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Ask HN: If you have a great product that people love, so what next?
I saw almost all the videos of YC, and a bunch of videos from their partners and other people in the startup and venture space, PG essays, et. I know they always talk about two things: 1- talking to customers, 2- building the product.
Ok, I'm doing both of them in my startup and have done everything well. Now we have over 100 people who really love our product and care about it, even doing many things voluntarily for it in their country, creating content and introducing us to others. Also, I'll introduce it in the following.

Our focus is on the B2B2C model (some none-inflationary CAC sales channels[1]) instead of paid channels (we can't afford), it needs trust, and for an agency in NY trust comes from searching and seeing an article about us in NYT, WSJ,... or raised funds in Crunchbase.

Introduce myself:

I'm a developer, electronic eng and in my 20th I created a way to pre-train MLPs with low entropy datasets and other bs. Now I'm 35. During this time I worked hard to find a way to collect the fund I needed to create my AI lab and work on it. But there was one problem I have Iranian nationality, and I had to move to another country because of sanctions, no access to international banking, and so on - Now I'm in Denmark.

My question is:
So what the next? I'm open to any ideas.

About my product:

Let me introduce our platform; Selldone.com; our users can create a storefront and we give them an online back-office to manage their businesses. So far it is similar to Shopify, But the most distinctive thing is that it does not have 'any plugins' or 'templates'. Our ultimate goal is to remove humans from repetitive workflows with automation and AI.

Selldone (SD) has over 2K active shops (start using within the last 4 months) + 500 paid merchants in the US, UK, Australia, Europe, Korea, Nepal, China, and many other countries. They use selldone as a marketplace builder. Platforms (like Shopify) have two problems in expanding in the markets outside of North America: 1- local payments and 2- regulatory compliance [2].
We can solve these problems for any country, and deploy and run selldone locally in any region within 48 hours.

If you like to know more: [some thoughts and plans]

There are +300M SMEs, and +100M home businesses worldwide. What I'm seeing is the high adoption of selldone by users who are getting started with it, and we're also following the B2B2C model, which provides a great opportunity for partnerships. What we need are ways to 1. put selldone in front of agencies and freelancers, 2. create trust by influencers' distribution strategy, and 3. focus on compatibility with local regulatory compliance concerns.

[1] https://a16z.com/2022/11/10/escaping-hells-flywheel-building-non-inflationary-distribution-channels/

[2] A customer concern in Germany in our chat:
"As you see even 76.000 customers in Germany have to stop their shop. Problems mentioned in the article: price per liter, cookie, cdn.
https://lsww.de/shopify-illegal/#ftoc-heading-12 "
Yup, I took an applied machine learning course which shed light that most vendors oversell what they call AI and ML processing. Perusing through the company structure provides some insight into how invested a company is within the AI operating space. You should be able to find some papers or people at the company that work in the AI/ML space.
I don't know what happened in the US, but both the Libyan and Syrian conflicts got a lot of press coverage in Italian media.
If there's one thing we learned since highways joined us (thanks Eisenhower) its that 'one more lane' will never reduce traffic thanks to the principle of induced demand. Each time you add a lane, transit times go down which in turn induces more people to drive, which in turn brings traffic right back up to where it was.

What does help people get where they're going is transit which is something that gets exponentially better and more realistic with density. Hong Kong has trains every 1.9 minutes on the Island Line. Their worst case is every 10 minutes to Disneyland and 15 minutes to the airport during weekdays. [1]

Frankly, more infrastructure should never mean more highways.

But while I'm here let me answer the rest of your questions directly:

> So, you are arguing that the existing population should want to have their lives upended...

Why? If they own the land they decide what happens to it. If they don't it wasn't really their decision in the first place.

> ... real estate taxes raised ...

Absolutely, prop 13 is silly. I say this as an SF downtown homeowner.

> ... schools over-crowded ...

Nope, we'd build more.

> ... family and friends priced out of their homes ...

No, that's what's happening right now thanks to not building homes. Anyone who owns their home would see affordability remain the same and anyone who rents would see it improve.

> ... quaint neighborhoods turned into skyscraper projects ...

Some of them for sure! If you don't want a plot of land used to maximize utility, buy it. The fundamental ideal of property rights in the United States is that each can do what they want with their own property. If you want to live in a city where nobody wants anything other than low-rise development, move to a city with other like-minded folks or buy them out. Don't boat anchor development in one of the highest demand areas on earth to suit the minority opinion.

> ... and endless highway ...

Definitely not see above.

> ... and infrastructure projects to accommodate the employees of new industry ...

100% yes. And the existing residents.

> ... when they are happy with the status quo?

Status quo is 26% of people are happy. [2]

[1] https://www.mtr.com.hk/en/customer/services/train_service_in...

