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Comment · 1 year ago
tracking via cookies (that expire after X days) or some kind of identifier in the CRM
Comment · 1 year ago
I was quite surprised to see the acquisition! I think they never found PMF because they pivoted upmarket and were trying to do too many things.

Even though I'm not a customer of June, I've always rooted for them from the sidelines. They were a different kind of YC company; these days, you only see AI slop companies coming out of YC.

Seems like the founders lost hope in it and probably sold it to Amplitude to have a soft landing instead of a complete crash and burn. Since both are YC companies, i think this was an internal nudge towards a sale. But can't say for sure, i think the founders will share what truly happened in a few years once they're contract expires. Anyways, good luck to the founders!

Comment · 2 years ago
I came across this guy last week when I was learning about implementing basic lighting in shaders and Phong lighting is the starter for that. So I looked him up and what a tragic story.
Comment · 2 years ago
I was quite skeptical of this. I've seen another company claiming to do the 3d generation do the same with their demos, they outsourced the "3d generation" part to low-wage workers in 3rd world countries and claimed the models to be generated by AI. I see this as a future trend to get investor money and do the rug pull.
Comment · 2 years ago
This is a great technical achievement, but in a couple of years time this will be as interesting as AI image generators.
Comment · 2 years ago
this is cool! What would be a good usecase?
Comment · 2 years ago
we're sooo barack
Comment · 2 years ago
That is me with mubi! I keep paying but I rarely watch any films. I find that I need to be in the right headspace to watch any serious stuff but when I do, I do watch a couple of them and I don't really mind paying. I like to joke that I'm their ideal customer haha.

Unlike netflix where I downgraded my plan to the lowest tier, there's literally nothing on it and they also keep on cancelling good tv shows. I think they should focus on serious stuff and work with more indie directors. But then again I can't blame them because they're just following the trend.

Comment · 2 years ago
> dev tools businesses are hard

I understand why dev tools business are hard, i'm just curious as to what makes them hard? I know one of the things that make it a difficult sell is that devs don't buy much but what else?

Comment · 2 years ago
maybe all they need is a layover?
Comment · 2 years ago
pretty sure they only acquired it because of the word "air" in the name

/s

Comment · 2 years ago
very cool that earth has it's own defence mechanism
Comment · 2 years ago
This very much reminds me of timber born. It's been a while since I played the game but it was all about building dams, facing droughts and water conservation.
Comment · 4 years ago
yessirwhatever

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