pclark

It seems like the future of warfare is longe range (eg: firing missiles at tanks from across the horizon) or hyper short range (eg: troops clearing cities block by block) — anything else seems like it'll get wrecked by either the precision of long range or the precision of short range stuff.

A tank isn't hyper mobile, isn't hyper accurate and isn't hyper long range. I don't get it's role — especially when it costs tens of millions and can be destroyed with either a $5k anti-armor launcher or from a missile fired across the horizon.

I ordered a 6-row Model X approx 24 months ago - still waiting - and ordered a Model Y 7-seater in ~Feb this year and got it a month or two ago. It's awesome.

I can't really comprehend how the Model X can be ~$50k superior to a Model Y 7 Seater.

This looks great! do you have a discord or other community that I can follow to get updates?

the traffic/routing AI is terrible

imagine getting a push notification about your city rioting about property prices, so cool!

No, Skylines is terrible IMHO. It's comically dumb.

Would a city die without a mayor? Maybe, maybe not — but yeah with legitimately good AI. I want a sentient city!!

Sim City on absolute steroids that constantly runs in the cloud even when you're not actively playing

I'm from East England and moved to San Francisco for 12 years and have now lived in Seattle for 2 years.

Here is the secret of Seattle, why people live here: the summer is absolutely bonkers nice.

For example in the last 2 years, temperatures over 60 degrees, temperatures over 70 degrees, days with over 0.2" rain:

May: 9, 1, 7

June: 20, 5, 7

July: 31, 9, 1

August: 30, 10, 1

Sept: 23, 4, 5

It also remains super warm all evening. It's just great! But yes, being from windy gray England means Dec-Feb where it is very very grey doesn't bother me at all, I don't even notice it.

Alienware just shipped a 32" curved OLED PC monitor — it's clear that 5K monitors are not really going to be a thing, presumably because of GPU/connector constraints — I would assume there'll be more QD-OLED screens, including hopefully a 27" non-curved.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/9/22966303/alienware-curved-...

A 60Hz 5K vs. a 180Hz 4K OLED, I may pick the latter, despite desperately just wanting a good 5K.

Can anyone help me understand how I'd connect this to a PC? Would I need a GPU with Thunderbolt 4 or does the motherboard need Thunderbolt 4 and the PC somehow magically utilises the GPU via that motherboard display anyway?

I think its kind of disingenuous to not be very explicit that this is satire/AI generated answers

I think its a common misconception that YC primarily invests in 20-somethings eating ramen and dreaming big. Lots of YC founders have kids and stuff. This was true when I went through in YC in 2011 (interestingly first batch that got $250k from Yuri Milner) and doubly true when I just went through in 2021.

I'm skeptical the goal of this is to encourage high salaried people to start companies though, it's probably just to give people extended runway.

My partner interviewed with Stripe (admittedly not for an engineering role but for an adjacent role) and had a very positive experience. They start in a few weeks. It's fun to idly observe companies interview processes and Stripe's seemed super upstanding and robust. Very responsive all round with a solid offer and flexibility on start time.

FWIW they interviewed with 3 other companies at same time — all ~$10B-ish companies — and 2 of them were very negative experiences (slow to respond recruiters, written offer not aligning with initial salary expectations, ...)

Journey (YC W21) | Software Engineer | Remote | https://journey.io

Journey is a modern storytelling tool. Presentations are the go-to storytelling medium currently, but they're super constrained because they're 16:9 rectangles! People work in tools like Notion, Figma and Loom — none of these can easily be put in a Presentation. Journey fixes that.

We're hiring an awesome front-end engineer that loves loves loves product design and front-end experiences. We're a team of 5 engineers and mainly use Python and React.

Thousands of people create and share Journeys each month for all kinds of uses - recruiting, fundraising, sales, etc. If you want to _obsess_ over frontend design, please reach out peter@journey.io

PS: Our product sells itself, allowing us to be intellectually honest about if we're actually an improvement for story-telling, we're early but here's a demo: https://jny.journey.io/p/482fc0d2c22845fba761e6fe8b653303

Peter! wonderful to see your post here, thank you for helping me with my visas and greencards over the years!

peter (clark)

Journey | REMOTE (USA + Europe) | Full- Time | Software Engineers (ideally with a Frontend Lean) | Visas sponsorship available but we're also remote | ~$140K USD

I'm a 2x YC alumni (userfox S11 and now Journey W21) now hiring for my current company.

