simantel

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by simantel 1mo ago
I used Firefox for most of last year. I consistently ran into issues where a form wouldn't submit, or a website would appear subtly broken, but it would work in Chrome. Ultimately I switched back to Chrome full-time as a result.
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by simantel 2mo ago
What do you care about?
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by simantel 4mo ago
Total market funds like VTSAX (the largest mutual fund in the world) will have to buy it as well.
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by simantel 4mo ago
> not having a network to bounce ideas off of or even try the app makes that part difficult to go from 0 to 1 This wouldn't change if you quit your job. Keep your job, stop building, and start talking to potential customers.
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by simantel 6mo ago
How can someone steal MIT-licensed software? The license says: Permission is hereby granted [...] to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software [...] If you don't want other peopl
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by simantel 6mo ago
Wow I had no idea ngrok had raised $50M, that's wild!
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by simantel 7mo ago
purple.com had a similar page for years, and eventually the mattress company rolled up with a dumptruck load of cash
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by simantel 7mo ago
IBM has ~300k employees and uses Slack.
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by simantel 11mo ago
Don't forget Underscore!
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by simantel 1y ago
Node also has a built-in server and SQLite these days though? Or if you want a lot more functionality with just one dependency, Hono is great.
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by simantel 1y ago
Who do you want to hear from that you're not seeing make statements? Hakeem Jeffries? Chuck Schumer? Ken Martin?
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by simantel 1y ago
I had no luck generating full-size, NYT-style puzzles, but was able to generate 5x5 minis! I pre-defined a handful of layouts (minis generally just have corners blacked out), and brute-forced puzzles with all 4 or 5-letter words (depending
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by simantel 1y ago
Have you checked out Linear ( https://linear.app )?
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by simantel 1y ago
$300k puts you in the 94th percentile for household income, so objectively no, it's not that common. In tech though, especially in the Bay Area, it feels like the norm.
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by simantel 1y ago
Yeah $1,000 a month would be $250 a week, which is 2-3 person hours of a housecleaner or landscaper's time, so like a 2 person crew for an hour or 90 minutes. If you and your spouse each make $150k (so $300k household income), paying 8
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by simantel 1y ago
At $250/visit, that's just weekly landscaping and housecleaning. More than I pay for myself (we have a housecleaner that comes monthly), but not unreasonable, especially for a well-paid dual-income household. Re: Your compensation
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by simantel 1y ago
At that point it's not really B2C, but dual-funnel?
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by simantel 1y ago
Contrast that with B2B where churn rates are generally <10% (or better yet, net-negative revenue churn) and LTV is often $10k+, and you can see why it's a lot more appealing.
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by simantel 1y ago
At $15/month with 10% churn (which would be an unbelievably good churn rate for a paid B2C product) would make your LTV $150. An optimistic conversion rate from visitor to paid would be like 2% (imagine you convert 20% of visitors to a
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by simantel 1y ago
The Medallion Fund does use a better strategy than REIF. It only worked up to a certain scale where they started moving the market though, which is why they ended up kicking out outsiders. REIF just lets them use Medallion as marketing whil
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by simantel 1y ago
If your visitor-to-paid conversion rate is actually 1.5% (12% of 13%), with an LTV of $23 you break even at $0.34 per per click. And again, I'd expect the conversion rate of ad-driven traffic to be quite a bit lower than that from orga
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by simantel 1y ago
If we assume your LTV is $30 and a 5% conversion rate (since your organic traffic is likely to be higher intent than people who clicked an ad), a visitor is worth $1.50 on average. The questions are: 1. What's your LTV? 2. What's
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by simantel 1y ago
Tailwind Plus (formerly Tailwind UI) has landing page templates that are widely used and look similar to your examples: https://tailwindcss.com/plus/ui-blocks/marketing/page-exampl...
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by simantel 1y ago
Yeah Observable has raised $45M, I imagine the ELT is paid well.
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by simantel 1y ago
> It feels kind of odd that almost no one is talking about self-driving now, compared to how hot of a topic it used to be Probably because it's just here now? More people take Waymo than Lyft each day in SF.
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by simantel 1y ago
RenTec did this successfully, but their strategies didn't scale up beyond ~$30B AUM before they started moving their markets too much (with the Medallion Fund).
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by simantel 1y ago
I haven't used it, just know a few folks who worked there. They were building like a social network/college job fair platform kind of thing, but then in the last year or so they launched an AI labeling platform[1] and the revenue
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by simantel 1y ago
Handshake was working on that until they realized they could be an AI company and compete with Scale instead.
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by simantel 1y ago
Wouldn't this also be a problem for Go, which just imports from URLs (mostly GitHub) as well?
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by simantel 1y ago
Businesses are taxed on profits, not revenue. Paying people to write code is an expense, so you'd normally deduct that expense (plus all your other expenses) from your revenue to arrive at an amount that should be taxed.

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