Hacker News: Brushfire

New comment by Brushfire in "Private Equity Bought America's Essential Services"

Brushfire — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:53:29 +0000

Why is there so much attention paid to the buyer (private equity) and no attention paid to the folks who sold the businesses to them?

New comment by Brushfire in "Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted"

Brushfire — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 13:37:56 +0000

There is this weird thing in venture investing:

the line between "crazy, brilliant founders who will build world changing companies" and "crazy, lunatic founders who will lie and cheat and be awful" is very hard to distinguish, especially at the series seed/series A level.

It can lead to false positives and false negatives all the time.

New comment by Brushfire in "Ask HN: A check from PayPal to me was stolen and cashed. What can I do?"

Brushfire — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 15:39:02 +0000

I'd suggest you file a claim in small business court. It will get resolved very quickly.

New comment by Brushfire in "Childhoods of Exceptional People"

Brushfire — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 06:14:03 +0000

I think that’s a great point, and I don’t disagree with it. (Although I don’t particularly care about being “interesting” as a value). My point was more that as a parent I want to be responsive to my children instead of deterministic. I want them to find their path, not me to find it for them by declaring that they will be exceptional. My love is not conditional on their outcome of becoming exceptional, and further, an ultimately fulfilling life doesn’t require that either, nor should we teach that it does.

New comment by Brushfire in "Childhoods of Exceptional People"

Brushfire — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 03:11:50 +0000

We often worry about how to make our children exceptional, but I wonder of the people studied here, how many were genuinely happy? Shouldn’t we want our children to be happy more than we want them to be exceptional? The two aren’t mutually exclusive of course, but the pursuit of exceptionalism might lead to a less happy life, especially if that exceptionalism doesn’t materialize. I know far too many people pushed incredibly hard by their family/circumstances and burned out fast.

New comment by Brushfire in "Who knew the first AI battles would be fought by artists?"

Brushfire — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 12:41:32 +0000

Imagine you are a startup business owner and you have developed a unique product or service.

And then someone comes along and competes with you?

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No one is bothered by competition in markets.

Why do we have more or less empathy of this type for some professions?

New comment by Brushfire in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)"

Brushfire — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 15:05:06 +0000

Draftbit | Senior Software Engineer | Full-Time | Remote, Anywhere (US Central Time overlap of >=4 hours) | https://draftbit.com

We're building a new way for teams and enterprises to visually design, build, and iterate on mobile apps. We're a no-code/low-code platform but that also generates source code as an output, which enables collaborative product development between both engineers and non-engineers; our early users have described us as the Webflow for Apps. We're backed by YC, Fuel, Floodgate, and a bunch of others. https://draftbit.com

We're building Draftbit with a combination of Typescript, React, React Native, Rescript, Node, Hapi, Postgres, Graphql, Apollo, Fly.io, and more.

You can see apply here https://www.workatastartup.com/jobs/15469 or reach out to brian@draftbit.com

New comment by Brushfire in "Will low and no code tools ever truly disrupt tech development?"

Brushfire — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 14:58:02 +0000

Lol, this whole discussion is like a bunch of architects talking about how folks shouldn't do DIY projects on their own, and yet... DIY is a huge thing because most people are actually reasonably intelligent and capable of doing things on their own.

New comment by Brushfire in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2022)"

Brushfire — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 17:33:33 +0000

Draftbit | Senior Software Engineer | Full-Time | Remote, Anywhere (US Central Time overlap of >=4 hours) | https://draftbit.com

We're building a new way for teams and enterprises to visually design, build, and iterate on mobile apps. We're a no-code platform but that also generates source code as an output, which enables collaborative product development between both engineers and non-engineers; our early users have described us as the Webflow for Apps. We're backed by YC, Fuel, Floodgate, and a bunch of others. https://draftbit.com

We're building Draftbit with a combination of Javascript, React, React Native, Rescript/ReasonML, Node, Hapi, Postgres, Graphql, Apollo, Fly.io, and more.

You can see apply here https://draftbit.com/jobs or reach out to brian@draftbit.com

New comment by Brushfire in "Launching no-code algorithmic trading platform"

Brushfire — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 20:31:14 +0000

How does one sign up to get access?

New comment by Brushfire in "You can't download this image"

Brushfire — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 05:17:42 +0000

Downloading the image worked just fine on an iPad. So not sure what they are talking about.

New comment by Brushfire in "Enterprise-level Chromium removes view-source to prevent students from cheating"

Brushfire — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 21:18:57 +0000

Why is it acceptable to have a quiz where the answers are obvious from the HTML? Come on…

New comment by Brushfire in "TaleSpire is a beautiful way to play pen and paper RPGs online"

Brushfire — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 04:20:52 +0000

Fantasy Grounds is where it’s at: the system actually understand the rules of the system. Everything else you spend hours doing manual rote stuff instead of playing the game instead of having fun.

New comment by Brushfire in "Launch HN: Awesomic (YC S21) – Get design tasks done with 24-hour turnaround"

Brushfire — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 16:58:58 +0000

Awesome. Excited to try it

New comment by Brushfire in "Launch HN: Awesomic (YC S21) – Get design tasks done with 24-hour turnaround"

Brushfire — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 15:56:22 +0000

Congrats guys, exciting! How do you differentiate yourselves from other on-demand design services?

New comment by Brushfire in "Goodbye YC"

Brushfire — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 21:38:07 +0000

THANK YOU AARON!

The Dzhanibekov Effect

Brushfire — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 17:56:12 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_racket_theorem

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25660270

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Brushfire in "EU to unveil landmark law curbing power of tech giants"

Brushfire — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 17:55:38 +0000

They don’t own:

- Bumble

- Badoo

- Eharmony

- Zoosk

- ChrstianMingle

- JDate

- tons of international and niche sites and apps

- many, many others

The idea that there is monopoly power being leveraged here to prevent other dating sites from being started and grown and be successful has very little evidence behind it.

New comment by Brushfire in "Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record"

Brushfire — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 23:04:37 +0000

https://routific.com/

New comment by Brushfire in "Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued (2012)"

Brushfire — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 22:34:30 +0000

This is all generally very good advice but I’m equally amused at the ridiculous portrayal of “businessmen” throughout this post; most people do not see themselves this way and it’s sort of goofy to think they do. But that isn’t terribly important to the message.

Oh, and one other thing, if you’re at a 10-person ish startup, definitely don’t act like a company that is 1000ish. You’ll lose. And so your hiring practices should generally not align with what is outlined here.