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Ask HN: Partially validated idea which I cannot build. Should I give up?
Hey there! I have a partially validated personal finance management web-app/assistant which is not about budgeting, but about optimized use of free cash (different to Copilot, Monarch, Lunchmoney & the rest of the gang). Sadly I cannot build it myself because my dev skills are stuck at basic Python and Excel.

Atm validation data of my customer facing Docsend pitch (https://docsend.com/view/ewkqzza7izzsycf2) is as follows: 61 unique views on roughly 100 e-mails with 3 lifetime deals sold (not my mom and dad!). 77% avg viewed with several "would try it" or "would need to see more" feedbacks as well.

I am now stuck. There is interest in an extremely tough B2C market for a more tailored approach, which I cannot build myself; no-code will never ever work, people also quickly get bored by fake numbers in click-dummies. In order to make it work I would need a great product designer and an engineer (or two), probably in a funded co-founder mode.

Currently I am thinking I have these options:
1) park the idea for some time and wait for a better time,
2) kill it,
3) try to find investors (pre-seed, angel?),
4) send it to Copilot / Monarch and tell them to build it.

What would you do?
Does it even make sense to try with an investor pitch deck? Apply for YC?
What am I missing? More validation? If so, how?
It feels like a mission impossible.

My validation signals are clearly skewed (I personally know all 3 customers, and majority of the unique views) and I am also aware that personal finance is extremely personal and behaviour driven topic (not to even mention cultural differences between continents).

Thanks a lot for your thoughts!

Background:
Previously posted search for a co-founder on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25809962), worked on my idea for 4 months, read 70 papers on personal finance, did the whole Mom Test, Norman, Cagan, Thiel package, found a co-founder, made a landing page, collected roughly 100 emails, stopped working with co-founder and finally ended on docsend. I also wrote about this journey on my substack https://eightyfour.substack.com
You're likely being downvoted not because your discussion is without merit but rather because it has nothing to do with the submitted link. The submitted link is a guide for how to format and submit metadata for music files submitted to Apple Music and the iTunes store. It has nothing to do with the consumer's UX.
I was wondering around a Sydney suburb (somewhere across the bay from city center) and came across a dresser somebody had dumped on the sidewalk—something you’d see a dozen times a day in any American city, rich or poor neighborhood. An enforcement agency had slapped a sticker on it warning about jail time if the perpetrator was caught. Harsh, perhaps, but it was the only junk furniture I saw in two weeks.
I didn't state that the old and infirm deserve to die. I stated that the young seem to be more prone to these side effects, and that quantifying these two against each other is problematic.

Yes, clinical trials tend to be done in labs. I'm speaking colloquially here. A clinical trial of a few thousand is not nearly the same as a global push to vaccinate everyone from teenage years up.
I'll agree with you there.

The way you worded your proceeding comment made it sound as if you would have preferred the FDA to not approve the Covid mRNA vaccines, as opposed to preferring easier approvals for other mRNA tech in general.

To extend my quip, the people who could benefit from it each have their own little fire and are being systematically ignored.
There's only one wave, sine ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_transform
It's important that the 258 were uniformly drawn from the population of software engineers in the UK.

It's not important whether the sun came out in the last two weeks or not, unless we were trying to measure the weather affecting burn out.

It's true different people might have a different interpretation of burn out, but it should be pretty similar to other people. I'm going to assume all people who took the study understand the idea behind burn out.

The point of the poll isn't to answer why but to measure the percentage of burn out with some degree of accuracy. The margin of error in this poll was 4.5%. That's how all yes/no polling works. We don't know that 83% of people are burnt out, but we are reasonably confident that 78% to 88% of people are burnt out.
First paragraph claims that hostile architecture discourages “anti-social” behavior.

Skateboarding and sleeping in the park is not “anti-social.” Instead, these activities don’t make anyone any money, and might even lose money. That’s anti-commerce, not anti-social.

Public spaces that support the needs of the _entire_ public foster stronger communities than those that only support commerce for the professional class.
There may be a small number of people for whom strenuous exercise right before sleep doesn't interfere, but a more likely explanation in my mind is broscience. The weightlifting community is especially susceptible to training methodologies which are suboptimal but fit the identity they're performing. Are these people really scientifically evaluating the affect of intense exercise close to bedtime, or are they working backwards from what _feels_ the most "manly"?
Right click -> Open -> Open

That's not needing Apple's permission; that's me giving my permission.
Webhooks are great for producers of events, and I'd argue that it's too cumbersome for them to provide an '/events' endpoint primary because of scaling. With webhooks, they can offload events at their own pace.

