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by desktopentree 11d ago
Thanks for the comment and suggestion! Petrel, in its current state, is deliberately in the post-planning phase of travel, but definitely great ideas on planning portion. We are agnostic on which LLM does the parsing because the rules and s
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by desktopentree 11d ago
Very fair callout and question. The extraction setup was actually the easy part. The magic in the tool is from the deterministic rules I put in place over months of iteration using it myself. Inconsistent date formats, multi-lingual reserva
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by desktopentree 12d ago
No worries and I appreciate the feedback!
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by desktopentree 12d ago
For the technical audience, the tool runs on Cloudflare Worker with D1 for data and R2 for photos. It's one hand-rolled HTML file and is only ~1.1MB. I built in an HEIC decoder utilizing libheif in a Web Worker. It also has an android
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by desktopentree 13d ago
Thank you! I had a lot of fun branding it around the bird. Do you have any unique booking confirmations to test the tool with?
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Show HN: I made an automated day-by-day itinerary organizer for my trip to Spain(petrelvoyage.com)
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by desktopentree 17d ago
Claude drives me absolutely crazy for that very reason. It's so obvious when people use it to write anything.
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by desktopentree 2mo ago
I'm a fractional CFO. Fractional service works for functions that are judgment-dense and cadence-light. You pay for expertise and experience. It's essentially an advisor more than an employee. For building an app, you should hire
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by desktopentree 2mo ago
the deployment targets that got cheap over the last five years are all stateless and a protocol that fights that gets no serverless implementations
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by desktopentree 2mo ago
From a financial perspective, what were your biggest challenges? What was the working capital cycle like? Were you forced to do a certain level of minimum order quantities and did the cash constraint limit other decisions?
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by desktopentree 2mo ago
The pressure is real but that's kind of what we sign up for. If it's not working, part of being an entrepreneur is knowing when to quit and avoiding falling into the sunk cost fallacy. Quitting this one project doesn't mean y
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by desktopentree 2mo ago
I agree with people saying LLM developed websites and apps are just more quickly sent to market and they all likely have similar issues and less oversight.
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by desktopentree 2mo ago
Six days and three posts isn't really a hard launch. A stress test with trusted users is really important before a hard launch to work out the bugs. I'm going through the same thing with my product launched last week. I'm goi
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by desktopentree 2mo ago
From a CFO perspective, this is catastrophic. With monthly billing automatically feeding monthly close pipelines, this would result in results that either need to be adjusted (without proper support) or tank performance until it's fixe
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by desktopentree 2mo ago
I personally feel one of the biggest shifts is LLM's making it so easy to launch your own website and product that Shopify will start to be damaged dramatically.
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by desktopentree 2mo ago
i see this less as a pricing or free market issue and more of a governance concern. trading against your own consumer base isn't free market.
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by desktopentree 2mo ago
i ran into a similar issue when researching how to get my project off the ground. the key is having an aged account with karma and being open and honest about you building the product instead of attempting guerrilla marketing.
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by desktopentree 2mo ago
from my experience, changing signup friction changes the funnel math. without users, your monetization strategy immediately fails. converting interested users into free users should be almost instantaneous. once you've proven your valu
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by desktopentree 2mo ago
if growth doesn't materialize, then the infrastructure build out plays out exactly like the dot com bubble. the biggest difference this time around is the earnings. if those fall, the rest crubmles.
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by desktopentree 3mo ago
I agree with other comments that a multi-app version would be great. Overall, very simple and functions well. I like it.
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by desktopentree 3mo ago
I catch a lot of issues on the technical writing side.
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by desktopentree 3mo ago
every output looks similar now across the coding models
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by desktopentree 3mo ago
I had serious concerns as an accountant until I realized how familiar everything sounded.