Hacker News: coderunner

New comment by coderunner in "Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam"

coderunner — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 03:36:15 +0000

First of all congrats on the success of your game. I've been mulling over taking a break from my corporate engineering job and making a game. Would it be possible to send you an email in about two weeks or so with some retrospective questions of your game dev journey? I'm currently in a crunch mode for a work trip then going to be with limited internet access while on the trip so wanted a chance to get my thoughts/questions together before asking.

If you don't have time, totally understand and congrats on all your success.

New comment by coderunner in "Reflections on my time in Y Combinator"

coderunner — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 02:40:14 +0000

Did Notion focus on selling before they had the any semblance of a product? I thought the founders holed up in a Japan for months to get an early version implemented before things started taking off.

New comment by coderunner in "Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue"

coderunner — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 15:04:05 +0000

Would you mind sharing what your app is? I'm curious what level of technical sophistication is needed for an app that makes $2k/day. Was it more engineering or marketing or equally both that helped you gain users and traction?

New comment by coderunner in "I Am Deleting the Blog"

coderunner — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 14:37:24 +0000

What does he normally write about? It seemed to be a pretty popular blog but I never dug into the content and now the content is offline.

New comment by coderunner in "John Conway – The Free Will Lectures (2009) [video]"

coderunner — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 02:38:32 +0000

My understanding is that it says if anyone anywhere has free will, then so do some elementary particles. It doesn't say anything about if anyone or if any elementary particles actually have free will right? Does it lend support either way to if free will exists?

New comment by coderunner in "Draft of the Fast.ai Book"

coderunner — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 19:00:19 +0000

How does this compare to the video course? e.g. what are the differences?

New comment by coderunner in "Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety"

coderunner — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 19:29:44 +0000

As an aside, if anyone has any unusual things that you have done that have helped with depression, please mention them. I've done the usual route of therapy and meds but that didn't help with my depression or suicidal thoughts. Thanks in advance.

New comment by coderunner in "A lot of complex “scalable” systems can be done with a simple, single C++ server"

coderunner — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 03:58:07 +0000

What about in the context of trying to get to an MVP? Is the dev time speedup of using a dynamic programming language and stack significant over using a c++ backed? You wouldn't care much about performance when you're trying to figure out if you'll get traction.

New comment by coderunner in "Conclusions from analyzing Y Combinator’s investing history"

coderunner — Sat, 28 Dec 2019 21:13:24 +0000

Oh okay, thanks. I wasn't sure if they were selling annotations that their trained model can do quickly or selling manual labeling services that their customers can use to train their own models. Sounds like the latter which isn't as technically impressive.

New comment by coderunner in "Conclusions from analyzing Y Combinator’s investing history"

coderunner — Sat, 28 Dec 2019 04:53:01 +0000

Does Scale AI use trained human annotators to label point clouds for customers or do they have a trained model that they use to quickly and automatically label point clouds for customers?

New comment by coderunner in "Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney changed video game industry"

coderunner — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 01:38:34 +0000

All the extras like platform and tooling is nice, but don't mean anything if you can't support yourself as a dev. Better revenue sharing for devs is one thing that can make a big difference, provided the user base is there. Either it'll be there on Epic one day or Valve will match the revenue share of Epic or both. I'm all for having a competitive option in this space.

I don't think it's entirely Epic's fault about the releases being yanked from Steam or crowd sourced titles making changes. The developers had to sign the contract with Epic and Valve decided that they're too big to fail (which they might be by now) so they didn't try anything to counter.

The one thing that does suck from the gamer perspective is having to use multiple stores. As a dev and gamer I'm okay with this however as it helps the dev community at large in the long run if a viable store contender ever arrives.

New comment by coderunner in "Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney changed video game industry"

coderunner — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 10:42:04 +0000

Tim Sweeney has been extremely kind and generous with his time in all my interactions with him dating back about 10 years ago. I wish him all the success in the world.

Him and Epic are getting a lot of hate on Reddit because of the exclusivity deals, but as a developer, I appreciate Epic trying to get the dev/store revenue split more generous for developers. Valve does the standard 70/30, and Epic is doing 88/12 I believe.

New comment by coderunner in "What it's like to bootstrap a business before it can financially support you"

coderunner — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 03:24:25 +0000

Would you mind saying how old you are? I'm 37 and wondering if that's too late to try my first the bootstrapping a side business path. I imagine I'll make mistakes along the way as a first timer.

New comment by coderunner in "Amazon Kendra: Enterprise Search Service"

coderunner — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 01:17:23 +0000

Are you guys/girls bootstrapping this? I can't much info out there. How long have you been working on it?

New comment by coderunner in "Multi-millionaire at 27. What I learned (2017)"

coderunner — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 17:12:18 +0000

Can someone explain what flagging an article means and why this one was flagged?

New comment by coderunner in "Ask HN: What side project did you work on that's now your full-time job?"

coderunner — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 18:12:17 +0000

Thanks for the detailed reply! That was interesting reading about the challenges you faced and the market reactions.

New comment by coderunner in "Ask HN: What side project did you work on that's now your full-time job?"

coderunner — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 18:09:30 +0000

I didn't know this was a thing. Thanks

Ask HN: What side project did you work on that's now your full-time job?

coderunner — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 17:33:37 +0000

Curious to get an idea of the scale of side projects that people managed to turn into a full-time job. If you either bootstrapped the entire thing or only took VC money late please mention that if you don't mind!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19780547

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New comment by coderunner in "Ask HN: Autonomous Cars Simulation"

coderunner — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 06:20:23 +0000

Thanks for answering! Does that mean the perception system that's trained on real world data does well on the synthetic data coming in during testing? Or are the perception systems' training data kept separate (synthetic data for training the perception system used when testing in the simulation and real world data for training the real world perception system)?

And yeah, I've come across quite a few companies working on simulation platforms in my reading (cognata, metamoto, applied intuition, etc.) which made me interested in what they're selling but actual details are quite sparse on their websites.

New comment by coderunner in "Ask HN: Autonomous Cars Simulation"

coderunner — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 22:00:31 +0000

I just found this paper related to that actually

https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.07849

From what I can find out seems like all the companies are using unreal or unity for rendering the graphics though.