andrewljohnson

As a counterexample, there are and were plenty of bad actors on phpbb forums.

It’s not apples to apples… are the small/medium platforms really going to be lacking in fraud etc if there are no large platforms to target?

The small sites only lack fraud because the large platforms draw the fire.

You can watch a fictional(ized?) series (Tokyo Vice) about and produced by the author Jake Adelstein on HBO. I’ve watched the first season, season 2 recently released.

Also from the post I saw on this:

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08268

Models: https://huggingface.co/LargeWorldModel

Website: https://largeworldmodel.github.io

I wonder how well you can train a similar model on a finite number of outputs from a poker solver to output answers for any poker spot in general.

It seems like such a device _could_ be amazing for skiing.

Pilots use AR and skiing is a lot like flying. I hope this sort of technology gets so common in my lifetime that companies can bother to build it into legit ski goggles.

Apple overall makes $100B, not the App Store.

I travel in such large amounts that I eventually interact with the right systems. I have some neat meta processes for changing direction and re-orienting myself on a couple of important goals for my existence. It’s not really conscious when I change direction, it’s just kinda natural. I end up being like “whoa that was a big change.”

Reminds me of a Tweet circa 2021 where someone asked if they should stop using the word seminal because it might micro-harm people.

Stagflation is the name for that, it last happened in my country in the 1970s.

If not Coinbase, then who?

No one can do 200 vertical miles in a day right? Pick your slope, still not gonna happen.

We paid more than 9.99

I don't see anything online really, maybe something small?

Svelte, Node, Vercel, Supabase/Postgres, Stripe, WandB, Amplitude, Sentry, ConvertKit, Mailgun, Slack, Discord, Google, ZenDesk, Miro, Figma, Clerky, Mercury, Xero, and Pilot soon. We have a bit of AWS stuff.

Vercel's instant previews are particularly great, and Svelte's ergonomics I like more than React. Svelte's SSR stuff seems cool but I am not 100% convinced yet we're leaning static enough.

I also think we're doing laps on anyone who isn't using ChatGPT/CoPilot... those poor lost souls.

I’d have to check namecheap, earlier this year? I think the domain was good even for internal energy, it helped get people excited and focused product thinking that much more.

You might enjoy watching some Old School format MTG on youtube, I got into that for a while. It’s neat to see a modern take on the game as it was in 1994, and people play with spectacular old cards.

It does involve ML, but we don’t ever really talk about it. The things we do with ML are not that sexy.

My wife came up with that (I said more elsewhere in thread).

She was also the brains behind our startup together and vastly better coder than me!

Thanks, I hope I get to be part of Mana Pool forever.

I see MTG the same way I see any software I subscribe to, so the artificial scarcity bit doesn’t bother me a bit. I like MTG a lot and don’t mind paying, and I’m glad the business model lets them make new cards for me many times a year.

I’m also glad they do all the collector scarcity stuff because they subsidize players like me who just want draft boosters and the cheapest versions of the singles for my decks.

You can sell your collection on Facebook Marketplace or to game stores that have robots and/or buyers.

Also… the main things the discord does is let people up late notice the stream, including the remote team and our friends and community etc.

Plus they can send bugs directly to the team and get real-time feedback if someone is available.

Plus it includes rooms for buyers and sellers (since we don’t yet have the social marketplace feature we intend).

Discord is fun and useful, highly recommend.

Yes, if you are cross docking collectibles then you probably want to do authentication as part of your business either through third parties or in house (and supported by AI either way).

We can now play the game where we drink whenever anyone mentions crypto in this thread and get pretty drunk I think :)

Thanks, it feels like we have a good feedback loop with the community so far, and that’s made it come together and continue to get better.

many comments from me on this i thread, also you can ask on Twitch tonight if you like.

To follow on from this thread, I am going to stream an MTGA draft tonight at 1030pm PT if anyone wants to AMA in chat.

https://twitch.tv/manapooldotcom

Svelte in this case though, not React.

Investors, if you are interested in vertical markets, consumer saas, or collectibles, please ping andrew@manapool.com.

We raised a $500k+ pre-seed on Sept 4, and I’m checking if anyone wants to follow before October 3. After that, we’re just going to work on the app and not raise.

1) If you go click Magic on TCGPlayer, it doesn't get rid of all the non-Magic stuff. And the feature development isn't focused everyday on MTG, it's focused on TCG, and it's missing an infinite list of changes that we personally want. Plus, you can't build a community around TCG, but you can around MTG.

2) TCGPlayer is the market price, and it's a nicely liquid market. And their owner eBay is worth $25B. And there is stiff competition from whatnot.com and goat.com in collectibles. It is an incredibly hard and fun world to build in. I think e-commerce is going to continue to evolve, and Amazon or whatever isn't the end state.

2) Answers on fees and features throughout the thread.

Someday?

There is CardTrader that is mostly Euro too, and that is a solid website IMO. Europe has much lower fees (~5%), so competing there is different than in the US (~15%).