[2] https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sfnext-poll-housing-c...
I think the flippant response to this is unwarranted. The content here is a 47 page ebook where I'm sure a lot of that will be code examples. Yeah, useEffect is a little complicated, but trying to frame it as "so complicated it needs a whole book" isn't quite fair.
Probably not; if it's a ground-based laser, it would have to get through the atmosphere first which causes a lot of diffusion. Second, it reflects the sunlight, surely it reflects laser light too :p.

That said, I'm pretty confident there's weapons grade lasers in orbit designed to take out or at least disrupt sattelites. They've just not been used yet because that would show their owners' hands.
I heard that as "Only friends can access/see your private members”.
NFTs were like all cryptos. _Everyone_ knew they were bullshit but expected there would be one more greedy idiot to pass the bag to.
The kind of situation you describe is the original reason why it was called a "trap".
Running the Open-Source Upstream V3D Driver on the Raspberry Pi 4 and Newer
I've built lightweight things for my own use. I like Dart as a language and performance is adequate, I'm not building Fortune 500 level services. For me Dart covers all the basics while having a syntax that took literally no time to learn.

I have no problems with Linux support, at least for things that I do (file io, sqlite, http requests) but one thing that is giving me the pause is inability to cross-compile. It'd be super-duper if I could compile on my Mac and just drop the binary to my Linux server but I can't.
Yes. Space manufacturing is the way. Launching everything from down here is madness, constructing telescopes in high lands down here is madness too, those are local minimas. We should be laser 3D printing bunch of self replicating cylinder objects out of Lunar regolith. I don't know why we're not doing it if it weren't for the sole possibility that US Space Force don't have intercept capability for such tubes gone rogue.
Wow! I look forward to playing Microsoft Flight Simulator inside the Emulator inside the Microsoft Flight Simulator on the 80th year anniversary.
"if you're well off, you should donate a chunk of your income to buying anti-malaria bed nets/deworming medicine/direct cash transfers for the global poor" (c)

Isn't it against EA ethos? Helping some people right now, right here? I read some posts about this movement, and from them it seemed like EAs are more interested in the far off stuff - developing benevolent AI, transumanism, space travel, gene vaults, terraforming, Mars colonisation etc. (there is nothing wrong with these activities). Because helping people right now is "just" altruism, not effective altruism.
> I also discovered that human memory is weird as heck. When I walk my mind is somehow mapping my physical location in the world to the content, down to the sentence. If I rewind an audio book I can fairly often remember where exactly I heard a particular sentence. The precise street corner or park trail I was on, to like a 10 feet precision. I do not otherwise have strong memory. WTF brain.

Same experience here. I bike to a big street crossing and I remember suddenly what the hero was doing 1 year ago when I was there the last time :)

And it's split depending on weather and whether I'm walking or biking :) It's especially weird when I'm listening to some book or podcast where travel happens - like Critical Role for example. I now have nearest 50 km around my city mapped onto a D&D world by accident :)
How exactly are they able to extract money from your account just from having account number and your name? Does this mean I can, too? (I assume you don't give them your password, and even then an outgoing transaction requires an OTP.)
What a bunch of BS. It's obviously easy to say that in hindsight. There are a million reasons for why he did not take the investment, but in none of the published conversation was anything about him thinking SBF is lying. In fact, knowing Elon, if he had really said that at some point before FTX collapsed, he sure would have published it by now to prove how smart he is.
The issue with this, lies in different judgements. If I'm looking for a bit of code that I plan to extend, I have to understand the judgement of the coder who quit 2 years ago.

If the decision to use metric or imperial bolts on a bridge were up to the individual builder...

Picking a solid "do x" or "do y" makes for much simpler pull requests.

I currently work on a project with some GraphQL, some basic json and some json-api.
Some of the app is BFF and other bits are not client to the micro.

Using our judgement is working out a treat.
Except the choice wasn't between 996 and COVID, it was between serious, targeted lockdowns that everyone hates... And COVID and ineffective, more limited, but also more broad restrictions that everyone also hates.
> “Free will” never meant freedom from physics, so it’s a tautology to say it’s not free because of physics.

I don’t understand all your points but let me give a go at answering this one:

If we follow a markov-graph with rules between each point on the graph, until we reach a node with a decision, then hopefully we can agree that your choice is not free will, but just a rule set.

If we introduce a pair of dice to help navigate the decision graph, that doesn’t introduce free will either.

If we write down a set of rules for how to mutate the graph on each move, we still haven’t introduced free will. We are still following sets of rules blindly by the constraints of the rules and the rolls of the dice.

If we substitute the markov graph with _any_ computable, self modifiable, stochastic function, we don’t change the essence of the above argument.

If the brain is a biological machine that self-mutate following rules set in its structure, guided by the randomness inherited by nature, it is still just a function.

