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deadcoder0904··on Ask HN: What are you building with GPT-3?
Well, what's the issue?
deadcoder0904··on Ask HN: What are you building with GPT-3?
Nope. Opening it to public will cause them a lot of money so I don't think it'll happen in the near future.

They are probably providing it to good profitable business ideas that you submit through the application forms since they want to cover their costs.

So convince them that you have a good idea & they'll give you access.

deadcoder0904··on Taylor Lorenz and the decade of work that made her an overnight success story
This looks really interesting. Will read it later :)
deadcoder0904··on Relentlessly Resourceful by Paul Graham
What opportunity?
deadcoder0904··on Ask HN: How many failures it took you to be successful?
Interesting tangential answer. So you're basically focusing on systems & letting goals take care of itself. That's nice. It's the main point of the book Atomic Habits. Check it out if you haven't yet.
deadcoder0904··on Ask HN: How many failures it took you to be successful?
Haha that's why I asked.

> Failure is a precursor to learning.

That's definitely a good point. When I asked the question, I thought about how many times you've tried to achieve a goal rather than learning something & failing while learning.

deadcoder0904··on Ask HN: How many failures it took you to be successful?
We'll get there eventually :)
deadcoder0904··on Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?

  - BTC goes over $100k in 2021
  - We will learn about Aliens more
  - AR/VR will go mainstream. Something like Pokemon Go will appear & be huge.
  - Fitness apps start to become mainstream. Mainly follow-along workouts like FitnessBlender on YT.
  - Creator economy will be huge. We'll see more creators grabbing media spotlights like Logan Paul & Charlie D'amelio
  - Elon Musk announces a new company & becomes the richest man in the world
  - More unicorns come out of India
  - WASM goes mainstream
  - Covid Vaccine has various side-effects. There will still be a Covid billionaire.
  - TikTok survives
  - China tries to enter into US & India again, their biggest markets
  - A new social networking platform will emerge
  - Facebook is now only used by 50+ year olds
  - More people start online businesses.
  - Adult industry booms. OnlyFans wouldn't be just for NSFW content. Celebrities get on it as well.
  - India launches Cameo & OnlyFans alternative.
deadcoder0904··on Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?
> * An animation tool rivaling Adobe Flash for the web will emerge

It's happening https://ruffle.rs/

deadcoder0904··on Ask HN: What is the best marketing example you've seen in 2020?
I'll go first. This ad "Best Time Ever To Get Braces" about getting braces during lockdown that made a round on Reddit/Twitter/Facebook → https://i.redd.it/keyl00vdjqr51.jpg

I thought it was perfectly timed. What are your favorites?

deadcoder0904··on Ask HN: Do You Believe in Aliens?
Damn, that's a good point you made. I also want to see aliens. But they surely aren't living on Mars otherwise Elon would've saw it. Do you think they are further beyond the planets we can observer? Or they just aren't visible?
deadcoder0904··on Ask HN: Do You Believe in Aliens?
Some scientist recently said Aliens are near & many major publications covered it. Not sure if we will see them but it'll be fun if we can at least before we die lol
deadcoder0904··on Ask HN: What startup would you make if you had access to GPT-3?
> I don't think so, the project started only a couple of years ago.

Oh so you haven't done the research. It can start a couple of years ago but it has some computer power that ran it for like trillion years. There's some YouTube guy who talked about it. I don't know the technicalities but that's the truth. Maybe not trillion, he might've said billions but it's still a lot.

deadcoder0904··on Ask HN: What startup would you make if you had access to GPT-3?
Not sure how that'll work? GPT-3 has more data than us. I've heard they run a computer for something like trillion years.

> That's provided that I would be able to overcome the personal feeling that what I'm selling is useless and I'm essentially scamming every customer.

Some people are ruthless & well, some can never be.

deadcoder0904··on Ask HN: What startup would you make if you had access to GPT-3?
If OnlyFans works, then I don't think your idea should have any problem.
deadcoder0904··on Ask HN: What startup would you make if you had access to GPT-3?
I didn't get access either lol. You have to either have a great idea or had to join in early. Or do something like https://www.flowrite.com/blog/how-we-got-access-to-gpt-3-in-...
deadcoder0904··on Ask HN: What app have you bought in 2020 that improved your life?
I have heard Lunch Money is great → https://lunchmoney.app/
deadcoder0904··on Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?
Highest signal sales advice I've ever seen:

Yes, there are tons of resources but I'll try to offer some simple tips.

1. Sales is a lot like golf. You can make it so complicated as to be impossible or you can simply walk up and hit the ball. I've been leading and building sales orgs for almost 20 years and my advice is to walk up and hit the ball.

2. Sales is about people and it's about problem solving. It is not about solutions or technology or chemicals or lines of code or artichokes. It's about people and it's about solving problems.

3. People buy 4 things and 4 things only. Ever. Those 4 things are time, money, sex, and approval/peace of mind. If you try selling something other than those 4 things you will fail.

