I'm really bullish on taking more video of my kids, with the thought that it will become easier and easier for AI to put them into little compilations I can enjoy later.

Deepseek v4 pro does a pretty good job of actually adhering to the word restrictions.

Most language learning content is "slop" anyway -- so might as well generate slop that's at least a little interesting.

We've been using it for async "heartbeat" processing and sms replies, but it's just too slow for live chat replies (which is a shame, as I'd really love to use it there).

Very capable model, but also very slow.

I have a 3060 12gb card I'd love to hook up to my PoE Reolink cameras for face detection and to get off of the Reolink app.

I love tinkering and solving problems on the computer, and it's fun to have a space to do it with my hands in the real world. Learning the basics of carpentry to erect a fence, basics of plumbing and the various international fitting types to install a (from japan) bidet toilet, cat6 throughout the house and trench out to the garage, basics of hvac for a whole-house humidifier and smart thermostat (MN winters) -- have all felt like very fun projects.

Next project is probably trying to replace the plumbing up to our second floor bathroom with pex (water pressure upstairs is very poor).

Also helps that I have a very handy dad that I can fall back on to ask questions or help.

Extremely frustrating process to say the least (my Taiwan resident card was sorted in less than a month).

[1] https://ona.com/

There is something about Rails' convention over configuration that plays really well with LLMs, and I love not having to fiddle with _too_ much javascript (it's still tbd whether hotwire and stimulus is actually better than react from my POV).

I've recently started also exploring Hotwire Native to get mobile apps launched and so far have been really impressed that it "mostly just works".

If I'm successful, I'm sure I will get to a scale where I'm wishing for static typing, but so far I've been able to accomplish way more with Rails in the same amount of time than I have in any other stack.

To answer your question, I'm very open to paying for features that I think will save me time (such as JumpStart). From what I've read, however, I think that's a hard road to go down to be frank.

[1] https://jumpstartrails.com/

I feel like I've tried several times to get this working in both Linux and Windows on various laptops and have never actually found a reliable solution (often resulting in having a hot and dead laptop in my backpack).

Perhaps I just haven't found the right combination of plugins, but I can't for the life of me get VSCode code navigations (go to, find definitions, refactor method, etc) to work half as well as a JetBrains IDE (much less get a debugger working).

I'm really burnt out by the current state of JS, and the way rails 8.0 does server-side rendering feels like a complete breath of fresh air. The ability to just add slight JS functionality with stimulus and action cable seems like just the right level of abstraction for most web apps.

[1] https://jumpstartrails.com/

In hindsight, RoR or Django would probably have been a better starting place considering their financial constraints (non-technical bootstrapping founders), but now that they are larger and more established Spring Boot seems a great framework given their current situation (the originally contracting code needed a major re-write anyway so I'm not sure that would have actually costed more time to go from RoR/Django -> Spring Boot)

Although probably not the decision I would have made, it's actually a pretty nice ecosystem that has scaled really well and been fairly easy to work with. Java 21 has _most_ of the QoL features that I like (I'd still really like a `?.` null operator that I can chain together) as well as the ability to reach for JPQL/SQL easily with JpaRepositories when performance is needed.

It's been fairly easy to onboard devs to the project even if they have not had previous experience with Java, and has maintained relatively decent code quality over the last 4 years.

I'm currently working on a LLM project for them that is being completed in Python, however, due to most of the tools being python-first and most of the LLM talent being python-first.

To be fair, even if I still work there I don't know that I'm going to be of much help 6 months later other than a "oh yeah, I remember that had some weird business requirements"

My financial goals are to bootstrap something to 10's of millions and become financially independent.

It's my belief that the best / easiest way to accomplish this is to work with someone who has really deep industry experience and connections in a non-traditionally-technical field (construction, supply chains, healthcare, etc), and solve a niche problem that only someone with years of industry experience could identify.

My assumption, though, is that people with that sort of background do not traditionally hang out on reddit or HN -- does anyone have any experience or suggestions on where to find them?

I did check out YC's Co-Founder Match Maker, but so far most of the profiles have been either successful founders who are looking to go the fundraising route, or younger marketers / MBA's who don't necessarily have deep industry experience.

Thanks in advance!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42143112

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If I want to run a bootstrapped startup while living in Taiwan that sells to mostly US based businesses, but is developed by 1099 contractors in Asia (which have a 15 year amortization period I believe?), is there a new "best country" to open the company in? Singapore? HK? Taiwan?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39098371

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Pro: Taiwan is overall a very convenient place to live. Cheap delicious food; convenience stores on every other block; public transportation is great in Taipei, decent everywhere else; beautiful mountain hiking trails, and beautiful beaches in the south; very friendly people

Con: Real-estate is ridiculously expensive especially when you factor in the local salaries; Local work culture is very much long hours to give the boss face (I work remotely); Mandarin isn't the easiest language to learn (especially if you have hopes of reading/writing); The Taiwanese often miss my favorite form of humor -- sarcasm

(Living in Hsinchu to be close to my wife's family while we have little kids, but Kaohsiung and Taipei are tied for my favorite Taiwanese city to live).