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pyankoff

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pyankoff··on Can GPT-5 Beat My Favorite Daily Puzzle Game?
Very cool! The massive outperformance of GPT-5 looks like there is something different in their training data indeed. Considering their previous work on games, wouldn't be surprising if they generated some synthetic game data.
pyankoff··on Show HN: Napkin – Build back-end functions in the browser
Writing simple cloud functions right in the browser makes so much sense to me. I've used webtask.io before it was acquired and shut down. I had to switch to GCP cloud functions and it's lots of pain. Every time I want to run the function I need to deploy it first and it takes like a minute.

Playing with Napkin, it looks very promising. Just the things I need: write random code, test it right there, press deploy and get the endpoint right away.

Love that it's free for personal use. Just make sure you make enough money on paid plans and don't shut down like Webtask!

pyankoff··on ‘Success Addicts’ Choose Being Special over Being Happy
Richard Hamming disagrees:

"Is effort to be a great person worth it? ...those who did succeed said - Yes it's better than wine women and song put together... Doing something really first class and knowing you've done it is better than anything else they can think of."

https://youtu.be/a1zDuOPkMSw?t=2461

pyankoff··on Ex-YC partner Daniel Gross rethinks the accelerator
I would say not really, apart from the fact that they both fund individuals or projects at the earliest possible stage.

EF is in-person and more focused on matching co-founders and forming teams. You need to have a project for Pioneer, while EF accepts people based on their profile/interviews.

You can say that all accelerators are pretty similar: you get investment, listen to some speakers, attend office hours, etc. So what matters in the end is the network of people running the program and participating in it.

pyankoff··on Ex-YC partner Daniel Gross rethinks the accelerator
Playing the Pioneer tournament is super fun and https://airsite.co probably wouldn't exist without it.
pyankoff··on Show HN: Airsite – a mobile app for building simple websites
Nope, thanks for letting me know. Will fix!
pyankoff··on Show HN: Airsite – a mobile app for building simple websites
Haha, yeah, definitely not the effect I was going for :) They are real though, but I see what you mean, lots of room for improvement.

Thanks for the note, fixing Firefox!

pyankoff··on Show HN: Airsite – a mobile app for building simple websites
Definitely need to improve Privacy Policy. I've just used some random privacy policy generator a few months ago when it was just a random side project.

There is a paid PRO plan in the app. It's pretty standard for site builders - pay for custom domains and premium blocks. I'll add this info to the website.

Thank you for the feedback!

pyankoff··on Show HN: Airsite – a mobile app for building simple websites
Hi, thank you!

Great question, I don't think I realized how many website builders there are before I started working on Airsite :D Just on Product Hunt: there is another one launching today, and one yesterday.

I think the main differentiator now is that it's mobile-first, there are not that many of those and even fewer good ones.

The problem with the mobile focus is that building a website is kind of too complex of a task for mobile. Not having a mouse/keyboard and having all your controls on the same small mobile screen makes everything so much harder.

So, to summarize, I'm differentiating by focusing on mobile, but there are some trade-offs in that focus that make it harder to build a good product. I hope not impossible. I guess we'll see :)

pyankoff··on Show HN: Airsite – a mobile app for building simple websites
Thanks! I actually did build the https://airsite.co home page with the Airsite app (meta! :)

I'm still debating if I should have a bare bones landing page with just 2 download app buttons or show off the possibilities of the editor more.

I would probably add a web version at some point. Desktop is definitely more convenient for "building a website" type of work. I guess many people who want to build something on mobile now, just don't have access to desktop and therefore have to do it on mobile.

pyankoff··on Show HN: Airsite – a mobile app for building simple websites
Hey everyone! I've been hacking on Airsite for the past few months. It started as a side project, but now I'm kind of full time on it.

The goal is to build something that's friendly and intuitive for someone who makes their first website. But also powerful and flexible enough for power users who can create pretty much anything they want. I made 3 iterations of the editor and the current one is pretty close to flexbox layout.

I would really appreciate any feedback! You can email me at andrey@airsite.co tweet @pyankoff or join the discussion on Product Hunt - https://www.producthunt.com/posts/airsite

pyankoff··on Scaling to 1M active GraphQL subscriptions on Postgres
Re 1: You can do `users_by_pk(id: 1)` for a while now.
pyankoff··on Antarctica’s potential collapse could damage coastal cities across the globe
Thank you, now that makes sense.
pyankoff··on Antarctica’s potential collapse could damage coastal cities across the globe
What's wrong with underwater ice melting? Ice density is lower than waters, so water level should actually decrease from that.
pyankoff··on I am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator – AMA
Hi Sam, what skills would you learn today to maximize your "founder potential"?

Web/mobile development is kind of commodity already. One can learn nuclear physics, but it doesn't feel like you can hack on it a lot.

pyankoff··on Ask HN: Are there any services helping think better?
Yeah, is it any good?