So where is the free will? Where does it fit in?

If it’s “well, you’re not a slave. You have the freedom to say and think what you want” then shouldn’t we consider GPT-3 to have free will? It says what it wants.

If its pseudo rng isn’t good enough to qualify we can hook it up to some decaying radioactive isotopes.

We can even hook it up to update its weights every time it receives human input, if free will require constant mutations of its function.

So I don’t agree with your argument. I think a reasonable critique of free will is that it doesn’t fit into our understanding of physics, unless we want to bestow free will on simple computer programs.
All tech firms donate heavily to both political parties. FTX was not an exception. While sbf donated to Democrats, his execs donated similar amounts to republicans
Four Years of Sourcehut
Even for a 32-bit CPU a 64-bit type is only two words to copy - and in many cases those "copies" are just register loads. In contrast, reference types means to even access it you have to read the reference and then indirectly load the memory it points to. You have to really make something contrived where a two-word type ends up being more efficient as a reference than as a value.
It's a little awkward because most languages read and write the wrong way around, but you can read it as "substract from 4 the numbers 3 and 2".
Oh lovely, you can switch to the "Gates Learjet" and go for a Manhattan Tour and buzz (and crash) into those tall towers like its 1989
Yeah, China famously stopped accepting it iirc, or India? One of them anyways.

Call me a conspiracy thinker, but I'm confident it was part of an international scam; companies in western European countries claim to recycle things, encourage consumers to separate their waste. They process it, bundle it up, and get a checkmark for having recycled it.

But then it gets exported and put in landfills or just burned. It would've been better for the environment (largely speaking) it was just landfilled or burned in the country of origin. I don't think garbage exports / imports should be a thing.
Interesting, this displays a classic problem with the NYT: they end up searching for their lost keys under the streetlamp since that's where the light is. If they report on an organization that has $1 million in verified assets, but the organization is suspected to have $999 million in assets and $2 billion in liabilities, they will report the organization as solvent because they have verification standards for sources and are a serious journalistic publication. Therefore, they can only publish about the $1 million in verified assets. The organization could therefore be widely suspected to be insolvent, but reported by the NYT as solvent.

In fact, that's what happened this time.

Perhaps this is why the NYT's Judith Miller has such prominent roles in journalism.
Were the flight simulators you can play on that github page originally MIT licensed?
China lies about everything. All public stats are cooked. There is no free press to question these absurd numbers, no whistleblower laws respected.

Their leaders have never ever cared about the lives of individual citizens. Xu’s hero, Mao, boasted that he would sacrifice as many innocent lives as he saw fit to reach his goals. The 5,000 number is laughable and meant only to keep Xi from executing party members, which he would certainly do if they told him anything approximating fact.

Eventually you will learn that way more than 5,000 people, mostly senior citizens, died from starvation alone during the recent months-long lockdown in Shanghai.
I found martial arts (Muay Thai and Capoeira in my case) to be a good way to stay healthy. I always found exercise boring and unfulfilling, but with martial arts I was "Learning a Skill", and needed to get fitter and stronger in order to improve. Just a bit of a psychological trick I used on myself to keep at it.
How does the bay area stack up for the more average bay-area-tech-worker once you’ve factored in cost of living? It’s very confusing for me because the COL basically makes a double salary equivalent to where I’m currently living. I’m confused, though, because any additional income on top of that salary isn’t necessarily affected by COL. A vacation costs the same to the same location, for example.
And if you do this on iOS, it remembers it for the next time you click a link for that domain, so you can stop apps automatically opening links. Was delighted when I found that as for some things (e.g. Amazon) the app is occasionally useful but I don’t want every Amazon link to open in it
You live in a different world, I guess. In this universe you need duffel bags to move a moderate amount of cash, vans or trucks a large amount, because physics. Ah, and those duffel bags and vans 1) are conspicuous and obvious on CCTVs, 2) require people to handle, and 3) can’t teleport across oceans.

(This is just one sentence you claimed incorrect; I don’t see the the point on going through the rest because maybe I’m missing something but they seem similarly obvious to me personally.)
If you had been following this whole saga at all you would know that Twitter anons have been a way better source of information than anyone else.

The on-chain anaylsis, digging and commentary done by people on Twitter has been insanely insightful.
I think that’s limited to lower end brands and the “sells any brand” dealership. My experience with luxury dealership has been nothing but positive. Yes, you still have to negotiate, but they won’t spring shady deals from random banks or tack on unnecessary “dealer fees”. Even when buying used cars, I go to name brand dealerships for a more predictable experience.
> I’m on iOS, tried a few but they all wanted a subscription and were a terrible experience without it. So I wrote simplescan.vercel.app / https://github.com/mcintyre94/simplescan which does the job for me! Though Apple have broken using the camera when you save it to your Home Screen and open it as an app which is annoying.

