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by nichochar 1y ago
I promise you they're negative on unit economics. In addition to what you're saying: - hosting costs - live sandboxes costs They're betting on LLM costs going way down and VC funded until then
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by nichochar 1y ago
This analysis is very much on point. I'm building a product in this space ( https://getmocha.com ), and can share a few more insider insights: - The churn from companies like lovable is indeed very high, and user frustration
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by nichochar 1y ago
Even if what you said was true, it will be false within months or years. What then? This is the whole premise of the article. Just extrapolate and imagine that it can think and write poetry better than you (it will, and likely soon), what t
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by nichochar 2y ago
Reasoning: .com is the best TLD by a long shot but it's really saturated, so as a startup you have no chance. As you say, the hope is to make it and be able to buy the X in getX.com where hopefully you've checked that X belongs to
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by nichochar 2y ago
We're building our startup infra on cloudflare over the other major hyperscalers and it turned out to be an amazing decision... Generous free tiers, pricing scales very competitively after that, and their interface is not nearly as bad
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by nichochar 2y ago
Yeah I don't agree. I'm building a product in the space, and the number one problem is correctness, not latency. People are very happy to sit there for minutes if the correctness is high and the quality is high. It's still 10
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by nichochar 2y ago
try the thing i'm building, it will build a website for you from a simple prompt: https://srcbook.com
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by nichochar 2y ago
I am building https://srcbook.com which is in this category but focused on webapps. It's unreal what the AI can do tbh.
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by nichochar 2y ago
I have a masters degree in math/physics, and 10+ years of being a SWE in strong tech companies. I have come to rely on these models (Claude > oai tho) daily. It is insane how helpful it is, it can answer some questions at phd level,
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by nichochar 2y ago
As someone building a client which needs to sync with a local filesystem (repo) and database, I cannot emphasize how wonderful it is that there is a push to standardize. We're going to implement this for https://srcbook.com
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by nichochar 2y ago
Notebooks are hot these days! We also shipped our own version of a TypeScript notebook[1] but it takes quite different sides of the tradeoff: we want to run backend node code, so unlike this or observable we're not looking to run in th
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by nichochar 2y ago
Tailwind is amazing for LLMs. You can't beat it: - concise - inline with the rest of the code I am willing to bet it's going to become a standard because of its existing popularity + the insane tailwinds that codegen give it.
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by nichochar 2y ago
We love feedback, let me know what's missing / what you wish was better. We have a discord if that's easier, or just email me at nicholas <at> srcbook <dot> com
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by nichochar 2y ago
Same category. Differences that I can spot (I'm not very familiar with Marblism): Currently, Srcbook is: - open source - local - focused on a different stack - also offers a notebook product
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by nichochar 2y ago
We built an open-source and local tool that allows you to take these even further. Highly recommend plugging in the latest model, but you can keep iterating on the apps. Currently also on the front page https://news.ycombinator.c
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by nichochar 2y ago
Would love to hear your thoughts on our own product in the space: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41926067
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Show HN: Srcbook – Self-hosted alternative to AI app builders(github.com)
67 points by nichochar 2y ago|6 comments
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by nichochar 2y ago
Imports is the thing that makes it useless. You cannot import stuff normally in the kernel.. Yes, my current project is https://github.com/srcbookdev/srcbook
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MonkeyType: A customizable typing practice playground(monkeytype.com)
16 points by nichochar 2y ago|6 comments
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by nichochar 2y ago
Do you like using Node in Jupyter? Are there any downsides / problems that you find with it? We're trying to build a TypeScript notebook and I'm very interested in what people's current tooling for this looks like today.
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by nichochar 2y ago
It heavily inspired us for https://srcbook.com (a TypeScript notebook)
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by nichochar 2y ago
second person to share this with me recently, will have to try it out. Looks pretty alpha, but interesting
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by nichochar 2y ago
I tried codeium for 6 months and eventually went back to copilot. I think codeium is tier 2
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by nichochar 2y ago
I recently switched from neovim to zed, and I overall like Zed. I miss telescope, and think some vim navigation was better, but I suspect that it has to do with how much effort I put into configuring one over the other, so time will tell. M
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by nichochar 2y ago
We keep hearing this, definitely going to prioritize it.
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by nichochar 2y ago
The code runs locally on your machine. Right now the architecture is that each Srcbook has 2 representations: - a markdown encoding that we use when you export. Easier to share, serialize, etc... - on disk, Srcbooks are actually directories
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by nichochar 2y ago
Yes, these are all great points that I didn't mention, thanks for completing my answer.
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by nichochar 2y ago
I somehow didn't know about https://github.com/typst/typst . This is a really cool project, going to dig in further. At first glance, this seems particularly useful for scientific-style notebooks, which aren't
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by nichochar 2y ago
Thanks! Yes when we asked people what they used to prototype, we got the weirdest answers. Replit seems very heavyweight, and isn't local (always feels worse). For non-npm things, we heard that a lot of people open up a browser console
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by nichochar 2y ago
Aware of this, but somehow it seems to miss the mark? It's hard to use third party libraries, and is a little buggy. We asked a lot of devs if they had used it, and often got the answer that they tried it and churned because it wasn&#x

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