jimhi

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by jimhi 3y ago
Majority of my projects were the front page of hackernews, I also tracked traffic, engagement, and users each time. End result is its almost entirely for my own ego and my peers seeing what I've done. No lasting users https:/&#x2
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by jimhi 3y ago
Got a few always in progress Free reminder text service Lazyreminder.com Free online interactive comic book maker Elonman.com
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by jimhi 3y ago
You might be amused that my company literally uses raspberry pi's in production as they are cheap and let us encourage our customers to hack on the robot themselves - https://openshelf.com/
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by jimhi 3y ago
It is my opinion that very few interesting successes made it before the age of 30 - https://mrsteinberg.com/creatives-who-made-it-when-they-were...
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by jimhi 3y ago
Not sure where this prevailing myth comes from. I’ve went through y combinator twice, one of the batches I was in had an average age above 36. Many have never started a startup before. Paul Graham and his cofounders were 30 and up when star
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by jimhi 3y ago
The most interesting finding so far is it will blur any human face: https://twitter.com/j_stonemountain/status/16986398994091911... Open to more ideas of what to send it
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Testing GPT4 Image Recognition (Beta)(twitter.com)
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by jimhi 3y ago
Thanks! You reminded me to offer to buy him dinner
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by jimhi 3y ago
If you want to you could get a normal job or keep it running on the side. Personally, I was prepared to do anything until it worked out as I had no option to get a job. My history: https://dare.fail/
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by jimhi 3y ago
Not the same. Hiring a female CEO can and should happen often. But when a company is publicly failing, this is a tool used by male boards frequently enough to have its own Wikipedia page.
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by jimhi 3y ago
Because he has an outdated leadership playbook for Twitter. He has had a good track record and he also runs his other companies surprisingly well. I think this decision is set up for the new CEO to fail.
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by jimhi 3y ago
Bad tech CEOs all have the same playbook. Google “glass cliff.” Elon will step down and have this new CEO execute all his most unpopular decisions. Then he’ll swoop back in and be CEO again hoping to be the hero. Reddit did this. Yahoo did
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by jimhi 3y ago
They literally had 10+ millions to spend on research with no prototype and only a vague idea of how to produce a profitable product by saying they will create an AGI and "ask it how to make money." for several years
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by jimhi 4y ago
At seed stage it the caps I’ve seen can range from 6-40 million taking these size checks. It’s truly all over the place
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by jimhi 4y ago
Im surprised hacker news readers don’t know many yc companies take 10k checks at demo day. There’s also companies like https://attack.capital/ where small amounts can be distributed into several companies.
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by jimhi 4y ago
Launch and continually market at least 6 of them and one might be successful in my case
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Everything I disliked about Y Combinator after going through it twice(mrsteinberg.com)
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Show HN: LazyReminder – Free reminders that keep following up(lazyreminder.com)
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Live testing if GTP4 can be more interesting than a person(twitter.com)
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by jimhi 4y ago
Yes, interviewed with, or put some kind of time investment in
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by jimhi 4y ago
I didn't have money or income for the vast majority of this. Parents couldn't help. What else do you have to do than think about where your next dollar will come from?
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by jimhi 4y ago
I thought like you until about a year ago. Marketing is a skill much like software development and people much less deserving than you are making far more money than you and actively saying things that making our world worse. I don't t
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by jimhi 4y ago
If you do end up creating - send to me
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by jimhi 4y ago
Specifically Lincoln was a failure well into his 40s - https://mrsteinberg.com/creatives-who-made-it-when-they-were...
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by jimhi 4y ago
This is cool as heck - Yes I did which led to me realizing I have no money for cameras and sound and lighting which led to the interactive comics website.
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by jimhi 4y ago
That's cool I'll share that if you are cool with it
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by jimhi 4y ago
Sure - how?
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by jimhi 4y ago
Interview: Build this feature we want on our website that isn't there. After interview: Feature is suddenly on the website exactly as I wrote it. These guys aren't smart.
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by jimhi 4y ago
If you couldn't tell, I literally couldn't get a job...
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by jimhi 4y ago
I actually just leave the other stuff in autopilot and focus on the next one entirely unless I see it isn't working out.

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