tangjeff0

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by tangjeff0 3y ago
I can remember two questions from Michael Seibel: 1) He asked something about if I was going to find a co-founder or not. I think I said that we started getting traction pretty fast without one and I wasn't going to wait for a co-found
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by tangjeff0 3y ago
See my comment to @Syrusakbary
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by tangjeff0 3y ago
When I asked some of my partners what it was about me/my application that got us in, this is what I heard: 1. We had revenue, meaning we weren't afraid to charge. Many first founders are afraid of charging, and there is step-wise
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by tangjeff0 3y ago
That's right! We made a bet on collaboration because everyone was already doing single player. Now there are even more single-player tools, they are all still competing with each other, and implementing the same features, i.e. wrappers
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by tangjeff0 3y ago
Updated the end of post: > Shout out to Syrus Akbury (W19), Ian Tien (S12), and Taariq Lewis (S15) for encouraging me to apply and helping me with my application way back when :) But seriously, thank you so much Syrus! I was thinking abo
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by tangjeff0 3y ago
This was my first application to YC.
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Open-Sourcing My YC Application (Athens Research, W21)(hardpivot.substack.com)
111 points by tangjeff0 3y ago|17 comments
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by tangjeff0 4y ago
Amazing work!
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by tangjeff0 5y ago
Thank Ben :)
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by tangjeff0 5y ago
Also confused here. Slide 7 [0] says seed funding of $1.8M, but Airbyte is also calling the most recent round a $5M seed. Implies they will call the first round Pre-Seed retroactively, rather than calling the second round Seed+. It's a
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by tangjeff0 6y ago
Hey! Founder of Athens here, we just launched on HN 2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26316793 Agree with your comment. What we've found is that most people don't actually want to self-host, even t
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by tangjeff0 6y ago
True. Roam Extensions have been poorly managed so far, making it extremely difficult for extension developers to develop and maintain. Maybe that'll change, but an open platform is generally better for innovation. Another use case that
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by tangjeff0 6y ago
Yup, still thinking about pricing and features. Working on the privacy policy and ToS this week.
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by tangjeff0 6y ago
This is my first time hearing of Sandstorm! Their page https://sandstorm.io/how-it-works writes: > For example, when using Etherpad – a document editor app – on Sandstorm, every document lives in a separate container, is
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by tangjeff0 6y ago
Very curious, can you elaborate on these principles? i.e. academic design vs SaaS?
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by tangjeff0 6y ago
https://twitter.com/flancian is working on a generic tech that would bridge notetaking apps together. The important syntax we all agree on is [[wikilinks]] and some subset of markdown, but anything beyond that would require
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by tangjeff0 6y ago
The first time I used Tiddly years ago, the UX never resonated with me so I wasn't able to get over the learning curve. More recently, one of our users gave me a pretty detailed tour of their Tiddly, which shares sentiments of the othe
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by tangjeff0 6y ago
Emacs/org-mode is pretty optimized for singleplayer, technical users, and plain-text. Further down the road, we hope to support APIs/integrations, collaboration, and rich media, and service the less technical user!
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by tangjeff0 6y ago
* Currently `index.transit` is the source of truth. When a user sees new changes, their current db is saved, and they have the option of opening the new one or continuing to edit the current version. The entire history of the db is saved ri
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by tangjeff0 6y ago
Ah, very good to know. Don't use Roam too much these days ;) Sometimes it's hard to know if their performance issues stem from networking (they use Firebase) or just client stuff (i.e. datascript and Reagent, Clojurescript's
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by tangjeff0 6y ago
Well the other aspect of it is that DataScript is client-side. That said, we could use sqlite in browser or even IndexedDB at this point. Yes, a pure JS/TS alternative without a graph db implementation is possible . But when I started
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by tangjeff0 6y ago
EDN import is done, just want to improve performance in Athens as most Roam dbs are bigger. I know Roam users will have higher expectations :) https://github.com/athensresearch/athens/pull/561
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by tangjeff0 6y ago
Simplicity wins. Pencil and paper FTW
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by tangjeff0 6y ago
We have athensresearch.org and athens-research.com, neither of which I love. We actually do use Electron! ClojureScript compiles to JS at the end of the day. Ultimately Clojure is pretty necessary to use our database, Datascript, a graph db
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by tangjeff0 6y ago
I haven't yet! I'm sure some Roam DB's are over 10k documents. If Datascript-based applications can get past the initial load time with better client-side caching, performance will always be better. "Local-first" ap
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by tangjeff0 6y ago
Have you read PG's essay on Lisp? (Clojure is a dialog of Lisp) http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html Main reason is access to datascript, one of the only client-side graph databases, which doesn't work the same with
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by tangjeff0 6y ago
More improvements coming soon. Checkout a demo of one our contributors work in progress enhancement: https://www.loom.com/share/6ea7c016d535469fbc036218d54e4538
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by tangjeff0 6y ago
I suppose that's a function of how large the market can be, and how badly it wants to consolidate. 1. Market: If the pie doesn't grow, you may be right. If, however, these become new platforms, with the majority of use cases and u
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by tangjeff0 6y ago
It's possible to model graphs in Postgres, but it's a lot more complex. This video compares two queries, one in SQL, and one in Datalog (the query language DataScript uses)[0]. We should probably model a knowledge graph with a g
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by tangjeff0 6y ago
Using a filesync service such as Dropbox, you can sync state across multiple clients. We have a commercial user doing this. The single transit file won't scale however, so we've started working on a transaction log just as you sai

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