danr4

Looks like the company in question is Rehook.ai https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rehook-ai

your pivot comments seem irrelevant as he is not selling this as a product, he is using it as a white-label solution for his clients.

I've wanted to try highlight for our company although I find it off putting that new companies market themselves as "Open Source!" "Self Hosted!" but really aren't that accessible or documented for independent use.

I get it. it's a business, and it really is open source (thanks for the permissive license), but it often feels more like an after-thought/marketing play, which is completely fine if you're upfront. or maybe I'm just spoiled.

Same here

Looks really useful for non-technical people. I don't think you are charging too much but I do think your pricing/market is misaligned.

If you're going to charge this amount you probably want to target product/design teams in mid to large enterprises, then charge by seat (with limited trial for up-sell).

I've been wondering quite a lot about that while nomading, but I think essentially the numbers don't add up while massively increasing operational overhead.

It's too big of a risk at the moment, which is why these quotes from him keep coming - I think he's trying to create the demand side because it's not big enough yet, but if it becomes "the norm" they can capitalize on it.

I do think they missed an opportunity during covid to move it towards "the norm" by testing a subsidized "airbnb for work" but who knows.

If there’s a company that can increase market share and adoption for Vulkan it’s Valve

Where do you see 4.5% in BofA?

Oooh that's gonna be a great gift for a few friends

Very interested too!

I'm working on a project with websockets and I hate working around unsupported headers. biggest problem is passing json web tokens, requiring us to have short lived cookies just for authenticating. Yes, we can always "just exchange information" but this requires custom, non-standard logic, for such a ubiquitous use case.

is there a version for ios?

My answer is market demand:

1. users demanding (whether unknowingly or not) better ui, quick updates

2. developers demanding “make it for me” tools

3. Companies “demanding” engineers to stand out

yes. plus a built-in and very active community of all levels.

Until last summer, I was 8 years deep into Linux Laptop / Desktop use only. We bought MacBook Pro M1 when our startup was funded.

I "got used to it", but I still stumble on the "this isn't working the way I want" rabbit holes, which depending on the issue can be far easier to solve on linux for the someone savvy. Best example is frickin trackball drag scroll which is near impossible to achieve smoothly on a mac.

Obviously sometimes there were really tough issues on linux (mostly hardware compatibility), which was frustrating, but overall I miss it and often think to myself "things used to be faster/smoother with linux".

Also, gaming on Linux is in a much better state.

Been following this project since before the rename. Is anyone using this in production (1M+ notifications) that can share her experience?

I love upside only business models. Wish you luck!

Why did you insist on the first salesperson?

high end in person public speaking course

where is it cited?

I don’t know… the so called free web is also a bot paradise, and like it or not cloudflare is actually helping mitigate it to some degree. It comes with a cost but maybe it’s worth it?

Are you looking for work? :)

congrats on the launch. site works terribly in safari.

Absolutely true. I'll add that THREE paragraphs start with "calling my VC friends", which factors in heavily on how "easy" it was to raise.

AFAIK “meth mouth” is a myth. It’s just that addicts tend to care much less about dental hygiene. Amphetamines may dry your mouth slightly but as long as you keep your proper dental routine you should be fine.

links?

It was. It has become a meme that GTA6 will come out (similar to HL3). There were rumors but nothing official.

A proper reveal would have generated massive hype, now it's mixed with "hack".

But as the ol' saying goes: never let a good crisis go to waste. Although I think they're in a tough spot since it's probably too early in the development stage to put a spin or reveal anything.

The velocity????? Discord’s product has barely changed, they move so slow, but thanks to their market dominance no one has been able to compete

This is genius wow

This is off the mark IMO, depending on your definition of esports.

As a founder of a competitive gaming startup, I can tell you that every single game publisher lives and dies on the casual players.

Most of these players have never seen a single pro match in their life, so the notion that popular games were built for PPV is misguided.

What these publishers realized is that giving people a rank makes them more dedicated to playing more and beating others, as well as a sense of progress. sprinkle some repetitiveness, awards, vanity stuff and the hook is even stronger.

It’s probably some intrinsic human behavior (monkey brain stuff), but it works well for their bottom line.

Do I miss the good ol’ Warcraft 3 dota days? Hell yeah. But I remember one times I set up a “community” match against several of my countrymen. My friends and I were demolished. It was obvious they knew something we didn’t.

We only discovered it when we moved to HoN - the meta.

The real fun was always custom maps - we kept playing those into our 30s.

But I do agree that wacky is fun. There’s still competitive mini games in Dota 2 that are super fun and wacky. Missed opportunity if you ask me.

Related: Anyone using Blinkist? How is it?