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New comment by sberens in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

sberens — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:42:21 +0000

> They've got, ballpark, $5t to $10t to make back in the next 5 years

OpenAI's spending commitment is in the ~1T range for the next 5 years, and Anthropic is ~300B.

If they continue to show strong growth, they likely need to be at 100-300B in revenue/yr to support their yearly payments + financing, not 1T.

New comment by sberens in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

sberens — Mon, 11 May 2026 00:20:58 +0000

Have you seen https://fort.cx?

New comment by sberens in "Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR"

sberens — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:44:36 +0000

As someone who likes bright monitors, I'm excited to try the 2000 nit peak brightness! Are there any comparable monitors to the XDR brightness wise?

New comment by sberens in "Show HN: Interactive California Budget (By Claude Code)"

sberens — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:44:18 +0000

I did use it for this project! While the UI was good, there was a lot of last mile debugging to make charts/animations/responsiveness work well.

Show HN: Interactive California Budget (By Claude Code)

sberens — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:33:35 +0000

There's been a lot of discussion around the california budget and some proposed tax policies, so I asked claude code to research the budget and turn it into an interactive dashboard.

Using async subagents claude was able to research ~a dozen budget line items at once across multiple years, adding lots of helpful context and graphs to someone like me who was starting with little familiarity.

It still struggles with frontend changes, but for research this probably 20-40x's my throughput.

Let me know any additional data or visualizations that would be interesting to add!

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New comment by sberens in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

sberens — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 02:10:34 +0000

Glad you like it - we're working on improving the airflow right now actually! Thanks for the feedback on the paint.

New comment by sberens in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

sberens — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 02:08:51 +0000

Thanks so much for the kind words and being an early supporter <3

New comment by sberens in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

sberens — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:26:05 +0000

Because the lamp is 6'3" it's only below eye level for people who are 6'7-8.

We had another 6'5" customer who was worried about the height but they said it was totally fine even with shoes on.

New comment by sberens in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

sberens — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:19:44 +0000

We had to remake half the mold, and I split it 50/50 with the factory.

New comment by sberens in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

sberens — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:21:21 +0000

Just made one - use HN100: https://getbrighter.com/discount/HN100 :)

New comment by sberens in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

sberens — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:14:16 +0000

LEDs are pretty insane these days - the ones we use have an L90 (time until they hit 90% brightness) of >50,000 hours (17 years if you use it every day 8 hours a day).

New comment by sberens in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

sberens — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:05:49 +0000

We use constant current reduction dimming so there's zero flicker!

New comment by sberens in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

sberens — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:02:32 +0000

Thanks! The ups and downs of startups are very real (maybe doubly so for hardware)

New comment by sberens in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

sberens — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:49:49 +0000

It's 60k lumens now, and it draws 580W off the wall

New comment by sberens in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

sberens — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:46:03 +0000

Looking back I agree it was miraculous lol, I don't know if I'd do it again...

New comment by sberens in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

sberens — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 02:54:10 +0000

The main cost driver is the sheer size/weight/power. Dimmability, adjustable CCT, and smart home controls do add a decent chunk though.

New comment by sberens in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

sberens — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 02:50:26 +0000

Thanks :) It turns out "hardware is hard" isn't an exaggeration!

New comment by sberens in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

sberens — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 02:47:26 +0000

Yep lumens are additive (though your eyes perceive them logarithmically).

I don't know much about car headlights, but chatgpt says high beams are typically 25-45 watts, and assuming a generous 200lm/w that gives you 5000-9000 lm.

Roughly speaking, it's expensive because it's 50 lbs & tons of electrical components (that are much higher quality than $24 headlights).

New comment by sberens in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

sberens — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 02:34:35 +0000

The controls weren't working because we had wired them up according to the labels which were wrong (which is also why the measurements didn't make sense to us).

New comment by sberens in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

sberens — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 20:02:10 +0000

Author here, happy to answer any questions about the journey!