Mongoose

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Comment · 3 days ago
Fully willing to accept that I could be an outlier, but I have never understood how a market exists for laptops with touch screens.
Comment · 1 month ago
I'm surprised to see Tyler Cowen on the "incremental" side of the Y axis. He seems pretty AI-pilled, at least compared to the guests he has on his pod that aren't themselves involved with AI companies.
Comment · 3 months ago
Not knowing what Chatto is, the headline is giving "zendaya is meechee"
Comment · 8 months ago
Not to be a curmudgeon, but why are they spending time on this? As an enthusiastic Raycast user, I would prefer to see them focus on making Raycast better, not finding new ways to jump on the AI bandwagon.
Comment · 8 months ago
I think this is less about the projects themselves and more about distribution channels like HN and ProductHunt being dead. When the zone is flooded by vibecoded apps of all kinds, the "build it and they will come" era of getting your thing on a popular website's homepage is over.

But other distribution strategies exist. You just have to be smarter about finding and getting in front of your core audience.

Comment · 8 months ago
Quick, someone build a "documentation for agent teams" thing and call it Clawnfluence
Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 10 months ago
I always liken it to using Uber in ~2012. It was fun to get around major metro areas for dirt cheap. But then prices rose dramatically over the next decade+ as the company was forced to wean itself off of VC subsidies.
Comment · 10 months ago
I'd say Obsidian (just over five years old, since its first release), which is ironic because it's basically just a UI on top of text files.
Comment · 2 years ago
Had me until claiming that InfluxDB was the first mainstream TSDB in 2013. OpenTSDB (2010)? Graphite (2008)? RRDtool (1999)?

Maybe Influx took off in a way these prior projects didn't, but people have been storing time series data for decades.

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