We're looking for Senior Engineers, especially ones with a passion for Frontend. (We're a Python shop btw)

Journey is the combination of Webflow and Google Slides. Our demo speaks for itself, and we've grown every week since June (we had no product in Feb) and seeing a ton of momentum in usage around Sales, Fundraising and Recruiting: https://jny.journey.io/p/482fc0d2c22845fba761e6fe8b653303

We're a well funded and senior team. Remote first and we prioritise deep focus work. Feel free to email me directly peter@journey.io

PS: We previously had a wonderful launch on HN — and I am a long long long time participant of HN — here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27233718

It's amazing how well prospects respond to receiving a personal video — but time and time again senders complain about the production cost — Tavus solves this! Fascinating product and not terribly surprised HN seems unimpressed about this sort of thing ;)

Journey (W21) | Designers & Frontend Engineers | Remote | Full-time

Journey is a storytelling tool that allows you to embed all forms of content (slides, videos, forms, embeds) into one interactive experience. It's used for everything from recruiting, to fundraising to selling.

We are looking for founding frontend engineers and product designers to help us make storytelling more fun and more engaging on the internet.

Engineer (and a demo!) https://jny.journey.io/p/3acc112064fc4edcbb222800198827c2?em...

Designer (regular JD to compare) https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/journey/jobs/PDxaT3Pfi...

https://journey.io

peter@jny.io

#2 is really quite absurd - especially here of all places - how do you decide if a product or service will never "sell out"?

THANK YOU!!!

My hope is that people will use Journey for:

* HVAC quotes

* Concierge shopping

* How-to guides

etc etc! Stories can be all sorts of things!

Yes! I have a lot of scar tissue from running Growth alongside Customer Success teams who were struggling to get users to take actions ("Just login, click this URL, then when the lightbox appears, enter 'moof123' thank you good day!")

Yeah - for mature sales teams, sales follow up is actually more of a use case for us than cold outreach.

Bit different for founder sales though.

Strange!! You're the second person to report this in 24 hours (the first was an important prospect for one of our users :( )

I don't suppose the HN community has any idea how to debug this? I can't recreate it. I don't suppose you're running a pi-hole? (I had some SSL issues a while ago but it was because of my pi-hole...)

Great comment!

I don't think Journey is gonna replace humans for selling all software, I just think some interactions are better async. A friend of mine, Sahil (CEO of Gumroad) once told me that "live meetings should be used for closing" and that maps to how I feel too.

For example I believe over time discovery can actually be made superior async than live, since with async we can do all kinds of crazy personalisation - rather than expecting a sales person to know all the questions to ask on a live meandering phone call.

BTW we actually sell Journey by simply building a custom Journey for the prospect we're selling to. For example for calixa.com (a killer new CRM) I sent them a Journey of me "selling" Calixa so they could imagine how Journey could be used to sell Calixa to prospects. IMHO this is how selling should be, not generic materials or even sales speak — real world use cases!

Thanks, this is great feedback.

We actually tried making some hypothetical Journeys (for example a fundraising deck for Webvan!) but then people got confused at the content.

But yes we are investing heavily in examples! https://journey.io/success as a start.

Jessica Livingston had a good quote about how sales was making a few people love you and marketing was making a lot of people know about you.

I agree with you regarding sales and why its effective in real-time, but it doesn't have to be that way — technology is rapidly changing that, software is getting so good you can now just signup for products you'd typically previous have to talk to a human to use.

I think this trend will continue, and with Journey my belief is we can accelerate that even more with powerful marketing tools.

I would add that sales is absolutely also storytelling - a great example is fundraising! I joined a B2B technology company (AdRoll) and worked there for 4 years and saw first hand how effective sales people sell - by telling stories, not reading from slides.

Haha, yup...

My biggest challenge right now is Journey is so meta when discussing Journey. It's why we're trying to lean into success stories: https://www.journey.io/success — but yes.

Like if you're describing Journey in isolation, without discussing how someone uses it, you sound like a crazy person:

Journey is a builder that lets you embed all sorts of content (slides, video, forms) into a sharable site. These sites can be used for when you want to convey complex ideas in an accessible way.

Maybe that is pretty good actually! I had actually always wanted to post on HN with "how would you describe Journey?" :)

Sorry for the delay, I was walking my dog.

Re: 1, I would also add that I think Journey may win because of our virality. If I send you a Journey, its a conveniently packaged experience that you can then share with your co-workers or boss for feedback and approval. Suddenly the buyer is empowered to properly sell the tool.

Re: 2, thanks! We're working on it and I think there is much more we can do generally though. It's a super hard problem to make something obviously interactive + compelling without adding friction for creator.

Re: 3, here you go :) https://jny.journey.io/p/3bbb55f82a224e399aafd2dc04f4f32b?em...

This is the same HN Journey but I've personalised it for you with a brief video message at the start (users can record these from within Gmail with our browser extension) - I also added LambaSchool's logo at the top (I just picked that one arbitrarily) as an example of hopefully making it feel even more personal.