Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44264529

Points: 9

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Codeium (Windsurf’s parent) started as a GPU optimization company, so they have deep expertise there. Unlike most agents that might just wrap OpenAI/Claude/etc Windsurf’s own model powers its code edits, not external API calls.

That’s where the defensibility is. better in-house models + efficient infra = stronger long-term moat

Some possible ideas:

Micro SaaS: Turn it into a one-page tool (log parser, file cleaner, PDF transformer) with Stripe and add rate limits. People pay for simplicity.

Paid API: Use RapidAPI or Plain.com to expose it. Charge per hit or via metered billing. Maybe even a slackbot for some of these would make sense.

Productized utility: Sell it as a $49/month “done-for-you” service to whatever niche audience would benefit (dev teams, SEO people, lawyers, etc).

Digital bundle: If it’s CLI or script-based, package it up with a guide or demo on YouTube and sell on Gumroad.

You’re not necessarily building a startup, and that’s fine! just something useful enough for strangers to pay for which is more than enough

I also remember teachers telling you when writing cursive to seldom lift your hand from the page. I think that act of keeping your pen on the page for most of the writing process encourages a smoother and more natural flow, reducing the chance of jerky, uneven strokes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41700068

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Most of the responses in this thread remind me of why I don't typically go into the comment section of these announcements. It's way too easy to fall into the trap set by the doomsday-predicting armchair experts, who make it sound like we're on the brink of some apocalypse. But anyone attempting to predict the future right now is wasting time at best, or intentionally fear mongering at worst.

Sure, for all we know, OpenAI might just drop the AGI bomb on us one day. But wasting time worrying about all the "what ifs" doesn't help anyone.

Like you said, there is so much work out there to be done, _even if_ AGI has been achieved. Not to get sidetracked from your original comment, but I've seen AGI repeatedly mentioned in this thread. It's really all just noise until proven otherwise.

Build, adapt, and learn. So much opportunity is out there.

Can get with a prescription or found easily online. Would highly recommend it.

https://www.appacademy.io/course/app-academy-open

The amount of value I’ve gained from threads on people I follow on how to do something or learning something is insane and the “rich, subtle discussion” in those threads on that topic is sometimes just as good if not better than the thread itself.

No denying the default Twitter is loud, and just wants to suck you into mindless scrolling of ads and things to get you angry about, but you are in charge of how you curate your feed.

Air-chair economists pontificating on what will happen to our economy over the next 12-24 months like they know with certainty what they’re talking about.

I thought this article was arguably the most rational outlook I’ve seen. It’s insane to me that a small fraction of companies have had a couple routine layoffs, the market slightly dips as it always does cyclically, and people are already running around saying the sky is falling.

I’ve found that they’ve gotten really good over the last few years and the code they generate is actually pretty solid. I’m the kind of person where I think I can tell what good design is, but I can’t actually design it from scratch myself.

I recently bought a subscription to https://shuffle.dev/ which has a page builder for tailwind, bootstrap, material, and bulma and it’s saved me a lot of time and generated some really slick looking sites.

A $20 subscription is definitely a lot cheaper than a designer and is faster than waiting for a design and then building it yourself. I’m not affiliated with them in anyway, but would highly recommend it as a part of your workflow.

Depending on your relationship with food, it does have _some_ learning curve (learning to not eat most of the day), but it works like magic.

Once your used to your IF schedule, you’ll feel sharper (hungry brain is really powerful in my experience), your skin will be clearer, you’ll have more energy, and it’s a very realistic lifestyle change that in my experience is different than a traditional diet.

I’d highly recommend it.

It's almost done, but really kicking my ass about the styling of the app (which is not the best right now).

As a developer who's been working in the field for a while, this is the first SaaS app I've launched, and I will say I have been battling with myself non-stop over "imposter syndrome" and thinking I'm just wasting my time for building it because no one will use it.

Even if it never makes any money, it's something that i wanted to see built, and it's helping me expose my weaknesses (in this case, design/UI/UX) to hopefully become a better "product engineer".

It hasn't launched yet, but has gotten 1 $29 sale, so that's something :D

If anyone with a design background would like to work with me, or give a critique, I'd love to find a way to return the favor.

Also, still thinking of a name for it

https://due-diligence-bot.herokuapp.com/

https://github.com/dazhizhang/ruby-rails/blob/master/Metapro...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28312719

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