Shindi

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by Shindi 4y ago
So wait, in your last venture you learned that you should do customer development on people who pay for products, not end users. And now you're deciding to make open source tooling? Who is going to pay for this? I was in your shoes,
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by Shindi 4y ago
The person in question - the ex CIA operative - just published a blog post on LinkedIn on how Meta is preparing for the elections in Kenya. Absolutely crazy that countries allow FB to operate in their countries!
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by Shindi 4y ago
What does this offer that StreetEasy + their "No Fee" filter does not?
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by Shindi 4y ago
Thinking about all the people ahead of us is super inspiring. Our world of 7.5B is expected to reach 10B in just 2050. I can't help but think about all the new lives coming into existence, experiencing life for the first time, seeing s
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by Shindi 4y ago
> Not trying to fix you. Just thought I'd throw out some ideas in case you wanna try. I really like this line. Going to steal : )
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by Shindi 4y ago
Just wanted to plug r/leaves . It's a great community that helps people figure out their reasons and quit. Sometimes that means quitting for one week, feeling good and going back. But it has helped me quit for good and so much hap
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by Shindi 4y ago
I also used to smoke frequently and fully stopped. I think my grandparent makes an interesting point about how habit forming it is because it's so safe which is a good and bad. Wish I had known how habit forming it is before I started.
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by Shindi 4y ago
I did not think back to the show but thank you for reminding me of this. Was one of the first sci fi shows I watched
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by Shindi 4y ago
Robinhood's PR team is doing an admirable job at trying to control these comments but the fact of the matter is that Robinhood's net margins are -200%. A random kid selling lemonade on the street and occasionally getting robbed ha
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by Shindi 4y ago
> the HM said that 500 people applied to the job I was interviewed at As someone who interviewed candidates in big tech, this sounds like a lot but you have to understand most people who apply are truly not qualified in any way. About a
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by Shindi 4y ago
+1 you are way more technical than you realize OP. The code your cofounder wrote is basically worthless if you don't have an engineer to maintain it anyways. I recommend no/low coding it. If you provide a way to contact you I can
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by Shindi 4y ago
I kinda disagree with this. Depends what percentage of the company OP has. Growth + marketing + content are critical functions despite what the HN crowd thinks.
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by Shindi 4y ago
Damn, that fucking sucks, but good for you for pursuing the mission. 6 months is not super long as it sounds like it takes 12-18 months to get to PMF. curious what your founder agreement says? Does it have a clause on dispute resolution? It
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by Shindi 4y ago
I lot of the comments hating on digital banks here have very "Why should I use dropbox when I have rsync" energy. People hate traditional banks because their physical location adds a cost which means they have to charge more. Just
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by Shindi 4y ago
> - Most banks (admittedly not for lower level accounts) will reimburse ATM fees. > - very low [ie non zero] minimums on their lower accounts. > - No argument with me on this one, consumer bank tech is some of the worst out there N
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by Shindi 4y ago
This is super super groundbreaking. Idk if people know this but because of card issuing as a service providers like Lithic or banking as a service providers, the technology cost to building neobanks has gone way down. However compliance&#x2
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by Shindi 4y ago
People who say they are bad at leetcode sound like the people who say they are bad at math. Sure, right now you might be worse at learning math than someone else, but there are strategies to learning math better If you are memorizing leetco
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by Shindi 4y ago
This is a dumb article. I like it. It's clear the author doesn't have a commercial goal, or really any goals imo, but is just playing around and tinkering. There is something really delightful about projects where there is no reve
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by Shindi 4y ago
I disagree with your choice of charity but I support your line of thinking and your choices. The fact that this charity has numbers puts it way ahead of the slush funds that do zero good (or negative good). I personally think that's ho
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by Shindi 4y ago
smh people in this thread using their own ignorance to hate on EA. There are valid criticisms of EA for sure . But let's not argue against straw people
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by Shindi 4y ago
It seems that a lot of people here think that EA focus on AGI is overblown because they personally think that AI risk is overblown. It's certainly debatable if a human level or greater AI will be created in the next 50-100 years. How
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by Shindi 4y ago
> AI ethics as a field is now mainstream Let me guess, you work in tech and in a city? I personally believe that if a super intelligent AI were to be created, then it would have the same effect on society as the advent of nuclear weapons
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by Shindi 4y ago
When I bring up poverty alleviation at EA meetups I feel like the response I get is "yeah that's definitely super important, we all donate to effective charities, but it's not fun to talk about as AI risk which makes for fun
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by Shindi 4y ago
Anecdotally, a ton of my EA friends have gotten introduced to EA through HPMOR. It's not as wild as a marketing strategy as OP makes it out to be.
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by Shindi 4y ago
If you're on LinkedIn you should follow VP of sales, Account Executives, SDRs, BDRs at people who work for sales software companies (SalesLoft, Outreach, Gong, Lavender). They post incredible advice. You have to get past their writing
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by Shindi 4y ago
You'd think companies spend more time trying to optimize their spend but I've seen 6 figure changes from tools like this. Filed under "obvious in retrospect".
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by Shindi 5y ago
Services that use google maps are also down
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by Shindi 5y ago
Agreed, super super important to do customer dev. What I haven't seen mentioned here is that if you do customer dev right, you get a leg up on sales. One of the slickest founders I know would get conversations with his target customers
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by Shindi 5y ago
Hey I think I might be able to help with marketing. What's a good way to contact you @batterylow?
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by Shindi 5y ago
Although I agree with your comment that you need to not ignore the nuance behind subgroups, I disagree with you calling your parent comment racist. These are hard questions and the nuance is not obvious to everyone. For example some people

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