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I'm always a bit surprised when startups come out of stealth mode with no product demo videos and only a press release. My guess is they're either wanting to ra
by simple10 2y ago
I'm always a bit surprised when startups come out of stealth mode with no product demo videos and only a press release. My guess is they're either wanting to raise more money before official launch, or just wanting to grab a press cycle ahead of competitor announcements to build the waitlist. Is there any strategic reason in 2024 to not include more details on the website?
- mooreds 2y agoThey raised 277M. I hope they don't need to raise more money: https://www.augmentcode.com/blog/augment-inc-raises-227-million https://www.augmentcode.com/blog/augment-inc-raises-227-mill...
- simple10 2y agoIt's AI. They'll likely end up raising a lot more money if for no other reason than acquisitions and building a financial mote. The AI companies with the most money in the bank will likely win.
- krainboltgreene 2y agoI ask that you look at the last 20 years of venture capital and tell me if they're going to be able to stop.
- mooreds 2y agoSure, but not right now (since they just raised their B). My guess is it was the second reason: > wanting to grab a press cycle ahead of competitor announcements to build the waitlist.
- mritchie712 2y agoalso, why be in stealth for such an obvious product? There are dozens of recently launched well funded competitors in addition to all the incumbents that have added similar features.
- silenced_trope 2y agoRight? I wonder what this will offer? Marginal improvement over GitHub CoPilot or Cursor?
- abhyantrika 2y agoIs there any product that allows me to plug in my own Open source LLM and run it locally?
- Havoc 2y agoYep. Continue.dev with ollama. Works but the suggests tend to be short. Like a smart auto complete Needs a gpu though not a big vram one given that using smaller models for this is better due to speed
- btzs 2y agoTabby.ml also works well
- SmellTheGlove 2y agoRubber duck does.
- readyplayernull 2y agoIn case they failed.
- wnc3141 2y agoyour hit rate as an investor/ entreprenuer goes up if your poor investments stay in the dark
- choppaface 2y agoFor LLM stuff, one upside to “stealth” is you might obfuscate your GPU demand. Now that the GPU market knows there’s another player with over $200m to burn, the market is going to want to take every last penny of that funding.
- simple10 2y agoNot to belabor the point, but for comparison sake, here's another launch on HN today for an AI tool[1] that can create frontend code. When I asked to make a landing page with Augment's value proposition, it created a decent looking site that included a demo video section and testimonials. I'm eager to try out Augment to see if it can create it's own landing page. lol https://langcss.com/ https://langcss.com/
- dmaleknia 2y agoI'm happy to show you the demo and discuss. Email me: dominic@augmentcode.com
- PedroBatista 2y agoThe "stealth" of today is like wearing a 1975 Stones concert tour T-shirt. It's a both external and internal hype play so everybody knows we "are changing the World", they just don't know it yet. It's whatever, doesn't mean anything. The only hook I found is the "we got money from Eric Schmidt and got some hyper-local celebs from big companies like Google" line. All I see is a small constellation of "big" names and an uninspiring "fine-tuned “industry-leading” model". Not poo-pooing anything, I'll just wait for the actual product.
- siva7 2y agoHere's why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo Thank me later.