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by nkotov 5y ago
This is such a good change. Fundraising is such a time sink for founders that it takes time away from everything else that matters. I went through YC in S20 and only raised $500k and that helped our team go through without the need for addi
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Team builds first living robots–that can reproduce(wyss.harvard.edu)
60 points by nkotov 5y ago|19 comments
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by nkotov 5y ago
AWS most likely won't acquire - they'd rather build their own solution that does 80% of the job okay.
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by nkotov 5y ago
We're in the PaaS space and we've recently went through fundraising - a good number of investors are basically just waiting and seeing on other PaaS solutions to see which one makes it to the top and then throw as much money at th
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by nkotov 5y ago
Interesting time (with the Netlify news as well). But for me, this is really exciting. Curious to see what reInvent brings soon as well.
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by nkotov 5y ago
If I'm not wrong, I think this is the Fleetsmith acquisition that happened last year.
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by nkotov 5y ago
This is awesome. Hashicorp tools are great and I'd argue that Terraform is one of the most important dev tools in the last ten years.
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by nkotov 5y ago
Congrats on the launch!
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by nkotov 5y ago
We stopped doing daily standups completely. It just felt like a waste of time. If we had to bring them back, I'd use something like Standuply on Slack to do it asynchronously.
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by nkotov 5y ago
I can't be the only one who thinks this new design is ugly. Just something about it feels off.
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by nkotov 5y ago
This is the first time I'm buying an Android phone in over a decade. My last Android phone was a Motorola Droid X from Verizon. I'm excited to spice up my life a little bit after being so locked into the Apple ecosystem.
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by nkotov 5y ago
I had a chance to setup several businesses in the past and to setup the foundation - I ended up writing a lot of templates for myself. Nowadays, if I want to setup a SaaS company, I have 90% of the foundational groundwork covered (AWS, Terr
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by nkotov 5y ago
I experimented a bit with this with my company. We came down to a hybrid of what we call, 'Work where and when you're most productive'. The office primarily is now used for pair programming + discussions. Focus work seems to
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by nkotov 5y ago
Awesome project, I'll check it out. We're building something similar but visually instead of code.
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by nkotov 5y ago
> But if you are deploying a structure once only, do you really need this? Exact reason why I'm building my company. I worked on several teams now where developers would spend weeks figuring out how to get their apps to run in AWS i
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by nkotov 5y ago
I can count on my hand the numbers of times I intentionally wanted to use Siri. 98% of my interactions with Siri were accidental to the point that I ended up disabling Siri until I wanted to use CarPlay. It's just not good and it doesn
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by nkotov 5y ago
I know someone in the "unsolicited" business, their answer is literally, "money". The money that could be made in the industry is insane. Last year, they did $50m.
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by nkotov 5y ago
Congrats on going public! Would love to know what kept you going in those periods of times when things just weren't working out?
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by nkotov 5y ago
I had unfiltered internet access as a kid. When I was a preteen, I had a MySpace account by just simply lying about my age. A lot of my friends did the same. In middle school, we figured out ways to go around school district firewall/f
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by nkotov 5y ago
I remember some (pirated) Windows XP versions that were minimized as well - with some being under 300 MB.
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by nkotov 5y ago
I'd apply not just for that but the access to group partners who know your business in and out is worth a lot to me. There were several instances where I needed advice from people who had experience my group partners helped.
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by nkotov 5y ago
Love this article. I had a chance to go through YC S20 and it's been life changing for me. As someone who lives in a non-target city (Charlotte, NC) and with no connections to SV and not having a fancy degree, getting into YC opened so
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by nkotov 5y ago
100% in the same boat. I don't want my gaming identity to be related to my day-to-day work. If I see a product/tool has a community Slack, I'd be more open to joining that.
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by nkotov 5y ago
There was a discussion [1] on /r/DevOps about this recently and some interesting things came up. It's interesting to me that for a company who loudly proclaims 1200+ enterprise companies which I assume are paying customers, t
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by nkotov 5y ago
We're[1] in a similar space and our winning strategy has been to provide white-glove onboarding to get our customers environment up and running. It's part of doing something that doesn't scale (easily) but it also allows us t
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by nkotov 5y ago
I believe it. Nowadays, I watch perhaps 1-2 videos a day on Youtube. The addictive endless scrolling of content on Tiktok means I'm spending on average an hour a day.
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by nkotov 5y ago
Super excited to see this. I'm on my fifth pair of Allbirds - by far the most comfortable shoes I've had in a while and I like the way they look. My only gripe with them is how easy they get dirty if you get the lighter-colored on
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by nkotov 5y ago
I worked at RV as a Platform Engineer for 20 months before starting my own company and getting into YC. On the culture side, I personally enjoyed it as almost everyone was around the same as me and all were young and hungry to put in more w
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Ask HN: Building an internal developer platform for larger companies
2 points by nkotov 5y ago|0 comments
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Getting Partial AWS Account IDs for Any CloudFront Website(arkadiyt.com)
1 points by nkotov 5y ago|0 comments

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