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Need help: Where can I find non-tech founders to do a customer interview with?
Hi YC fam! My name is Henrik, 23-year-old entrepreneur from Sweden. I’m working on a startup to help non-tech founders create any software product they want.

However, I need to better understand what non-tech founders need, and what they struggle with using existing no/low-code platforms.

The problem is I’m not sure where I can find such non-tech founders.

Are you / Do you know any non-tech founders who are struggling to build their software product? (Or who have struggled in the past)

I’d really appreciate all the help I can get!
Google is the offender because they control both the search and the browser market. Imagine having to pay $18 billion and still coming on top.

Folks hooked to Chrome seem to forget that whatever they do online is used to refine their ad profile and generate even more ad money for Google and you can't opt out.
I quite like their software on my phone. Usually better than their google counterpart, and samsung dex is a little gem.
Shouldn't you be directing your anger at Russia and China?
And that assessment is based on an opinion (in other words, on air) rather than a market signal.
> Seems like the fanboys are upset. Sad. Their blind brand loyalty demonstrates perfectly while Apple will never follow repairable design.

Alternatively, perhaps now would be a good time for a little introspection. You wrote a factually incorrect post trolling for emotional responses - did you really expect anything better?
I don’t think pissing off the largest military power in the world is a good idea for Europe when there’s currently a hot war going on there. That spreads and who do you think Europe will be asking for help?
Ever since the MESS merger, MAME has been emulating anything and everything: old consoles, computers, terminals, LCD games. Synthesizers just seem like a logical next step.

Only drawback seems to be it's gonna be difficult to get performance real-time enough to use as an actual musical instrument. Maybe when MiSTer cores show up for these synths, it'll change that.
3D microfabrication in glass using spatiotemporal focused femtosecond pulses
Vodafone and Wi-Fi vendors play tug of war over 6 GHz
I believe we are in the first stages of the implosion of the US dollar and the US financial system but since it's a huge system it's happening in a motion that the typical brain does not understand. People think it'll happen in a matter of hours but that might not be the case. It might be happening right in front of our eyes but we have never had such an event so we don't know what it looks like. Until maybe 5-10 years later.
Guys guys. Haven’t you read the rules? No sense of humor allowed! Limit your comments to complaints about scroll hijacking and nitpicks.
but power levels are amazing for reheating (around 50%) and defrosting (around 25%)

and I would argue these are two of the major reasons to use a microwave
I’m to the point where I just leave “Silence Unknown Callers” enabled on my phone. Before that I was getting at least 10 spam calls a day. We’re long past the point where it’s possible to accept a call from an unknown number.
There are a lot of price indexes that all include different things. Have there been changes to what goes into particular indices?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock%27s_Brain
You literally can't build the spaceport that far away, if you are doing it over water, because there is nothing stopping the sound.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230306-just-how-loud-is...

>Even 1.5 miles (2.4km) away, the noise from a Saturn V launch was recorded as being 120 decibels

https://www.wkcgroup.com/tools-room/inverse-square-law-sound...

Gets you 101.6 decibels from 20 km away.

Okay, how about 200 km over water? 81.6 decibels. Okay as a yearly event, not something that should happen every week.

Okay, how about 2000 km over water? 61.6 decibels. What was the point of this idea again?
YouTube also very addictive
Discussed earlier today: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38025177>
> Peter Gibbons:
What if we're still doing this when we're fifty?
Samir:
It would be nice to have that kind of job security.

From "Office Space" - welcome to the club.
Don't forget to pay taxes!
More accurate is we can either go there or study it properly. A human mission to Mars would be entirely dedicated to keeping the crew alive; only remote probes can do real exploration for the foreseeable future.
A lot of users just chime in to brandish their pitchforks after reading the headline. I hope that is changing, because some of the discussion can be pretty good.
BeyondTrust, Cloudflare and 1Password targeted after recent Okta breach
Diffusion Minecraft Skin Generator
I reckon that those billons are not flushed down the toilet right? They must have produced some IP or tech, that even though not immediately sellable today, can be monetized (patent troll) or integrated into their future product?
I’m about as far left as they come, but things like this make me proud to be an American, and even more so live in a state with a massive number of immigrants, including from majority Muslim countries, and the world’s 5th largest economy. The bigotry in Europe is just psychotic. You sometimes get a real picture into why they murdered each other for centuries over speaking minor variations of each others languages.
I think it only took me a half dozen hours or so to get my license? But also that only tested me in best case scenarios with good visibility, other good drivers, etc. A better sim should test and train my response to unexpected events in less than ideal conditions.
It's astonishing how nearly every single comment below this type of thing is "well inflation is up so this number isn't real". Nearly everything, on every platform. People don't want to believe the economy can possibly be good.
Carta's CEO reaches out to customers about bad press, alerting them to bad press
> I don't think salary should be tied to location, but it should be tied to experience, ability, and effort.

