solumos

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by solumos 8mo ago
You generally want to IPO (and fundraise in general) at the most favorable terms possible — not when there are market headwinds.
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by solumos 8mo ago
> $8k contract → 5% equity Surely this is a typo, and you mean 50% equity?
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by solumos 9mo ago
Fintech of that cohort is trading poorly, if they haven't found a way to survive post-ZIRP. Many have not.
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by solumos 9mo ago
> I started this post out mostly trolling, but the more I've thought about it's not a terrible idea. I feel like this is the unofficial Go motto, and it almost always ends up being a terrible idea.
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by solumos 10mo ago
Data brokering is a good business model, actually
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by solumos 11mo ago
1 Could maybe make sense for a proof of concept, but realize that you're probably throwing it away (sooner better than later). Start with 2, and think about the separation of deployable targets and shared libraries/plugins. You ca
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by solumos 1y ago
As a product of public montessori, I couldn't agree more
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by solumos 1y ago
You're absolutely right!
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by solumos 1y ago
> And like a junior dev it ran into some problems and needed some nudges. There are people who don't get blocked waiting for external input in order to get tasks like this done, which I think is the intended comparison. There's
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by solumos 1y ago
I was building a RAG system with a lot of PDFs, and I couldn't find a great way to "deep link" into specific citations, so I built this. It uses existing standards for PDF page links, and HTML text fragment directives. It wor
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Show HN: PDF Link – Text deep links for PDFs(pdf-link.com)
3 points by solumos 1y ago|1 comments
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by solumos 1y ago
The distinction between "Vercel for MCP [integrations]" and "Vercel for MCP [servers]" is meaningful — maybe "Zapier for MCP" is a more appropriate "X for Y"?. Congrats on the launch!
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by solumos 1y ago
We should meet.
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by solumos 1y ago
If it were truly as exploitative as you're suggesting, wouldn't the aggregate consumer fees/interest be more than the merchant fees?
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by solumos 1y ago
Great suggestion, I just added this feature.
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by solumos 1y ago
“Better fit” in what ways? Having used LLMs on a large Go codebase, I’ve found that Go is especially difficult to work with due to how unopinionated it is about things that are trivial in other languages. I’d be really curious about what th
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by solumos 1y ago
Just a couple of updates: - I added some fonts from https://fontlibrary.org/ - I added a "click to select" feature to the previews - Added support for code blocks (previously missing) Would love any feedback, or a
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Show HN: Font Tester – Preview fonts on custom content(fonts.tomhadley.link)
10 points by solumos 1y ago|5 comments
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by solumos 1y ago
Block time != time to finality Base has sub-second block times, but because it's an Ethereum L2, it technically has ~15min TTF
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by solumos 1y ago
You should consider placing them into a 1 or 2 year “on the job training” program at another YC company before sticking them in a batch. Maybe you could offer that as a “waitlist” option.
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by solumos 1y ago
Because San Francisco is a truly singular place that drastically increases your odds of success in starting a venture-backed company by simply existing there (even temporarily).
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by solumos 1y ago
There are now chains with sub-second Time to Finality and sub-cent gas fees (this was not true ~3 years ago)
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by solumos 1y ago
No, they're working together on it > AP2 is designed as a universal protocol, providing security and trust for a variety of payments like stablecoins and cryptocurrencies. To accelerate support for the web3 ecosystem, in collaborati
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by solumos 1y ago
Coinbase's blockchain (Base) generally has sub-cent send fees for USDC. Solana's fees are also in that ballpark.
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by solumos 1y ago
> What's the easiest way to do this with a stablecoin? You give a crypto wallet to an AI agent, and make sure it has some USDC. > What's the point of I need a bunch of other coins and it's so complicated? The point is t
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by solumos 1y ago
> It’s not unlike a research mathematician being expected to solve quadratic equations. He may not need them in his day-to-day work, but with a little preparation he should be able to handle them. If he struggles with quadratic equations
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by solumos 1y ago
Ticketmaster + venues are incentivized to maximize primary ticket sales. Ticket brokers are generally willing to take on the risk of buying up tickets to events on the primary market and constrain supply to turn a profit on the secondary ma
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by solumos 1y ago
Ticket brokers control 85%+ of the market. The problem is that they’re completely insulated from any scrutiny by the platforms (Stubhub and Vividseats actively work with larger ticket brokers as well). Punishing Ticketmaster doesn’t really
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by solumos 1y ago
> The problem isn’t React itself, it’s the React-by-default mindset. > The loss isn’t just performance, it’s opportunity cost when better-fit alternatives are never evaluated. > That’s not healthy competition; it’s ecosystem captur
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by solumos 1y ago
The point literally may be that the get-rich-quick-type founders who were doing NFTs have now pivoted to doing something in AI. I know at least 2-3 people that fit that profile.

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