For consumers, I agree with most here that Kafka is certainly overkill. We've gotten away with a very simple architecture to have reliable event consumption. We point all webhooks to an (AWS) API Gateway backed by Lambdas. The Lambdas push the events to an SQS queue (FIFO-queue, if it needs some sort of sequence), and we take our time consuming the events through a very generic poll.
Ok, that's fair enough but it still doesn't solve my original problem.

I still end up with more of the same asset with no intrinsic value.

I assume they aren't paying me out in GBP or freedom bucks?
There are many ways to approach the synths. Books and tutorials often do this methodically - waves, harmonics, modulation, etc. This is the way to learn the mechanics of the sound synthesis and ideally should let one figure out how to design 'new' sounds.

However, a lot of musicians prefer the practical way of using synths by getting familiar with the presets which often accompany the synths. Sure, someone had to design those presets somehow. Well, it's also possible to learn that from these presets created by the pros.

Meanwhile for the purposes of music production the presets could be tweaked to better blend with the intended soundscape.

So the question is what's the driving reasons for getting into synths.

As for the resources, there's a nice collection of vintage synths emulators - Bristol https://sourceforge.net/projects/bristol/

Bristol runs on Linux, and supports MIDI. The filters are not very true to original hardware, but good enough for synth explorers.

Also there's a nice set of original manuals that were accompanying the classic ARP synths. They give a theory intro and then detail the presets, mostly how to synthesize acoustic instruments.

There's also a dub of ARP Odyssey original audio tapes by Roger Powell which follow the construction of the described patches
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu2JwwG3bjA
Copilot only supports "Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, and Go" but obviously the majority of Microsoft's product code is in C++ and C# and far fewer people use those two languages.
Re-writing it in C wouldn't automatically make much of a difference. Of course a C implementation wouldn't be slower (at minimum you could flatten out the byte-code sequence and use the generated C api calls), but it wouldn't necessarily be noticeably faster. Given the features of the python version, it might very well be the case that writing the same code in C wouldn't speed things up if the same use-cases were supported. Though I would be curious to know if it actually would speed up significantly.
> Bitcoin does jack shit.

It's a store of value that just survived displacement from a despotic regime without breaking a sweat.
This project looks great! I have actually been looking for something like this for the past few months.

Is there a tbd release date for Mac? I've been tempted to even try Wine for Mac to make it work since it sounds so useful.
Imagine you are a tradesperson and get hired for some job. You go to the house, complete the work, only to later find out the owner of the house (who was there the whole time) was legally required to self-isolate due to risk of having COVID. How would you feel? What if the tradesperson lived with elderly parents or had kids or someone they were in touch with that was high risk?
I doubt the author sees being frugal as a rut and I doubt that the author sees "getting more" as advancement. You and the other are both human and normal regardless.

The author's outlook on life is completely valid, so is his partner's, so is yours. Your outlooks has nothing to do with social media, but maybe his partner's really did. We only have the author's words to go by for this story.
I'm not really proud of this but my 1st step into programming was writing programs to calculate things for me on the TI in high school.

At some point teachers made us delete programs in front of them before major tests.....someone else wrote a program that would simulate deleting programs and showed an empty screen which meant all programs were deleted.

I wasn't a dumb kid but I always felt like why just not program those things and have more free time? I guess I was always a dev.
Broadly speaking? Yes.
Once your hospitals are overwhelmed the deathrate went through the roof, you should catch up with recent news from India & South East Asea.
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias-covid-death-rate-...
These articles would be a lot more effective if they actually talked about the harms of only nicotine. From everything I’ve read, nicotine by itself causes little to no damage. Equating having an addiction with damage itself doesn’t make sense to me.
You want the lilygo t-wristband
I don't take issue with your conclusions, but I do with your arguments. I think precision and correctness are important, since a lot of vaccine skepticism comes from people making incorrect arguments.

> 1. I don't trust authorities to pull off a major conspiracy (and hide the data of bad vaccine effects).

I do trust the authorities to be incompetent enough not to collect such data.

> 2. I don't trust governments ability to effectively coordinate among themselves to pull off a conspiracy

I do trust governments to engage in groupthink. That's kind of like the idiot's version of coordinating a conspiracy.

In the process, I trust authorities to "message" and dishonestly manipulate information going out in ways which appear coordinated.
Working in IoT land, we rely quite a bit on EventHub/AMQP type delivery for events to say a 3rd party (e.g., Alexa/Google/Etc).

That being said, I've also lobbied for a similar endpoint so I don't get support tickets for "missing data".

Both? Both are good.
Thanks for the style guides.

I want to store the metadata in the files; otherwise, over the years, it will become separated and lost.

The data I want is about the music: performers, composer, etc. I would love to have the equivalent of liner notes, with details about producer, engineer, each musician, etc., but I fear that's not realistic (I have less info on my computer versions of the music than with the old analog versions.)

