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chrisfrantz

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building loops.so (YC W22)

say hey here: chris@loops.so

or here: twitter.com/frantzfries

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chrisfrantz··on Eating meat is good, says the philosopher
Debates like this are a waste of time and this one even has a clickbait title. They ignore the obvious animal suffering today and instead offer a "what if we just stopped over night, what then?".

This essay gets worse as it goes.

This will never happen. So instead we should focus on limiting or entirely removing the consumption of animals and animal products in our lifestyle which will gradually reduce the number of animals bred for premature death.

Most won't and will cling to clickbait essays like this and the distant hope of widespread, affordable, lab-grown meat while continuing to ignore the obvious abuse to animals in their day to day life today.

chrisfrantz··on Zendesk to be acquired
Don’t forget raise prices and make it more difficult to cancel.
chrisfrantz··on Ask HN: What tools are you a 10/10 on?
Linear, Raycast, Figma and Safari are the only tools fast enough in my daily use for me to really love. Slack seems to be improving and we’re making serious speed gains at Loops.
chrisfrantz··on Show HN: I ranked news websites by speed
Thought the same thing, then clicked over. There’s quite a bit going on for how snappy it feels.
chrisfrantz··on Arc Browser Company: Chrome and Safari face a new challenger
This looks great, did it ever launch?
chrisfrantz··on The Collison Brothers Built Stripe into a $95B Unicorn
This seems like a no-brainer acquisition for Stripe. Afaik this is the one big differentiator for paddle and this seems to solve for it with a lower fee.
chrisfrantz··on Frank Oz Says Sesame Street Has Gone Downhill. Is He Right? (2019)
All the old episodes are available on HBO Max, I’m watching one from the 70s right now on Saturday morning with my toddler. Hand drawn animations, stop motions and original songs with full bands make for an excellent show. Highly recommend.
chrisfrantz··on Ask HN: What other options exist outside of Facebook Ads?
Thanks, looking into this
chrisfrantz··on FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign
If you want to see an example, I took a screenshot[1] a week ago of the massive Intuit ad in Google Ads that blocks the results you may otherwise see.

1 https://twitter.com/frantzfries/status/1505942638704345094?s...

chrisfrantz··on Launch HN: Courier (YC S19) – Developer infrastructure for product notifications
Thanks Troy! All is well.
chrisfrantz··on uBlock Origin becomes top addon on Firefox
Tired of the tech hustle culture? Then check out nomohustle.co a paid newsletter I run on substack.
chrisfrantz··on Launch HN: Rownd (YC W22) – Add authentication and accounts to any website
Love what the folks at Rownd are building. They have a data privacy background with a goal to kill the login page.

It’s a huge and ambitious goal and I’m looking forward to using them in the future as we expand our stack.

chrisfrantz··on Launch HN: Courier (YC S19) – Developer infrastructure for product notifications
Congrats Troy! You’re building a great platform, glad to see this on HN today.
chrisfrantz··on Launch HN: Fogbender (YC W22) – B2B support software designed for customer teams
Andrei and team are building something very cool at Fogbender. They’re trying to tackle the customer support communication pipeline in a way that solves for a number of pain points that services like Intercom don’t help with.

We were early users and look forward to continue testing in the future. Congrats Fogbender team on launching!

chrisfrantz··on Show HN: Makers.so – A website builder inside Figma
Awesome, best of luck.
chrisfrantz··on Show HN: Makers.so – A website builder inside Figma
This is great. How do you handle updates?

How are menus and links handled?

Do you allow exporting of code if users wanted to migrate away or self-host?

Thanks and congrats, this is a slick implementation.

chrisfrantz··on If everyone were vegan, only a quarter of current farmland would be needed
Tons of info and bodybuilders in here https://reddit.com/r/VeganFitness/best
chrisfrantz··on If everyone were vegan, only a quarter of current farmland would be needed
I wish that was the case for me! I gained weight by going vegan, all those cashews and coconut milk add up. I’m definitely an outlier though.
chrisfrantz··on If everyone were vegan, only a quarter of current farmland would be needed
Resident vegan here. Would love if everyone gave it a shot, it substantially improved my cholesterol and aligns with my ethics.

This site is a fun one (not affiliated) if you have one of the more common questions: https://yourveganfallacyis.com/en

chrisfrantz··on Don't you lecture me with your thirty dollar website
Made that mistake once, never again
chrisfrantz··on Bolt founder on Stripe/YC
Stripe also launched the product that day on their blog. If anything it seems like Bolt tried to preempt the Stripe launch.
chrisfrantz··on Edible plants that grow in the shade
So much so. I wish it was easier to cultivate at home, it tastes just like chicken.
chrisfrantz··on How to report a positive Covid-19 test result
My whole family has it this week but I realized our at home positives wouldn’t be counted in the county/nationwide reporting.

Looks like you need to fill out the csv template and submit it. Surprised it’s this complex of a process.

chrisfrantz··on RadioShack – Bringing Cryptocurrency to the Mainstream
That was the first one I thought of as well.
chrisfrantz··on Ask HN: Where can I share “tiny projects”?
hackaday for physical goods, here for software/hardware, product hunt is a bit of work and they've gotten hit by spam pretty hard recently
chrisfrantz··on Show HN: I had some time yesterday so I made a GPT3 podcast to help you sleep
Very cool. I did something similar a little over a year ago with a children’s book inspired by Dr. Seuss and generated by GPT-3. Then narrated by AWS Polly. https://twitter.com/frantzfries/status/1308515401253486599?s...
chrisfrantz··on Ask HN: How do you stay active while working from home?
I gave up the gym during COVID and quickly dropped out of shape. I was going an hour a day, 5 days a week and was in decent shape.

I was unable to keep it up at home despite the equipment I had.

Recently I purchased a roll away treadmill and created a treadmill desk set up. I’m finally at least walking 30 minutes a day during the work week, but that’s obviously still not enough.

It’s tough, but the treadmill helps as I can keep working.

chrisfrantz··on Ask HN: How to know if you should stop doing startups?
I’d recommend getting a job or at least starting the process. As you go through the motions you’ll be deciding if it’s something you actually want to do or if you want to keep pushing.
chrisfrantz··on An engineer's observations on Web3 and its possibilities
If people need a middleman, there will be a few winners and the monopoly or duopoly will continue.
chrisfrantz··on An engineer's observations on Web3 and its possibilities
Sure, but that’s replaced with user’s being in control of their identity (permanently).

Lose your keys, you’re out of luck and locked out of who knows how many applications permanently.

It might be fine for us, but just think of the less technically inclined folks in your life. Are they going to remember a 32 word phrase or use a password manager for a key?

And what happens if they’re hacked? If google detects your account is hacked, you may be able to salvage it.

If someone nabs your wallet, they get access to however many apps you have set up along with whatever funds you have in there.

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