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Seems like we should form major open source repos and have one with ai maintainers and the other with human maintainers and see which one is better.

Hilarious. The article tries to go even one step further past the loss of hype, by making an additional argument that ai might not be in a hype cycle at all. Meaning they conjecture that it might not even come out of the trough of disillusion to mass adoption.

That’s gonna be a bad take I think.

I think the reason to not follow successful people online is that they did not get successful by following successful people online.

Meaning - they have a big online presence post-success. They use the online presence to bask in their own glory.

But this isn’t just for the sake of basking in ones glory. It is a sort of way for the successful person to leverage their success into more success. A positive feedback loop of sorts.

I feel your pain. The flat cents make small online transactions hard to do.

If you can add a 30 cent transaction cost at checkout then you are just paying 2.9 percent on the cart price.

I know that isn’t a great answer to your question. “Raise prices”.

I do think there is room for pricing model innovation at the vendors you looked at. But I don’t see it happening in the next few years.

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Will this work with stripe elements not just stripe checkout? I'd like to upsell my connect accounts this feature.

You should be close to your customers. My cofounders and I coded most of the MVP in the bay because we all happened to be living there, but then we started going to tradeshows and saw that most of our customers were in NYC so we moved east.

If you are doing a startup where you are a B2B tech company that sells to other tech companies, the bay area is great.

This is somewhat relevant if you are interested in underactuated robots in production. One of our customers, Tokyo Kitty [1], a nightclub in Cincinnati uses two underactuated robots to deliver drinks to private rooms without spilling. We use convex optimization (chapter 10) to not spill, the bartenders and patrons love it [2].

[1] https://www.facebook.com/thattokyobar/ [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_PeLAlVpzQ

Bbot (bbot.menu) - food and drink delivery system for bars and restaurants.

20% facebook, 20% email, 60% anonymous ordering only (most prefer to not get an account to drink a beer obviously).

Small nit from article - "You don’t build a nuclear power plant (or even a dam) without a plan for what to do if it goes critical."

Reactors going critical is a good thing.

From wikipedia: When a reactor's neutron population remains steady from one generation to the next (creating as many new neutrons as are lost), the fission chain reaction is self-sustaining and the reactor's condition is referred to as "critical".

It is very nice to have first mover advantage. Many web and mobile application companies today do not have first mover advantage. This was a good talk to listen to if you have quietly stumbled on something that people want before the rest of the product builders find out.

This soon-to-be Vegas robot looks cool! In the meantime, if you want to try a robot server in San Francisco, my friends and I installed one in Folsom Street Foundry in SOMA. The bartender still makes the drinks but loads the Robot which brings it to the tables. If you are interested, check out the youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bab7E1Da6WA