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by asim 3y ago
I like this. Speaks to my own goal of creating "micro" communities. https://micro.mu . We limit groups to 20 people. I think that's an ideal number for real connections. Need more, it's likely for a different
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Show HN: Proxy GPT – A GPT backend powered by OpenAI(github.com)
5 points by asim 3y ago|0 comments
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by asim 3y ago
Not the only company doing stealth cuts. The only reason it was declared is because it's public. Many will try to mitigate reputation damage by brushing it under the covers. They will not tell other employees who left or why. It'l
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by asim 3y ago
Not a competitor to Reddit but something for smaller private communities. It's called Micro Chat - https://micro.mu Previously on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36135683 I think the public communit
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Ask HN: What Do You Pay For?
11 points by asim 3y ago|21 comments
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by asim 3y ago
I think there's a distinction between the physical and the digital. One might say it's electrons at the end of the day but if you think about how we came into this world and how we've operated for a millennia, putting a veil
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by asim 3y ago
It's not healthy. It's not healthy because as devices and software improves people who are in isolation use it as a further form of isolation. It's easier to escape into technology than it is to go out and interact with real
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On Setting the Record Straight (Stability AI CEO)(emad.posthaven.com)
4 points by asim 3y ago|3 comments
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by asim 3y ago
When an idea like this strikes but doesn't take off there's definitely an element of "before it's time" but it's also really hard to get people to adopt opinionated development models unless it's part of a
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by asim 3y ago
The skeletons will slowly coming out of the closet now. People's motivations should never be taken at face value and neither should any response to why it was redacted. Everyone should be given the benefit of the doubt but you also don
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by asim 3y ago
Interesting. Thanks for the ideas. I think my initial ideas were around that dating all the way back to 2016 but I was never able to get it off the ground. Let me share an idea with you to get some feedback. https://mu.xyz/n
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Ask HN: Community Led Infrastructure
2 points by asim 3y ago|2 comments
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The perils of federated protocols (2016)(lwn.net)
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by asim 3y ago
Can I ask about the actual viability and profit margins on something like this? It feels like physical retail is a hard business. My father owned a cornershop selling papers, magazines, sweets, etc. It was tough.
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Train a model then burn it to the ground.
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Yea considering that but it would be a massive container with some quirks still to solve. I think it will depend on how many people really initially ask for it and then whether we can see a path forward for it.
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Fixed
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I don't really want to build another megacorp. I've done the VC funded route and played the ambition dream chasing game. It's not for me. If anything, the mission is to be the anti-facebook. To build something community led a
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by asim 3y ago
Thanks for the kind words! Sorry the other stuff took a bad turn. I raised VC funding in 2019 as a solo founder and ended up in the relentless pursuit of product market fit after building an oss project. That plus COVID plus a baby plus not
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by asim 3y ago
Apologies. Having some platform issues.
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by asim 3y ago
Haha this is good advice. I have been known to spend thousands of iterations on landing pages and readmes for Dev tools. So I think I'm all for the iterations. And yea I agree there's more to be done on the messaging side. I appre
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by asim 3y ago
I do agree. The hard part will be figuring out how to do that. So my background is in networks and I think SMTP was always a great example of a solid network. The question on the self hosting front is, how many moving parts will people tole
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by asim 3y ago
Thanks! Still figuring it out. I think it definitely has to make money somehow but too early to say how. First ideas were obvious ones but I think we might do something like charging for additional services within the chat e.g commands that
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by asim 3y ago
:D I was in the middle of a holiday and on a whim decided to post it. I'm sort of in a strange phase of trying to figure my life out and part of that means reflexively doing things in the hope it works. Past HN traction usually gave me
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by asim 3y ago
I really like this idea. No bots. It's quite refreshing considering everything is about to get AI-ified.
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by asim 3y ago
Thanks! Gotta give credit to a past friend and colleague who came up with that idea when we went through a previous incarnation of this for teams during the pandemic.
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by asim 3y ago
Thanks that's really positive to hear! And I agree. Where everyone is talking about AI I'm really thinking, what does a private human only network look like. We should really just all go offline but in the digital world that means
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by asim 3y ago
I think the screenshot thing is coming up a lot so I'll craft something for it. On holiday at the moment with no laptop. Just thought I'd share it asap!
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by asim 3y ago
Thanks, I'll take those comments on board. I literally just posted it as soon as I thought it was ready to go. I think the big elephant in the room is definitely how you get people to move off other platforms but then I realised I can&
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by asim 3y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I guess my issue is, as a user of slack, discord, twitter, WhatsApp and other chat products, they have never really solved my community problems. Discord is a largely public gamer platform that is now being used for

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