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   The RAG Obituary: Killed by agents, buried by context windows(nicolasbustamante.com)

   290 points by nbstme 1y ago|179 comments
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   by nbstme 1y ago

   That's a great idea. I should compute some of them offline and serve them immediately versus waiting 12s.
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   AI Generated Memes: What will you meme today?(bustameme.com)

   2 points by nbstme 1y ago|3 comments
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   by nbstme 1y ago

   I built Bustameme this weekend to generate memes using AI. You upload any image, and it uses a combination of vision models and LLMs to generate a caption. Memes are one of the hardest forms of communication for AI—humor, context, subtlety.
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   Burning Billions: The Gamble Behind Training LLM Models(nicolasbustamante.com)

   2 points by nbstme 2y ago|0 comments
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   What We Learnt Building the Largest GPT-Telegram Bot(nicolasbustamante.com)

   1 points by nbstme 4y ago|0 comments
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   by nbstme 4y ago

   Blocktool allows developers to bring no-code elements to their full-stack application. Install the Blocktool package, replace your static content with dynamic content (img, url, text), and delegate the rest to your marketing and design team
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   Turn your web app into a no-code framework(blocktool.com)

   1 points by nbstme 4y ago|1 comments
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   Segment but for Financial Data [YC W23](blocktool.com)

   19 points by nbstme 4y ago|1 comments
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    by nbstme 4y ago

    Hello, I’m Nicolas, the founder of Blocktool: Segment for financial data [YC W23]. We noticed in our previous jobs that finance teams lack the technical knowledge to move financial data into the company’s data warehouse and that data teams
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    by nbstme 4y ago

    Thanks Omarshammas! We pull data from your different software (Chargebee, Stripe, Salesloft), allow you to create business rules and we alert in real-time when it's broken. We do send back the data into Salesforce (reverse ETL) for stu
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    by nbstme 4y ago

    We pull out every property data from your Salesforce and allow you to create business rules. For instance, you might want to be alerted if an amount in Chargebee is different than the opportunity amount in Salesforce. Our UI is 100% no-code
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    Fix your dirty Salesforce – Datadog for CRM [YC W23](fixyoursalesforce.com)

    5 points by nbstme 4y ago|5 comments
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    by nbstme 4y ago

    Friends, I'm so fed up with my broken Salesforce that I'm working on https://www.fixyoursalesforce.com/ It's a tool to monitor any sync errors between RevOps software or data discrepancies between different p
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    by nbstme 4y ago

    The story of entrepreneurs who thought they were selling water in the desert and learned later that they were selling sand... like everyone else!
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    Startups Selling Sand in the Desert(nicolasbustamante.com)

    1 points by nbstme 4y ago|1 comments
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    by nbstme 4y ago

    The story of entrepreneurs who thought they were selling water in the desert and learned later that they were selling sand... like everyone else!
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    Look How Big My Funding Amount Is: I Raise Therefore I Am(nicolasbustamante.com)

    2 points by nbstme 4y ago|0 comments
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    by nbstme 4y ago

    Yes!
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    by nbstme 4y ago

    Interesting! When I was running a VC-backed unprofitable startup, we chose speed over financial discipline. We built an infra that wasn't optimized to reduce costs. When we switched to profitability, we had to dramatically change our d
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    by nbstme 4y ago

    Central banks have fueled malinvestment for centuries. That's a disaster. I wrote another article about the manipulation of money and credit: https://www.nicolasbustamante.com/p/money-and-credit-manipul...
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    by nbstme 4y ago

    Interesting take! I agree that we will all reevaluate the software we are paying for and get rid of "nice to have". If companies fire employees in means software businesses will sell fewer "seats" per customer. The avera
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    by nbstme 4y ago

    Thanks for your comment. Stocks got hammered but SaaS businesses continue to grow. Zoom is growing 50% YoY, Datadog 80% YoY...
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    by nbstme 4y ago

    Startup = growth, and Zoom is growing by 55% yearly with $4bn of ARR. It's an impressive business (startup?)
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    by nbstme 4y ago

    Thanks for your comment. I agree for SaaS companies that mostly sell to startups, but SaaS selling to big enterprise customers should be fine.
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    by nbstme 4y ago

    Thanks! All credits to https://twitter.com/DavidSacks who publishes great content.
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    by nbstme 4y ago

    Good for us as consumers, not for Uber biz haha!
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    by nbstme 4y ago

    Yes! If you were raising at 100x ARR it means that $1 of ARR generated $100 of market value. In that sense, it made sense to burn $100 to acquire $1 of revenue. Of course, when the reversion to the mean hit and companies trade at 7x ARR, it
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    by nbstme 4y ago

    Thanks for your comment. IMO, a lot of people thought, and still think, that the appreciation of stocks was due to an acceleration of the penetration of software. I think it's a valid viewpoint. Gartner expects public cloud spending to
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    by nbstme 4y ago

    Agree. It's not enjoyable to work in a bad macro environment. My point is that companies that have significant cash flows won't have to lay off employees and might even continue to hire, acquire businesses and consolidate their bu