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by simantel 2y ago
I think Magic Leap is probably a better comparison. Unlike with Theranos the tech does work, there just isn't really a market for it.
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by simantel 2y ago
A Walmart Supercenter can have 500 employees and dozens of deliveries per day. I can totally see why they'd get wrapped up working mostly in the office and talking to department heads vs. walking the store.
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by simantel 3y ago
Cloudflare
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React Is Old(macwright.com)
1 points by simantel 3y ago|0 comments
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by simantel 3y ago
It must've been flagged initially, but I see it on the second page now.
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by simantel 3y ago
Discussion of the S-1 here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39472782
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by simantel 3y ago
Yeah, they say as much in the risk factors when discussing potential issues with their metrics: "Moreover, a single person or organization may hold multiple accounts and may use more than one account to perform multiple views within a
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by simantel 3y ago
It looks like DAUq was flat or declining until Q3'21, then started ticking up, but really popped off in Q3 and Q4 of 2023 after they killed third-party clients.
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by simantel 3y ago
Pulling out interesting numbers: Revenue: $666.7M in 2022, $804M in 2023 Gross margin: 84% in 2022, 86% in 2023 Net loss: $(158.6)M in 2022, $(90.8)M in 2023 DAUq: 57.5M in Q4 2022, 73.1M in Q4 2023
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by simantel 3y ago
It has to technically be an aptitude test, but they really toe the line. Vista Equity, for instance, requires all their companies to use the CCAT in hiring: https://www.criteriacorp.com/candidates/ccat-prep
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by simantel 3y ago
TinySeed only works with B2B companies, and based on your comment history it looks like this would be B2C. I think your best bet would be trying to raise a pre-seed round if you wanted to bring in outside funding.
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by simantel 3y ago
Also interesting to see this pop up two months after Tom MacWright announced he was shutting down and open-sourcing Placemark: https://macwright.com/2023/11/13/placemark (Discussed on HN here: https:/&#
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by simantel 3y ago
For my side project, https://teaminal.com , I tried to set input-based goals (though one output did slip in there with the MAUs): - Publish 52 blog posts about remote work, agile, scrum, etc. - Get going on social media, sharing
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by simantel 3y ago
Not sure I'd be able to read this without context off the bat (especially the E, G, M, and W), but it's an interesting project!
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by simantel 3y ago
Not terrible, not great. If you can get linksoap.com go for it, but I wouldn't do it if you're going to have a just okay name and a non-canonical .com domain like getlinksoap.com or linksoap.io.
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Smallest Typeface(luc.devroye.org)
170 points by simantel 3y ago|110 comments
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by simantel 3y ago
They seem pretty alive based on Twitter activity and updates on their status page ( https://status.plivo.com/ ). Not sure about your signup issue, but their support team is probably running a little leaner this week between C
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Teaminal's Year in Review(teaminal.com)
1 points by simantel 3y ago|0 comments
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by simantel 3y ago
Update! 2023 year in review post here: https://www.teaminal.com/blog/2023-year-in-review/
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by simantel 3y ago
I wrote about my second year working on my side project, Teaminal, which is a collaboration tool for distributed teams: https://www.teaminal.com/blog/2023-year-in-review/
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Ask HN: Have you written a 2023 year in review?
1 points by simantel 3y ago|1 comments
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by simantel 3y ago
My goals for 2023 were: - Alternate marketing weeks and coding weeks to force myself to actually do marketing work. - Focus on SEO and get to 5,000 monthly visitors. - Get to $5k MRR (which I think is a bit more realistic than my $10k goal
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What happened to Tandem (virtual office)(blog.rajivayyangar.com)
1 points by simantel 3y ago|1 comments
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by simantel 3y ago
Interesting read! I remember Tandem launching to a ton of interest a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20585810
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by simantel 3y ago
Remix is the only real alternative I've heard about that isn't itself Next-based.
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by simantel 3y ago
A couple more details coming out after this thread yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37987812 Wild that he did mushrooms for the first time after not sleeping for 40 hours while commuting to work to fly a 737.
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Pilot who tried to shut off plane engines mid-flight took psychedelic mushrooms(katu.com)
5 points by simantel 3y ago|2 comments
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by simantel 3y ago
The microfrontends that OP is referring to are generally standalone single-page apps which sit underneath some kind of top-level router that loads the correct MFE as needed. Often these are split up by functional area or product at a compan
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by simantel 3y ago
I'm not OP, but Tailwind ships a binary you can use (by bundling up a JS runtime): https://tailwindcss.com/blog/standalone-cli
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by simantel 3y ago
From the link, LinkedIn does $15B in revenue, or $681k per employee with 22,000 people. That seems pretty reasonable to me, even though I don't know what all of those 22,000 people do.

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