yuvalkarmi

now THAT is cool!

For anyone interested the tl;dr, here it is: smart people aren’t necessarily happier because intelligence mostly helps with well-defined problems (logic, puzzles, work tasks).

Happiness depends on poorly-defined problems (relationships, meaning, values, identity).

Being good at solving structured problems doesn’t equal being good at navigating the messy, ambiguous ones that actually determine well-being.

Oh well

"Join thousands of developers, founders, and indie hackers who are sharing knowledge and building amazing products with vibe coding." but you just made this.

Thanks so much, Moti! Would love to answer any questions if you've got any.

Hey folks, I'm around to answer anyone's questions :)

Love that you took something that meta wrote about but didn't actually release and then... did it for them haha :)

I lol’d

OP here: curious to see what the community thinks and to answer any questions!

Pretty close naming to Little Snitch - the Mac network monitoring tool!

I respectfully disagree with the latter part (as for the former, you’re obviously free to like or dislike anything :)). I think we should each play to our strengths - and this is especially true in marketing. If this is what ends up grabbing someone’s eye where they would have otherwise ignored it, then good for the author. It’s unusual to launch a startup at that age, and therefore (in my view) interesting and merits discussion.

Now someone go do this with AI, and make it actually ever expanding

Tangential, but fun: the following is NOT what this post says. The following is the response to a the ChatGPT prompt "write the press release by an imagined body called the Department of Energy announcing the achievement of fusion ignition." Mind you, ChatGPT training data ends in 2021, so it's definitely not aware of this news:

"The Department of Energy is pleased to announce the successful achievement of fusion ignition in our latest experiment. This breakthrough marks a major milestone in our pursuit of clean, limitless energy.

Fusion, the process by which atomic nuclei combine to release vast amounts of energy, has long been considered the Holy Grail of energy production. It has the potential to provide an virtually limitless supply of clean, safe energy, without the harmful greenhouse gas emissions or dangerous waste products of other forms of energy production.

For decades, scientists and engineers have been working to unlock the secrets of fusion and harness its power. This has been a challenging and complex endeavor, but we are now closer than ever to achieving our goal. The successful fusion ignition in our experiment marks the first time that this process has been achieved outside of the core of a star. This is a significant step forward in our efforts to harness the power of fusion and bring it to practical use.

We believe that fusion has the potential to revolutionize the way we produce energy, and we are committed to pursuing this technology with all of the resources at our disposal. In the coming years, we will continue to conduct experiments and research, with the goal of developing a fusion reactor that can provide a stable, reliable source of energy.

We are extremely proud of this achievement, and we will continue to work tirelessly to develop this technology and bring it to the world. This is an exciting time for energy production, and we are confident that fusion will play a major role in our collective future. We are grateful for the support of our colleagues and partners in this effort, and we look forward to continuing to push the boundaries of what is possible."

Why is there a Geico ad on the site?

I think your last sentence summarizes the sentiment really well: “The difference between utopia or dystopia is who has access to that information”

You’re asking about how to change a feeling of insecurity to security. My answer is this: give yourself a sense that you have an abundance of options. The feeling of insecurity may stem from a fear of being left without options. So now, not later, interview at a variety of places.

Prepare well for those interviews, and know that if you make it to even 1 place in 10 that you interview (or 20 - whatever it might be), then you have options in case something happens.

You don’t need to actually take any of the jobs. Just create the sense of an abundance of options.

Dude what's with the toxicity? Who says he's not helping? Also, babies sleep sometimes... Lay it off with the snarky / toxic comments - totally off topic to the submission.

This is super cool! Didn't know you could run GIMP in headless mode.

I feel the same way. I like the context and it adds a bit of story around this.

Pretty harsh lololol. Very curious about your reasoning. Can you please explain?

Hey HN community! I'm Yuval, the founder of WorkPuppy - a tool that helps SaaS companies ask users for their work emails (once they have a good reason to give it to us).

At my previous startup, Simpo, I asked my team to outright block registrations with personal email addresses, fearing that those users were just "not serious."

It was a mistake.

Sometimes users sign up with a personal or secondary email address because they want to check a product out before giving away their important contact info.

Rather than preventing personal email registrations, I now believe that as B2B SaaS founders, we should absolutely allow users to "kick the tires" of a product (with whatever info they want to give us), and then tactfully ask for their info when they've seen value in the product and want to stay in touch.

There's an interactive demo on the main site (courtesy of the good folks at Arcade), so you can play with it, and I'd be delighted to talk to anyone individually who's interested in having a conversation.

Can't wait to hear what you all think and to chat – I love this place :)

That’s actually super useful. Do you want to chat about this (the other side as you call it). There are open source lists of lacklisted domains and I’m curious why current solutions don’t quite do the trick. If you’re open to chatting please email me at ykarmi (at) gmail

Thanks for the reply! Do you mind addressing this part? "For longer term, it's not for me." - totally legitimate – I'm just curious why. Feel free to be very honest / harsh :) Honest feedback > me feeling good about this

Also, did Private Relay actually get blacklisted?

lol, it does come off as a little harsh, but I do think it's reasonable to expect the main domain to get blacklisted at some point. Assuming there's some business model to figured out for this, alternative domains could always be added... For now I was just curious to put it out there and see how people respond / if it even gets used at all.

That's fair -- one simple answer is privacy: each service you sign up for gets its own email address, but they're all tied to your 1trial account behind the scenes (if you choose to create one - it's optional), so you can still keep track of it.

I bet that the second email address you have can easily be tied to your identity. Same reason Apple Private Relay is useful.

Before I see value in a product, I may not want to give them my actual email address because I may just end up using it once.

I suppose it could be abused, but that's certainly not the intent.

Hi, I'm Yuval, the founder of 1Trial - a service that lets you try out SaaS apps giving away your email.

You can think about it like a smarter disposable email service that also generates a password for you (and with a better UI).

The cool thing is that unlike disposable email services, it also saves the login info for you for later use.

I made it as a fun side project to scratch my own itch - I like checking out new products, and I was ticked off that to even begin to try something out, you need to register for an account.

The problem I had with disposable email services was that you lost access to your account, and you couldn't keep track of all the different services you signed up for (without polluting your password manager).

Happy to answer questions, and looking forward to engaging with the HN community - I love this place!

In April of 2021, we started shutting down my startup, Simpo.

While we eventually sold the assets and found a soft landing for some of our employees, I have no interest in framing this as a success story for the sake of optics. Instead, I'd like to talk about the many mistakes that I've made.

This is the story of my biggest one.

icloud.com is currently showing “ Service Unavailable - DNS failure

The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again later.”

Pretty rare for multiple Apple services to go down like this.

Plot twist: this person actually has a leaf for a head

Lapid is the alternate prime minister, and the significance is that (correct me if I’m wrong) it’s fairly uncommon for people in political power positions not to have higher education of some sort.