Ah, that explains it! Your usecase explains it, but I'm reasonably assuming Android because recent iOS versions have it built-in.
Never heard L48 though. Yet.
Here’s the measured pricing of 40’ containers: https://www.drewry.co.uk/supply-chain-advisors/supply-chain-...
I think they mean 'de-colonialise' rather than decolonise.

Seems like a strange error to make considering the number of times the term is used.

Edit:
Ok apparently this is an accepted term.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decolonization

I have no idea why as colonise and decolonise already mean things. And colonial is a distinct thing.
Formula 1: FTX fall left Mercedes in ‘utter disbelief’, says Wolff
As a quick off the cuff answer: web development probably has the greatest job security. It doesn’t pay like a specialized skill, but everyone and his brother needs a website developed and maintained.
Keep in mind that in this case, even a perfectly functioning democracy may not give you the result you expect: there are many of us here who would vote strongly for continued development of space industry and expansion into the solar system, even if would completely block Earth-based observations, because we believe developing Earth orbit is much more important than astronomy in general, and it also happens to be a necessary stepping stone to enabling affordable space-based observations, so we believe it'll ultimately benefit astronomy mid-to-long term.
all instances of the class are updated, which is more powerful than replacing. if you are curious to try it you can refer to the following

https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/clos.html#:~:text....
While I see what you mean, I think, personally, the point is moot and also applies to any scripting language.

If you have someone in your org specialized on SQL debugging stored procedures is their job. By now there are also many sufficient tools, that will help you actually debug the code and it has been a first class citizen in visual studio for years now.

Also keep in mind, that most APIs are crud, not complex businness logic and that there is a middle ground: build your own libraries instead of microservices and share those.

This of course all is heavily debateable and only based on my personal experience, but your statistics are missing the value for the amount of people who are actually "good at sql".

Also a lot of people dont understand the value of relational data at all. So yeah, if you never learned to code you cant program. Sql is not just a second class citizien of your stack that "stores stuff" and of course you have to optimize your use cases, but again this is exactly what i mean with my top comment: you sir are dogmatic too :D

SQL is AMAZING and can be directly conected to your frontend. That does not mean its a smart thing to do.
> Have they devolved to just being lego builders that glue together the work of others?

Uh, Lego comes literally from idea of using pre-made things to build a house. Lego was made from how construction industry worked.

Ever heard of BRICKS? Where you think Lego got the idea for it from ?
Actually it's almost the opposite.

This piece speculates very strongly about SBF's stimulant usage degradating his cognitive abilities. Eg:

> If the above observations about SBF’s personality and competence are even half true, that would go a great deal toward explaining Alameda’s losses.

The entire article goes into much further depth. But it doesn't even speculate about malice.
For a more recent example, how about $100B in Covid Relief Funds stolen:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/21/criminals-have-stolen-nearly...

The crypto market blowups pale in comparison to even dotcom era exuberance, and the recovery from bear market conditions has been much more rapid (usually less than 3 years to recover to previous levels). Crypto rebuilds quicker, and grows more resilient with every passing year.

On-chain exchanges like Uniswap can't be hacked, can't misrepresent funds or exchange rates, and are fully open source. This is the future we're working towards. Not centralized scam operations like FTX.
Star Trek is basically space communism, and their skies are filled with megastructures that put our current dilemma to shame.

It’s not about siding with industry or some economic philosophy. It’s that humanity, on a long enough timeframe, is either leaving or dying.
Left menu navigation, finally! I’m canceling my Retool subscription immediately.
> The border is heavily developed on one side and completely undeveloped on the other. .....and China needs space to grow.

OMG, you're right, I saw this:

https://goo.gl/maps/JMUwEHBixEgieHMb6

Zooming in the area reveals a thick pattern of cultivated fields in the China side, but far fewer in the Russia side.
Self isolation in extreme. Nobody knows for sure what language they speak, what they call themselves, nothing. We don't even know how many there are.

What we do know is that they survived on a rather small island in Indian ocean with stone age technology for ... well we don't know because they don't want to talk to us. But they did get trough 2004 tsunami just fine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese
Well FTX's competitors are not necessarily not fraudulent, especially their primary competitor Binance.
The number of people who will buy at a luxury dealership are vastly smaller than those who will go to low end dealerships.
If you pick a number between 0 and 1 its going to either be a rational number, or is going to use a known irrational number (pi or sqrt(5)). In both cases it can be guessed in a finite number of guesses.
NFT art was likely a bubble, not a Ponzi. Many investments are bubbles, but not Ponzis.
Probably workable if you just want a shed tho. But yeah most things I've seen are just architectural wanks on trying to make hot steel box livable by applying what would it take to build small home
Much like the forests and plains were developed into vast concrete suburbs