around to building the real product. Not a bad outcome for us, but we definitely were not able to realize the vision we had.

Human curation will likely remain valuable into the future.

Good luck!

I could be wrong here, but it sounds like you would have been further along than anyone I met in the batch. The majority of folks I spent time with were starting from scratch.

Nowadays you start with $500K though, which puts you in a much better position when speaking with investors as your initial runway isn’t as close to nil.

Yep, it’s a fair critique and I agree it’s odd.

Great question, I imagine there is some truth in both statements.

The failure rate in the startup world, especially when success means a billion dollar exit or IPO, is incredibly high though.

Good luck!

I understand the sentiment. The reason the mock-up was quick to create was because the entire thing was already done in my head. There were plenty of folks with very little experience and some with quite a bit of experience. I can’t say that I have any real idea what goes on in the minds of the folks making the decisions, but they do seem to pick an outsized number of winners. Whether we’re in that bucket or not remains to be seen.

Hah, well they didn’t! But the high expectations definitely encouraged us to perform at a higher level, even if we didn’t hit the initial goals.

Thanks! Yeah, sounds like we shared a similar experience. YC definitely starts to make anything feel possible. They give you the tools, it’s up to you to take it from there.