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New comment by nickfromseattle in "Ask HN: Who is your favourite Entrepreneur/Visionary?"

nickfromseattle — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:01:10 +0000

Palmer Luckey. Many of the things he discusses, he brings an interesting angle I didn't think of, and has changed my opinion on numerous topics. Great orator.

New comment by nickfromseattle in "How will OpenAI compete?"

nickfromseattle — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:18:54 +0000

A cool use case; you can tell ChatGPT voice to act as a translator. When they speak Spanish, translate it to English. When you speak English, translate it to Spanish.

Works pretty good.

New comment by nickfromseattle in "Migrate Wizard – IMAP Based Email Migration Tool"

nickfromseattle — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:25:03 +0000

I was an early employee at MigrationWiz (BitTitan), always cool to see recognition of the co in the wild.

Geeman, the founding CEO would have definitely sent a C&D immediately, but BitTitan was acquired by a PE firm and I don't find it hard to imagine nobody cares anymore. [0][1][2]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/msp/comments/1mnelca/migrationwiz_w...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/msp/comments/1qnwkwl/do_not_use_bit...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1qswdub/bittitan_...

New comment by nickfromseattle in "Trump pardons convicted Binance founder"

nickfromseattle — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 20:16:27 +0000

According to Binance, he owns 90%. Whether he is CEO or not probably doesn't prevent him from influencing Binance operations to support Trump's coin.

New comment by nickfromseattle in "Health Insurance Costs for Businesses to Rise by Most in 15 Years"

nickfromseattle — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:19:29 +0000

> Physical exercise is wasteful compared to other things that can be done with ones time

The human body is meant to move much more than society in 2025 compels it to move. There are countless studies on health, mental health, longevity and quality of life that refute your statement.

New comment by nickfromseattle in "Nvidia's new 'robot brain' goes on sale for $3,499"

nickfromseattle — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 17:00:07 +0000

What are the variables that prefer local GPUs vs cloud inference? Is connectivity the dividing line or are there other variables that influence the choice?

Anduril submersibles probably need local processing, but does my laundry/dishes robot need local processing? Or machines in factories? Or delivery drones?

New comment by nickfromseattle in "A Ritzy L.A. Enclave Learned a Bitter Lesson About the Limits of Its Wealth"

nickfromseattle — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 11:50:53 +0000

A trick.

Archive.is --> URL you want to view --> https://archive.is/xaMbk

New comment by nickfromseattle in "Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity"

nickfromseattle — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 17:32:06 +0000

I don't have any info on your product, product category or skillset / interests to give you actionable advice.

But I have put together a list of marketing communities, blogs, and people that have a high signal / noise ratio for my coworkers and friends, perhaps it could be useful for you. [0]

[0] https://contentdistribution.slite.page/p/BFMS0Lg1Yz/Our-Favo...

New comment by nickfromseattle in "Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity"

nickfromseattle — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 10:44:31 +0000

This reads like it was written by a developer 'who doesn't get marketing'.

> Nothing you post there is going to change your career.

I can attribute millions of dollars in revenue to LinkedIn, as can a lot of my 'LinkedIn friends'

> Doing work that matters might.

This is a pre-requisite for winning on LinkedIn. The kind of content that performs best are strong opinions informed by actual expertise.

> Go for depth over frequency.

Unfortunately that's not the way marketing works. 95% of your audience is not 'in-market' and ready to buy when they see your content. Sometime over the next 3-5 years they may move into a buying lifecycle, and they are much more likely to trust you, and therefore buy from you, if they've seen your content 1,000x vs a couple of long reads.

> If writing online matters to you, you’re probably better off starting a blog and building things there.

Your long form, in-depth content lives on your blog, and your LinkedIn profile should act as a funnel, moving people from newsfeed --> your profile --> the most important piece of content you want them to read. From there, you can capture their email to touch them on another channel (inbox), push them to your YouTube / Twitter / community, etc.

With that said, while LinkedIn is responsible for a significant % of my total revenue, it's also responsible for a significant % of my anxiety. Building in public invites folks to publicly blast you if they don't agree with your ideas. 'Getting ratio'd' happens. LinkedIn eventually becomes a mentally exhausting slog. But as a career driven individual the upside has been very high and I think the trade off was worth it. I would do it again knowing everything I know now.

