It seems crazily preposterous/pretentious to even write these words, but I'd be perfectly fine with a $10–50M ARR business. Like if at any point I was making more than a few million in profits a year, I would try to sell, hire someone to replace me, or just try to keep it stable.

I have what I think is a realistic plan to reach that level of revenue/profits, but in its current state the chance it could scale beyond +$1-10B valuations seems low, I could slightly pivot to fit that framing, but for now I don't want the insane pressure of trying to build a unicorn(or at least not on this project, it's a money making project, not a passion project with a deeper meaning)

I know there is tinyseed but it's only aimed at B2B(I'm doing B2C), for that and other reasons it would not be the right thing for me.

In that situation, is there any reason to look for outside funding? Would any fund or angel invest in that kind of business? Would you even try to look for an investor?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50080968

Points: 9

# Comments: 6

I've used Cursor for work for a few years, but I'm really not a fan of giving all of my data to Musk. Also I think I want to spend less time writing code by hand.

I tried Antigravity but it's utter garbage.

I heard some good things about Opencode+open models/ollama cloud, but opencode seems slightly buggy when running it over ssh.

I'm really reluctant to give my money to the 2 leaders in the field, I don't think I want to contribute to them making more money, but I could be convinced if there was no doubt they're the best, which I'm not totally sure of.

I'm also on a limited budget and don't want to get a 200$ subscription unless there is zero doubt it's worth it.

My main focus is building MVPs around AI/agents, mobile apps, and scraping/automation.

In your opinion is there a clearly superior solution today you'd recommend? In terms of capabilities, value for money, usage limits.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040025

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

I think it would be nice to have some apps with a different approach.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47321604

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

When checking what could be blocked from their google account, I realized that 60 of their saved passwords/mails were available in plain text when connecting to their google account from a new laptop(with no other input than mail and password), it's even exportable to a nice csv. This apparently seems to be default behavior.

Isn't that insane?

Am I naive to just realize that this is apparently normal to have this kind of stupid design from a trillion dollar tech company?

Is there any sane way of explaining why anyone could have thought that this was an acceptable idea?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41362703

Points: 3

# Comments: 5

I'd recommend using some boilerplate from github in your favorite stack even if it might be a little bit longer to build a product with it.

It's not that far from reality, most models sees images in very low resolution/limited colors, so not so far from this description

Regular captchas are easily solvable by multimodal LLMs, we're reaching a point where what's hard for software to solve is also hard for humans.

At some point they'll probably have to charge by usage instead of a flat subscription.

It was either:

A. This guy is worth twice our maximum budget

B. He's used to technical stacks that have absolutely nothing to do with ours

C. New grads perform better at leetcode than him(not saying that's a good metric, but that's not ageism)

D. Culture fit.

Also I think that in a lot of cases it's more "we can't afford to pay a guy with 20 YoE" than ageism, maybe you're punching below your weight.

Recently I noticed that I get more answers for jobs that seems too hard for me than too easy.

(V)RAM+processing power+storage(I mean what kind of average user wants to clog half their hard drive for a subpar model that output 1 token a second?)

It's not comparable, the benefits you get in western Europe are 10x better than what you get anywhere in the USA.

The US top 1% are number 1, the US bottom 10% have it worse than most or even almost all people from western Europe.

Then they might look into something else than stripe if they have a terrible problem with stripe like having their funds locked for weeks or if they think they charge too much fees.