That's the labor theory of value (see: Smith, Marx), which in theory sounds meritocratic but it can't really be measured or assessed.

In reality compensation either becomes a function of power, social currency and negotiation skills, which is the general norm in professions, or you have an institutionalized, perhaps even democratic process to determine salaries. Both of these variants generate overhead and are only approximations to what anyone would see as fair.

The variant here where everyone gets the same, generous piece of a pie seems refreshingly simple and honest. I would also assume that it attracts the right kind of people, who are intrinsically motivated (at least after the threshold of a very high level of comfort is reached.)
For all the truly deceptive and harmful propaganda that spews forth from government mouthpieces, it really boggles my mind that this is the one that “media watchdogs” decide to pounce on.
It would be great if Oxide had something like Canonical's "Orange Box"/cloud-in-a-box for homelabs, evaluation, training (in the management bits) - and hobby work loads!

https://canonical.com/blog/jumpstart-training-with-the-orang...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/06/hands...
It all depends on what kind of social group you're in. Upper middle class and higher are still doing just fine. People like you most probably don't have friends who are living in the streets or cannot afford to buy cars anymore. Just look at the statistics of people living in the streets of big cities and the situation looks more like the great depression.
Are you referring to home sticker-price or life-of-mortgage price? Increasing mortgage costs are a direct consequence of Fed inflation-fighting policy. I personally benefited from the Greater Fool, selling and purchasing my home just when the buying frenzy was near its peak, making a tidy profit on my old home and locking in a 2.5% interest rate on the new one. But it was a frenzy.

There's no good way to force down housing costs without signaling to sellers that the prices are simply too high (because no one can afford the mortgage).

There are costs associated with making it more difficult to move, of course, but the pessimism about being unable to afford loans is the very thing driving down inflation; so I actually consider that mood on the ground to be a positive signal for the economy.
It's not true that we're printing money like there is no tomorrow. Look: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFSGDA188S

This is as % of GDP, but it's a good stand-in for inflation. Deficits are going down since 2020.
Do not migrate into a country if you're not prepared to adopt their culture. Seems straightforward to me.
It does though. Which "major categories" are you talking about?
Important context that the article is light on is that Denmark (and Sweden, etc. etc.) all have immigrant populations that are considerably more violent than the rest of the population, sometime more than 10x.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Denmark#/media/...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/576081/number-of-sexual-...
Thank you for the response. The problem you described has been solved by the large vendors with Hyper-converged offerings for many years so it sounds like Oxide might be a bit late to the party.

I do understand well the rational of running your own servers vs hyperscalers, as well as the repatriation trend but I see Oxide at best as a niche player.
British press reports at the outbreak of the Great War had German soldiers throwing babies in the air and catching them on bayonets. The Western press widely reported Iraqi soldiers pulling babies from Kuwaiti incubators, and that was used to justify the Gulf war. There is nothing new in the world of propaganda.
I would be very afraid of automatic blocking of our entire infrastructure if some developer gets his Google account banned. No one (human) to provide support either, just automated responses.

Then the risk of some product being discontinued on Google is very real. The article just sidesteps it in the most unsatisfactory way, with a pinky promise that it won't happen.

So the technology itself is not bad, but Google's customer management is so terrible that I would never risk a company's life on it.
Nothing can explain GDP as high as this and it will quietly be revised downward at a later date after politicians have long since finished their victory laps.
I don't understand why there should be any relation between deficit (which is a percentage of government revenue) and gdp growth (which is a percentage of total gdp of the whole country).
>On the other hand, we should be open and accepting when large companies make policy shifts.

Man, if I had a dollar for every time I heard something along these lines of "well we should still encourage X, even if it's a clear political play"

I suppose there's just something about being vaguely eager to tacitly accept overt attempts at changing the general discourse

Simply because they begrudgingly acknowledge economically progressive agendas in a very limited context, not even truly supporting it; simply pretending to have been on our "side" the whole time

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me eight or more times..."
This is my thought of the day about this topic I wanted to share.
Agreed. As an immigrant myself - I think this gets lots on both sides of politics. Everyone talks about how the country is being ruined - when really its got the most advantages relative to the rest of the world.
Sanctions generally don't make things impossible, just (very) expensive.
more channels (and the fact that each ddr5 dimm is basically two channels) is a major win that doesn't depend on prefetching.

