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The way he talks about Deep Research (which came out this week) as a core part of the workflow is the clearest tell that this is engagement bait. "No longer hiring junior or even mid-level software engineers"...as of what, 4 days ago? Gumroad famously has no full-time employees and a tiny team. So he went from not hiring junior engineers, to using AI and also not hiring junior engineers.

without commenting on the rest of it, i can share anecdotally that i currently have 3 dead airtags that i have been procrastinating updating the batteries on

Shazam is a huge success story!

for what you're after, my app howie.ai would work well. we don't do nearly as much as Martin does, instead we're narrowly focused on getting the scheduling use case right. i'm a@howie.ai if you want to try it out!

Dead & Co. at the Sphere was an unforgettable life experience. So much creativity in what they did with the visuals to honor the history of the band, its San Francisco roots, and the canvas the Sphere gave them. I'm going back in August!

love this. next up, let's see if you can achieve Static Minecraft!

based on everything tim has written that shows extreme self-awareness about his working/productivity style, and the fact that he makes a lot of money for his family by doing occasional multi-day binges of work, i think it's fair to give him the benefit of the doubt that they have a system that allows him to show up for his family much of the time while also maintaining his output of work

this comment is fantastic and gives a clear answer to anyone griping about whether this is considered "beating" the game. scruti is the first human to beat the game, now other people will try to beat it in other ways on other levels.

whooops you're definitely correct. carry on!

i found this a few weeks ago and have been really enjoying it. i’m on the paid plan. my screen time on twitter and instagram has gone down significantly as a result of the slight inconvenience every time i open them. and doing the breathing exercise before plunging into hellish social media is also surprisingly refreshing.

the app is a little bit buggy, which sometimes makes it impossible to “pause” it. but one could argue that’s a feature not a bug!

overall impressed with Clearspace’s clever approach to this issue.

next post will be: how i got into YC, shut down my company, and then added x subscribers to my substack by simply trash talking YC

This post is on point, but the bottom section highlights a nuance that may mean Google Search is not in fact dying: Google remains the best way to search Reddit, by a longshot. As someone who searches Reddit multiple times daily, I have tried a number of Reddit clients and always find myself falling back to Google.

Perhaps this is where the entry point opportunity is...build a search engine for power users that effectively filters results to "authentic" content from reputable UGC platforms.

As an aside: the advent of GPT-3 is going to make it really hard for reddit mods to keep doing as wonderful of a job as they do today.

web3 is so loosely defined that both the haters and the believers will be able to claim victory in a few years.

This was super smooth. Way easier than the other audiogram generators I've used. Awesome work!

Buy a Toyota from 2000-2010. They run practically forever, they're low maintenance, and they achieve everything you're asking for here regarding modern electronics. My daily driver is a 2000 4Runner, and I love everything about it.

Hamilton.

It’s limited to 250 speakers at a time. We stream to the web and unlimited people can tune in!

Appreciate that feedback. We'll update the homepage tonight!

Hi everyone! Thanks for checking out Capiche FM. It's so early that we haven't yet come up with the best way to feature shows on the homepage, which seems to be a sticking point in some of the first comments on here.

Here's a public page where you can see some of the shows currently being hosted on Capiche FM: https://capiche.fm/discover

And here's a link to our changelog which some commenters said describes our product better than the homepage: https://www.notion.so/capiche/What-s-new-on-Capiche-FM-e56f6...

Appreciate all the feedback!

Here's an example of a show page with an episode that was recorded today: https://capiche.fm/loup

Probably the simplest description is "Twitch for audio". Anyone can launch a talk radio show on Capiche FM from your phone, and stream it to unlimited people online. And, it's interactive so listeners can send in messages and request to come on air anytime. Happy to answer any other questions!

FWIW, we got the idea from Stripe's API docs[1]. Not that Stripe is above reproach, but they sure are good at this stuff.

[1] https://stripe.com/docs/api

Agree that for new traffic like HN, and maybe on our essays generally, it's a bit jarring. We'll tweak these settings a bit.

This search interface has been a huge hit with our regular users, but it's harder to get feedback from fly-by traffic, so this is really helpful.

The quality traffic that comes from an HN launch is precisely the reason that so many people write these follow up posts specifically aimed at getting another taste of said traffic.

This is really cool! I worked for a startup years ago that had a 1-way setup like this that allowed our two remote teammembers to pop into the office anytime, and it was great.

Bummer to see so much jeering in the comments here. No iteration of this product will be compelling to the "not interacting with people is the best part of remote work" crowd, but they aren't your market. However, I think you might be able to land on something that addresses the privacy concerns while still improving on "in the room"-like serendipity for remote teams.

I've worked on a team that used Mumble audio-chat years ago. Everyone kept it on much of the day with a global push-to-talk key, and it was mostly quiet but super helpful for spontaneous conversations. It's basically like using walkie-talkies, now that I think about it. I wonder if something like that would be compelling here (e.g. I can pop up on your screen on-demand, but I won't see you unless you acknowledge).

Anyway, congrats on the launch. Look forward to seeing where this goes!

Thanks for mentioning Capiche! I think there's so much opportunity in this space so I'm stoked to see anyone else joining in.

At the very start, I wanted Capiche to be essentially Wirecutter for SaaS. We ended up going in a different direction, but I'm super impressed with Satchel's execution here, and as someone who spends a crazy amount of time on this stuff, I learned a bunch of new things reading through the site today.

I really don't want to hijack @fission's launch discussion, but thought I'd just reply to your comment on the invite-only thing: our site will be wide open soon-ish. Just taking our time building a community around high quality discussion (most of which has little to do with comparisons/reviews), but eventually will open it all up. Think of it like Stack Overflow's private beta...just a step in the process.

Same, though I think the BikeTours/GoSojourn thing may just be an imperfect example of a point that is correct.

A better example (for me at least) would be backroads.com vs. something like biketourstoday.info. The former is distinct, trustworthy, memorable, greppable, and just good. I thought a lot about these things in starting my business. While capiche.com doesn't say anything about SaaS, I think it resonates with people more than, say, saasreviews.io or whatever would've.

btw, this post is highly relevant and is one I reference often: http://messymatters.com/nominology/

"Please tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage."

I love Patrick's insight here:

> Stepping back a bit, problems feel a bit less important to me as time goes on. The world is awash in problems. Problems you care about are just so much more rewarding to work on, and they pull better work out of you. Problems experienced by people you care about quintuply so, because if you start a SaaS business you'll spend much more time talking to customers and getting in their head than you will be on e.g. modeling their workflow in Ruby or optimizing your AWS spend.

> So I'd suggest most people asking this question instead ask "How do I find a user population that buys software that I would enjoy having in my life five days a week for 5~10 years?" My answer for that, after a lot of soulsearching, is "I enjoy helping software people a lot more than I enjoy helping undifferentiated professionals. Maybe I should just do that. Maybe no maybe." Your answer may vary.

Fair enough.

I don't agree with your assessment here. But, I respect how tricky your role is, and I can't argue with the overall results of your approach to moderation considering how often I come back to see what's happening on HN. :)