byoung2

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by byoung2 2y ago
If your SaaS is just a wrapper around an API call to AI, then it can be copied easily. But if you offer more than that (e.g. integration with other services, partnerships, etc), then that's your secret sauce.
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by byoung2 2y ago
Looks interesting. How would you approach write and multiple read replicas with this setup? My holy grail would be allowing users to get data from read replica, but also writing to the read replica which then forwards those writes to the pr
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by byoung2 2y ago
What is happening now is current software engineers are using it to make their jobs easier but they still have jobs. We are a long way from product people being able to ask AI to write production code. But we are probably pretty close to ju
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by byoung2 2y ago
Still under investigation
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by byoung2 2y ago
While it is true that everything CAN be outsourced, not everything SHOULD be outsourced. Generally, anything that is not your core competency is a good candidate for outsourcing. So your example of payroll processing is a good idea to outso
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by byoung2 2y ago
I hope that data is encrypted at rest, so even in the event of a physical breach the data would be useless.
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by byoung2 2y ago
We live walking distance to the major hospital in the city, and my wife works there. So she is tracking down the travel nurse agency they work with to partner up with them.
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by byoung2 2y ago
If you have an ADU or property next door that you can clean yourself, you get to keep all of the upsides Yeah we have an ADU so we can handle all the maintenance and cleaning without having to hire someone or drive across the city.
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by byoung2 2y ago
Your parents' motel, was the problem with offering weekly and monthly stays and then people squatting? Our AirBnB guest has great reviews and multiple medium term stays, so I'm hoping they won't want to throw that away to squ
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by byoung2 2y ago
Yeah pick your poison...under 30 days and you need a permit and you have to follow all the restrictions for the city. Over 30 days and you run the risk of squatters, evictions, etc. Though a solid background and credit check, deposit, and&#
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by byoung2 2y ago
No bookings with VRBO yet. I have a feeling the audience there is more vacation rentals, and we are going for more of the traveling nurse, primary home under renovation, or just divorced and I moved out crowd.
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by byoung2 2y ago
I live in Los Angeles and new rules make it very difficult to do short term rentals (you need a permit, it can only be your primary residence, and they cap it at 120 days of rentals per year). Medium term is better, no special permit requir
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by byoung2 2y ago
Could you elaborate?
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by byoung2 2y ago
If they are pre-seed, what do they have built already and how do you know about it? What stage is your company?
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by byoung2 2y ago
Not sure what payment method you used, but you might try pursuing a claim with the payment company. Credit cards can usually do disputes within 6 months.
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by byoung2 3y ago
Shopify website: "Start for free, then enjoy $1/month for 3 months". If you are going to be selling items, then you should be earning $40 a month after the trial period
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by byoung2 3y ago
It feels a lot like the blockchain/crypto/NFT hype of 2021. Lots of activity and interest, but really there wasn't that killer app to take advantage of it. So people moved on to other things. Maybe once someone finds that kil
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by byoung2 3y ago
the fact that centralized marketplaces have this power is the real key feature that is broken
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by byoung2 3y ago
I think the benefit is that the services don't have to communicate directly with each other. So you have a user's cart that needs tax and shipping calculated. So you add a message to the queue, and one of the hundreds of nodes in
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by byoung2 3y ago
I did contract work for Under Armour and their setup used microservices for everything (facet search, tax calculation, shipping calculation, cart, checkout, user data, etc). They used Docker and Kubernetes for nodejs apps for each service,
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by byoung2 3y ago
Why not just use the Gmail API? https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/guides
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by byoung2 3y ago
From our YC app we explained that our plan for adoption would focus on add-ons for existing email clients to display the markup and to capture metadata when emails are composed (Gmail and Chrome extensions, plugins for Outlook, Thunderbird,
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by byoung2 3y ago
That's why we're stuck with Gmail as the state of the art 10 years later.
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by byoung2 3y ago
It just uses open source markup from https://schema.org/ , so there is no reason that other email clients couldn't implement it as well.
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by byoung2 3y ago
I have wondered this as well. Nearly 10 years ago I applied to yCombinator with an idea for a new type of email that was based on semantic markup in messages that would enable hundreds of these types of actions to be done right in the messa
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by byoung2 3y ago
If the agency is profitable, maybe hire someone using those profits to take the workload off. That will give you time to build your app.
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by byoung2 3y ago
1) All of the rights we are guaranteed, like freedom of speech, religion, the press, etc. 2) Those rights apply to everyone, even visitors. I hate that some countries discriminate against foreigners (try to buy land and a foreigner in the P
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by byoung2 3y ago
Sometimes I'm blocked on something so I can't write any code, so I just say that I was blocked. Sometimes I have meetings all day and I didn't write any code so I say that I was in meetings all day and didn't get to work
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by byoung2 4y ago
10 or 12 years ago, you used to see tons of "Rate My Startup" or "Rate My Weekend Project" posts, and there were a lot more posts with text versus urls. This has definitely changed over time from what felt like a hacker
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by byoung2 4y ago
Case in point...in the past, I would care about downvotes on a legitimate comment like this, but now I don't really care

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