New comment by nickfromseattle in "Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 billionaires gave away half their wealth"

nickfromseattle — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 22:11:53 +0000

>What is the right amount of spending?

I am 'dumb money', but my understanding is the 'smart money' thinks the sustainable target deficit is 3% of GDP, and we're currently running at 6%. [0]

[0] https://time.com/7221862/ray-dalio-cut-the-budget-deficit/

New comment by nickfromseattle in "Ask HN: How do you get first 10 customers?"

nickfromseattle — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 17:15:20 +0000

I built a Facebook group / community of my target market.

0. Created Facebook Group

1. Optimized my FB profile as a landing page for this community

2. Join all of the other similar groups

3. Send friend reqs to prominent members in other groups

4. Post statuses on personal profile / in FB group creating value for this audience

5. Funnel / invite people into the FB group

Launched 2 products, both failed, but the community came through for me.

#1: Got to $14k MRR in 8 months

#2: Sold ~30 annual subscriptions with a PPT pre-launch

New comment by nickfromseattle in "Continuous Glucose Monitoring"

nickfromseattle — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 16:49:27 +0000

> My weight is stable but each time I go to US for a couple of weeks I bring back 3-5 extra kilos

I live in Spain and visit the US yearly, here are my thoughts:

A) "Being on vacation" and eating / drinking a bit more loosely than I do at home.

B) Significant reduction in walking. In Spain I average 60 minutes/day on the low end, and often at 90-120 minutes/day. In the USA, it's maybe 30 minutes.

New comment by nickfromseattle in "The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs"

nickfromseattle — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 09:38:21 +0000

> I've seen no justification for the government deciding that from 2022 on we should actively discourage R&D, it just seems to be a mistake.

My understanding is that this was done in order to balance the tax bill passed by the Trump admin due to a requirement to be budget neutral. Cut tax revenue here, increase tax revenue there.

New comment by nickfromseattle in "Show HN: Handover.ai – Knowledge transfer made easy"

nickfromseattle — Thu, 29 May 2025 08:24:52 +0000

I run a company with almost 100% of the staff located in Europe. Because of this, everyone has 38 days of PTO with some people taking even more unpaid time off. This means everyone is always out of office. We also have a very significant amount of process documentation, and like you alluded to, means significant resiliency. When someone is gone, the work carries on as normal.

New comment by nickfromseattle in "Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails"

nickfromseattle — Tue, 27 May 2025 13:06:38 +0000

My conversations with non-tech friends and family indicates non-tech people don't like AI because of the perception that it will negatively impact their jobs / career, and ability to pay bills. This makes sense to me. 54% of Americans have below a 6th grade reading level, these folks will not be orchestrating AI agents, they will be replaced by AI agents.

New comment by nickfromseattle in "Google is burying the web alive"

nickfromseattle — Tue, 27 May 2025 13:03:05 +0000

Search is one of the best ways for startups to compete against incumbents. AI will prioritize known / most popular brands. Want to start an alternative to QuickBooks? Using search you could get hundreds of thousands of people on your website. In the future? AI will recommend QuickBooks.

New comment by nickfromseattle in "Ground control to Major Trial"

nickfromseattle — Fri, 16 May 2025 12:22:43 +0000

Rocket Lab did ~$123m/quarter in Q1 and ~$400m in 2024 [0], while this article claims, "Around $130 million in annual revenue."

I don't think it's Rocket Lab.

[0] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/RKLB/rocket-lab-us...

New comment by nickfromseattle in "US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]"

nickfromseattle — Sat, 10 May 2025 15:33:32 +0000

Note, Google also uses user interaction data from Chrome to influence the search results. [0]

[0] https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-user-interaction-...

New comment by nickfromseattle in "US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]"

nickfromseattle — Sat, 10 May 2025 15:30:16 +0000

How much blame do we assign Sundar for this outcome? Yes, he was just continuing where Larry / Sergey left off, but it did happen under his watch.

Is there anything he could have done to avoid this outcome? In a way that Google shareholders would have found acceptable?

Or was this outcome inevitable?

New comment by nickfromseattle in "Laser Launch into Orbit"

nickfromseattle — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 10:56:54 +0000

An extended family member worked on using lasers to launch payloads to orbits. [0]

Here's a quick video demonstrating the technology, using lasers to lift a small prototype several meters, back in, what I believe is the 90s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i81f3LifpWY

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leik_Myrabo