ragnarok451

One issue with this analogy is that paper encyclopedias really are precise when used correctly. Wikipedia is not.

I do think it can be used in research but not without careful checking. In my own work I've found it most useful as a search aid and for brainstorming.

^ this same comment 10 years ago

lol tell that to all the (quite successful) B2B SaaS apps that started with Google login as their only option

99% of the population finds this easier than setting up a user/pass. If you care about this, understand that you will not be the target user for most new apps. Incredible that this comes up on so many new Show HNs.

Shame that this is downvoted, I assume for tone - this is the feedback the founders need to hear

"social media feels unusual" bro what? I've both spent time at a VC fund and have successfully fundraised as a founder - every partner adds you on LinkedIn bare minimum after a call, twitter was pretty common too

Real talk: This VC probably has at least ~10 meetings like this per week and they do ~10 deals per year. Neither adding you on social nor presenting you at a Monday meeting means anything. If they proactively set up another call in the very near future with another partner, that may indicate positive momentum.

Also if you're actively fundraising, run a process - you should be going down a list of like 100-200 VCs, any one intro meeting like this should mean nothing to you. Don't get emotionally attached this early in the pipeline

Do you have any resources on the latest with electrolytic carbon fixation? Like, how do you go from solar panels -> energy -> plants?

IMO this all hinges on if the company has traction with the new direction and pivot. If there is traction, the message to investors becomes clearer and there is motivation to invest regardless of you being around especially if there is a clear story. Both because that investor became unenthused and because you want to leave, I'm guessing there is no traction. In that case, depends on your cofounder's relationship with investors + how much cash is left in the bank. Assuming you raised on SAFE notes, they can't actually force the company to return capital and it's a bad look for them to try. IMO don't worry too much about messaging and just leave, the investors will get over it if traction comes.

However, I would definitely not recommend raising while you're there on paper and leaving right after. This is a pretty material piece of news to leave off of a fundraise, and best case tanks your reputation going forward with investors, at worst is fraudulent and leaves the company (and perhaps you) open to legal action.

Have you used Topaz Labs? That denoising is pretty good, definitely more advanced than a tuned-up gaussian.

Not too familiar with CoralCDN, will check that out. Would say the comparison with IPFS is apt, BitTorrent though requires people to seed on a per file basis right? so versioning for the source of truth etc becomes tough and you need people to care about your data specifically.

IPFS is an alternate solution, but as addresses are not updatable someone somewhere needs to keep track of where the canonical source is. Further, there is no API built in - the data would live at some address, but someone still needs to construct a way to get it without just downloading the whole data dump at once. Perhaps you shard across different files but that has its own issues.

On chain with Ethereum, you can use a smart contract which allows CRUD operations on the data on a per item basis. The latest version of the smart contract data is clear. The API is basically set with the smart contract - infra to get that has already been built with libraries like ethers, and will continue to be maintained since there are other contracts/products out there that rely on the same infra.

Ok I know it's not in vogue right now but this is actually a good use for the blockchain. Like the database here could just be placed on-chain in a smart contract, and anyone could read it (for free, only writes would cost money) forever, as long as at least one person is operating a node on ethereum. No ongoing hosting or serving costs. Anyone could build an API that did like photo generation or whatever on top of it, and builders could always access the raw data directly.

the advice nobody wants to hear but is actually true. ofc you also need to be highly competent yourself, but that is table stakes

Any plans to use homomorphic encryption eventually? low priority rn but would be v nice to have