My use: Playing the music, discovering new music, etc. E.g., 'who produced this song? What else in my collection have they produced?'
Pretty sure you just made that up tbh
This is not true. I have written many libraries to improve on the performance of numpy for image processing applications. Sort backs many operations, such as unique, that result in painfully slow code.
Long polling is a lot easier to support now than it was a few years ago, thanks to the wide availability of async server frameworks - Node.js, Python ASGI etc - which make supporting thousands of simultaneous long-polling connections with a single server much less expensive.
It's not that complicated, if you're evangelizing (which "clearing up misconceptions" on subjective matters like the normal boards being small enough is) you lead with a disclaimer

This isn't some new thing, there are literally tens of thousands instances of "creator here/dev here/CEO here/etc." in comments on HN, this is not a new thing, it's not a huge burden, it's bare minimums to not come across as extremely shady.

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But then again, 7 year old account leaving its first comment in 7 years doing something similar is what really sets of alarm bells...
Awesome! Thank you!

EDIT: Is there an established way to embed the metadata in the music file, rather than in a separate XML file?
Takes some practice but very comfortable: https://spongywonder.com/
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but OP was talking specifically about adoption, which appears to remain very low. It seems the only practical use for Bitcoin today is as a store of value. Which can be rephrased to mean that it's a tool of speculation for those wealthy enough to buy it.
Early diagnosis of melanoma at home with the help of bioimpedance
Unless someone is sitting at their desktop computer with their phone connection to 4G...

Privacy initiatives will probably make some risk-based authentication tricks break, but they probably weren't robust methods anyways.
For those who mind being tracked, the link has utm code in it.
Australians, please, vote out your leadership. The Morrison administration is the worst thing to happen to Australia in years. Absolutely incompetence, misinformation, pandering to fossil fuel industry, environmental destruction and lies.

Media Watch, the ABC news program captures some of the absolute stupidity occurring down under: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDTPrMoGHssBtV3J7BBLZ...

This all could have been resolved by now if Australia had decent leadership. They were offered the solution, but were so pig headed they refused it. Now they are in an even worse situation.

"Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise." Donald Horne, 1964
I've been following this all very closely and I have not seen any evidence to show that any physical attack has ever happened, including the alleged police report in Germany, by cookie, which others can not seem to find.

So I would not take what cookie says as fact at face value.
I do find it does improve the quality of sleep, but I also find that I sleep more if I exercise. When I am exercising vigourusly six days a week, I am passing out at like 9 pm. I recently had some small surgery and couldn't exercise for a few weeks, and I found myself staying up super later and having trouble going to sleep. I just wasn't that tired.

I do a lot of weight lifting and indoor cycling, and they have helped me get high-quality sleep and have much more consistent days.

I think it would be hard to get both get a lot of exercise and not sleep much. Exercise improves sleep, and when you are sleep deprived, it is hard to get energy to exercise.
Is there a typo or a pun or something I'm not seeing?

Knowing the exact make and model of an Android device is a lot higher entropy than knowing the exact make and model of an iPhone.
No one can deny that it would be very hard, almost impossible at this stage to admit the existence of a problem should one be identified.

If a problem was identified A lot of people would be humiliated and there would be major fallout as many people would no longer trust Governments at all. It would be absolutely unprecedented and unthinkable after over a billion doses administered.

It could almost lead to a type of dystopian anarchy overnight.

I'm not saying there is a conspiracy, but there sure would be some pretty strong incentive to create one if more serious long term effects were discovered.
I think there is a base level of knowledge and a higher level of hunch/intuition type thinking that can lead someone to make leaps and lead them to discover something that others might not. I don't think this is that, but I feel its an important part of what makes us progress in science.
Were you around during the IE and ActiveX days? Because that's what happens when a single vendor gets to dictate web standards.
Sure. Everyone has their estimates planned as bad as dev
Literally nothing is going to change between now and when the mRNA vaccines get approved. Probably a month or two to go at this point.
It sounds like the app always requests the weather in Celsius from the API before converting to Farenheit and rounding up
This is just my opinion of course, but I've consumed a great number of APIs and I love when there is. You don't even need /events as long as there's a good index endpoint for the object in question.

For a great number of applications it's not that big of a deal to miss a webhook, and the extreme simplicity that it gives the developer is worth a great deal. With how enormously complex a lot of systems have gotten, I really favor simplicity whenever possible.
All of those calculations assume a random sample which this was not:

"To reduce self-selection bias, invitations to complete surveys were sent out to members of Survation’s panel and the surveys were then conducted by online interview. This approach is far more rigorous than say, running a poll on a website in which anyone can choose to take part."

