philipjoubert

This is great - I've actually started building something similar myself a few months ago.

Requests:

- Split Spanish between Spain and Latin America

- Add difficulty levels (consider speaking speed and vocabulary used)

- Ability to select which topics I want the videos to be about (e.g. science, celebrity gossip, AI)

> It's hard to think of a scenario where there's a child technical enough to run Gemma 3 locally but somehow unable to access any other written erotica.

The reason you're struggling to understand is that you're thinking about this logically.

Adult content is obviously freely available to any child or adult with minimum technical skills. What makes LLMs different is that it's "the new thing" and people respond differently to "the new thing".

I watched my mother spend 30 years building her company...it's hard enough to build a manufacturing company in 3rd world country. Applying Western labour standards would make it impossible.

The way out of poverty is to through. You need to create enough value to be able to afford the airconed offices where everyone sits on an Aeron with a macbook pro.

The people who worked in these companies are usually incredibly grateful for the opportunity to do seated work indoors for reasonable wages.

Applying Western labour practices to third world countries would prevent them from ever developing...hurting the very people we all want to help.

As someone who grew up in a 3rd world country and whose mother owned a clothing factory, this product seems...fine? The response is an indication of how little people know about how their t-shirts and shoes are made.

This looks really great. Are you planning on adding shortcut keys anytime soon?

Thanks <3

2023 was not the ideal time to be operating a tech recruitment company, but we pulled through.

Author of the blog post here.

I wrote blogposts for two reasons: 1. To think through things 2. To get external perspectives from interesting people

This definitely ticks the second box, so thank you.

Could you suggest anything to papers/books to read about Wins Above Replacement?

Would be extremely weird for someone to do phishing with YC applications.

Either way, it's a verified Stripe domain: https://support.stripe.com/questions/verified-stripe-domains

Does anyone know which South Africa startup was in this batch?

In case anyone is curious - these videos were shot in and around Cape Town, South Africa.

Whatsapp is an outlier in many ways and comparing them with any company will make that company seem bloated. As for the comparison, Whatsapp has no monetization model, no marketing and a simpler product.

Thanks for clarification. I have used Whatsapp and it worked great until 08:30 PT when it suddenly stopped working.

When you say "natively integrated" what do you mean? As far as I can tell there are no APIs for either Whatsapp or Facebook Messenger.

The AirBnb angle is completely misleading. It seems for a marketplace like this to momentum you need talented drone pilots as quickly as possible. Currently the quality of the sample footage is terrible e.g. 2 out of the 4 videos look like they have had no color correction done and the drone is very jerky.

In junior school I had a friend who was considered a little weird. One day during break I came across him repeatedly hitting his head against a wooden wall. He wasn't doing it especially hard - but I was certain it was hurting him. When I asked him why he was hitting his head against the wall he said, "It feels good when I stop".

This author is basically the drug addict version of my junior school friend. They're both idiots - but one was 8 and the other is a respected author.

They also monetize with a paid translation service. The service is exposed as challenges to users and in effect they crowd translate stuff.

Actually this kind of thing gets fairly complex. Consider for instance a scenario where the government was sponsoring an event like this - would that be OK?

Or consider a company that has a table reserved in their cafeteria specifically for black men. Would that be OK?

It seems as a society we've decided that a certain basis of discrimination is fine while others are not. For example having a table exclusively for executives is fine, while one based on race or gender is not.

It appears the author doesn't realize that VCs are normal businesses trying to turn a profit. If there was a profitable opportunity to find "99.99% of talented, unknown founders" by accepting cold emails, then some VCs would start doing it.

I would guess the reason they don't is because the authors assumption is wrong. If you're a talented, driven founder with a growing startup then it's not really that hard to get a meeting with a top tier VC.

The problem with accepting cold emails is the sheer volume. Unless there is a standard filtering process, partners will waste too much time with crappy startups.

A solution to this would be to create a standardized format (kind of like the YC application) which founders could submit to multiple VCs. Fortunately, AngelList is already busy solving this problem.

The designers at Salesforce recently wrote an excellent blogpost that relates to this: https://medium.com/p/c8f3001f709b

tl;dr Salesforce made a style guide and a HTML/CSS UI kit of the style guide. This allowed them to implement designs faster.

This font rendering issue is one of the most frustrating things about using Google Fonts. It's actually the reason I've stopped using the service completely.

I loved your previous redesigns but I felt this one wasn't quite there.

I had never been to DrChrono's website and didn't know much about them before this post - so your design was my first interaction with them. For the first minute of looking at your design I couldn't figure out:

-what the offering is

-what the value proposition is

I also found the headline "Efficient patient care at your finger tips" to be quite bland. In terms of design I found the page too busy and I initially didn't know where to focus. In my opinion this page is a long way from being as good as your redesign of Flutter.