rentpeek's comments

interesting - what is the confidence interval on this? if you start a balloon in the same spot at the same time does it always end up in the same place? or is there a wide range of where it could be

Yea the tax loss for the city is really going to be a huge problem. I think something like 30% of the tax base for NYC comes from commercial RE?

Where do they make that up from, income tax? Sales tax?

At what point do high wage earners decide enough is enough and move to Florida or Texas?

Scary possibility for a tax funding death spiral here.

yes - thanks for the catch

In NYC, occupancy of office buildings seems to be stabilizing at 30-40% below pre-COVID levels. However, many of the buildings refinanced during the zero rates period from ~'18-'22.

Going to be interesting to see what happens when that debt rolls off and needs to be refinanced.

do you try to match descriptions to existing products? for example, if there is a item of furniture that is also sold on other sites, will the description be consistent?

Or is this just naiive generation?

Definitely a huge pain point raised here. All the solutions today are 100% better than anything offered in a bundle prior (Office). But it becomes an absolute cluster trying to manager, let along the issues w onboarding you raised.

Definitely seems like there needs to be some industry wide consensus around this but id imagine that would be difficult with the current VC model. Incentives are in place to "carve out a niche" and then expand horizontally.

B2B is going to hit the "app overload" problem consumers deal with soon. You just cant reasonably track that many software solutions - even if individually they add value

pretty cool - how is the accuracy?

good call - feels like there are 20 new tools popping up every hour

This is extremely well written and super impressive. I think that as someone with a similar professional / educational background to you, the biggest thing is the Vitamin vs Painkiller. And as you correctly pointed out, the only way to know is to ask the customer to open their wallet from day 1.

Overall, really well written, thoughtful piece that gives a great insight into what it's like being a zero to one founder.

Just from reading this, I have no doubt you're going to be crazy successful. Most startups fail, but most entrepreneurs succeed. You got your first fail out of the way, now go crush it with your next one!

Pretty good summary of what's happened over the past couple months. Will be really interesting to see if new products come out to try and detect AI generated content

This is a super important point. I'm a super analytical person and have spreadsheets for most important things in my life. So a real outlier in terms of recording data. And STILL i find it hard to keep up with my manual budgeting app that I have.

Integration is super important and imo, the real opportunity is improving the auto-tagging and sorting functionality. Mint for example is pretty terrible at handling things like venmo or one-off transactions

Super cool concept - as someone who is just learning Python I've found Jupyter to be a great way to code and debug live. But yea it's hard for me to share that with someone as a beginner coder - are you planning on having this be a paid feature?