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Software Engineer @_buf https://bsky.app/profile/castingcall.club https://siliconvict.com
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buf··on Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
Doesn't that go against Apple and Google policy?
buf··on Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
How do you do it?
buf··on Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?
Not only that, from light's perspective, it takes no time at all. ;)
buf··on Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove
Except this isn't like saying that at all. This isn't fraud, because it's legal in almost every circumstance.
buf··on Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard
It's made for keyboard enthusiasts. Give it a shot. Maybe you'll be one of them.
buf··on Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment
Internet comment of the day awarded to CharlesW.
buf··on Googlebook
I'd love to read more about your setup. I'm doing about half of what you have.
buf··on Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns
It will be replaced with private networks soon. Last step of anonymous internet.
buf··on Claude Opus 4.7
No, I wrote them myself (training my wetware to write more as I get older).

I was using claude to create a codex of characters/lore/etc. I also had it auto-build a website promoting the books.

buf··on Claude Opus 4.7
Just chipping in to say that I've never seen it churn for more than 20 minutes in two years worth of usage. The longest I've ever seen it churn is when I had it give extremely detailed analysis of five fictional novels simultaneously.
buf··on Molly guard in reverse
Fun random fact, Eventbrite was first a security company called Molly Guard. I spent years cleaning out the 'mg-' prefixes from the code.
buf··on Show HN: Browser-based interactive 3D Three-Body problem simulator
I spent a long time playing with the sim. Nice work.

Most of the random data sets that I ran ended up with a two body system, where the third body was flung far into space never to return. However, some of these were misleading. I had one running for 15 minutes at 5x, and the third body did eventually return.

buf··on How I use my terminal
TOME can be natively performing with tmux panes.

Steps:

1. have two panes open

2. In pane 0, have your cursor or a line or multiple lines of code

3. :VtrSendLinesToRunner

4. In pane 1, the lines are performed

buf··on How I use my terminal
I'm a tmux/vim user and heavily use claude code. It's good.
buf··on How I use my terminal
I've been using a very similar setup with vim/tmux for about 20 years. I've tried all the new IDEs but still keep coming back. With AI, I thought I was going to have to change until Claude code. Now I'm back in my happy place.
buf··on AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving – let's look at the data
Elena's article is content marketing. It doesn't look dead to me.
buf··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?
Yes, I generally build new products around my current audience.
buf··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?
I thought they were still doing one free lesson. It's been a while since I was on Reforge though.
buf··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?
If you want some great reading material on this, I recommend Reforge's viral loops info. I believe it's free.
buf··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?
Any b2c product I build has huge incentive to share the product, creating more users.

In the product itself, social is part of the value. So the more they interact, the more value they get. Similar to any social network you see today.

I do this a number of ways, none original. Reactions, upvotes, achievements, streaks, creating summary videos (like Spotify year in review), public recommendations, etc

buf··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?
I'm realizing this a bit too late I think. My only value over something like capcut is the API, which most users don't care about.

But I see products like submagic doing $1m arr and I'm at loss. How are they doing so well? It can't just be their editor.

So I think the way forward for my product, if any, is to just target b2b for API usage or target users who want long form video cut into viral clips automatically. I need to niche it down.

buf··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?
I have them all wired up to helpscout. Then a contractor checks the inbox every 8 hours to clear them out. She covers the hours I'm asleep as well.

I also have it posting to a slack channel so we can quickly scan any urgent ones while I'm working.

Bugs pop in heavily on new feature launches but then it's the usual "my email didn't arrive" type of questions.

buf··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?
I'm a founder of 3 small saas companies that I run by myself, generating about $1M ARR.

1. First one I started 10 years ago. I built a bot that auto DMed people in various internet forums. My first 100 users came from that. The product is highly shareable, so it quickly grew. Now it's 1.6M users (most of them free).

2. Second started 3.5 years ago. My first 100 users came from simply emailing the newsletter list from my first company. This product has no free plan, so it became profitable instantly.

3. Third started 1 month ago. And it's been a struggle. I got 10k free users just by emailing my list, but 0 paying users. So I tried ads and had similar results from the ads. Now I'm taking a step back and understanding why they aren't paying, which involves just emailing them.

Summary: once you have an email list and viral social loops built-in, marketing gets easier.

buf··on Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase
Any plans to support other backends besides javascript?
buf··on Transformers for Ruby
Andrew Kane and Chris Oliver are the best of the best in the ruby community IMO. Even if I don't use all their contributions, they are most welcome.
buf··on Everybody gets a star: Yelp's effect on restaurants and reviews
Agreed. I live in Europe and have the same experience.

Europeans tend to use the same review apps as Americans, so it could lead to the same problems (expectations at least). We do the same things with other review systems like Airbnb.

I've only been a user of tabelog as a person looking for a meal, not a reviewer. So I'm not sure the experience they have.

buf··on Everybody gets a star: Yelp's effect on restaurants and reviews
I'm also impressed with tabelog.

Japanese reviewers seem to understand that 3 is an average meal, and anything higher should be above average.

I wonder how tipping culture of the western world impacts star averages. Americans tip on just about everything. Do we inflate our star rating because it's in our mindset to 'be nice'?

Whereas Japanese are courteous on the outside, but uphold strict scrutiny on the inside. So when they rate something as 3 stars, it truly was a satisfactory meal, nothing more or less.

buf··on Hotwire: HTML Over The Wire
Like what?

I also use Hotwire/Stimulus and haven't run into any issues yet. Happy to share links with you on anything I know about.

buf··on The creator economy can't rely on Patreon
A lot of creators have to realize that Patreon is a stepping stone to sponsors.

I run Casting Call Club, which is basically where amateur Patreon creators go to collaborate on projects and ideas. Many of the CCC members will only stay until they either A) fail, or B) get big enough to have sponsors.

buf··on What went wrong at Techstars
Yes - Jon was the person I alluded to in my comment from above as well. Great guy and very knowledgeable.
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