balaselvam's comments

balaselvam | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Image Generation Through API

Can you share the SD APIs list?

balaselvam | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Image Generation Through API

Thanks! Will check these out.

balaselvam | 2 years ago | on: An open-source alternative to QuickBooks

Makes me think who's the customer here. Is this the engg team that's going to host it or the finance team who's the primary user of the product.

If the final user is finance, should the support be targeted towards them?

balaselvam | 2 years ago | on: What's the impact of this debt ceiling being raised?

There's no free lunch right? Someday someone will collect the bill. I don't know what the some day would be and who the someone is.

balaselvam | 2 years ago | on: An open-source alternative to QuickBooks

If the company is serious enough about competing with Quickbooks and solving a real customer problem, Discord is not going to cut it.

balaselvam | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: ZORP – Native Android and iOS app builder for internal teams

Thanks for checking it out. We don't have native localization but the UI text is user written, it can be written in any text. This might lead you to create different workflows for different languages but can be used as a work around.

balaselvam | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: ZORP – Native Android and iOS app builder for internal teams

Thanks for the feedback. Zorp is use case agnostic. You can build simple forms to really complex supply chain applications. We've taken a modular approach, where you get all the lego blocks and build them according to your specific use case.

Some of our customers use Zorp for really long tail use cases like dog walking, yoga training, KYC document collection, etc.

balaselvam | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: ZORP – Native Android and iOS app builder for internal teams

Thanks for the feedback!

balaselvam | 3 years ago | on: A16Z says ‘WeBack’ to WeWork’s Neumann with its biggest check ever

Backing not just 1 but 2 investments of Neumann seems strange. Having said that, there must be some due diligence or arbitrage identified. I wouldn't write this one off.

balaselvam | 3 years ago | on: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

How do you think copyrights around these images will evolve? No copyrights? Full ownership to the one creating the prompt? Copyrights based on specific context?

balaselvam | 3 years ago | on: Cost of Medicine vs. Insurance

Wow, this is surreal!

balaselvam | 3 years ago | on: Cost of Medicine vs. Insurance

Is this really true? Is an overwhelming cost of medicine insurance?

balaselvam | 3 years ago | on: Y Combinator narrows current cohort size by 40%, citing downturn and funding

This argument holds true for most VC firms in general. My contention is that YC's stance on defining the "bar for acceptance" seems to be on how much cash they have. So a mediocre company and founders could have got in the previous batch and a deserving one may not this year. I agree that this is fair and square in market economics. I simply expected more from this institution.

balaselvam | 3 years ago | on: Y Combinator narrows current cohort size by 40%, citing downturn and funding

The emphasis on "downturn" concerns me. Aren't reputed firms like YC supposed to look at a 10+ year horizon?

If this is true, it indicates that earlier investments were based on the market than the fundamentals of the founding team, market, and product.

balaselvam | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Maroofy – discover music you'll love, via 30s song clips

Ah makes sense.

balaselvam | 3 years ago | on: The Poor ROI of Autonomy (2020)

This is a fantastic read. But don't agree with the conclusion. It's myopic. Few problems I have with this, - The cost saving of 600K/truck/year is low relative to the cost saving with lower autonomy. When improving efficiency in any operations system, the ROI keeps getting lower and lower with further improvements. Does not mean that the investment is not worth doing - The efficiency principle of software relies on scale. There's no reason to build autonomous vehicles at all if you own a single truck but this makes sense when you have a large fleet. That's why software earns with scale. 600K/yr is a single truck saving. It becomes significant over the scale of trucks and the years.

The unit economics is wonderful to go through. Appreciate the research!

balaselvam | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Maroofy – discover music you'll love, via 30s song clips

How do you handle copyrights for the songs?

balaselvam | 3 years ago | on: Emoji Kitchen

Love it when people create great things for fun! Here I am working the work :(