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frankdilo

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co-founder mailbrew, typefully @frankdilo on twitter
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frankdilo··on Confer – End to end encrypted AI chat
I do wonder what models it uses under the hood.

ChatGPT already knows more about me than Google did before LLMs, but would I switch to inferior models to preserve privacy? Hard tradeoff.

frankdilo··on Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app
So is this already in Handy or you are referring to a feature of the underlying models you are still not actively using?
frankdilo··on Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app
This looks great! What’s missing for me to switch from something like Wispr Flow is the ability to provide a dictionary for commonly mistaken words (name of your company, people, code libraries).
frankdilo··on Ask HN: What is a common PR review time at your company?
Stacked pull requests solve this.

It doesn’t matter how much you wait for review of a PR if you can just build on top of it.

Also, this workflow encourages smaller PRs that are faster and easier to review.

We implement this at my company through a tool called Graphite and review times usually don’t exceed 1-2 days.

frankdilo··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)
Typefully | Full Stack Engineer | Remote (CET Preferred) | Full-Time

Typefully is an extremely polished web app for crafting, scheduling, and publishing exceptional content on social media, empowering over 150k creators and teams globally.

About us:

We’re a small (3), bootstrapped, dedicated team of skilled craftspeople passionate about building well-designed, polished, user-friendly software.

About the Role:

We’re looking for a Full Stack Engineer with a great product sense to join our team. If you join, you'll work on:

- Developing and refining new features, like deeper AI integration and real-time collaborative editing.

- Solving interesting technical challenges, including enhancing our powerful text editor.

- Co-owning the product, taking charge of your work from ideation to release and maintenance.

Apply here

https://typefully.com/jobs (Product Engineer)

frankdilo··on Show HN: Turn your tweets/threads into a blog and RSS feed
Yes we do.

You can paste any plaintext in our editor and it will be split into tweets. Just put 4 newlines between one tweet and the next.

frankdilo··on Show HN: Turn your tweets/threads into a blog and RSS feed
Hi Jonathan, Typefully is first and foremost a thread-writing app meant for publishing, this is why we need all those permissions.

Profiles could use a subset of permissions, but we prefer to keep things simple and have a unified login flow.

frankdilo··on Why has no one made a better Goodreads
Readng is a great alternative to GoodReads: https://beta.readng.co/

It’s currently in private beta.

frankdilo··on Show HN: I wrote a book about using data science to solve “everyday” problems
Amazing idea, just bought a copy.
frankdilo··on On the Security of WhatsApp and Telegram
Refreshing take. An actual analysis with threat modeling calling out all the fallacies of people that argue Whatsapp is better just because it uses E2EE by default.
frankdilo··on Happy New Year HN
Felice anno nuovo HN!

What a crazy year 2020 has been, looking forward to what's next.

frankdilo··on The Fight for WorldBox
This was hard to read. I am furious.

Fenced App Store make this problem 100x worse with their shitty search (especially the iOS one) and their hands-off approach with regards to IP. If you hold a trademark, you can bring other apps that yes that trademark in their name down.

frankdilo··on SaaS We Happily Pay For
This sounds interesting! Where can I read more?
frankdilo··on SaaS We Happily Pay For
Wow. Didn’t know you were such a small team. Cheers
frankdilo··on SaaS We Happily Pay For
Didn’t know about Geekbot, worth trying?
frankdilo··on SaaS We Happily Pay For
That's not the whole list. We spend around $500/month if we include everything.

We used to host our own stuff to spend less, like having our own Mailtrain instance instead of paying for an email marketing solution.

But if you do too much of that, you'll find yourself spending a lot of your time doing sys admin stuff, instead of working on your product. This can kill you, especially at an early stage.

As we scale our[1] revenues (currently at $5k MRR), that $500/m cost will become a lower and lower percentage and be almost negligible.

[1]: https://mailbrew.com

frankdilo··on SaaS We Happily Pay For
Heard this one before.

"Netflix is $10/m, so why would I buy Mailbrew (the product we make) for the same price?"

Apparently hundreds of people are happy to pay for quality indie software that solves their problems. We are among them.

frankdilo··on SaaS We Happily Pay For
Love Art or Product as well. Derrick is doing an amazing job.
frankdilo··on Getting our first thousand users in one day
Yeah this project was originally born as a “marketing” side project for Mailbrew.

If Mailbrew is focused reading, this is focused writing.

That being said, we haven’t seen that many signups coming from Typefully. Roughly 100.

So, probably didn’t work as a stunt, but worked as its own product. So we want to invest more in it.

frankdilo··on Getting our first thousand users in one day
Yeah definitely. Did many other launches where we had 1/100 of this reach. Just keep shipping.
frankdilo··on Getting our first thousand users in one day
Yeah definitely meant spirited discussion. Not a native speaker.
frankdilo··on Show HN: Write-Only Interface for Twitter
Totally. It's the first feature we'll work on adding.
frankdilo··on Show HN: Write-Only Interface for Twitter
That nobody reads what you write.

Jokes asides I am a big fan of blogging[1], but it's not the best medium for reach.

[1]: https://francescodilorenzo.com

frankdilo··on Show HN: Write-Only Interface for Twitter
The angle here is not about shutting other people out. It's about carving out the time to think and write, and letting other peoples in at your leisure, maybe once or twice per day.
frankdilo··on Show HN: Write-Only Interface for Twitter
We do that too. This was initially born as an easy way to cross-post from our markdown blogs to Twitter.
frankdilo··on Ask HN: What time of the day are you the most productive?
Early morning, after a good night sleep, especially when I have an empty calendar.

In the afternoon I experience the usual energy slump.

frankdilo··on Show HN: Mailbrew, all-in-one RSS reader, newsletters inbox, and Read Later
Hey people, I am one of the founders.

Happy to answer any questions (product or startup related). We are offering a 25% discount for HN readers [1].

You may also be interested in knowing that Hacker News is one of the officially supported sources that you can receive in your digests.

[1]: https://mailbrew.com/?coupon=HN25

frankdilo··on Ask HN: What are some available force multipliers that most people don't know?
Or use this service i made https://mailbrew.com and get all of that via email.
frankdilo··on Introduction to Apache Airflow
How is this different from Celery?
frankdilo··on Show HN: Mailbrew – Automated Email Digests from HN, RSS, Reddit, Twitter
That would be super-interesting to us, an issue we have been struggling with is filtering/summarizing content from sources with lots of content such as RSS for sites like The Verge.
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