ryanckulp

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founder of TRMNL.com. Fomo.com (acquired), former YC alum growth guy.

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Comment · 12 days ago

Comment · 15 days ago

here’s a quick reveal, proper announcement and specs coming soon. https://youtu.be/hMlH8_bNIlo?t=57

Comment · 15 days ago

enjoy https://youtu.be/hMlH8_bNIlo?t=57

Comment · 15 days ago

31.5” full color will be available few weeks. demo is on our YouTube.

Comment · 16 days ago

TRMNL made one of these, 31.5” spectra 6. will start selling in a few weeks. fully hackable

Comment · 16 days ago

this is neat. Pokémon also playable on TRMNL (ePaper), need to release source: https://x.com/useTRMNL/status/2106801847629414527

Comment · 1 month ago

if TRMNL is too expensive, get a cheaper 3rd party option then:

1. flash our* OSS firmware (https://github.com/usetrmnl/trmnl-firmware) 2. spin up an OSS server client (https://docs.trmnl.com/go/diy/byos#implementations) 3. install the Home Assistant plugin (https://github.com/usetrmnl/trmnl-home-assistant)

no need to write any code or give TRMNL a penny, while still benefiting from a few years of deep dev in this area.

* i'm on the team

Comment · 3 months ago

we can only estimate token <> cost in our cloud agent, but we also OSS'd the skills and in those cases the cost is ~$0 (part of one's LLM subscription): https://github.com/usetrmnl/trmnl-agent-skills

the agent also has a model switcher, and the estimate you quoted is based on Haiku when we launched.

Comment · 3 months ago

i founded TRMNL and didn't try AI myself until ~2 months ago. i'd rather shut down down and open source everything (per our Unbrickable Pledge) than become "just another AI company."

the AI Agent exists to empower less technical folks to turn their vision into reality, and we're proud of what's possible with it. meanwhile our top community developers continue to hand craft beautiful, useful plugins for everyone to install, LLM free.

Comment · 5 months ago

ShipHero doesn't even have an SLA, not too concerned.

Comment · 5 months ago

takes notes thanks again.

Comment · 5 months ago

thanks for reading, updating the post now to explain we use the Superpowers skill and spend 90% of our effort on specs / tests. measure thrice, cut once.

Show HN: Vibe Coding a $20k /Year Enterprise Logistics Platform trmnl.com

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Comment · 6 months ago

i’m a happy Together Letters user, in an Atlanta founder group. didn’t realize until this post that there are thousands of us, well played.

Comment · 8 months ago

awesome work! the original Kindle project definitely has quirks, so we now offer a KOReader option as well. https://github.com/usetrmnl/trmnl-koreader/