charris0

Totally agree, I tried to prototype this but the datasets to train ML summarizations from are pretty much all from news articles. Trying to take that model and summaries chats resulted in gibberish for me. The salient take-aways from Chats and other non-factual / loosely structured text seems so dependent on what you care about, summarisation is difficult.

Thanks for the suggestion.

I've been reluctant to do a friends/family round since reading some advice about conflating friends with investors. I would prefer investors who would use their experience/contacts/etc to help encourage a return on their investment, and also to keep friends and family impartial from the success/failure of the company.

A bank loan may be an option.

> It's like knowing you have these traps to avoid, but if you just keep one very close, that's the only one you need to consider

Love that roundup of this technique. Coincidentally enough my dad also used this same aid to quit smoking. I saw some slight sense but never enough to unpack it myself.

It sounds like you're determined and self motivated, you're off to a great start! Nice work on getting downloads with your Android apps!

Since you seem to have a lot of front end and app knowledge, personally I might suggest getting more familiar with back-end as a service technologies like Firebase, etc. You could then create apps/web-apps that scale without knowing loads of back-end architecture practices.

To get a good spot in a next company, practice explaining your accomplishments to date succinctly, meet people, apply to multiple companies and get multiple offers lined up.

I liked the advice by Garros Li – Edusight (IK12)

> 1. If you plan on having cofounders, you need to determine how decisions will be made before starting a company together. Titles and vague “roles/responsibilities” won’t be enough. Play out scenarios to hash out decisions and set the right expectations, ask tough questions, and don’t let ego get in the way.

It got me thinking of something like the 'Co-founder compatibility test'

I wonder if anyone already has a good set of example scenarios and questions to reveal this compatibility/incompatibility between people in decision making / expectations / virtues. Many questions could come from challenging moments with co-founders and teammates in one's own experience. I can think of a few already.

If we compiled a list of these types of questions and scenarios, could they be used as a good test of compatibility, useful to at least some initial degree to assess potential partnerships in real life and over the internet.