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thedrake··on Amazon without the knockoffs
nice. So in a way it is great that it was released as it brought more attention. Also may of provided you a way to see a path forward on how to make it more available.

Are you really going to be upset that what you originally built would be built upon and potentially monetized? The money will allow more fuel to make it better and better (hopefully)

thedrake··on Amazon without the knockoffs
Are you really the dev or just the person who signed up with this name? The profile was created 6 minutes before this post and the only one ever.
thedrake··on Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes
and a request for gumloop. (a YC alum) https://docs.gumloop.com/
thedrake··on (Pre)Launch HN: ProblemHunt
So this has the potential to be great. Especially for Generalists who have soooo many ideas it can become paralyzing.

Being able to brain dump-ish and then have help finding the golden thread.

Thoughts on how to maximize revenue is to offer a high price point for one time or a simple 1% of any business that comes from it. This aligns the outcome and upside for everyone. Simplify the contract. Could even make it a handshake agreement as the proof will be there in the genesis story.

Could be the ultimate business coach.

thedrake··on Atkinson Hyperlegible Font
Great seeing that they also have a great website score for Web Accessibility https://wave.webaim.org/report#/https://www.brailleinstitute... which shows a near perfect Web Accessibility Score.

Gives credence that they do take it seriously.

thedrake··on Starlink will provide free global cellular emergency services access (e.g. 911)
The current option is near nothing unless you have a specific plan. Not sure how this would not be better than that.
thedrake··on Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14672359
thedrake··on Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)
I was the one who solved this. It was an exciting time
thedrake··on Launch HN: Twenty.com (YC S23) – Open-source CRM
It looks like a near clone of what Attio is doing.
thedrake··on Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight
Here is the story behind the flight and drawing in the sky via flight path https://aviationsourcenews.com/breaking/atlas-air-to-fly-spe...
thedrake··on Cynthia Rudin wins the 2021 AAAI Squirrel AI Award
Several great insights from a person that truly cares about not only the outcome of models but what is causing the outcome. Her talks about parole guidelines being taken over by ai are great.
thedrake··on 1.2M Tesla Cybertruck Pre-Orders
Something that I have not heard talked about much is that this deposit mentally buys the truck so another car/truck purchase is put on hold while the wait happens. Also the early versions (first 50k) is going to be strong demand on the secondary market. My guess is that the premium over sticker in the aftermarket is going to be huge
thedrake··on How I raised a $5.1M seed as a first-time, female, solo founder for a biotech co
and now I know of her and her company and mission. congrats on both
thedrake··on How I raised a $5.1M seed as a first-time, female, solo founder for a biotech co
and now I know of her and more importantly her company and mission. Congrats on both.
thedrake··on Launch HN: Greywing (YC W21) – Automated ship operations focused on crew
a very interesting space and solution. I think that it would be beneficial to the entire vessel to give the crew a voice via a feedback loop with something like https://www.15five.com/. You could encourage them to root out potential problems and uncover opportunities to help the crew perform better. A comparison is that a non-obvious thing may come forward once a feedback loop is provided. Having a voice alone will improve moral. It will also provide you with crew support which will then translate to wanting to have your solution onboard the next ship they are on. A bottom up marketing strategy that then can be turned into a benefit that a ship provides as an incentive to join.
thedrake··on Launch HN: PingPong (YC W21) – Video messaging for remote teams
Lots of naming options and this one is one of the worst IMO. To much history of what ping pong is already and because it is an active thing it as opposed to stripe which is a static not activity thing. Worth changing ASAP
thedrake··on Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
Would like to have a category for Toys. After having four kids it is clear what toys have stood the test of time in durability as well as playability
thedrake··on Mailgo, a new concept of mailto and tel links
please submit mailgo to https://caniuse.com/ here https://caniuse.com/issue-list or via github
thedrake··on Launch HN: Rally.Video (YC S20) – Dynamic video platform for social groups
:) Credits could be a currency. You give them to the person/people in a room and the room starter would get a higher percentage. The credits could also be taken away/used when moving from room to room. This would help with the currency/value placed on a room.
thedrake··on Launch HN: Rally.Video (YC S20) – Dynamic video platform for social groups
Would be good to have a sentiment about the "room" that could be displayed and conveyed to others. An engagement or virtual clapping would show to others the temp of the room. Also a key thing would be to have a way for a small room to grow to a room of 3 or more. A way to discover new rooms that are interesting would be good. Another thought is to have a time minimum that a person would have to be in a room. While this is counter intuitive it would help provide bouncing and promote a minute or more before making a judgement. I see this as something that would be healthy and prevent room hoppers that never fully engage and a attention currency that is helpful to meaningful engagement.
thedrake··on Launch HN: Riot (YC W20) – Phishing training for your team
One that is happening in nearly every parish is that scammers are using church bulletins to get the personal info and then sending a "message" from the priest to those people. So while not CEO fraud it is very similar. A great setup and one that you could find a way that you charge when teams are doing the right thing... have the test be free and the training have a cost
thedrake··on Launch HN: Orbiter (YC W20) – Autonomous data monitoring for non-engineers
This is what Maxly.coM used to do. They learned several valuable lessons and would be worth talking to one of the founders.
thedrake··on Die With Me – A chat app you can only use when you have less than 5% battery
maybe have a chat app that only works when the phone is being charged up... Live with me
thedrake··on TurboTax and H&R Block Saw Free Tax Filing as a Threat
it looks like CreditKarma registered the tax version Tax Karma https://taxkarma.com (the WHOIS https://domains.google.com/m/registrar/search/whois/taxkarma...)
thedrake··on Idaho legislators approve law requiring transparency for risk assessment tools
this is the exact thing that Rule Lists can do as proven by Cynthia Rudin and her team show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjxcwKN2dXs and https://today.duke.edu/2017/07/opening-lid-criminal-sentenci... She also has an open source code for the rule lists here https://users.cs.duke.edu/~cynthia/code.html
thedrake··on Gmail spam-filters PayPal security messages
It is because of the DMARC setup that Paypal has put in place which is doing exactly what they want it to do which is put any non verified and in alignment (not coming from the paypal.com domain) - this is why you see the via in the from. The current DMARC policy for Paypal.com is dmarc=pass (p=REJECT sp=REJECT dis=NONE) header.from=paypal.com
thedrake··on Testimony of Mark Zuckerberg – Hearing Before US House of Representatives [pdf]
Here is the personality insight from IBM Watson on the text https://www.dropbox.com/s/j4ftupd4jd612ma/Screen%20Shot%2020...

(using https://personality-insights-demo.ng.bluemix.net/)

thedrake··on Launch HN: Promise (YC W18) – Cost-effective, more humane alternative to jail
Recidivism rule sets using baysein methods is outlined here that provide transparent methods for accurate predictions. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.07810.pdf and her talk about it here https://youtu.be/MjxcwKN2dXs

Having personally spent 2301 days in prison 19-26yrs old I found that many factors are at play in those who return. Truly look forward to what you are looking to accomplish and am open to helping however I can.

thedrake··on Candy Wrappers Are Listening (2014)
This will help to solve debates like the one about the moon landing. Use this video (https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/hd/apollo11_hdpage.html - the highest HD I could find) of the flag moving and extract sound. Then extract the sound (if there is any) http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/vidmag/ is the site that he mentions at the end or the ted talk given that goes into more about the workflow.

Not a programmer so not sure how to use the code to implement it. Any takers?

thedrake··on Using page speed in mobile search ranking
https://www.hardypress.com/ makes a static version of the site which will be faster
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