4. People buy aspirin always. They buy vitamins only occassionally and at unpredictable times. Sell aspirin.

5. I say in every talk I give: "all things being equal people buy from their friends. So make everything else equal then go make a lot of friends."

6. Being valuable and useful is all you ever need to do to sell things. Help people out. Send interesting posts. Write birthday cards. Record videos sharing your ideas for growing their business. Introduce people who would benefit from knowing each other then get out of the way, expecting nothing in return. Do this consistently and authentically and people will find ways to give you money. I promise.

7. No one cares about your quota, your payroll, your opex, your burn rate, etc. No one. They care about the problem you are solving for them.

There is more than 100 trillion dollars in the global economy just waiting for you to breathe it in. Good luck.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23285438

deadcoder0904··on Prettifying Org Mode with CSS
This is the CSS included for the lazy:

    /* Originally from http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com */
    @import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Inconsolata|Inter&display=swap');
    body {
     margin: 40px auto;
     max-width: 900px;
     line-height: 1.6;
     font-size: 16px;
     color: #444;
     padding: 0 10px;
     font-family: 'Inter', sans-serif;;
    }
    h1,
    h2,
    h3 {
     line-height: 1.2;
     font-family: 'Inter', sans-serif;;
    }
    img {
     width: 750px;
     border-radius: 10px;
    }
    pre {
     font-family: 'Inconsolata', monospace;
    }
    ::selection {
     color: white;
     background: #ff4081;
    }
deadcoder0904··on Ask HN: I would pay 100$/Mo if you can solve this problem
You can give https://bossasaservice.life/ a shot
deadcoder0904··on Ask HN: What are the underrated newsletters you like reading?
https://marketingexamples.com by Harry Dry to up my Marketing Skills :)
deadcoder0904··on Show HN: Pixle.cc
What technologies did you use to create it?
deadcoder0904··on Handling responsive layouts in React Native apps
Hey HN, author here.

Previously, I wrote a tutorial called Scaling React Native Apps for Tablets [0] more than a year ago & it got a lot of attention thanks to the user-friendly title which resulted in a lot of organic traffic from Google.

In that tutorial, I used another library called https://github.com/nirsky/react-native-size-matters at that time. It works great.

However, another library called https://github.com/marudy/react-native-responsive-screen came on the horizon at some later time. It is also easy to use. I thought about writing a tutorial on it for a long time & it's finally here.

When I submitted the earlier article, someone on Reddit said that a Tablet should fit in more content than a Phone which I completely did wrong in my previous tutorial because I never used a Tablet before. In this tutorial, I think I've rectified my mistake if you can see from the screenshot.

If you've ever wondered how to do responsive design in React Native, then be sure to check it out. Let me know if you have any questions :)

[0]: https://medium.com/react-native-training/scaling-react-nativ...

deadcoder0904··on How to get 30k Hacker News visitors to your website
It's so true. Every time a YC startup launches, there is an upvote ring from YC I think. They reach front page so quickly. Sick practices :(
deadcoder0904··on Show HN: I built a service to discover rapidly growing Google search topics
You said you are monitoring interesting keywords & topics but how do you know which keywords & topics to monitor?

Also, if you are choosing the keywords then wouldn't the data be inaccurate for predicting trends as trends occur randomly?

deadcoder0904··on Ask HN: Self-Hosted or Encrypted Notes/Todo App Like Notion.so or Workflowy
Check out Standard Notes at https://www.standardnotes.org
deadcoder0904··on Redis Turns 10 – How it started with a single post on Hacker News
Thank you that was a great example. So from what I understand, Redis shouldn't be used unless there's a scaling issue?

Also, where does Redis sit (my guess is between request & database)?

deadcoder0904··on Show HN: No More Google, privacy-friendly alternatives to Google products
There is https://simpleanalytics.io which you can check if its feasible for you :)
deadcoder0904··on Show HN: Away from Keyboard (AFK): Reduce eye strain with reminder to take break
Ohh yeah like reading. But other than that I don't think there can be other indicators to know how much active you are on your Mac.

Can you provide any other examples which does not include mouse & keyboard?

I think mostly Developers, Designers & Gamers spend their time the most in front of the computer & need breaks.

For me, this app worked immensely well because I for the past couple of weeks I've been coding for 9+ hours without a lot of break (not more than 5 minutes) & it hurt my eyes & also there is a lot of headache too. Now I don't have to consciously remind myself to take breaks. AFK takes care of that for me :)

deadcoder0904··on Show HN: Away from Keyboard (AFK): Reduce eye strain with reminder to take break
I am the maker of Away From Keyboard (AFK). Away From Keyboard is an app that reduces eye strain with reminders to take a break.

AFK tracks movements on the mouse & keystrokes on the keyboard. After a certain interval, it notifies you to take a break & tells you to do some other activity to reduce eye strain. It takes care of your eyes for you without getting in the way.

I was inspired by Aware but I needed more features which is why I built Away From Keyboard (AFK). Also it was a great way to learn some Swift.

This app has helped me immensely & my eyes & head are more relaxed now thanks to AFK. Happy to answer any questions you have :)

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