Hacker News: philippz

New comment by philippz in "Claude Opus 4.7"

philippz — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:15:35 +0000

Couldn't even tell the difference between brokerage and prime brokerage until I corrected it - yikes, I found that pretty annoying. I needed to correct him on something so basic and context-less.

New comment by philippz in "The human.json Protocol"

philippz — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:21:19 +0000

Reminds me a bit of FOAF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOAF

New comment by philippz in "GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source"

philippz — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:13:18 +0000

I honestly believe this is a great idea and of course you can make it opt-in and opt-out but it should be a default or enforcable by repo-owners.

New comment by philippz in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

philippz — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 16:52:43 +0000

https://li.fi

Multi-Chain Trading API across 60+ Blockchains (swapping and bridging / any-to-any)

Node.js 24 is LTS now

philippz — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 05:09:14 +0000

Article URL: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v24.10.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45729368

Points: 36

# Comments: 1

New comment by philippz in "1 Trillion Web Pages Archived"

philippz — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 01:32:49 +0000

We should probably copy this whole thing to IPFS and put it on chain

New comment by philippz in "The gaslit asset class"

philippz — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 09:03:47 +0000

Uff, reducing crypto as an asset class down to Bitcoin is "so 2005". Honestly, what's even the point here when doing so?

Stable-Coins are the first crypto product with global product-market-fit and real economic impact. That's just to start with.

Please take a look at Ethereum and adjacent tech (L2s, L3s).

Don't build that new product

philippz — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 13:31:21 +0000

Article URL: https://philippzentner.com/dont-build-that-new-product.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44327587

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by philippz in "Almost no one cares if your site is not on social media"

philippz — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 12:22:15 +0000

* "Stopped Sharing on Social Media and no one cares" * Was only posting on Mastodon

...yeah, surprise

Ask HN: What's the best SaaS explainer video you've seen?

philippz — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 19:25:13 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38254120

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Advice on Early-Stage Fundraising

philippz — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 16:52:04 +0000

Article URL: https://philippzentner.com/advice-on-early-stage-fundraising.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37945307

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by philippz in "CloudFlare is blocking traffic to Discord"

philippz — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 12:48:07 +0000

same here

Ask HN: As your company grows, how do you maintain overview and leadership?

philippz — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 11:17:47 +0000

Dear HN, we're growing towards 50 people, and as a CEO it becomes increasingly difficult to keep my overall knowledge about: * market development and perspective * investor's expectations * key goals (key deals, north star metric) * urgent customer requests * current status of our tech (bugs, refactorings, other blockers)

consolidated, put on an adjustable roadmap, and communicated.

On top of that, I have 7 direct reports atm., which is quite high.

A lot of my planning and market understanding is put into frameworks. I use Miro for that. I feel it's still too early for OKRs.

How do you plan? How do you communicate which regular meetings do you have to keep your team involved and provide transparency?

Which tools, frameworks and software do you use for all that?

Just looking for some inspiration here. Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37554728

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by philippz in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

philippz — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 19:01:01 +0000

https://philippzentner.com

Multi-Chain Middleware Li.fi Raises 17.5M Series A

philippz — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 17:39:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/04/03/crypto-startup-lifi-raises-175m-in-funding-round/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35643439

Points: 1

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New comment by philippz in "Is Crypto Dead?"

philippz — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 05:22:23 +0000

> unless you're saying that all these applications require a zero-trust source of truth.

Not all of them, of course. It's not a wonder child that aims to solve all of humanity's problems. It'll bring humanity closer, though and make it more efficient in many ways. People always try to look so narrow at it.

There are plenty of use cases and attributes (permissionlessness, immutability, zero-trust sources, etc.), and of course, not always all of these count all the time or are even desired. But it allows us to have and apply those as needed in an interoperable way.

New comment by philippz in "Is Crypto Dead?"

philippz — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 05:17:43 +0000

It is hard to comprehend what it'd mean to have the world connected via distributed ledgers that provide transparency and would be able to automate a lot of what we do to a much higher degree.

We're not running in circles.

> Businesses aren't built around this technology because it's not advantageous to use it in a legally compliant environment.

This is just one of the reasons. The technology is also not scalable and abstracted enough yet. No one is pretending anything here.

New comment by philippz in "Is Crypto Dead?"

philippz — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 07:52:51 +0000

Which other systems? Databases?

New comment by philippz in "Is Crypto Dead?"

philippz — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 07:52:15 +0000

But what sets append-only databases apart from pen and paper?

New comment by philippz in "Is Crypto Dead?"

philippz — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 18:37:23 +0000

I just gave some examples. Tech is early, and the businesses around this new environment still have to be built. It's kind of a chicken-and-egg problem.

It's very early, as I stated in another answer on the same comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=philippz#34479955