Joined 17 years ago
Whatnot: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/whatnot Zepto: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/zepto
Both are in the top 100 list, W20 and W21 respectively.
It takes time to build a massive business! Most overnight successes are often 10 years in the making.
Using bun on a side project reinvigorated my love of software development during a relatively dark time in my life, and part of me wonders if I would have taken the leap onto my current path if it weren't for the joy and feeling of speed that came from working with bun!
https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloa...
Direct link to the relevant sign up form fwiw:
https://customervoice.microsoft.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?...
We got access a few weeks back via Azure.
From a sheer efficiency POV, rooftop or grid-scale solar installations will always be more effective than solar on an EV, but I think you’re right: there’s something to be said for how effective automakers are at packaging technology and pushing the frontier of competition that could further reverberate throughout the industry.
For the average consumer, purchasing your next vehicle and having all of these capabilities integrated is so much more straightforward and accessible compared to retrofitting your home with solar, battery, and the electronics required for managing the system and dynamically interfacing with the grid. If you’re a renter, many of these conversions are simply out of the question.
We are seeing more solar add-on options on conventional vehicles, with the likes of Hyundai Ioniq 5 and the Toyota Prius Prime including solar roof options. But they remain premium options rather than standard trims for now, as you mentioned.
But you’re right, we should be able to devise a way to use a single link for both cases, new and existing users. We’ll try to tweak the setup here to better accommodate existing users!
Arcol (http://arcol.io), Infurnia (https://www.infurnia.com/), Qonic (https://www.qonic.com/), and Snaptrude (https://www.snaptrude.com).
Here’s nice little write-up about this emerging space from upFront: https://www.upfrontezine.com/2022/04/upf-1128-1.html
It remains to be seen if they will manage to out-compete the Goliath that is Autodesk or simply get acquired/assimilated, but it is exciting to see some fervent activity in this space.
Better yet if several of them take a “freemium” approach and students/hobbyists/freelancers are able to use a polished, user-friendly packaging of this incredible CAD technology for free (as in beer).
I love free software, open source, and amazing projects like Blender (it is a true anomaly & gem in the OSS world, re: professional-grade end-user applications), but sometimes the profit motive goes a long way towards creating delightful and approachable user experiences that empower people.
(Though I’m likewise rooting for an open source offering in this space to really take off!)
No longer actively maintained, but maybe a nice starting point for hacking on your dream!
https://plausible.io/plausible.io?period=30d&source=Hacker+N...
What a great demo of the product :D
