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by herval 1y ago
there’s no evidence “Tea” was vibecoded (especially because it was launched in early 2023, when tools like Cursor weren’t really widely used). All evidence seems to point to the usual issue 9 out of 10 startups face (and have always faced)
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by herval 1y ago
Lovable was (is?) heavily vibe-coded AFAIK. Allegedly there’s a lot of 1-2 people startups making good money out there, and those were likely impossible without vibe coding (they’d take much more time to build) The “toy app” feel is really
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by herval 1y ago
This site could use about 2 thousand fewer words and perhaps one or two images…
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by herval 1y ago
> lots of people doing alternative interfaces to access Facebook and Reddit. So… what we had on web 2 then, with its daily twitter clients? There were hundreds and hundreds of them
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by herval 1y ago
For me personally, it has been writing about 90% of all the frontend and ios/swift code I get to write and about half the backend code.
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by herval 1y ago
What’s the best “agentic framework” options these days, besides langchain? (Other than “build your own” - In particular something that gives me observability/evals out of the box)
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by herval 1y ago
The same kind of environment that made VCs pour billions into Bored Apes just a few years ago enables this: sunk cost + FOMO Early investors incentivized to pump and dump their bags, new investors still believing the dream of AI agents bein
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by herval 1y ago
Is that really “set for life” amounts in the US these days? Sounds quite low. I can imagine it being a ton of money in the early 2000s, but not these days (unless you also have a fully paid out house on top of it, at least)
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by herval 1y ago
He wouldn’t even be in Zuckerberg’s circle if his family wasn’t wealthy to begin with. Life isn’t fair, who could’ve guessed that?
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by herval 1y ago
There’s still idealists and inventors around. The problem is that the bulk of investment money these days comes through professional finance people (not the stereotypical “engineer who made a lot of money and now wants to help others”), who
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by herval 1y ago
I met Woz briefly at a Coffee Shop in NYC, many years ago. I was pitching investors for funding and had no idea what I was doing. He gave me some quick feedback that made a world of difference in SF (years later, when I tried raising angel
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by herval 1y ago
Trivia: Saverin still owns 2% of Facebook. He’s currently the richest Brazilian (and of Singapore, where he lives), according to multiple sources. Now _that_ is how you ride off into the sunset!
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by herval 1y ago
Drinking water? The body will get more and more thirsty! Taking vitamin supplements because the modern diet doesn’t provide all the nutrients your body needs? The body will start demanding more vitamins!!
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by herval 1y ago
Hasn’t that been the case for a while? I’d imagine the combined traffic to all sites on the web combined doesn’t match a single hour of the traffic to the top 5 social media sites. The web is pretty much dead for a while now, many companies
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by herval 1y ago
I’m guessing OP is asking if it’s possible to verify they’re honoring the contract and deleting the data?
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by herval 1y ago
I admire this dude a lot. Clearly obsessed about this product/space
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by herval 1y ago
That's true. I wish I could make good memes or could sell shock-value crap like "cheat on everything" with a straight face... limiting my potential there
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by herval 1y ago
Todoist is a huge outlier. They had an early mover advantage (it was one of the first mobile todo apps). A few other Todo players also managed to keep an audience, even after Apple and Google rolled their (still half baked in 2025) alternat
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by herval 1y ago
Which calendar app makes millions exactly? If you’re talking Calendly, they had multiple years of headstart against Google (plus the pandemic boom). Basic calendaring apps don’t really make for VC-backable business. That said, I don’t think
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by herval 1y ago
Following on this offtopic - I wonder if there was ever another case of the Dropbox thread effect on HN? I don’t recall any other cases…
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by herval 1y ago
This is neat but I gotta ask - what’s your moat against Anthropic just launching the same thing a week from now? Codex already works from your phone, I imagine Anthropic is well on its way to ship Claude Code across devices/apps too..
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by herval 1y ago
back in the 1880s, people didn't even need refrigerators!
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by herval 1y ago
It certainly is. It's not exclusive to Apple, however - _all_ the big tech (and non-tech) companies offered tribute, in one form or another. Despite it being illegal, it seems to be the new government practice. Whether that'll lea
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by herval 1y ago
So you don't use a smartphone?
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by herval 1y ago
Apple is certainly fumbling in recent years, and it's clearly behind in some games (Siri, AI in general, iPhones turning into a yearly snooze-fest). But of all the FAANG, I'd say it's the only one I trust, simply because they
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by herval 1y ago
Where do you get started with something like this? Sounds like a fun project
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by herval 1y ago
They never compare with other vendors
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by herval 1y ago
most importantly, will we carry 1000 of the best minds of our generation, 1000 hairdressers/insurance salesmen/management consultants or 1000 billionaires and their direct families?
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by herval 1y ago
I’m I being pedantic or does the jules.google landing page screams “howdie, kids” (the Buschemi meme). It tries to be funny and authentic, but the cheap looking mascot and low contrast text makes it feel like IBM pretending to be vibecoded
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by herval 1y ago
I keep my typos organic — it proves I’m not an LLM

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