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by bjpless 7mo ago
Curious about preference stack: A) Within their favorite LLM, data sharing with Plaid and the frontier lab. B) An entirely self-hosted agent on their computer with open source LLM models + WhatsApp / SMS communication channels. C) I do
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Show HN: MCP server ONLY app for personal finances(passage.money)
4 points by bjpless 7mo ago|2 comments
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by bjpless 3y ago
I’m not raising a question about his rights or generosity. He and other independent political pundits have large audiences and as a result generate valuable content for the platform. If the game theory above plays out and cynical actors act
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by bjpless 3y ago
As a disclaimer, I’m not a Brand content consumer and I’m also not commenting on the validity of the claims. I’m aware that he’s a popular populist and the slippery slope is obvious here, independent of the particulars of the specific case.
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by bjpless 3y ago
Great question! Presently the AI is primarily used as a tool for our human experts and end users to generate ideas for prompt responses, captions, etc. It’s not meant to be entirely self deterministic but it’s quite useful practically speak
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Show HN: AI to help you online date better(smalltalks.ai)
14 points by bjpless 3y ago|2 comments
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by bjpless 4y ago
Which of those options do you plan on using personally? :)
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Ask HN: How would you share your legacy with future descendants?
1 points by bjpless 4y ago|2 comments
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by bjpless 4y ago
If others agree that the Promotions tab could be greatly improved, what are some theories as to why the Gmail team has maintained this version?
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Ask HN: Could we make the Gmail Promotions tab more usable?
1 points by bjpless 4y ago|3 comments
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by bjpless 4y ago
Founder here, let me know if you'd like to chat about working together!
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by bjpless 4y ago
It’s really just a fraud concern in the short term if money is involved but definitely planning to change that
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by bjpless 4y ago
I love surfing and skiing so should be planning those too. See my email that I’ve included a bunch in this thread and I’ll add you to a “village”
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by bjpless 4y ago
Ben@villagersapp.com, reach out!
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by bjpless 4y ago
I use vendors rather than storing myself. Tokenization only :)
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by bjpless 4y ago
Appreciate the feedback! I’m personally less rules based as well aside from no parties, that’s probably strictly required by most lodging. Aside from that I agree. Keep in mind these are all configurable by the trip planner in the UI
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by bjpless 4y ago
Yes for sure. Email me at ben@villagersapp.com and I’ll add you to an internal list of founders
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by bjpless 4y ago
Thank you, that’s really generous of you. It’s a dead simple stack — which is helpful as a solo founder — of rails as an API and react. I make liberal use of other saasy services. It’s more complex than Facebook events in that there are fin
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by bjpless 4y ago
Yes it is solo developed and I sincerely appreciate that!
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by bjpless 4y ago
That’s exactly my thinking as well :)
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by bjpless 4y ago
Yes, I'm really focused on the commitment mechanism -- Kickstarter for group travel effectively. I had thought that was already eliminated so thanks for pointing that out! I just pushed a fix to remove the AirBnb requirement. As for mo
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by bjpless 4y ago
On a related note, I'm willing to personally act as a travel agent for a remote co-working trip among coworkers as a non-scaleable way to grow the platform initially and get user feedback. If you're interested in exploring in a fu
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by bjpless 4y ago
I completely understand this objection. Ultimately, this was a tough trade off that I made for reasons that I can elaborate on at a different point. In most cases, the goal is to have an organizer create a quick video describing the trip to
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by bjpless 4y ago
I'll just reiterate what I said below which is that, while I think you point of view has a lot of merit, there are compelling "Why Now" counterpoints that I think you're undervaluing. Only time will tell though!
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by bjpless 4y ago
Interesting, I'll check that out. It's presumably a javascript error that I can't reproduce but here is the direct link to plan a trip: https://villagersapp.com/app/trips/new/edit
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by bjpless 4y ago
This is a great and valid question along with a helpful citation. Here are some counterpoints: 1) I would argue that that perspective misses a number of travel consumer apps like AirBnB. 2) I've bootstrapped this business and, while I
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by bjpless 4y ago
Any other locations / dates that I could propose that would interest folks?
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Show HN: Villagers – A group travel app(villagersapp.com)
64 points by bjpless 4y ago|52 comments
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Ask HN: Would you Airbnb with 4-6 strangers?
3 points by bjpless 4y ago|4 comments
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by bjpless 6y ago
Tremendous | Software Engineers and Sales | Full-Time | Remote -------------------------------- We’re a Y Combinator backed payments company. Our mission is to help businesses and governments reward and incentivize behaviors by individuals

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