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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
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투자없는 스타트업의 3년

  • 회사 구성원을 간단히 얘기하자면, LAH 대표 3명과 미드레벨 개발자 1명과 신입 개발자 1명으로 총 5명이다.
  • LAH가 모였던 이유는 "이런 문제를 해결하는 서비스를 만들어보자"가 아니었고, "이 시장이 문제이니 시장에서 문제를 찾고 해결해보자"였다. 어떤 문제를 해결하는 것이 서비스의 목적이 아니고, 문제를 해결하는 것이 더 큰 변화를 위한 수단이 되는 것이었다. 말은 거창하지만 이 얘기는 당장 만들 것이 없다는 얘기다.
  • 기획도 처음이고, OTT 개발도 처음이지만 "그냥 한다"는 생각으로 만들었다.
  • 모든 회사의 시작이 비슷할 것 같다. 정부지원사업을 지원하는 것이다. 결국 회사는 돈이 있어야 운영된다.
  • 내가 한번의 폐업 경험이 있기에 재도전 성공패키지에 지원할 수 있었고 선정됐다. 그 이후 디딤돌 첫걸음, 디딤돌 전략형 등 여러 지원사업에 지원하고 선정됐다. 그 외 예컨대 프로젝트나 서울 R&D 혁신챌린지 등도 선정되었다.
  • 다른 어떤 자금 확보 루트보다도 자유롭다. 투자를 받으면 지분이 희석될 수 있고, 외주를 하면 시간이 훨씬 많이 소요된다. 그런 면에서 정부지원사업은 제안서에 제안한대로 열심히 연구개발만 하면 되기 때문에 엔젤 투자에 가깝다.
  • 사실 자금도 자금이지만, 제안서 형식의 문서는 결국 자산이 된다. 지난 기간 작성했던 많은 지원사업 서류들이 IR 자료에 녹아들어가게 되고, 스스로가 직접 개발한 서비스를 그저 자식처럼 바라보지 않게 한다.
  • 결국, 돈을 벌어야하는데 가장 접근이 쉬운 것이 외주 개발이다. 개인적으로 외주 개발도 축복이라고 생각한다. 아무 곳에나 외주를 맡기진 않으니까.
  • 체계는 뭘 말하고, 언제 만들어야할까? 일단 내가 말하는 체계는 체계라는 거창한 말보다 오히려 회사 운영과 관련된 룰과 도구 정도 인 것 같다. 휴가를 관리하거나, 사내 메신저나, 회의록을 기록하는 공간이라던지.. 이런 것들이다.
  • 지금은 구성원이 5명이라 과거보다 더 ERP가 잘 작동하고 있는데, "시스템"이라는 존재가 주는 접근성이 확실히 다르다. 재택 신청도 캘린더를 연동해두고 자동으로 등록된다던지 출퇴근 시간도 자동으로 기록한다던지. 사실 결국 구성원 모두가 확인할 수있는 정보인데 메신저에 공지하는 것보다 시스템에 등록하는 것이 훨씬 부담이 덜하다는 것이다.
  • 가장 어려운 것은 이 모든 것이 병렬로 지속되는 것이다.

흥미롭다. 아마 대한민국에서 스타트업을 하는 사람들은 대부분 이런 전철을 따라가지 않을까. 정부지원사업, 외주, 그리고 그렇게 만든 플랫폼 사업으로 패시브 하는 것이다. 다만 한국 시장에서 블리츠스케일링을 하기에는 너무 시장 규모가 작을 것이다. 가령, LAH의 FilmUp과 같이 인디 영화를 공유하는 플랫폼은 미국 시장의 경우 충분히 성공할 수 있는 플랫폼이 된다고 느껴지지만 (SoundCloud와 같은 느낌) 한국 시장은 그렇게 성공할 수 있을 것 같지 않다. 제일 큰 문제는 공급자가 아니라 소비자가 문제이다. 소비자들을 찾는 것이 더욱 어렵기 때문이다. 즉 한국 시장에서 블리츠스케일링은 아주 극히 일부의 경우에만 성공하며, 한국 시장에서는 다른 접근 방식을 찾아야 한다.

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