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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." This prompt is one I run often and leads to the best results.Replied on X@akshayadinesh19 @bot can we please BYOM for botsLiked on XTo be fair, the Chinese models have a much lower refusal rateLiked on XF*CK IT, im creating a library of AI slop indicators. my feed is full of taste larpers. stay tuned https://t.co/5Muv8nQRm3Liked on XJENSEN! THATS NOT WHAT WE MEANT BY CHINESE MODELS!!!!!!!Liked on Xmy parents had to declare bankruptcy when I was a kid, so they had every reason to pressure me towards a more stable career path instead, they were so patient with me, even as i failed startup after startup for years so getting to tell my mom that everything turned out okay was a really special moment :) for those who can't read Korean, her first message roughly translates to: "Really!!! Congratulations my son. 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
원숭이와 꽃신

원숭이와 꽃신

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'원숭이 꽃신' 전략을 아시나요 - 시사저널

  • '동물 나라에 세상 모르고 편안히 살던 원숭이가 있었다. 하루는 오소리가 찾아와 원숭이에게 오색 빛 꽃신을 선물했다. 원숭이는 신발이 필요 없었으나 선물이라기에 받아 신었다. 그 후로도 오소리는 꽃신을 계속 바쳤고 원숭이 발바닥 굳은살은 차츰 얇아졌다. 이윽고 신발 없이 나다닐 수 없게 된 원숭이는 그만 오소리의 노예가 되고 말았다.'
  • 정휘창씨가 1977년에 쓴 유명한 동화 원숭이 꽃신의 줄거리다. 하지만 이것은 단순한 동화 속 이야기가 아니다. 천만 회원을 가졌다는 한 인터넷 커뮤니티 회사는 이 우화를 현실로 만들었다. 프리챌홀딩스(주)는 11월14일부터 국내 최초로 커뮤니티 유료화를 단행해 파장을 일으켰다. 마스터 회원(동호회 운영자)에게 매달 3천원을 내도록 요구했는데, 네티즌 세상에서는 대소동이 벌어졌다. 프리챌을 떠날 것인지 격론이 벌어진 것이다. 프리챌의 커뮤니티 수는 1백12만 개에 달한다.
  • 프리챌 서영선 과장은 매달 서비스 운영 비용으로 13억원이나 들어간다며 유료화가 불가피하다고 말했다. 11월9일 현재 10만 명이 유료화에 동의하고 요금을 납부한 것으로 알려졌다. 서울대의 한 동호회 커뮤니티를 운영하는 권기봉씨(24)는 회원이 2백명이 넘고 게시물도 3천 건이 넘어서 도저히 다른 곳으로 옮길 수 없었다. 유료화가 마음에 안 들기는 하지만 울며 겨자 먹기로 그냥 남기로 했다라고 말했다. 2000년 프리챌이 처음 무료 서비스를 열 때부터 이런 전략을 가졌는지는 알 수 없으나 결과적으로 프리챌은 원숭이(고객)를 유혹한 오소리가 되고 말았다.
  • 마이크로소프트도 이런 '원숭이 꽃신 경제학'에 충실한 기업이다. 마이크로소프트는 대학을 상대로 마케팅 사업을 많이 벌이고 있는데 그 중에 AATP라는 서비스가 있다. 이 프로그램은 마이크로소프트가 대학에 무료로 프로그램을 제공하는 대신, 해당 대학은 마이크로소프트 프로그램을 가르치는 교과목을 설치해야 한다는 계약이다. 학점을 인정받는 정식 과목이어야 하고, 대학은 마이크로소프트에 강의계획서·운영계획서·결과보고서를 제출해야 한다. 현재 1백60개 주요 대학이 이 제도를 시행하고 있다.
  • 업계에서는 이 '원숭이 꽃신 전략'을 전문용어로 록인이펙트(Lock-in effect)라고 표현하기도 한다. 벤처 업계에서 일하는 한 마케팅 담당자는 요즘 전략 회의를 할 때마다 고착화 전략이나 록인이펙트라는 용어를 자주 쓴다라고 말했다.
  • 록인이펙트가 인위적·자연적 고착 현상에 모두 쓰이는 말인 데 비해, 원숭이 꽃신 마케팅은 기업이 주도하는 인위적인 현상만을 설명할 때 쓴다.
  • 기업이 독점을 바라는 것은 당연하지만, 상품의 질을 높이기보다 고객의 교체 비용을 높이는 방식은 실질적인 경쟁을 방해한다는 분석이다.
  • 교체 비용을 낮추는 신기술이 등장하면 열쇠가 자물쇠를 열 듯 '록'이 풀린다고 설명한다.
  • 예를 들어 프리챌이 유료화를 선언하자, 경쟁 업체가 자동 게시물 이전 프로그램을 만들어, 프리챌에 저장된 자료를 손쉽게 옮길 수 있도록 유도하는 것을 꼽을 수 있다.
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