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What is Hidoku?

Hidoku (also known as Hidato) is a logic puzzle invented by Dr. Gyora Benedek, an Israeli mathematician. The goal is to fill a grid with consecutive numbers that connect horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. You're given a few numbers as starting points, and you need to figure out the rest through deduction.

Why I built this?

I discovered Hidoku while browsing puzzle books at a bookstore, bought one, and I've been hooked ever since.

I'm also learning coding, so this is the perfect project for me to further my skills. I wanted to create a clean, intuitive interface that would make this puzzle game accessible to all.

Technical details:

Built with Vue and Tailwind CSS.

I'd love to hear your feedback - particularly on the difficulty or any UI/UX improvements that would make the experience better.

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- smallcase offers smart investment portfolios curated by experts in one click. Investors include: Amazon, Sequoia Capital India, Blume Ventures and Arkam Ventures.

- Kuvera is a free online investment management platform. They cover everything from fund selection, goal planning, tax optimization, to rebalancing.

- Jar helps users build saving habits by automating deposits. Investors include: Tiger Global, Arkam Ventures, Rocketship, and WEH Ventures, among others.

If interested in reading more about India's Fintech ecosystem, I wrote about it more in detail here: https://www.fintechfri.day/p/indias-population-becoming-weal...

Here's what I found out

Goldman Sachs estimates that the creator economy will double to $480 billion by 2027.

Technology has and will continue to play a huge role in this, as it has lowered the barriers to content creation.

Individuals are now free to choose which kind of work they take on (e.g. newsletters, livestreams, podcasts).

This has fueled demand, not only for content platforms, but also new services and tools that help creators manage their business.

What this means for startups:

Creators have access to new technologies and platforms through which they can engage their audiences and monetize their content.

Founders and VCs, recognizing the value of direct audience relationships, have focused on investing and developing tools to facilitate content creation, distribution, and monetization.

Some of the business models that VCs are paying attention to are:

B2B Services: this includes analytics tools, tools for managing communities and fan relationships, and services that help creators with operations (e.g. legal, accounting, or financing)

Premium Fan Experiences: platforms that facilitate the creation of unique, high-touch experiences for superfans. These can include virtual meet-and-greets, personal shout-outs, exclusive content, and more.

Education and Courses: Creators with specific expertise in can develop and sell courses or offer coaching and consulting services.

One of the most overlooked characteristics of the creator economy is that creators are in fact media companies, and these companies require services, tech, and infrastructure to operate.

I recommended TurboTax because that is the one I am familiar with, and the alternative is SMB accountants that sometimes will charge you $2.5K to file corp tax. Depending on the size/complexity of your biz, it's not always worth it.

What do you wish they did for you, that they're not currently doing?

From my experience, lots of startups end up with a shitty service because at the end of the day, the provider does not care about keeping the company in check.

I always recomend this to founders, it's the most straight-forward and costs around $500 (a bit more if you get the package where they have someone assisting you)

Happy to chat more if helpful -- I do finance/accounting for startups.

- Creativity: Growth hacking often involves coming up with unconventional ideas to drive growth, so a growth hacker must be creative and willing to try new things.

- Entrepreneurial Mindset: be willing to take risks and be adaptable to changes.

- Persistence: Growth hacking involves a lot of trial and error. They should be willing to experiment with different ideas and strategies until they find what works.

- Customer focus: needs to understand customer needs and behavior. This means being able to speak with customers, analyze their feedback, and incorporate it into the growth strategy.

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The model uses proprietary and curated datasets, including financial news, company financial filings, and press releases.

The Bloomberg data used for training spans from March 1, 2007 through July 31, 2022.

Training for the BloombergGPT model required approximately 53 days of computations run on 64 servers

Use cases include:

1/ generating an initial draft of an SEC filing

2/ summarizing a blurb containing financial content into a headline

3/ providing a company chart of an organization and linkages between an individual and multiple companies

4/ automation of generation of draft routine market reports and summaries for clients

5/ retrieval of specific elements of financial statements for specific periods via a single prompt

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