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by preston-kwei 2mo ago
Having attended startup school this weekend, we were told how, in the past, companies were reluctant to try new technology from startups, AI products, etc., because they were unvalidated and unsure of how they would work. Now, companies are
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ChatGPT can access your financial data via Plaid to provide personalized advice(openai.com)
1 points by preston-kwei 4mo ago|1 comments
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Amazon rolls out Claude Code and Codex internally(businessinsider.com)
19 points by preston-kwei 5mo ago|10 comments
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by preston-kwei 5mo ago
I'm curious about how the LLM-based detector worked. How often did you run into a false positive? (I'm assuming you leaned on the more sensitive side due to the importance of the data)
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by preston-kwei 5mo ago
Do you think customers trust it either? I'm trying to differentiate between "good enough" and when enterprise customers actually care. I mean, it doesn't matter until a customer asks for their data.
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by preston-kwei 5mo ago
I agree. I'm trying to sell to enterprise right now and this is a blocker. Basically, my product stores emails in S3, but metadata in Supabase, and caches in Redis. It's all fragmented and super difficult to keep track of. Plus Su
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Ask HN: How are you handling data retention across your stack?
11 points by preston-kwei 5mo ago|6 comments
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by preston-kwei 5mo ago
I think UI quality is going to stop being as important when anybody can just generate an "average" UI that is good enough in minutes. Ultimately, this really just shifts the focus towards product design and ideation rather than UI
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by preston-kwei 5mo ago
How many emails does it usually take for you to lock something in? And do you end up following up manually if they don’t respond?
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by preston-kwei 5mo ago
How much of this issue is availability vs just getting them to respond and commit to the meeting?
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by preston-kwei 5mo ago
I think the back and forth is one of the most time-consuming parts. How do you manage it?
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by preston-kwei 5mo ago
Interesting. Do you end up just accepting the meetings or do you try to push back?
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Ask HN: What is the most annoying part of scheduling meetings?
1 points by preston-kwei 5mo ago|12 comments
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by preston-kwei 6mo ago
I’m more curious how this impacts trust than anything else. In the span of basically a week, they accidentally leaked Mythos, and then now the entire codebase of CC. All while many people are complaining about their usage limits being consu
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by preston-kwei 8mo ago
Thank you for your response. I think the ICP needs some refinement. I've found it pretty hard to prospect because it is so broad. > People generally don't have problem with email scheduling I think this stems from the fact that
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by preston-kwei 8mo ago
I'm not sure how AWS logs work since I'm just used to looking at Cost Explorer... But I would assume they actually store the history themselves, and you can just pull it.
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by preston-kwei 8mo ago
Fair, I think I'm certainly in the minority. Especially now more then ever with an increasing amount of non-technical people exploring vibe coding, 'good enough' really is good enough for most users
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by preston-kwei 8mo ago
Yes on the satire. This post made me laugh :). I agree with this framing a lot, especially the idea that judgment is the bottleneck In my experience building Persona, an AI scheduling assistant, the most useful role for humans isn't to
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by preston-kwei 8mo ago
Well unfortunately, that’s just how I write. None of my posts are LLM-generated, so I'm sorry they come across that way.
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by preston-kwei 8mo ago
Historical tracking is useful, but only if it’s dead simple. If it requires standing up a DB or service, I probably won’t use it. I've been trying to track down cloud waste recently after realizing EC2 was storing 10GB snapshots every
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by preston-kwei 8mo ago
While this may be true for casual users, for dev native products like Codex, the desktop experience actually matters a lot. When you are living in the tool for hours, latency, keyboard handling, file system access, and OS-level integration
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by preston-kwei 8mo ago
Thanks for your thoughtful reply. I really like that quote -- hopefully I start another company and think about distribution straight off the bat. Can I ask what the product was? Even just a general idea. And, how did you find the emails. I
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by preston-kwei 8mo ago
Interesting! I bet now with AI, you can create an agent to do this. I'm glad that worked, however, we're targeting founders of b2b saas companies who are early stage, and that is quite a broad search.
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Ask HN: What weird or scrappy things did you do to get your first users?
13 points by preston-kwei 8mo ago|10 comments
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by preston-kwei 8mo ago
The “lump of cognition” framing misses something important. it’s not about how much thinking we do, but which thinking we stop doing. A lot of judgment, ownership, and intuition comes from boring or repetitive work, and outsourcing that isn
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by preston-kwei 8mo ago
Got it. That's fair, I could definitely remove the first sentence. However, I still want the email to seem personal. Do you think it is important to have that personalized part somewhere in the email? There's no re, I just put tha
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by preston-kwei 8mo ago
I get the concern if the value is framed as “replacing an admin assistant”, but for many founders, the real win isn’t salary savings, it’s eliminating context switching, follow-ups, and mental overhead around coordination. As well as elimin
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by preston-kwei 8mo ago
Very low, like 0.01%. And oftentimes these people just say no. I try following up, but that usually doesn't do much.
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by preston-kwei 8mo ago
Totally. Here is what my emails typically look like: Re: quick scheduling question Hi [name], I’ve followed [company] for a while and the scale you’re operating at is impressive. With customer and partner meetings, plus internal meetings, I
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Ask HN: Why is it so hard to get responses from founders over email?
2 points by preston-kwei 8mo ago|8 comments

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