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New comment by dmurko in "Luce: First Electric Ferrari"

dmurko — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:50:03 +0000

I love cars and absolutely love this interior. It's retro-modern and has clear inspiration from Ferraris of the 80's and 90's. Ferrari's interior in the past few models (296, Roma) was absolutely atrocious, and this is a big step up.

New comment by dmurko in "Tell HN: Use "-f**k" to kill Google AI Overview"

dmurko — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 09:58:10 +0000

You're paying for it one way or another.

New comment by dmurko in "Mullenweg threatens corporate takeover of WP Engine"

dmurko — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 10:54:35 +0000

It's strange death when the WP market share is at over 40% of all websites [1] and still growing (though slowly). Lots of people might not like it, but saying it's dying is more of a wish than a fact.

[1] https://kinsta.com/wordpress-market-share/

New comment by dmurko in "Show HN: An AI-Powered WordPress Site Builder That We Are Open-Sourcing Today"

dmurko — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:08:33 +0000

WP is still by far the most popular CMS [1] and runs a large part of the internet. So I'm pretty sure it's still relevant.

[1] https://kinsta.com/wordpress-market-share/ or https://trends.builtwith.com/cms

New comment by dmurko in "Ask HN: What do you do when your board member is unethical?"

dmurko — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 16:03:56 +0000

"Openly advocating a genocide" definitely seems like the wrong side, no matter what many people believe is up for debate.

New comment by dmurko in "Airbnb Is Different Now"

dmurko — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 13:50:27 +0000

I've left one after an absolutely horrible experience. They removed it. I had to fight with their support to put it back. The same apartment now has only 10 reviews. All from this year, all 5*.

New comment by dmurko in "Mechanical Apple Watch from real e-waste Apple Watch"

dmurko — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 07:20:38 +0000

You should narrate the video, it would make it easier to follow for people who've no idea what you're doing (like me).

New comment by dmurko in "Toyota plug-in hybrids to offer 124-mile electric-only range"

dmurko — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 09:44:14 +0000

The new one has 7.1 0-60 which is pretty solid: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a42229923/2023-toyota-priu...

New comment by dmurko in "Ask HN: Open source LLM for commercial use?"

dmurko — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 15:21:52 +0000

Just in case you were not aware: "OpenAI does not use data submitted by customers via our API to train OpenAI models or improve OpenAI’s service offering." It does for ChatGPT though.

Source: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/5722486-how-your-data-is...

New comment by dmurko in "Ask HN: Co-Founder? Seeking Co-Founder?"

dmurko — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 06:38:51 +0000

Cofounder matching works well but it's a bit of work and it takes time.

New comment by dmurko in "Ask HN: Is Google Slowly Dying?"

dmurko — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 16:12:24 +0000

Google is already showing big brands in most cases: https://detailed.com/google-control/

New comment by dmurko in "I splurged for the fanciest dishwasher and it was worth it"

dmurko — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 10:20:43 +0000

You're joking right? Why would I hand wash dishes if I can have an appliance do it?

New comment by dmurko in "The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble"

dmurko — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 08:06:32 +0000

With all the arguments how ChatGPT is "just autocomplete", I wonder if these people ever used it. I know it is technically autocomplete, but the end results are so much more than that.

New comment by dmurko in "We spent $980k on a failed SaaS project"

dmurko — Mon, 30 May 2022 09:38:59 +0000

Sorry, forgot to reply here. See the answer a few comments above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31490449

New comment by dmurko in "We spent $980k on a failed SaaS project"

dmurko — Tue, 24 May 2022 11:04:59 +0000

We never wanted to go the funding route so this was never considered. While it might have worked, it would prolong the whole thing and make it much, much more stressful.

New comment by dmurko in "We spent $980k on a failed SaaS project"

dmurko — Tue, 24 May 2022 11:02:27 +0000

> We tried with a very low-price plan and got a lot of interest & signups. The moment we raised the prices a bit to cover hosting costs, the interest went away.

I have to correct my partner here as his memory is a bit fuzzy. :) We tried a low tier price ($15/m vs regular $49/m) but it did not make any significant difference in signups.

We targeted the high-end of the WordPress market where we competed against Kinsta, WP Engine, Flywheel etc. And the problem there was they were "good enough" (and in some ways muhc better) as I mention in the blog post.

At the same time, the lowend SiteGround had prices below $5/m so we couldn't compete against them in that segment as we were paying more than that to Google Cloud.

New comment by dmurko in "We spent $980k on a failed SaaS project"

dmurko — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:55:01 +0000

It started at $49/m and we were clearly targeting the upper end of the market. It went up to a few hundred dollars and we had a user or two on those plans as well.

New comment by dmurko in "US’s wealthiest 1% are failing to pay $160bn a year in taxes, report finds"

dmurko — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 08:02:08 +0000

That's not... how it works. You still get charged the 25% when you pay it to yourself, you only save the corporate tax. And that only works if you can say that the BiH company is managed there, not in SI. Otherwise you're getting taxed by SI standards and that means no savings.

Also, your toothbrush example is actually illegal and considered a tax evasion by EU and probably most Western countries.

Taxes are way more complicated than you're trying to show. Also, don't underestimate the IRS.

New comment by dmurko in "We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business"

dmurko — Thu, 09 May 2019 12:28:17 +0000

As I mentioned in the previous comments - we're not using PayPal to process our SaaS products.

New comment by dmurko in "We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business"

dmurko — Thu, 09 May 2019 12:25:15 +0000

Founder here. We're not processing SaaS through PayPal, as mentioned in the post:

> The most interesting thing is that we’ve moved away from PayPal in the last two years and have only been receiving some minor payments and paying for a few online services.

We've stopped using PayPal for our SaaS business a few years ago.