lifekaizen

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by lifekaizen 8y ago
(It’s helpful for the first post to be a summary, right?) “Instead of building your own ground station or entering in to a long-term contract, you can make use of AWS Ground Station on an as-needed, pay-as-you-go basis... You don’t need t
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by lifekaizen 8y ago
Thanks for sharing your thought process, I found it interesting. I get the sense that there’s a gem in your scripting, and one of those might become useful and need more work, and then you’d have a reason to scale it. There’s [a recent inte
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by lifekaizen 8y ago
I think there's some nuance about charging for the thing as if it were not a prototype - so the prototype part is (somewhat) hidden to the user. People just respond differently, and you get market testing. Somehow in hardware this seem
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by lifekaizen 8y ago
You can go for the other paradigm, however, which is more like hand-building each one, but could be thought of as a high-quality prototype meant for sale. It's much more expensive per unit, but you learn every time, and hey no tooling
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by lifekaizen 8y ago
To me, this is a different thing. I think most founders would say things that don't scale are hacks that let them go faster, but cause extra work on the back-end or a higher unit cost. The upshot is speed to revenue or product-market f
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Show HN: Stockd – an app that lets you know when to reorder something(staystockd.com)
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by lifekaizen 10y ago
Please don't assume the OP is male or not solving technical challenges. She's a YC founder recently profiled in a technical magazine (PCB Design - see: http://www.iconnect007.com/index.php/article/100587&
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by lifekaizen 10y ago
We looked at CircuitMaker but it appears that you can't have private designs - they are all public. So fine for open source but difficult to use for product dev.
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by lifekaizen 10y ago
True, Altium has done a great job with bringing in the modern features but we weren't comfortable shipping a product with "borrowed" software. We've found some tools that help with the others. For example, SnapEDA has a
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Cinder (YC W15) is hiring a Senior EE/VPE to ship millions of units worldwide(angel.co)
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by lifekaizen 11y ago
That is a good idea, I'll look into doing that!
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by lifekaizen 11y ago
That can totally work. I also cooked salmon with nothing but hot tap water at the office, it turns out most taps are around 118F which is low temp salmon! (of course you should decide for yourself if you're ok eating food cooked below
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by lifekaizen 11y ago
No question that a torch is an amazing tool for the ultimate high temp sear. We are going as high as we can in an electric device, shooting for 500F in the first version. However, the most interesting thing is that we've found there ar
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by lifekaizen 11y ago
I see this as two camps. One is helping people cook and get comfortable and have fun with that, and the other is based on the new food science of temperature. This is most commonly known today as sous vide and implemented with an immersion
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by lifekaizen 11y ago
That's how we built our app, you tell Cinder it's chicken and it's the time/temperature profile. You can also manually control temperature precisely from 70F to 525F, and the even high heat sear has amazed many chefs. We
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by lifekaizen 11y ago
The key here is that precision, low-temperature cooking allows you to cook more tender and juicy food. Above 140F or so, proteins tend to seize up and drive moisture out. If you haven't tried this kind of cooking, I'd highly recom
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by lifekaizen 11y ago
This is one reason we chose the form factor that we did for Cinder, because we can automatically measure thickness. We found that's something rather hard for people to do, no one really wants to hold up raw meat to a ruler app on their
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by lifekaizen 11y ago
I worked in new auto development at Toyota (Japan) for four years in mid 2000s, right before this happened. The unintended acceleration problem has also perplexed me, because in my experience any safety issue was always given top priority.
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by lifekaizen 12y ago
correct. that's why it's beautiful to control the entire process with software -- we know your time/temp curve. And why the USDA still gives one temperature which assumes an instantaneous point of contact, but higher than you
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by lifekaizen 12y ago
trademarks are filed for specific classes of use, like "software" or "cooking appliances" and yes, they are harder to enforce than a created name such as Exxon or Accenture, but those take millions in marketing to create
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by lifekaizen 12y ago
Working on it :) If you buy 2 for your own house, email me and I'll give you $50 off.
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by lifekaizen 12y ago
Now scheduled to meet Kenji soon.
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by lifekaizen 12y ago
We will have one cooking temperature, but there are tricks to getting one steak rare and one medium. Other tricks to throwing in onions and mushrooms on the same device, for our advanced users.
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by lifekaizen 12y ago
Naming is a balance of traits including availability, look, emotion, implication. And they change over time. Examples of names that are common now that seemed funny: Virgin, iPad, Gap. We really like cinder and the round logo built out of i
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by lifekaizen 12y ago
You are correct, and to thank you for point this out I'd like to give you a Cappuccino Card (email me or hello@cindercooks.com with your Transaction ID and we'll give you $5 off). If you don't scroll the bottom of the page, y
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by lifekaizen 12y ago
YC has backed many, the better known include Pebble and Coin.
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by lifekaizen 12y ago
We've focused on your daily gourmet of 30 minutes or less, and we make sure to cook to safe temperature. Above 131F is considered outside of the bacterial growth zone (basically between fridge to 131F, bacteria multiplies like crazy);
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by lifekaizen 12y ago
Big fan of Kenji. We've reached out and hope to get him some time on our prototypes.
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by lifekaizen 12y ago
We are big fans of chefsteps. Imagine having sous vide precision up to 550 degrees F. Then you can set onions to brown and walk away. It's game changing. We built Cinder to be your go to daily cooker, both Jim and myself experienced de
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Techrunch: Smart Kitchen Gadgets of the Future(techcrunch.com)
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