scottndecker

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by scottndecker 21d ago
SDLC is totally different than even 12 months ago. AI reading meeting transcripts, generating user stories/requirements, generating questions, generating engineering/architecture solutions, writing code and creating PRs. Those cha
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by scottndecker 21d ago
Interesting. Pretty much none of that is true for us. We had achieved strong enough success that were past the stage VCs want to participate in a first round. Partnering with the PE firm gives us a war chest to land grab while the turf is b
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by scottndecker 21d ago
Eisenhower box is immensely helpful. Some amount of intuition. Unblocking the team is always important and urgent. Staying up to date is hard. HN, LI, the Rundown email, and a private tech execs group on WhatsApp are primary sources.
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by scottndecker 23d ago
Great question. That's not been our experience. Right now, we're in growth mode. Hire hire hire. Go faster. Are we watching product margin and taking action to maximize it? Absolutely. But that's all revolved around technical
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by scottndecker 23d ago
Employees have stock options, not stock. Those options are now worth more. Probably can't share too much more detail than that on financial specifics.
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by scottndecker 23d ago
Came to us. Some of our founders had previous success and were funding out of their own pocket. We had just turned profitable, but PE money allows a different velocity which we wanted. So when they approached us looking for a solution in ou
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by scottndecker 23d ago
Started by a team of 3 three years ago. I knew one of them from my time spent in grad school and living in NH. I joined a year after it formed but before it really took off. Founder #5 type of situation. Significant equity but can't cl
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by scottndecker 23d ago
Ha, no. Southwest, boarding group 5.
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I'm a CTO. We took PE money 6 months ago. AMA
9 points by scottndecker 23d ago|19 comments
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by scottndecker 3mo ago
If everyone turned off their lights 100% of the time they left their workstation, they could power those additional data centers for about one second.
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The Entrepreneur's Epilogue and the Paradox of Success [pdf](som.yale.edu)
1 points by scottndecker 7mo ago|0 comments
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by scottndecker 7mo ago
Based on title, I was figured it was referring to USA moving to the metric system
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Deer antler size best predicted by mother's health(youtube.com)
1 points by scottndecker 8mo ago|0 comments
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by scottndecker 8mo ago
I can only do a verse every 15 hours? Why the rate limit?
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Ask HN: What B2B SSO solution are you using and do you like it?
1 points by scottndecker 9mo ago|0 comments
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Tell HN: No, your Lambda credentials aren't being used outside of AWS
1 points by scottndecker 9mo ago|0 comments
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The Most Intense Shoe Salesman You'll Ever Meet(youtube.com)
2 points by scottndecker 9mo ago|0 comments
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by scottndecker 9mo ago
Still 256K input tokens. So disappointing (predictable, but disappointing).
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Ask HN: Azure Open AI Issues?
2 points by scottndecker 1y ago|0 comments
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by scottndecker 2y ago
"Although I was invested in this project, I definitely wasn't "flirty sex chat with some random scammer" levels of invested. The thought also dawned on me that part of their playbook could even involve "Aidana"
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by scottndecker 2y ago
Without venture capital? Yes. Without $20? Probably not. $20 subscription doesn't need to cover costs of most active user. It needs to cover the cost of the average user (assuming you don't want to put any cash into it yourse
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Ask HN: Who should decide when to ship?
1 points by scottndecker 2y ago|0 comments
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by scottndecker 2y ago
Nope, not a surprise. I've been doing cloud for a while. What I've never experienced from a cloud provider is a denial at creating infrastructure and told to use a different region.
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Ask HN: Azure Ran Out of Capacity?
11 points by scottndecker 2y ago|7 comments
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by scottndecker 4y ago
The Guns of John Moses Browning. One of those where you didn't realize how someone you likely don't know much about has impacted every human on the planet.
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Facebook removes business listings for homes/vehicles(facebook.com)
5 points by scottndecker 4y ago|0 comments
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by scottndecker 4y ago
If you're that close to publishing just publish already :) This thread is dead in the next couple hours.
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by scottndecker 4y ago
Not the saddest; just the most recurring "just ship it" story ever.
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Federal Judge Blocks Biden Mask Mandate Extension for Travelers(foxnews.com)
4 points by scottndecker 4y ago|0 comments
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by scottndecker 4y ago
$40k learning exercise. And great job shutting it down sooner rather than later when it would have been $200k and your marriage.

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