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by muzani 1y ago
Find out who has the same problem. They've probably tried hacking a solution. Find communities that hack these solutions. Reddit is not a community most of the time and the people there are jaded with ads. Product Hunt is generally the
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Some forms of payment charge on a percentage. Microtransactions are a thing too.
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I made a Tinder for recipes once to decide what to eat. A mentor said that everyone's doing Tinder because it was what was popular at the time. He was right; it made more sense to not do it in Tinder format.
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I've been setting up Vapi.ai for this. Written and spoken are different skills. It comes down cheaper than an actual teacher, and it has the patience to correct you.
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Some countries are still on the imperial system. Calendars are even harder to change as they often hold a lot of cultural and religious meaning. Nobody's that attached to yards vs meters, but people are attached to Jan being the firs
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$5/month is sort of the worst spot. I'd pay $1/month for some things (budgeting tools) and $20/month for say, chatgpt. And I paid $5 lifetime (life being ~5 years) for a resume tool once. These days AI will probably buil
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There's an interesting experiment here, with a related blog: https://github.com/grapeot/devin.cursorrules?tab=readme-ov-f... Basically instead of a complex layer, it just uses .cursorrules as the memory. This was
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Equity is rarely ever worth it without at least a billion dollar exit. I'm not going to wait 4 years and take a $60k per year salary cut for a possibility of making $10k later on. It is the hirer's job to sell this too. Engineers
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Generally, the more you get paid, the less stable it is. Big tech is probably still the most stable way to make that kind of income. What else can you do? Start a business? Rob a bank? Trade stocks? Freelance? Startups are always higher ris
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My rule of thumb: If the LLM is more junior than you, then go ahead and let it full autopilot. Check the results like you would check the result from a junior. If the LLM is more senior than you, learn from it – treat it like a tutor and as
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Claude 3.7 is a little overeager. It'll solve problems you don't tell it to solve. Like I give it a screenshot of an app and ask it to do a button; it'll do the status bar as well. It's somewhat like a jerk genie and I f
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I've been using it since August '24 and it has never been reliable enough for production. My app from then is broken because it doesn't follow instructions, especially when you make it output JSON without some middle layer to
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I did freelancing for 5 years and the trick for me was just aiming to do things faster, cheaper, better. Well, the trick is really just faster. If you can do things at 2x the speed, you can charge 1.5x and clients will be very happy. And if
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Other countries copy FAANG but if we did full leetcode here (Malaysia), we'd end up hiring nobody. I like the way Singaporeans do it – it's still an algorithmic problem, but usually related to the job. Like a logistics company wou
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I have a list of technical questions I tend to stumble over. Things like SSL pinning, cache management, CI/CD, github stuff, and DI. Often things that colleagues have set up 3 years ago and are now just a function call on Slack. Every
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We do have some like the Homebrew Computer Club, but not (yet) as elite. Kuala Lumpur has some talent, but not the density of talent. I may join once every two years. Every time I do there's a founder who ends up public listed. One eve
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People love to talk about themselves and what they're doing. I don't think there's any barrier; if you know the right way to approach these conversations, they'll dump ideas on you. I believe it might be selection bias.
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Friction debt: reducing friction somewhere by taking it from the future. Freemium is a direct application of this. You get the product for free now, friction free. The app creator takes on some form of cash debt for this. The friction is dr
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Pretty much whatever you're using 3.7 for. You don't need as tight a scope. It does easy things well. An situation I had yesterday: we had two dropdowns. For simplicity, let's say it's country. When you pick a different
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The most efficient form I've seen is one 30 min meeting to discuss what we plan to do and what went wrong/well with previous plans. And a second 60 min meeting at the end of the week to show what we've done, the impact, and t
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If it's important to you, then keep it, of course. Every team is different just like all code is different. The symptoms of too many meetings is people don't attend them, work during them, complain about not getting things done, e
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I find 1 week ideal without the overhead. Remove unnecessary demos or retros. You need the feedback cycle but often 1-3 months is fine, and 2 weeks is only useful for a beginner team. You do need planning, context, and meetings to discuss t
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Sonnet 3.5 has a very different personality. It's less skilled, but often I opt for it because of the personality. Deepseek is actually pretty good and underappreciated too. It feels unreliable though. Downside is tool use, but I prefe
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I actually made a game with conversations recently. Originally it was flipped (player to the left). Something felt off so I got curious and realized the same thing you did. The norm for comics is the person you are speaking to is on the rig
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Maybe not attention but I imagine people act on the other person's messages (like, forward, block, etc) and they're happier to use their right hand for this.
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Cursor does a lot more of the work. It not only tells you what to write, it jumps across different files and makes the edits. It indexes your code and has a good idea how it goes together and where your code is. They acquired Supermaven las
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A lot of the younger (recently ex colonial) nations actually had an agricultural/industrial revolution quite recently. Someone had a grandfather who lost the land of his ancestors to farming machines and vowed revenge. The attitude her
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Anthropic released a study on it quite recently: https://www.anthropic.com/news/the-anthropic-economic-index It splits tasks into augmentation (upgrading jobs) vs automation (taking jobs). But it's actually hard t
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Anecdotes are better than data, especially when that data is exclusively benchmarked on Python and code competitions instead of actual work.
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I think it was not funny to people trying to get work done. But that generation is retired now. The current generation is the one that were typing essays in Word and were too early to steal MP3s, so they had to use Clippy as the distraction

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