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Liked on XI made a mistake. When Jack and I decided to organize this $100K Hackathon, my biggest concern was cheating. Unlike a regular hackathon, everyone participates from home. And because the winner is whoever makes the most PROFIT (not revenue), there are so many ways to manipulate the numbers. So I added a $99 entry fee. One thing I’ve learned from building businesses is that people tend to be more committed when they pay for something. I thought it would filter out spam, attract serious builders, and make the competition fairer for everyone. But I completely missed the other side. 3 years ago, I was a living with my apps. Today, I’m financially free. My life changed so much that somewhere along the way, I lost perspective on what $99 means to someone else. For someone in India, someone struggling to pay their bills, or someone trying to make their first dollar online, $99 can be a lot of money. And those are exactly the people I want to help! I’ve spent years sharing what I’ve learned, reviewing random people’s landing pages, and organizing free meetups around the world. Not because there’s money to make, but because I genuinely love seeing people build things and succeed. And somehow, I was so focused on keeping cheaters out that I didn’t realize I was also keeping genuine builders out. That’s my mistake. So I’ve decided to make the $100K Hackathon completely FREE :) Everyone who already paid got a full refund. I’m still worried about cheating. That problem hasn’t disappeared, and Jack and I will have to figure out better ways to verify profits and keep the leaderboard fair. But that’s our problem to solve. Thank you to everyone who shared their thoughts. Sometimes you need people to remind you of things you’ve forgotten. I genuinely hope this hackathon changes someone’s life. ❤️Liked on XIt’s time to bring back Cafe CursorPosted on Xyo @pendev i can't live share edit a .pen file? it's the most needed featurePosted on XI'm coining a word "Agentsplaining" Agents condescendingly assuming the user don't know fuck and repeating the obviousReplied on X@jayhxmo @raycast Hard to explain. It's the small detailsPosted on X@raycast iOS keyboard is insanely good. Might resub Raycast pro just cuz of thisReplied on X@ishuagra02 I saw a theory that F5.2 is a post train of 5.1, but O5.5 is a distillation of F5.5(unreleased new pretrain) and thats why O5.5 > F5.2Liked on X@anaclumos don't know what is actually improved 👀Posted on Xam i the only one underimpressed with 5.2 fableReplied on X@bvvst great minds think alike https://t.co/YRFWhb1mcOLiked on XClaude Fable 5.2 is out and it's the perfect time to run this god-level prompt on your codebase: "I want you to audit our codebase, is anything here unnecessary, overly complicated in our current setup, or based on weak assumptions? Challenge them. - What can be deleted entirely? - What can be simplified now that unnecessary pieces are gone? Then make the changes. Prefer deleting over simplifying, simplifying over optimizing, and optimizing over automating. This product is being used by thousands of customers, do not cut any corners." 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So much :') Thank you God!" i know I've been posting about my exit for like a week now, but it really is a big deal for me and my family! i'll share more about how this all happened and some tactical advice later this week, but for now i'm just riding out all the emotions to quote my mom, thank you God!!!!Liked on X@thefarmers_Dog it stands for Egg GzampleLiked on X🦍 Introducing Memorilla: memory as a modality for LLMs Memorilla turns everything a frozen LLM needs to remember into just 16 memory embeddings ⚡ It uses up to 4,212× fewer tokens and is 27× faster than full context inference while more accurate 🎯 Pushes the Pareto frontier over RAG and agentic memory in personalization, long-document and knowledge QA A thread 🧵:Liked on XThere's a huge product opportunity downstream of Tailscale etc too. At @tldraw we've started designing for "high trust networks" and it's been a beautiful thing. 1. Features that would be a nightmare on the internet are okay on my computer and mostly okay on private networks. Websites that execute user-generated scripts, control production systems, allow for users to send desktop notifications, spend tokens, or directly prompt my agent. Crazy stuff that would only make sense if everyone was in a committed polycule. 2. When everyone on the server can be trusted to have _external_ reasons for good behavior (eg keeping their job, or maintaining friends, family, church, mafia org), the software can be designed in a default social way. Most apps default to isolation, low horizontal visibility, highly restricted collaboration. Makes sense if the social contracts are inside of the app, but if you can trust that they live outside of the app then you can get wild. Example being small group chat names as an emergent comedy phenomenon because anyone in the group can change the name. 3. This can work for commercial products, too, not just internal stuff. Security matters more than ever but the way we've seen that manifest is that more companies are more confident in their own solutions than anything we could provide, to the point where owning data and access is a better value proposition than having it managed. Always has been true for big companies but now even small companies can get a good secure network set up pretty easily, and the hooks we need to build are easy enough. tldraw offline got us started down this road (and shout out to @pendev for first introducing me to the idea of desktop + mcp). We've been bringing that product to private networks and it's been exciting to see how much we can get away with. Keep an eye outReplied on X@saradu birds eye viewLiked on XApplications close in 2 days!! If you have a cool bio idea, and $5-10k will go a long way for you, please apply!!! https://t.co/NCvmrNC53cLiked on XWe've been early adopters of Rust since 2018 and a lot of our infra, voice tech, and even some of the current client is already Rust, the holy grail was getting the whole client there. That means Electron goes away, and so does React Native, mobile keeps native UI but shares app code with desktop via Rust. We hope to get it into testing with users soon™. (And it's not Tauri, it's GPUI, so good guess everyone.) Alright, back to staring at the WoW Forever login screen.Reposted on XOh boy. https://t.co/X7SSskGuGvLiked on XRIP .si domain squatters
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젠리의 성공 공식

