jaxomlotus
Joined 18 years ago
Joined 18 years ago
If my comment is not on topic to answer OP's thread title question, then I'm not sure what is. The three clicks it will get buried in a HN thread are not going to do anything for us. But I also see little value in stating "Yes, I've gotten 45% of a lift using an AI agent" and not providing context.
I co-founded a suite of flash design apps called Aviary back in 2007, so know how hard it is to pull of what you've done here.
I'm really blown away by what you created here. Super intuitive, very powerful, and solves a real product need (I literally was talking with my designer earlier about how hard using After Effects was).
Great work!
I reached out to every designer and coder laid off from Twitter and Amazon (one of my investors sent me a spreadsheet that those laid off folks added their contact info to).
I didn't receive a single interested response to my reach outs. Now granted, I'm sure they were bombarded with lots of startup offers and being picky what company/stage they were responding to, or were still in grief mode and not ready to start looking, or maybe (probably!) my reach-out finesse was lacking.
But I'm just pointing out that their are definitely companies like mine who are hiring and it's not all doom and gloom for laid off folks.
I ended up hiring via ads on LinkedIn and job posts on eng message boards.
Being real for a minute: There is definitely a perspective among hiring companies that regular lay offs are sometimes packaged alongside bottom performers, but I think that is something they would just do diligence on during an interview process.
I was working my ass off pulling 18 hour days climbing the corporate ladder, trying to get wealthy and I was absolutely miserable. Happiness doesn't come from money, it comes from having everything you need in front of you. It took watching my dog gnaw a bone to make me realize that.
I punched out, went back to the startup world for way less pay working on problems I actually enjoy solving, at a pace that isn't detrimental to my health, and I have been much happier.
I also gave up a lot to do so - in time and money - but I have zero regrets. At least I learned a really valuable lesson about myself.
Now that this report came out, I'd say she has a clear avenue for a libel suit against him.