it is perhaps underappreciated that CPU cores have gotten a lot more "thready" even in the absence of SMT, since each core has hundreds of instructions in flight. you know, kind of like how GPU cores (CUs, SMs) do...
GDP is the worst metric ever devised. Even the guy who came up with it said not to look at it. If we ever fix healthcare the GDP is going to plummet, and everything other than GDP is going to be way better.
As a US taxpayer, I would love if Europe started carrying it's own weight militarily rather than having our taxes pay for European security. The Ukraine conflict at least seems to have woken some Europeans up to the fact that they need to contribute equally to NATO instead of just relying on the US. But there doesn't seem to be much of an appetite in Europe for trading social spending for defense spending. It's more fun to dunk on American healthcare and pretend that Putin just really wants to be buddies.
Not only that, it's not even an attempt to reflect the market value in most jurisdictions.
As I pointed out elsewhere, it's really quite hard to believe it's bigotry on the basis of skin color or language. The mix of immigrants they have commit violent crimes (robbery, rape, murder) at several multiples of the Danish population.

It's resulted in graphs that look like this:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/576081/number-of-sexual-...
Can you show some evidence that GDP is more frequently revised downwards than upwards in the United States? Coming out of an uncertain economic time, my understanding is that estimates tend to be more conservative.
I'm still waiting for that massive recession to hit that all of the experts we're predicting.
The rules don't say that. They say no shallow comments. Humor can be shallow, or not. Judge for yourself the comments in question.
Denmark requires all immigrant children to take classes on being Danish.
Maybe it's just analog to digital conversion. Some stuff only gets used for research after some digitization project since it's not really searchable on a more global scale otherwise. Could be completely wrong here of course.
I get the feeling that learning rust can be a "bang your head against it until you get an 'aha' moment" sort of affair, much like learning git.

Some people pick up rust quickly because it clicks into their brain early, some take longer or end up bouncing off.
https://x.com/arjenroodselaar/status/1690986149161144320?s=2...
CPI. BLS publishes that as well
That would be incredible. My intuition is that at this point it's probably so degraded that's not possible since the neurons would have shrunk along with the rest of the brain and are likely so thin and brittle they aren't reliable anymore.

That said, I'm just a developer sitting here at my desk not a brain scientist so that's probably not a very useful guess lol
That's a very good point. Thank you for the reality check.
But very few founders willing to pay a designer that much.
Adjusted by what? Official inflation figures. Look at official inflation and they restrict the measurement to items that are probably less than half of what the average person needs to buy. So inflation adjusted GPD is really misleading in times of high inflation. We might be close to zero growth and the official statistics would still show economic growth.
You might be right but if a customer won't have the size/scale, it won't value the unique proposition from Oxide. I hope I am wrong because it would be great to see a new player with a fresh perspective in the hardware market.
The government has been reducing spending since all the COVID support in 2020 and 2021. At its peak, government spending was over $7 trillion, which was over 30% of GDP in 2020. It appears to be trending back to the pre-COVID ratio: ~20% of the GDP is government spending. https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...
One legal thing mobile equipment manufacturers point at to support closed designs, is that the FCC requires that no "simple" software change can make an approved device violate its approved operating parameters. Many wifi and 4g/5g radios could be turned into very general purposes software defined radios if they were completely open about the software. Primarily because they want to be able to comply with standard changes if they occur after the chips are designed, but before the point of peak sales for the chip. Parameterizing things like channel width, and even band limits to some extent are insurance against being left with a lot invested in an unsellable product.

We need to remove the threat of that regulatory stick and add another atick threatening them for lack of openness. Then there is the carrot hobbyists will find a use for their chips that creates a secondary market like rtlsdr or rpi back when. Let the FCC go after people actually breaking the law rather than making sure the world is safe from things a few people might use for breaking the law.
There are a few examples where a lot of immigrants from Africa were turned around and sent to Libya. So precedent exists, especially if you send them to places without functioning governments.
Looks like it can be run locally ok with npm https://github.com/cloudflare/har-sanitizer
If it were easier to swap a battery I would do it myself, but they made it so difficult with glue and crap that I would only trust the Apple Store to make the repair since they have the right hardware. Plus, it’s on them if they make a mistake and break my phone.
The best way to build economy is to give money to those without. Then they spend it. Trickle Down is bullshit. Bubble Up is the one that works. The rich still get theirs - but less and after the money has passed through a few hands.
https://almalinux.org/blog/future-of-almalinux/
Homelessness is on a long term decline and since 2007, it's down from 0.21% to 0.17% population. It's probably just concentration in the certain area because of police doing a bad job cleaning the streets.

Also, economic growth in U.S. is now mostly concentrated in lower income groups. It seems that high middle class (statistical one, i.e. top 10-20% of population - "people just out of poverty" if you look at it honestly), are on the losing side now. Hard numbers are hard to come by but once the tax season is over we will see them next year.
I've seen the (broad) architecture of my local government yes (due to keeping tabs on government spending on IT as a personal curiosity). I'm aware of the morass you speak off.

