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wizcapson AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

Read the rest of their posts. They are one.

Got proven wrong and can’t handle it.

wizcapson Dropbox is an obvious PE Target?

Mailbox, Paper and whatever the photos one was called (Carousel?). I agree. I was hyping them up as the next gsuite and they just dismantled all those apps and the momentum they built along with them.

wizcapson Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law

I think you know how absurd it sounds to say in response “well you can go and create your own internet”

wizcapson Tell HN: Ever think of applying to YC? Do it this weekend for S24

Re the “won’t get in” point..

We applied a few years ago. I won’t lie, I was sad and disappointed we didn’t get in, but even more so because our application was just ignored. Left a very bad taste in our mouths.

I won’t again spend days on an application to have it be ignored. Since then, we have been grinding away at the same business and it’s now making 7 figures, giving us the perfect life of a 20% YoY growth business with no VCs breathing down our necks trying to 10x that growth rate. Not taking VC money was the best thing we ever did, albeit inadvertently.

So sure, you won’t get in (statistically), but it could be the best thing you ever don’t do!

wizcapson Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing

The entitlement in this thread is staggering.

> It sucks for Elastic but it's good for customers.

Everyone is seemingly happy with ES not being able to monetise the product they build for the community, to subsidise the thousands of developer hours spent on it, so their company can save a few dollars. They (you) would rather than money go to Amazon for providing.. nothing to the ES community.