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New comment by tomaspiaggio12 in "Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?"

tomaspiaggio12 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:48:35 +0000

you should read the cold start problem (book). it talks a bunch about how uber, airbnb, zoom, github, dropbox solved the cold start problem in different ways. super interesting and well explained.

in two words, two sided networks usually have a "hard part". in the case of uber, the drivers. in your case, i'd probably "do things that don't scale" like brian chesky did with airbnb, start with a super small location (probably where you live) and drive yourself / your cofounders / friends all the packages until people know the product works.

usually, with cold start products, you have to solve it many times in many locations. you can't do it worldwide day one.

New comment by tomaspiaggio12 in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

tomaspiaggio12 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:38:54 +0000

This is idiotic. What's next, disallowing unified memory or SoC with packaged memory? These people think they know better than world experts on these matters.

New comment by tomaspiaggio12 in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

tomaspiaggio12 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:03:43 +0000

mozilla employs 750 people and has a 1/2Bn dollar deal with Google and still their browser is absolute hot garbage. i think volunteering won't cut it.

Throwing away 18 months of code and starting over

tomaspiaggio12 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:35:19 +0000

Article URL: https://tompiagg.io/posts/we-threw-away-1-5-years-of-code

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324691

Points: 65

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New comment by tomaspiaggio12 in "Specialization Is Dead. Long Live the Generalists"

tomaspiaggio12 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:27:51 +0000

I go more in depth in the article. But I believe that specialization lost its value. Today is more valuable to be a generalist than a specialist since you can get better than most people by using AI.

New comment by tomaspiaggio12 in "Specialization Is Dead. Long Live the Generalists"

tomaspiaggio12 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:12:54 +0000

How AI changes the role of the specialists

Specialization Is Dead. Long Live the Generalists

tomaspiaggio12 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:12:54 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/TomasPiaggio/status/2020967002878378412

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46961890

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by tomaspiaggio12 in "Dockerhub for Skill.md"

tomaspiaggio12 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:16:58 +0000

mcp will probably be left behind in the future. it was a bad design from the start. anthropic themselves released skills to "fix" the mcp mess. skills are very new but the idea is great. we still are early days but i think it could allow models to use tools more effectively.

we're planning to add an installation step + auth step (which many of the skills require) so that that part get's handled in one single step instead of having to do everything manually

New comment by tomaspiaggio12 in "Dockerhub for Skill.md"

tomaspiaggio12 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:13:39 +0000

it's basically a cli for controlling a browser. the idea is that an agent like claude code would use it for validating something that it just did like changing something on the UI