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Stripe's Letter to Investors Explaining the Acquisition of OpenRouter(twitter.com)
2 points by jmstfv 28d ago|1 comments
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by jmstfv 1mo ago
I also added this custom instruction in Codex: "Only report to me in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English."
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by jmstfv 1mo ago
I've switched to Codex a few months ago when Claude's weekly limits were getting pretty stiff, and I haven't looked back. Both GPT 5.5 and 5.6 are quite capable, especially compared to nerfed Opus 4.7 (haven't tried 5).
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by jmstfv 3mo ago
oh good luck, it's a tough space to be. some indie makers have managed to make it work (like healthchecks.io for example) but it requires patience and dedication, esp dealing with some entitled people on the free plan. btw, your docs p
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by jmstfv 3mo ago
1. uptime monitoring service [1]. launched in 2019. decided to enter a crowded niche so as not to reinvent the wheel and try to figure out distribution, but gave up. sold in early 2021. total sales before selling: $1,686 2. notion backups s
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by jmstfv 3mo ago
I can't open that link. seems like no DNS records associated with the site? > nslookup cauenapier.townsquare.com Server: 192.0.2.42 Address: 192.0.2.42#53 server can't find cauenapier.townsquare.com: NXDOMAIN
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by jmstfv 5mo ago
Stablecoins are typically pegged to something, like USD or EUR, so their exchange rate vis-a-vis that currency is stable
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by jmstfv 5mo ago
this is interesting. my hunch is that we're moving towards more surveillance, censorship and deplatforming in the future, and CBDCs are a major tool for that. I like Bitcoin, despite its problems (price volatility and quantum vulnerabi
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by jmstfv 5mo ago
I recently launched a churn analysis tool for Stripe: https://dunningbear.com It is very basic now: it tells me which of the customers have cancelled their subscription and why (Stripe lets people choose the reason before cancel
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by jmstfv 5mo ago
tangentially related, but as someone who built multiple internet businesses -- mostly unsuccessful, some mildly successful -- I barely have any new ideas to work on. I don't know if this is the effect of relying on AI too much in my da
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by jmstfv 6mo ago
They're done. They export oil/LNG, import food, invest the proceeds in the US companies/treasuries and brand themselves as logistics hubs + safe havens for the global rich. It's all out of the window now.
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by jmstfv 6mo ago
yes. they export oil/LNG and import most of their food. and they invest their proceeds into the US economy/treasuries, which they're going to stop if this continues. by some estimates, Qatar and Kuwait could experience ~14% G
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by jmstfv 6mo ago
the closure of the strait (i.e. a toll booth by Iran) will cause massive inflation, destroy the GCC, and eventually lead to a global recession and the end of a petrodollar, which is how Iran is retaliating. And if the US attempts a ground i
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by jmstfv 6mo ago
I've finally finished the long-abandoned project that I've been meaning to build for a while. If you use Stripe Billing for subscriptions, your customers can specify reasons why they cancelled (e.g. too expensive, not using it, sw
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by jmstfv 9mo ago
I've been working on the same business since 2021: https://notionbackups.com The first business I started never gained traction, so I sold it in 2021 (which was a completely different time compared to now). Notion had annou
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by jmstfv 9mo ago
Ditto but for Claude -- blows GPT out of the water. Much better in coding and solving physics problems from the images (in foreign languages). GPT couldn't even read the image. The only annoying thing is that if you use Opus for coding
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by jmstfv 9mo ago
Notion's built-in PDF exporter is quite disappointing to say the least, so I built (well, Claude did) an alternative. It uses a hosted puppeteer service in the background (browserless.io) and allows for more customization.
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Show HN: I built a Notion to PDF converter(notionbackups.com)
3 points by jmstfv 9mo ago|1 comments
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by jmstfv 10mo ago
I've been using Hetzner for my business and have been quite happy with it so far. I recently migrated to a slightly larger bare metal server with 64GB RAM, 16 cores, 4 SSDs (6.5TB in total), and unlimited bandwidth for $96 bucks. I&#x2
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by jmstfv 10mo ago
Rails, SQLite, Redis, all hosted on a bare metal server (Hetzner). Deploy with Capistrano (a fancy bash script). Tailwind for styling -- i heavily use their components/templates, which is quite convenient.
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by jmstfv 10mo ago
I've been running small SaaS businesses since 2019 with varying degrees of success (currently running a profitable one). I never really got into JS front-end frameworks. The sheer complexity, and the idea of maintaining essentially 2 a
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Dogecoin ETF to be launched on Thursday(twitter.com)
2 points by jmstfv 1y ago|0 comments
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by jmstfv 1y ago
i built something similar in spirit a while back, but instead of a bar, it uses 144 rectangles, each representing 10 minutes of your day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30881096
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by jmstfv 1y ago
I've been working on my business for 4 years now, sometimes taking extended breaks when I run out of motivation. Lately, I've noticed that my (beefy) server is always clogged with background jobs that tend to run longer than they
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by jmstfv 1y ago
2 things worked well for NotionBackups: * SEO - I started way before I launched the product. I wrote an article on how to back up a Notion workspace using their (then newly-launched) API. It still brings in traffic to this day. Granted, the
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by jmstfv 1y ago
I've been building https://notionbackups.com for almost 4 years now. It's mostly feature complete at this point, but there are still some rough edges. Notion's API is far from complete, and updates are few and far
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Show HN: I built a tool to back up Notion workspaces(notionbackups.com)
1 points by jmstfv 1y ago|0 comments
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by jmstfv 2y ago
Rails is pretty good - built my current business on Rails, building a new one on Rails as well. In fact, I switched to Rails from Django because the latter was lacking.
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Network protocols for anyone who knows a programming language (2017)(destroyallsoftware.com)
146 points by jmstfv 2y ago|9 comments
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by jmstfv 2y ago
I built a website that draws 144 rectangles, where each rectangle represents 10 minutes of your day. Some people even use it every day! https://rectangles.app

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