The reality though is that most tech stacks aren't that complicated. Not every company is a venture capital "go big or go bust, we change the entire industry" darling (nor are they necessarily looking to grow that way, especially outside the SV bubble) or a government with 2000 different contracts and enough yellow tape + bureaucracy around those contracts that signing a new contract is just easier than possibly extending an existing one with new features.

For the rest of those tech stacks (which are definitely "enterprise", simply by definition, since they get used in companies and are bespoke enough to be their own tools), it's rare to see a stack more complex than the one I mentioned (backend, cache, db) unless a technical admin decided to play runaway with Azure/Google/Amazon because it's shiny and exciting.
Congrats to the Oxide team. I'm not a potential customer but still get a thrill from the open source projects from these folks.

My favorite is the automated CIO repo: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/cio
The robots we've sent thus far seem far more limited than what humans could do with their own hands and standard tools and lab equipment.

We wait decades to maybe get a tiny sample of a rock.
There are people who think the job market never recovered from the ‘08 crash, just because they can’t find a job, so sentiment is probably not a useful measure of economic activity in the US.

People will never “feel good” about the US economy again.
Is the flag "-Xanalyzer" for macos?
Europeans can boost the GDP significantly by embracing American style healthcare.

For example, having an appendicitis in US increases the GDP by $10K but in most of Europe it barely moves the needle, thus Europeans lag in GDP metrics for the same healthcare.

Fresh, healthy produce as standart? Maybe good for people but destroys the GDP statistics. If Europeans embraced the idea that healthy stuff is for the rich and charge for it accordingly, they too can extract much more numbers from the tomatoes and have nicer GDP.
Why does every find like this always seem to imply human sacrifice and ritual killings? Isn’t it more likely it was just some person that was executed and his head was thrown in a pit? I don’t consider the presence of a deer’s body and some antlers in another pit that compelling.
It's not inflation adjusted. It's GDP Price Deflator adjusted. Like CPI this measurement has a number of ways to game it lower than reality and a great deal of political incentive to do so.
My microwave has "sensor" modes for cooking various things but you don't have any control over the temperature it targets.
I actually like that my device cannot get stolen and be taken apart for parts. If only I can control whether a part can be sold or not. Together with the ability of checking whether a part is unlocked or not.
> Perhaps my biggest critique is that crates.io has no namespacing. Anyone can just claim a global and generic package name and we mostly have to deal with it (unless you avoid using the crates.io repository, but then you'll probably have more problems...). Some of these globally-claimed generic packages are not really the best package to use.

This is true that with no namespace anyone can end up squatting a cool name, but with namespace you end up in an even worse place: no-one end up with the cool names, and it makes discoverability miserable, because instead of having people come up with unique names like serde, everybody just name their json serialization/parsing library json and user now needs to remember if they should use "dtolnay/json" or "google/json" (and remember not to use "json/json" because indeed namespace squatting is now a thing), and of course this makes it completely ungoogleable.

We've had the namespace discussion for hundreds of time in the various Rust town squares, and the main reason why we still don't have namespace is because it doesn't actually answer the problem it's supposed to address and if you dig a little bit you realize that it even makes them worse.

Having a centralized public and permissionless repository opens tons of tricky questions, but namespaces are a solution to none of them.
>No other rocket even in the planning stage comes close to Starship.

Okay, but SLS got close to the moon. It doesn't matter that it can't do a rendezvous with Starship, because it fulfilled its mission.
Gen X workers want different benefits. Companies are answering the call
I don't think you're late to the GPT party, lets remember how early we are in the AI timeline. It's all of us building with AI that'll actually make it useful. I'm going to try Olle, thanks.
There's a direct feedback loop between EU bigotry and US bigotry. They go to each other's conferences and read each other's publications. And the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel etc radicalize both sides.
Wow! Congratulations! I've been following you guys for a while and have loved what you've been doing. Really want to get my hands on some of this hardware to play with.

I'd love to see a video exploring the rack and showing the first time setup.
I'm an immigrant myself, and I share this sentiment deeply as well. The best description which I ever heard, curiously enough, was on a really old episode of this American life. My memory could be playing tricks on me, but I think it was some small story of folks doing car audio competitions, where the point was to build the car with the loudest possible speaker. It was absurd, silly, and for a nerd, obviously enthralling.

But at some point, I don't know if it is the narrator or someone in the story, but they say something to the effect of: "Everyone wants to be king of the hill, but there aren't enough hills to go around. The US is particularly great at creating more hills."
Smallest particle accelerator is 54M times smaller than LHC
The Sinking Submarine Industrial Base
Official inflation figures might be misleading and designed to mask the real impact of inflation. So it makes sense to ask if this "inflation adjusted growth" is real or not.