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The entire product interface needs to convince me that this is secure and to be trusted... In current form it strikes me as a phishing attempt

Neat. It'd be interesting to include recipes ideas based on what you've purchased. If your list is lacking in some key nutrition, it'd be cool if it suggested what to buy the next time you go to the store

This is likely why no exec supported google reader and it shut down: people aren't willing to pay for it.

So your product is a beta sign up form with a countdown for when it launches? The best motivation to ship something is having people waiting for your firm commitment...

Threads is Times Square (NYC). Twitter is Union Square (SF).

There is an amazing alternative with far more features and thoughtfully designed in https://feedly.com/

You know you have a rocket if you're leaving money/customers on the table because your cashflow doesn't support rate of fulfillment of potential growth.

Only take rocket fuel (VC funding) if you've got a rocket (PMF in a massive TAM with net revenue retention)

If you don't have a rocket, the rocket fuel will be wasted and disappointing in any other vehicle. Ideally you bootstrap until it's clear. But if you start the company with VC funding, you should know the expectation.

If you truly have a rocket the economics of VC funding is favorable for everyone.

There is no magic bullet. You're going to have to email 5-7 times and expect a dismal response rate. The cold email should have the reader feel a visceral pain point and feel relieved there is a solution.

If your PM doesn't use your product enough to know every single bug then they don't understand or feel your customer/user pain. Ideally when they experience a bug there is already a ticket created that they can simply prioritize. I have a deal with my QA team: On every new build once they've gone through it, they pay me $10 per bug with no ticket. If I don't find any undocumented bugs then I buy lunch.

Surprised I'm the first to comment on this. Upgrade all the following to premium quality:

* Sheets / mattress * Towels * Underwear / socks

The quality is better as the price goes up (then at a certain point you're paying for brand). These are things that you use on your body every day. Buying well made things here are little reminders that you've made it and are taking care of yourself.

Youtube's revenue was $30B last year

What's the average tenure of a mod?

I think investors will welcome the model. Youtube/tiktok pay content creators. Paying mods doesn't seem that far fetched...

Exactly. Seems like the Mods should form a union and demand a rev share. I have to imagine leadership would capitulate

Well, the current situation seems like enough incentive to at least discuss this as a possible solution...

Reddit's biggest risk is community revolt. Financially incentivizing moderators to keep the community aligned with the company's interest seems like something investors would reward (even if the profit margin goes down a little).

"Nearly half of all unhoused adults in California are over the age of 50"

This is a senior citizen health and housing crisis... When my dad got old and demented, it nearly broke us trying to take care of him physically, mentally and financially. I can totally see how families give up forcing senior citizens into the streets.

I watched this last night. I thought the point about nuclear powering submarines for some 60 years without incident was a good point attesting to the real safety record. Maybe the boomer generation did get nuclear power totally wrong. Thoughts?

What it takes to be CTO is different at different stages:

Pre-product market fit: - Hands on building of prototypes/product to test PMF (doer) - Manage a small team (probably all know each other) coordination (think scrum master)

Product Market fit: - Prioritize quality over speed. (editor) - Recruit, ramp and retain random engineers.

Scale + Maintain: - Frameworks to help teams of teams delivering stuff (editor in chief) - Fight rebuilding/refactoring working software - Recruit, ramp and retain software leaders - Conflicts/politic resolutions

Assume the people running the other service are geniuses that have tried everything feasible. Figure out why they haven't achieved crazy success. If there is something you can differentiate on with that as the starting point then pursue the idea.

Another interesting thing I had to unlearn was to try to optimize everything. As an engineer I want to automate anything I have to do more than three times. But that doesn't work as an AE. You just have to do the same things over and over (cold calling or sending emails, linkedin messages) knowing it's only going to work 25% of the time but that hit rate is good enough.

I did a long time ago. I was a very mediocore software engineer but naturally good at story telling especially when it came to explaining complex things. I first became a systems engineer (SE).

I worked at a large company accompanying sales people. I got the technical close (made our solution work for their problem) and the account executive got the financial close (got them through terms and conditions and signature). I eventually got the opportunity to switch to AE (switched because the comp was 2-3X of an SE). How hard can it be? There was a steep learning curve. My perception as an engineer was that once I got technical close, the deal was done. In most of the sales presentations I did 80% of the talking/convincing. But it turns out this wasn't the case at all. I later learned that the AE would cold call the champion after the preso. That's when they made the sale.

They AE motivates the champion to get the deal through the bureaucracy of their company AS WELL AS your own company. This has nothing to do with rational logic you learn in engineering, it's all soft social communication skills.

The best way I can summarize it is an SE/ENG is paid to know the answers. The AE is paid to ask the right (tough) questions at the right time.

Do MODs lose money during blackout. If no, what's the incentive to bring them back quickly?

do you think people will actually show up to a meeting run by an AI?

Ok, so it's not just me. At least we have HN. My doom scroll is now artifact. Though I've never engaged in the comments. Tho identical IMHO, It replaced apple news for me which I got made fun of for sharing a link from...

Truly successful CEOs make decisions where there is no definitive data and end up being right. It's not clear to me AI's would be good at that. Most CEO's have a chief of staff, that's probably something AI could replace.

Kids are the center of your life. They are a lot easier (especially during the younger ages) to raise with a committed partner.

In my experience people don't over hire for prestige, they do it for a promotion (pay increase). Maybe prestige is part of it.

LLMs are just text prediction. I don't see the linear path from LLM to AGI. Was there similar hysteria when the calculator or PC first came out?