sblawrie

Joined 14 years ago

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Comment · 9 months ago
Do the players (LLMs) have memory of how prior hands were played by their opponents, or know their VPIP and PFR percentages? Or is each hand stateless?
Comment · 1 year ago
You can spin up the Cursor CLI inside the terminal of your IDE of choice and not be tethered to Claude's models.
Comment · 7 years ago
Uber rides are incredibly cheap in Colombia, too. A 20 minute uberX ride across Medellin probably costs around $4.
Comment · 8 years ago
Cool - bookmarked!
Comment · 9 years ago
Red Ampersand | Jr. Full Stack Developer | Los Angeles, CA | ONSITE full-time

We're a small team running a suite of brands for screenwriting, the most prominent of which is a two-sided marketplace for feedback on screenplays. If you like coding and movies, you'll love this job.

Our stack is PHP7/Laravel, MySQL, AWS, Ansible, and Bootstrap.

Shoot me an email at [email protected] if you want to chat!

Comment · 9 years ago
"necessary" is spelled "neccesary" on the homepage
Comment · 10 years ago
Of those, Paid SEO's worked the best, but I forgot to mention we also pay for email blasts to subscribers of other screenwriting related blogs and services, and that's really been the most effective.

5 pages of notes takes a reader roughly 3 hours, and there are plenty of people in Hollywood happy to make $15/hr working from home during their downtime.

I'm not sure I follow your last question - it wouldn't make a lot of sense for a script coverage company to have a brick and mortar store.

Comment · 10 years ago
A friend and I have been running WeScreenplay (https://www.wescreenplay.com), a very niche service for screenwriters, for about 2.5 years now. I recently separated the backend platform that manages and coordinates everything and spun it off into Coverfly (https://www.coverfly.io), which we sell to film festivals to manage their screenplay contests.

Between the 2 products (which use the same codebase), we've tripled in size every year. $27k in 2014, $80k in 2015, and we're projecting to do $250k+ in revenue this year. Hoping to do $1m in 2017.

For marketing: affiliate programs, paid SEO, organic SEO, Facebook, Twitter, cold calling, sponsoring events with writers

Comment · 10 years ago
I tried switching over from Spotify to Apple Music when someone in my family bought a family plan and it became free for me, but after a few months I switched back to paid Spotify. For me, free Apple Music < Paying for Spotify. I just felt like I couldn't get around Apple Music intuitively and it became frustrating.
Comment · 11 years ago
Typo:

"We beleive they should meet more often and we are making it happen here!"

"Beleive" is spelled wrong

Comment · 11 years ago
But all of these just hand you back a token which you then have to pass to your server for actually processing the charge. What if you don't want to set up any server-side code? Or am I missing something...
Comment · 11 years ago
What if you just need a page (the page can be external to your own site) that accepts payment and emails you a receipt, and you don't want to write any server-side code? Can Stripe do that the way PayPal can?
Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
I want you to know that this post reminded me of a blog I had set up several years ago and placed some affiliate ads on. The site has been down for years, but I figured I'd log in to the affiliate dashboard to see if any users who signed up through my affiliate links ever spent a significant amount of money.

Turns out, there's a $740 pending balance sitting in there that just came in in the past few months. Sweet! I probably would have forgotten I ever set up an affiliate account if I hadn't read this, so thanks for writing.

Comment · 11 years ago
Packaging = Marketing. It's expensive, but it makes your product seem better to the end user. Yes, Apple has more money to spend on marketing, and your small startup can't compete on that front.

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