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New comment by joelrunyon in "Beyond Meat fights for survival"

joelrunyon — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 11:12:20 +0000

Is the information wrong?

New comment by joelrunyon in "Beyond Meat fights for survival"

joelrunyon — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 06:40:37 +0000

Do you care about the ethical implications of the business practices of the brands you're supporting?

https://x.com/joelrunyon/status/1927531529883762920

New comment by joelrunyon in "Beyond Meat fights for survival"

joelrunyon — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 06:25:27 +0000

If you care about the ethical reasons for plant-based meat, you should look at the companies business practices behind the scenes when they think no one is paying attention - https://x.com/joelrunyon/status/1927531529883762920

Kind of wild how they're treating creators.

New comment by joelrunyon in "Beyond Meat fights for survival"

joelrunyon — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 06:13:59 +0000

If you didn't like that, the CEO of impossible foods is now proposing a 50/50 burger (50% fake meat, 50% meat) - https://x.com/joelrunyon/status/1936183159491584134

https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/impossible-foods-growth-...

New comment by joelrunyon in "Beyond Meat fights for survival"

joelrunyon — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 06:08:48 +0000

Not great - https://x.com/joelrunyon/status/1931091407294312956

New comment by joelrunyon in "Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'"

joelrunyon — Fri, 10 May 2024 13:21:24 +0000

I got annoyed with it, then went and fixed it in 5 minutes and went on with my day - https://twitter.com/joelrunyon/status/1788312003670360320

New comment by joelrunyon in "A revelation about trees is messing with climate calculations"

joelrunyon — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 18:18:39 +0000

Why is this not linking directly to the wired article? https://www.wired.com/story/a-revelation-about-trees-is-mess...

New comment by joelrunyon in "Ask HN: Side projects making less than $2k MRR, what's your project?"

joelrunyon — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 19:49:42 +0000

This site https://startablog.com fluctuates - we have spurts of way more than 2k/month and some way less. I think it averages out to <2k/month though.

New comment by joelrunyon in "How to Start Your Blog in 2023"

joelrunyon — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 01:49:50 +0000

If you want to just write - the answer is still wordpress (https://startablog.com/guide).

If you want to focus on tweaking the site to your heart's content, go right ahead, but the number #1 component to a blog is...writing.

Focus on that and stop worrying about the rest of the details.

New comment by joelrunyon in "Ask HN: Why did medium.com "fail"?"

joelrunyon — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 17:43:54 +0000

This is accurate. I laughed :).

New comment by joelrunyon in "Ask HN: Why did medium.com "fail"?"

joelrunyon — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 19:02:01 +0000

Not sure what HN has against wordpress, but it's still the GOAT in terms of blogging platforms. It's

1) Easy to setup

2) Incredibly SEO friendly

3) Most importantly: you own your content.

Yes - it's not as technically advanced as engineers would like - but let's be real - it's a blog - not a venture funded startup.

Buy your own domain. Own your content. Then, just write. If you need help, you can even get it set up for you for free → https://startablog.com/free-blog

New comment by joelrunyon in "Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell"

joelrunyon — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 18:09:30 +0000

I've got a few

Free blog setup service to help people star their own blog → https://startablog.com

Meal Planning web app & service → https://ultimatemealplans.com

Mobility training and exercises → https://movewellapp.com

New comment by joelrunyon in "Cheerful chatbots don’t necessarily improve customer service"

joelrunyon — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 20:19:26 +0000

I understand that - but they should be able to sync the databases or pass an auth token of some sort.

The fact you have to re-enter it all makes the experience stupid and customers frustrated.

New comment by joelrunyon in "Cheerful chatbots don’t necessarily improve customer service"

joelrunyon — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 20:00:19 +0000

How soon until someone lets you

1) create a series of help docs

2) trains an AI on those help docs

3) solves customer headaches using a chatgpt interface with that training

4) drops you into a human that can help as soon as you ask for it.

My primary issues with "live chat" features are

1) They ask you for stupid stuff (email/name/etc) when you're logged in that are already in the system. This makes things worse somehow.

2) The sheer resistance to handing me over to a human when I've asked for it. If you don't have humans on live chat - that's fine, but at least send it to a help desk.

3) The fact they try to ask me to categorize the issue vs. semantically figuring it out via the request is extra annoying as they will often ask you this AGAIN if they can't initially place you in one of their pre-selected categories.

New comment by joelrunyon in "Cheerful chatbots don’t necessarily improve customer service"

joelrunyon — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 19:57:18 +0000

This.

When you have already troubleshot and gone through the help docs and are actually pointing out a flaw in their system - chatbots are completely useless.

New comment by joelrunyon in "'Tradwives' promote a lifestyle that evokes the 1950s"

joelrunyon — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 16:55:03 +0000

I know this is the "CNN lite" - but the photos on the main CNN site article significantly color this piece it seems - https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/27/us/tradwife-1950s-nostalgia-t...

New comment by joelrunyon in "Ask HN: What's a build vs. buy decision that you got wrong?"

joelrunyon — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 21:35:48 +0000

Company I consulted for had 12 engineers, spent millions and 18 months to build some niche custom e-commerce solution.

They were burning money and about to go belly up.

We spend 3k on shopify plus some outsourced shopify engineers to get 95% of their solution in ~4 weeks with zero engineers.

Turned the company around and ended up doing a M/A 2 years later.

New comment by joelrunyon in "Riffusion – Stable Diffusion fine-tuned to generate music"

joelrunyon — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 21:22:42 +0000

The site isn't working for me? Anything I have to fix on my side to make it work?

I asked ChatGPT to help me come up with some ideas for my Impossible List

joelrunyon — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 21:59:52 +0000

Article URL: https://impossiblehq.com/chatgpt-impossible-list-experiment/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33991214

Points: 3

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New comment by joelrunyon in "The maddening mess of airport codes [video]"

joelrunyon — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 03:56:45 +0000

edited