themanmaran

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by themanmaran 11d ago
I have very fond memories of reading hitchhikers guide to the galaxy with a friend in highschool. The book was old and had already started falling apart, and so we just broke it up into chapters and would pass it to the next person one chap
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by themanmaran 25d ago
Monumint (YC W24) | https://monumint.com | Full Stack Engineers | SF In-Person | Full Time | $125k–$225k • 0.50%–1.50% Tech stack: TypeScript | Node | React/Next.js | Postgres | Docker | K8s | LLMs We’re building the Voice
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by themanmaran 1mo ago
I don't think it's that binary. For the majority of websites, adding programatic access didn't make sense because it would primarily have been for scraping data. No financial incentive for them to support this. The dream toda
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by themanmaran 2mo ago
Pretty annoying user experience trying to test out the model on the official Qwen site. You get an immediate popup with "Security Notice: For security purposes, please add a payment method" that blocks you from clicking anywhere.
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by themanmaran 2mo ago
I've just been reading The Making of Prince of Persia (highly recommend [1]) and it's amazing how the journal feels exactly like today's startup scene. But everything is dated 1989. [1] https://press.stripe.com&#x2
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by themanmaran 2mo ago
My lord people accept a little bit of whimsey in your lives.
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by themanmaran 2mo ago
TBH I was a retool power user for years, but I feel like they completely missed the vibe code train. It's so much more annoying to go drag boxes around and type out little JS snippits in every chart as opposed to just telling claude to
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by themanmaran 2mo ago
FYI we've built this internally and it was a pain, so I was excited to check out what you've built to see if it was a good fit for us. But your landing page + video was just slop city. Removes 100% of credibility for me. I know th
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by themanmaran 3mo ago
Seriously. We got 116 github dependabot alerts this week. Half of them for dev dependencies.
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by themanmaran 3mo ago
I feel like it's also been overrun by a lot of spam. As someone running a company, I get 2-5 unsolicited "vulnerability reports" per week. Half of them are an LLM finding some bad CSS on our framer splash page. The other half
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by themanmaran 3mo ago
It's cheap at $4/1k, but I'm hesitant to even benchmark this one again since the previous versions were all "98% accurate based on internal benchmarks of 4 pdfs" and ended up falling short of almost everything else
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by themanmaran 3mo ago
The fact that the top comment [1] sparks a thread debating how CORS does / doesn't work is a great argument in favor of the original title. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48616086
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by themanmaran 4mo ago
Agreed! If you're a 20+ company in SF you're required to offer commuter benefits (up to $340 / month). That's usually things like caltrain / muni. But I would definitely sponsor a $300/mo waymo subscription if
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by themanmaran 4mo ago
That's literally not what he said. He's saying the majority of people supporting border controls are not racist, but the vocal minority are the ones who "boast about arrests" / "make up stories about crime or e
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by themanmaran 4mo ago
I'd wager that even if you didn't nerd out on computer architecture, just living through progression of CDs -> mp3s -> ipods -> streaming gives kids a better grounding than the iPad is where music comes from they have t
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by themanmaran 4mo ago
As someone who grew up in the 90's, I think seeing the live progression of tech was really helpful for my own understanding. For instance we saw: - CDs moving to Mp3s moving to the ipod and finally streaming - Games moving from 8bit to
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by themanmaran 4mo ago
Sure the consumer won't consume 10x more, but they're still going to reach for the better products. And let's say that work is correlated with quality. Company A wants to spend 10x less time working, while Company B works 10x
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by themanmaran 4mo ago
Yea it's always been competition that's the issue. Greed too. But complacency is really difficult as a business owner. In the world where someone can take your cake by working 25% more hours, it's always going to happen.
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by themanmaran 4mo ago
> If a junior makes a mistake and it will not be caught in time they will automatically learn. I think this sentiment applies well to junior software engineers (with mentorship). But imagine the much larger swaths of entry level employee
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by themanmaran 4mo ago
Just dropping here because it's an excellent read on US port automation https://www.construction-physics.com/p/do-us-ports-need-more...
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by themanmaran 4mo ago
Yea worth it. The original implementation ended up being the most complex, and also not a great UX. But I didn't really get it was a worse UX until I built it and tested it out a bit. And I wasn't attached to that complex implemen
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by themanmaran 4mo ago
As I read this, I'm also working through a pretty dense feature that took a fair bit of iteration. The end result is actually significantly less code than it was about halfway through. And I was wondering if the AI actually helped me a
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by themanmaran 5mo ago
This feels like a weak argument to me. At the end of the day, nearly all cash flow, good or bad, moves through banks. And unlike speculative investing like VC or public equities, banks lend against fundamentals: cash flow, collateral, debt
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by themanmaran 5mo ago
Exactly my take as well. This would have been the right diversification move a decade ago. Uber did invest early in self driving back in 2015, but in 2018 there was a fatality which pretty much deleted their whole program. And looks like it
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by themanmaran 5mo ago
As a personal nit, I really dislike the term "two sided marketplace" It should just be "marketplace". The term implies the existence of a "one sided marketplace". But isn't that just a business? If I have
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The Process Is the Product(tylermaran.substack.com)
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by themanmaran 6mo ago
haha yea was pretty surprised by that too. wondered if it would be based on my auth session, but nope! Although now it's a fun battle to see if I can convince my eve to deploy Doom again and block others from overwriting it. edit: Doom
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by themanmaran 6mo ago
Boom, eve got Doom running for me on my VM and even spun up a public site https://api.eve.new/api/sites/eve-doom/
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by themanmaran 6mo ago
Maybe a naive question, why doesn't this doesn't look like google street view? Not OP's app in particular, but the underlying data from NASA. Nowadays the 360º cameras are $400 and work really well. Obviously we're worki
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by themanmaran 7mo ago
We just did this the other week and it's such a great setup using AI. Monorepos in general are better for coding agents since it's a single location to search. But now we have the ability to say "Add xyz optional param to our

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