deyan's comments

What model are you using under the hood?

Thought I'd flag that you do not have contact info in your profile!

I’ve been helping founders with fundraising for some time and compiled my thoughts here:

https://www.lore.vc/

It’s a guide explicitly written with first-time founders in mind. Hope it helps; feedback is welcome.

Regarding 7-10: any recommendations for good software wallets?

Not seeing this in any of the comments so far so logged in to say:

Hellbound was an awesome show and it is worth a watch!

It’s being advertised as a mixture between horror and action but it is neither. Instead, it’s a commentary on modern society mixed in with with mystery. And it’s excellently done (minus one-two scenes perhaps).

I was surprised when I discovered that Yandex's OCR is also better than Google's version:

https://translate.yandex.com/ocr

For example, comparing the results from pictures with Japanese or Chinese text, Yandex gives meaningful results, while Google often struggles.

Wikipedia is very easy to game unfortunately.

Mind clarifying what funds you spoke to (VC or PE, which geographies)? Curious whether your sample size is Bay Area or elsewhere.

Are there any stats on how successful / unsuccessful their store is?

Unfortunately this is highly misleading without the ability to customize (e.g. capital raised, liquidation preferences, future rounds, etc.).

I was not aware. Thanks for letting me know - will look into it. I am wondering how GitHub got around that issue.

Immediately took me back to Logo and 9 year old me trying to figure out how to move the turtle :) Great memories!

I agree with the other comments saying there is very little information and that makes it hard to understand or trust the product. I am assuming that's just because this is a brand new effort and a relatively early MVP.

It was funny to see this on the front page today because this is actually an issue I have been wresting with myself in the last couple of weeks.

A friend and I just started testing a somewhat similar product called Git Butler - https://www.gitbutler.com/. It's IFTTT for GitHub and helps automate pull request and issue workflows.

We've been wondering how much info to include, and what to say or not to say. It's a real challenge! So I've been watching this thread with great interest and really hope more comments come in.

(P.S. Any feedback on Git Butler would be much appreciated. I don't have a lot of experience with this, but this thread is also making me think we should consider doing a Show HN.)

Can someone put this into context, or share a source that does? How does this compare to other causes of death, for example?

The NYT article has comparisons on the absolute level (i.e. comparing to peak car crash deaths and HIV deaths from 20-30 years ago) - but those are outdated and misleading because they not relative and don't account for e.g. population growth.

I am just trying to get a sense for the true magnitude of the problem, beyond the scary headlines.

Medium has this option as well.

For those curious, the methodology is on slide 3 here: https://www.slideshare.net/upwork/freelancing-in-america-201...

I am genuinely surprised. 7% in 5 years is really not that much, especially given the constant media articles talking about the massive proliferation of the "gig economy."

Yet another example of the difference between reality and reporting.

Lots of negativity here, as is unfortunately typical at HN far too often these days. Especially given that this project is what HN is supposed to be about - done by a lone hacker with help from volunteers, trying to create a different and hopefully better social media. Sure, it may or may not work, it has all sorts of pros and cons, but I’d vote for being open-minded and constructive rather than cynical from the get go.

For what it’s worth, I played with it literally a couple of days ago. I found the set up very easy, the themes limited but decent, the functionality around creating posts and pages very fast and clean. It also has cross-posting to LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Medium built-in. I also found that $5/mo is perfectly acceptable - many blogs charge more. I absolutely loved that you could enable a GitHub Pages integration, de facto backing up your website for free.

On the con side, there are things you can’t customize (eg their default footer that says to follow the user, or their archive page), search is only present in some themes and also can’t be customized, and there is very limited information about the project overall. The lack of ability to add an option for email subscription also is a significant issue in my opinion.

I was investigating the project from a blogging point of view and concluded it is trying to be Twitter first and foremost so not a good fit. Still, it was a pleasure to discover something new, interesting, and reasonably clean and functional.

Agreed. Poor writing and superficial (at best) thinking seem to be all too common in the vast majority of Medium articles focused on crypto.

You seem knowledgable about the space. Mind sharing examples of such features, or where you feel Discord is lacking?

Agreed.

It seems to me that a reasonable test whether these ideas make sense is to ask whether they can be done without the blockchain. Most of these seem to obviously fail this test (eg the government of Hawaii is a centralized institution that clearly does not need the blockchain to mandate a change on any of the islands).