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Co-founder @ Lugg Twitter: @erickreutz
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kreutz··on Pulley is shutting down in December
We got this too. Nothing about it anywhere. Very odd
kreutz··on U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
Correction: Can you yet?
kreutz··on Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6B
This sucks. I love Intercom. I hate Salesforce. I do not have confidence in Salesforce to be good stewards. Will never forgive how badly they've botched Heroku.
kreutz··on Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed
I got this same error. I restarted Zed, and it fixed itself.
kreutz··on Do Things That Don't Scale (2013)
thank you!
kreutz··on Do Things That Don't Scale (2013)
Relevant discussion thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38010992
kreutz··on Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startup in 2025?
Yes, no doubt. Nothing comes close.
kreutz··on 47% of 160 Top Selling Protein Powders Tested Exceed P65 Limit for Toxic Metals [pdf]
It's criminal that they did not include a list
kreutz··on I Love Ruby
I love Ruby too. I wish they fully embraced types. Sorbet is not fun to use.
kreutz··on Intermittent fasting more effective than calorie restriction
Intermittent fasting is a form of calorie restriction
kreutz··on Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' manual examples?
We thought about it but ultimately decided that owning a truck would detract from what we really needed to be doing which was getting truck owners to do the luggs
kreutz··on Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' manual examples?
Thank you!
kreutz··on Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' manual examples?
At Lugg (https://lugg.com) we did a few things that would not scale.

- My co-founder and I did all the Luggs ourselves in trucks we rented through GetAround for the first 4 months

- My co-founder and I's names, pictures, and phone numbers were hard coded into the app as the crew to fulfill the Lugg before we had crews or proper dispatching

- We launched without payments and would charge customers with a Square reader at the door

- Most mornings we would camp out in the IKEA parking lot in Emeryville, CA and approach their customers that were struggling to get their purchases in their cars and pitched them that we would deliver their items if they downloaded the app and made a request

- In the early days we didn't have operating ours and anyone could request a Lugg at anytime and my co-founder and I would hop in our rented truck and do it

A few months in we did a Lugg for someone that knew Sam Altman and made an intro to him for us. We met him for coffee, shortly after had a YC interview, and was later accepted in the S15 batch

kreutz··on Yarn 4.0
Just use bun
kreutz··on [dead]
Because then it's not new. /s
kreutz··on Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative
How do you plan to make money?
kreutz··on On the State of the Web
Reddit is a glorified bulletin board that does not need ~2000 employees to operate and iterate. The community is their product. They are were never going to be a unicorn and they will die trying. Software eats the world but Silicon Valley manages to find a way to kill off its own creation.
kreutz··on Wargraphs, a gaming startup with 1 employee, no outside funding, sells for $54M
This is the way.
kreutz··on Ask HN: Has your view of Silicon Valley changed in the last 72 hours?
I didn’t say the quality of life was worse or equivalent to America. The improvements to quality of life in Europe are likely largely driven by government policy not for-profit organizations.
kreutz··on Ask HN: Has your view of Silicon Valley changed in the last 72 hours?
Sounds like idealism to me. I think you'd have a hard time quantifying your perspective. It's not the only assessment. Just statistically likely that it's the majority.
kreutz··on SVB does not deserve a bailout. They DID NOT hedge interest rate risk at all
With thousands of your "normal people" on payroll by proxy.
kreutz··on Ask HN: Has your view of Silicon Valley changed in the last 72 hours?
The world is full of self-interested organizations and people building things that, at times, result in wider societal benefit.
kreutz··on Software Developer Competencies (How to Recognize a Good Programmer)
Turing test passed successfully
kreutz··on Shopify CEO betting on Remix web framework
Shopify owns Remix fyi
kreutz··on MyFitnessPal Barcode Scanner Goes Premium and What to Use Now
MacroFactor[1] is the way.

[1] https://www.strongerbyscience.com/macrofactor/

kreutz··on Super Follows
> Super Follows is a way for people’s most engaged followers to help them earn money for their contributions on Twitter. When someone offers a Super Follows subscription, their Super Followers can see bonus Tweets created especially for them. Super Followers receive badges on all their replies to the person they’ve Super Followed, letting them stand out in the conversation.

I could hardly follow that paragraph.

kreutz··on Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge grants emergency stay
Because Uber is easier.
kreutz··on Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge grants emergency stay
Where do people go if Uber does not exist?
kreutz··on Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge grants emergency stay
Healthcare should be provided as a human right but this is not accomplishing that.
kreutz··on Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge grants emergency stay
Right here: https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/jjj
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