Are "members of Survation's panel" a random subset of developers? How many invitations were sent out to get 238 responses (i.e. what was the response rate)? Are developers with burnout more likely to respond to a survey about burnout? Was the sample population demographically similar to the overall population of developers?
> unethical company

Unless there's a mathematical definition of "ethical" that we can rely on for objective assessment, that's basically everyone and no one based on how you feel any particular day.
No one is saying that people who don't have kids are forced into that position, we're only asking why we should be paying for your decision to do so. Dealing with sick family members is out of your control and you should help them if that occurs. There is no such moral imperative to reproduce, if anything you should feel inclined to abstain if you care about the species at large.

Not having children is incontrovertibly better for the planet, why am I not getting eco-leave for my decision to help mother nature while you get parental leave for yours?
I think the communication was good and the understanding was lacking. Talking != understanding. And sometimes talking is really really hard when you know it might lead to a minefield.
> People have already booked their vacation

Booking vacations in the middle of a global pandemic and massive restrictions ... seems a tad ... reckless.
Are you sure? The OP links to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-mozilla-maintenanc...
Smart Canvas are an amazing update coming later this year. Took years in the making, but well-worth it.

Working with dozens of people through Docs and Sheets, I love their evergreen-ness. Sure, I wish there were more features but it's amazing to keep software simple, especially when it is used so widely.
That's me. Thanks for reading it and listening to the podcast. The SQLite episode is now nearly the most listened to, thanks to hacker news.

On Merging lists: I was caught off guard by recommendation to use sort to merge sorted lists. Everyone I mentioned it to was surprised as well so I thought it was worthy of some investigation. This is my first C extension in Python and I got help so someone else might be able to do even better than this.

It is interesting when our normal short hands for thinking about runtime complexity break down.
And I think it’s weird when people assume that nature would conform to morality. That would be convenient and I’m suspicious of convenience.

It’s a proposed causation hence the ‘may’ qualifier. I’m suggesting people should check it out further. They may be surprised.

Also, it has huge implications beyond employment. My particular RCCX mutations yield hEDS which I can now treat. I wish I would have known 20 years ago. That’s one of many treatable genetic disorders that people barely know about.

It would also mean burnout is curable, so instead of not hiring people susceptible to burnout we can instead cure it for everyone.
Community Power Part 4: The Gnome Way
afaict it uses engagement to determine what you like, so

- watching the video completely

- liking

- commenting

- sharing

increase your account's affinity to the tags associated with that video. If you like multiple videos with the same tag, you'll start seeing many videos with that tag. So, I think searching for a few tags about topics you're interested in and liking a few videos will prime the algorithm enough to make suggestions start being relevant.

This can also be annoying - I must have liked a few vids about dnd, and now i get more dnd suggestions than I want.
I love that =QUERY()....
No. You perform studies to validate observations or theories and, if you are able to validate them, offer potential factors as contributing causes. A study where the data does not support the conclusion is worthless, and can in fact be harmful.
What if they found out before, not later? The story doesn't say he failed to inform. In fact, it was someone whom he informed who informed on him.
If you held ctrl, it would open in a new tab. But now, holding ctrl does not open the image in the current tab.
got my China data from here https://ourworldindata.org/energy/country/china
Interesting.is there any evidence of effectiveness?
Guy is full of it, he also claimed to receive thousands of messages on his phone but he couldn't provide proof because it crashed. Weird huh?

"You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?" Buster to Arthur, 2005.
I'm not criticizing his own choices. What I'm surprised at is his lack of empathy for his partner's. We have only one side of the story, but it does seem very one-sided.
How do I join tables 1:1 without creating a subfield, i.e.:

table1: id, name

table2: table1_id, level

Desired result:

{id, name, level}
Amazon granted approval to use radar to monitor sleep
So am I wrong in reading that if I purchase a Tesla with FSD hardware, apply for the beta, I can get it?
Contemplating how we got to a situation where my save/compile/run loop takes longer now than in the 80s when I was using floppy disks.

Half kidding, but I spend it working another issue/bug or writing comments/docs.
Lot of Buddhist monks would disagree with you pretty strongly. I think you are projecting your own needs/wants/desires and I get that, it's hard to get "out of your own head"... so to speak.
How and where will the spent fuel disposed of after 20 years?
Hey everyone, I'm on what we like to call "the TigerTeam" and happy to bounce ideas.

Thanks also to Loris Cro for hosting us on Zig ShowTime. We had a blast! :)
Google Meet puts the clamps on free users, imposes 1-hour meeting limit
The maintenance service is used to avoid UAC prompts during upgrades. That feature has been around for over a decade now.

The background update stuff uses the Windows task scheduler to schedule update checks, not the maintenance service.

(I used to work on the team that at the time owned this stuff)
Oh wow, thanks. I found what I'm going to spend my evening cleaning :)