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by elawler24 2y ago
This reminds me of Cloudflare's focus on the innovator's solution and how they justified competing against giants like AWS and Google. They created a new market focused on startup adoption, based on ease of adoption and more reaso
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by elawler24 2y ago
Before, I ate low sugar / carb and high on cheese, meat, whole milk, yogurt, and veggies (close to keto). Now I eat a lot of rice, beans, while grains, and veggies. I’m trying to figure out how to get enough protein though, that’s the
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by elawler24 2y ago
I do have a fear that staying vegan will have other negative effects, unrelated to cholesterol - esp brain and bone density related. For me that means cutting out cheese, milk, and butter as much as possible. But having fish and lean meats
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by elawler24 2y ago
High cholesterol and heart attacks are common in my family. This year, after my dad had intensive open heart surgery, my doctor recommended trying a strict plant-based diet for 90 days with a blood test before and after. She had been studyi
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by elawler24 2y ago
The best way to get started is to use a trusted design system on the frontend, and follow their components, layouts, and color scheme exactly. Once you know the rules and have something basic implemented, you can break the rules from there.
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by elawler24 2y ago
It’s a grind to run this kind of business. You’re sometimes dealing with life and death situations (you’re liable for someone’s electricity or heating 24/7). Talent is really hard to come by at a reasonable rate, especially reliable ma
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by elawler24 2y ago
My dad bought a failing HVAC business 30+ years ago, then made it profitable over the years and sold it back to his employees last year. He had the option to take a few highly lucrative PE deals, but it was clear they would squeeze the life
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by elawler24 2y ago
It’s not simply more hours in, more money out. It’s the desire to work hard that matters. This is the difference between junior investment bankers and engineers. Both have to work hard at the beginning of their careers to justify being paid
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by elawler24 2y ago
Thank you for trying to take on this problem, it’s really bad though. I did a PH launch this summer resulting in a few hundred unique website views. Comments besides people I already knew were either bots or promotional. Lots of bounty hunt
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by elawler24 2y ago
Got it. We can store logs to your purpose-built analytics DB of choice. PostgreSQL (Neon) is our free self-serve offering because it’s easy to spin up quickly.
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by elawler24 2y ago
It's a standalone DB, just for LLM logging. Since it's your DB - you can configure data retention, and migrate data to an analytics DB / warehouse if cost or latency becomes a concern. And, we're happy to support whateve
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by elawler24 2y ago
We can support any database you need, PostgreSQL is the easiest way to get started.
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by elawler24 2y ago
I’m a product designer, so we tend to approach everything from first principles. Our aim is to keep as much complexity in code as possible, and only surface UI when it solves a problem for our users. We like using tools like Vercel and Supa
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by elawler24 2y ago
We already support OpenAI and Anthropic endpoints, and can add models/endpoints quickly based on your requirements. We plan to expand to Llama and other self-hosted models soon. Do you have a specific model you want supported?
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by elawler24 2y ago
We could support any API. We’re focused on building data pipelines and tooling for LLM use cases.
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by elawler24 2y ago
Right now, it’s a managed service that we set up for you (we’re still a small team). Email me if you’re interested and I can share details - emma@usevelvet.com.
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by elawler24 2y ago
Velvet takes <5 mins to get set up in any language, which is why we started as a proxy. We offer managed / custom deployments for enterprise customers, so we can support your client requirements. We warehouse logs directly to your D
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by elawler24 2y ago
Might be a Cloudflare flag. Can you email me your IP address and we'll look into it? emma@usevelvet.com.
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by elawler24 2y ago
Thanks! You can layer on as much detail as you need by including meta tags in the header, which is useful for tracing RAG and agent pipelines. But would love to understand your particular RAG setup and whether that gives you enough granular
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by elawler24 2y ago
Depends on the scenario. In a threaded query, or multiple queries from the same user - you’d want different outputs. If 20 different users are looking for the same result - a cache would return the right answer immediately for no marginal c
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by elawler24 2y ago
Thanks for the detail! This is a use case we plan to support, and it will be configurable (for when you don’t want it). Some of our customers run into this when different users ask a similar query - “NY-based consumer founders” vs “consumer
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by elawler24 2y ago
There were plenty of UI-based low code platforms. But they required that we adopt new abstractions, use their UI, and log into 5 different tools (logging, observability, analytics, evals, fine-tuning) just to run basic software infra. We di
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by elawler24 2y ago
The self-serve version is hosted (it’s easy to try locally), but we offer managed deployments where you bring your own DB. In this case your data is 100% yours, in your PostgreSQL. That’s how Find AI uses Velvet.
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Show HN: Velvet – Store OpenAI requests in your own DB(usevelvet.com)
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by elawler24 2y ago
This sounds like the engineer / designer dream. Make the best product possible, and the users will follow. Vibes work in a world where money is free and timelines are endless (low interest rates, funding the business with contract work
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by elawler24 2y ago
Eventually it becomes a requirement for closing deals with companies who have compliance requirements with their own customers. But it’s expensive and time consuming, so only worth it if it’s actually blocking large contracts. You can use s
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by elawler24 2y ago
I can move faster in Figma than most people can type the NL query to automate code. Which helps us validate high-level ideas before it “works”. It forces us to take a beat and make sure we’re introducing something of value to the internet a
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by elawler24 2y ago
But all of the example stories are far deeper than “wrappers”. They do have a moat, and use OpenAI (or x model) as a commodity like AWS or Google Cloud. They’re mixing models with their proprietary data and leveraging techniques that are ha
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by elawler24 2y ago
Fundraising for the first time might be hard - persistence and tenacity will get you through it. Put together a pitch deck, demo, maybe a 1-pager, and a spreadsheet of every founder and investor you know. Start lining up meetings, and your
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by elawler24 2y ago
I met one of the PMs building this. She was working on NL unified search for the feed. I noticed it’s gotten way better in the last few weeks. Instead of using Google to search [first name][last name][“linkedin”], now i can reliably type my

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