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어제 젠리가 문을 닫았다. 프랑스의 한 개발자로부터 시작해 3천억에 스냅에 인수된 기술 강소 기업은 어떻게 성장하고 어떻게 사라졌을까. 그리고 우리는 무엇을 배울 수 있을까?

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기술력. 위치 추적 앱은 정말 많지만, 배터리를 많이 먹거나 성능이 떨어진다 (실시간이 아니거나, 위치 동그라미가 넓거나). 젠리는 정확한 위치 추적 앱임에도 배터리를 놀랍게 적게 쓴다. 창업 전 3년 이상 자녀 안전 앱을 개발하며 효율 좋은 위치 추적을 연구했다. 젠리 초기에도 박사급 인재들을 채용하며 독자적인 기술력을 보유했다. 서버와 프론트엔드 기술도 시니어 엔지니어 위주로 소수 정예 기업을 구성했다.

타게팅. Gen-Z 그룹을 집중적으로 타게팅했으며 한 학교에서 25%의 사용자를 넘기면 일주일 안에 전교생이 사용한다는 것을 관찰했다. 대만 대학에 유학 간 일본 학생들로부터 대만 전체로 앱이 퍼지는 것 같은 서브 그룹 주도의 성장에 집중했다. 타게팅을 하다 알게 된 사실은, Z세대들은 프라이버시를 전혀 신경쓰지 않았다는 것. 대표는 초기 프라이버시 걱정이 시간 낭비였다고 밝혔다. 시장은 제작자들과 항상 같은 듯 다른 생각을 한다는 것을 알았다고 한다.

브랜딩. 위치 추적이라는 개념은 혐오스럽다. 그래서 초기부터 찐친의 이미지를 잘 녹여냈다. 팝팝 튀는 인터페이스, Z세대 말투, 귀여운 색깔, 그리고 넘쳐나는 이모지. 위치를 직접적으로 요구될 때는 친구와의 직접적인 교류를 강조했다.

인재 영입. 젠리는 기술력 뿐만 아니라 디자인 실력과 운영 실력도 좋았다. 훌륭한 엔지니어와 디자이너는 스타트업에 참여하려 하지 않는다. 처음에는 프리랜서로 계약하고 점차 팀에 끌여들였다.

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2020년 코로나 집콕 챌린지부터 2022년 대규모 지도 업데이트까지 미래를 준비했지만 최근 Snap의 대규모 정리해고에 Snap Mini App과 함께 젠리 팀 또한 해산되었다. 나는 스냅의 큰 실수라고 생각한다. 미국 대학생 사이에서도 더 이상 스냅을 쓰지 않는다. 젠리는 쓴다. 페이스북이 감원하며 인스타그램을 없애고 페이스북만 남긴 느낌. 젠리의 DNA가 스냅에 잘 결합되어 부활할 수 있길 바란다.

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