PretzelJudge

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by PretzelJudge 5mo ago
By default you can’t access the latest OpenAI models unless you request access. We requested access for a very straightforward use case and never got it. We switched to Anthropic and Bedrock for that reason.
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by PretzelJudge 5mo ago
Helpful link. Thank you. I think that when people are worried about ZDR, what they really worry about is data governance. From what I’ve seen there’s a general distrust of OpenAI. AWS may keep your data around (without formal ZDR) but the c
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by PretzelJudge 8mo ago
> Can I ask what the product was? Software for teachers. Teachers tend to talk to each other, which is great for distribution. On the other hand, they have very little spending power. But back on the other hand again, they don't get
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by PretzelJudge 8mo ago
I like this quote: > First time founders are obsessed with product. Second time founders are obsessed with distribution. I have personally grown an app from zero to 100k+ users, with no marketing budget. I don't have a magic formu
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by PretzelJudge 10mo ago
There are 190+ other countries that can also approve it (or that aren’t organized enough to care about drug approvals). If there was an amazing treatment working in Lichtenstein, we’d hear about it.
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by PretzelJudge 11mo ago
You can easily simulate an early stage startup by getting together with some friends and each of you calls random people from the phonebook, tries to sell them a product that they don’t want right now and then gets hung up on. The winner is
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by PretzelJudge 11mo ago
The sentiment here is right, but redis does make a difference at scale. I built a web app this year on AWS lambda that had up to 1000/requests/second and at that scale, you can have trouble with Postgres, but redis handles it like
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by PretzelJudge 2y ago
No we are not. The US has a much higher GDP per capita than most of Europe, but not Norway.
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by PretzelJudge 2y ago
Sure, if you just want someone to talk to. But most clinical psychologists are dealing with more severe cases. Would you want your suicidal teenager talking to a licensed therapist trained to deal with their case, or to someone overseas who
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by PretzelJudge 2y ago
A PhD in psychology takes 6 years to complete plus another year for licensing. A PsyD is a little bit less, but typically you pay high tuition during that time, whereas most PhD programs are free (with a small stipend). So, you make little
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by PretzelJudge 2y ago
The amount of equity isn't as important as the vesting schedule. Don't vest anything to your cofounder right away. You should vest on a four year schedule with a one year cliff. There are good reasons this is the standard. As far
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by PretzelJudge 3y ago
It isn't you. I have a solid resume (I know because I've interviewed hundreds of people in my career), but the market is just much slower. In 2020-2022 I was getting 5-10 recruiters reaching out every week. If I thought something
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by PretzelJudge 3y ago
I'd bet that YC would love to fund fewer dev tools, but there's a bias towards who applies to YC in the first place. It's not that YC isn't well known outside of tech circles, but they are especially well known in te
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by PretzelJudge 3y ago
> While it may seem like YC invests in a diversity of companies across <healthcare, banking, travel>, it is an “Airbnb for X” type of diversity... if you are not building a product that is fundamentally like an Airbnb (or alternat
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by PretzelJudge 3y ago
Neh... web programming is not going anywhere. Sure, the current environment is exposing all of the companies that never really had a business model other than raising more and more money. But there's still plenty of space for software