You can zoom into any period - some patterns are surprisingly clear (AI overtaking startup culture as HN's top topic, crypto's rise and fall, remote work spiking with COVID).

Happy to answer questions about the methodology.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47476148

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The coaching side has three modes: no help at all, real-time hints before each decision, or post-hand analysis only.

Fair warning: Claude naturally takes every hand to the extreme. Expect more pocket aces and dramatic river cards than any real table would produce.

                      ╭─────────────────────╮                                                                                                                                              
                      │      POT: 130       │                                                                                                                                              
                      │   Q♥  9♦  4♠        │                                                                                                                                              
  Alex                │                     │              Jordan                                                                                                                          
  [990]               ╰─────────────────────╯              [905]                                                                                                                            
  (SB)                                                     (BB)
  Fold                                                     Bet 50

    You <-                                             Sam
    [965]                                              [1000]
    (BTN)                                              (UTG)
    ┌────────┐                                         Fold
    │ K♠ Q♠  │ 
    └────────┘

   Coach's whisper: You flopped top pair with a king kicker — a very strong hand here. Jordan was the pre-flop raiser and is c-betting into you, which is standard. Calling is solid to
  keep the pot manageable. You could also raise to ~140 for value and protection, but calling in position and letting Jordan keep betting is a perfectly good line.

  [F]old  [C]all 50  [R]aise to ___

Repo: https://github.com/BohdanPetryshyn/code-royale

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47386707

Points: 2

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Now shifting to established SaaS companies adding AI assistants to their existing products. Some of them literally have people reading chats full time, so they actually value the experience.

Building https://lenzy.ai - 2 paid customers, 2 pilots, looking for more and figuring out positioning.

I’m Bohdan, building Lenzy - product analytics for conversational AI.

With traditional Web/Mobile UIs, we know exactly how users interact with our buttons and screens thanks to tools like Amplitude or PostHog. In conversations with AI, users literally say what they want and what frustrates them. Yet most teams building AI agents are flying blind, relying on intuition and occasional user feedback.

Lenzy fills this gap. It plugs into any AI conversation and tells you exactly what users struggle with and what they actually use your agent for. Fix the most painful problems (and verify they're fixed), double down on features that resonate.

And we just launched a free Discovery plan: plug in the Lenzy SDK (~10 minutes), collect a week of data and get a full report. No credit card required™

You get an actionable snapshot of what's happening in your chats. All we ask in return is feedback! What’s missing? What would make this useful for your team? Do you already solve this problem in any way?

https://lenzy.ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47061133

Points: 4

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I started about 3 months ago, focusing on making my 2 early adopters happy. One of them is ready to start paying soon!

I'd prefer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bpetryshyn/

X also works: https://x.com/bohdance

I started about 2 months ago, found 2 early adopters and focusing on making them really happy.

My first idea was to ask users to set up a free Resend account and use their API key to send emails. While free, this requires users to at least own a domain and definitely goes against my claim for one-click self hosting.

Then I realized that every user already has their personal email address. If only FormZero could send emails from it in a secure way.

SMTP to the rescue - it's the protocol your email client (Apple/Notion/Outlook) uses to send mail from your email address. The fact that it's a standard protocol allows users to connect to any email provider - Gmail, Proton, Outlook, iCloud or even Resend - just bring your sweet SMTP password with you.

This makes FormZero one more step closer to matching paid services in functionality. Next weekend: Captcha and spam protection.

FormZero: https://github.com/BohdanPetryshyn/formzero - use it for your next web form!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45874691

Points: 1

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All the media entrepreneurs I followed were flexing their perfect discipline and healthy lifestyles. I thought it was an integral part of success. So for half a year, I maintained perfect sleep, worked out 6-7 days a week, ate clean, and completely quit alcohol.

Have I succeeded yet?

Not yet. I substituted the hard work - building and getting customers - with something easier that felt like progress - endless preparation.

It sounds like complete nonsense now, but I genuinely believed that if I got good enough, entrepreneurship would just happen on its own. I was still working full time and trying different projects, partnerships, but I was definitely not realizing that it's me who is responsible for making it happen. And I see so many friends falling into the same trap. Self-improvement feels like progress without the risk of actually failing.

Since summer, I've significantly deprioritized self-improvement. I allow myself junk food when I want it, beers with friends, and skipping gym when I don't feel like it. But now I focus all my effort on one thing - building and getting customers.

Here's what I've built so far:

embedex.io - Turns out bloggers don't want it. Spent around 8 weeks but learned a hard lesson: don't build in isolation.

lenzy.ai - This looks promising. Already found a few early adopters, making sure I make them happy.

I don't mean that living healthy or improving your habits doesn't matter. But it's not the work itself - it's just making the work easier.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45822182

Points: 1

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Recently, I was looking for a free form backend and wasn’t able to find one. So I built one. But I believe I found an interesting way to do it!

I needed an endpoint to send waitlist submissions from my static website. As I quickly found out, most of the free options out there are artificially limited to a point where they are almost unusable - 50 submissions per month, no data export, unwanted redirects. And I understand - no matter how commoditized the technology is, a hosted solution can’t be entirely free. The service providers need to make money to maintain infrastructure, pay for emails, etc.

Of course, there are open-source self-hosted solutions out there but deploying them is much harder than signing up for their managed version. Again, I get it.

So I thought: “what if I there was a free self-hosted solution that is as easy to deploy as signing up for a commercial service?” And I remembered “Deploy to Cloudflare” buttons that are primarily used by Cloudflare in their tutorials/docs.

Meet FormZero - Form backend with zero paid features that you can deploy to your free Cloudflare account with one button in about 3 minutes. Cloudflare doesn’t even require credit card. It’s literally as easy as signing up for a SaaS:

  1. Click the button
  2. Provide three parameters:
    - Project name in your account (just use “formzero”)
    - Database name in your account (just use “formzero”)
    - Auth Secret for auth internals (use jwtsecrets.com or `openssl rand -hex 16` to generate one)
  3. Get your unique workers.dev URL where you can start using FormZero

  1. 100,000 form submissions a day
  2. 4,000,000 submissions stored
  3. Infinite retention and data export
  4. Email notifications with a free Resend API key

Just go and try how smooth the installation process is!

https://github.com/BohdanPetryshyn/formzero

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45746263

Points: 3

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