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by asim 4y ago
It's the issue with the concept of sponsorship. It's still associated with optional donation rather than payment for a service or tool you need. That mindset shift is huge. Until someone does it we'll continue in the way we&#
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by asim 4y ago
I don't think current platforms make it easy for developers to make money from their software. Especially libraries. There's a total unwillingness to pay for support because it's easier to just open a GitHub issue and complai
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by asim 4y ago
"I now have six amazing clients, and I’m making an amount of money equivalent to my Google total compensation package,[1] which proves the thesis that it’s possible to be a professional maintainer earning rates competitive with the adj
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by asim 4y ago
The feed is one of the most dangerous inventions of modern times and now we're making it even more addictive. I really hope we stop to think about this at some point and realise we need to break away from this consumption format.
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by asim 4y ago
So my lessons here after trying to tackle this market, it's hard. You can look at articles by Rapid and others that list "Top APIs". You can do some customer research by going to places like HN or reddit where people say, &qu
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by asim 4y ago
Nothing flopped, it just never reached breakout success the way I wanted. Most things I managed to get into the top 5 of the front page of HN over the span of 8 years, whether it was a project, blog posts or products but that's just a
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by asim 4y ago
Cloud is the new power grid. When it goes down, we lose power to everything. Will we learn from the grid and decentralise some of the compute and cloud services?
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by asim 4y ago
Bring back text only services! Everything should be accessible in some simple text UI that's simple and clean. I don't think that's possible by stripping back websites, maybe layers on RSS feeds, APIs with a new UX, etc, etc.
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by asim 4y ago
Can I just say. I wish web pages were actually programmable. Every time I put together a website now I think damn, look at all this content stuck inside static html. I wish it was in a database and loaded from there, even if that database w
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by asim 4y ago
The issue with crypto is no one is really defining a protocol in the way we used to used to understand internet protocols. I'm all for blockchain and P2P but only where it makes sense. I've tried to understand how that would work
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by asim 4y ago
Yea you're right. Basically protocols or APIs for it.
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by asim 4y ago
I've come to the same conclusion. It only took me 8 years...but I'd hope it didn't rely on big tech to endorse it to work. I just don't know of another approach. Maybe publish a spec and see where it goes?
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by asim 4y ago
The programmable web. A singular gateway to a programmatic way in which you not only consume data but also services. It doesn't exist. We have a very fragmented ecosystem of http based services mixed with html, APIs and everything requ
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Ask HN: How did your life and career change at 40?
13 points by asim 4y ago|5 comments
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Ask HN: Light Phone Alternative for the Web?
2 points by asim 4y ago|0 comments
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by asim 4y ago
Yes, I'm just asking whether that needs to be Shopify? And whether their time is best spent elsewhere.
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by asim 4y ago
It shows that Ruby still has life left in it yet. The language itself is wonderful, there's a great ecosystem of tooling but the performance was always lagging. Hopefully some of this makes it a choice for people once more over other m
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by asim 4y ago
I didn't even think about this. They do have a cloud product in the works https://www.cerebras.net/product-cloud/ Wonder if crowdfunding could be used to gain shared access to this
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by asim 4y ago
Write a model to do image to text? In the case of things like the Quran pretty much all of it is digitized already so consumable by a model. Other things could be figured out over time. I think for a lot of things this could lead to huge br
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by asim 4y ago
I like the analogy of a utility bill, that makes sense.
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by asim 4y ago
So is blockchain just an economic and architectural model to run crowdsourced things of value like GPT models? I mean it seems like a good first use case.
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by asim 4y ago
Initially yes, so simple commands to APIs works, I've done this. What's harder and actually requires programming is when you want to combine the use of multiple APIs into some sort of workflow. You could start to write some sort o
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by asim 4y ago
I think the second part of what you said is key. Seeing this thread hit top of HN I can see there's a desire or need for something like this, but how you'd even go implementing it, I have no idea. I have mildly speculative ideas b
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by asim 4y ago
Personally? One I'm interested in is a personal assistant that has access to 100+ APIs that I can command solely with text e.g ability to schedule future tasks, ability to get answers to questions around real world events and data avai
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by asim 4y ago
Ah interesting. So I guess if they validate the thesis we could see a number of these right? Maybe co-op style, because you'd want some level of governance, not just, oh here's the cash and let's go run it, or oh hey let&#x27
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Ask HN: Can you crowdfund the compute for GPT?
153 points by asim 4y ago|146 comments
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by asim 4y ago
Is there a known solution for this? Use Gmail as a relay? Use sendgrid for inbound?
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Ask HN: Could you build a personal server from the ground up?
1 points by asim 4y ago|4 comments
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by asim 4y ago
What case do you use for this? How do you put this in the device?
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by asim 4y ago
Thanks for taking the time to provide such a detailed response. All your points make sense and it's those things that have to be resolved one by one to make anything like this not just a viable product but an actual sustainable busines

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