spmartin823
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former vp eng at literably.com (IK12)
current cto of school bucks
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Comment · 28 days ago
Can anyone with a compression background say how important "Polynomial-Time 2-Approximation for Shortest Common Superstring" will be practically?
Comment · 1 month ago
You should talk to the Editory guys, they did this for local news.
Comment · 2 months ago
One packaged API for the takeover would be great, also worth considering predicting answers with a stronger LLM while the user is talking. Ello (the reading tutoring company) does this.
Comment · 2 months ago
Does this include a turn taking API? It'd be great to have one API that could do "Conversation in a box". One of the biggest annoyances is daisy chaining many models together for turn taking, dumb models for immediate responses, with smarter models returning and taking over after.
Comment · 4 months ago
Built in AI editor for Wordpress to make it easy to make your site better. Originally just for online newspapers but starting to get interest from Wordpress agencies. First user is free: https://presspass.ai/ai-editor
Comment · 4 months ago
Highly rec going after a specific vertical - healthcare might be the right spot given your experience. Why did you use DuckDB instead of CockroachDB/Snowflake?
Comment · 5 months ago
You've peed in the pool Simon, this has to be a part of the internal evals by now! You got to try something new - maybe a panda in a canoe?
Comment · 5 months ago
I’m building AI tools for click based workflows, starting with wordpress sites. Clicks run the world and AI needs to run on clicks!
If you want to check it out: https://presspass.ai
If you think this is stupid or you know of a more annoying “click based” workflow that should be automated, let me know! I’m early and need more thoughts.
Comment · 6 months ago
One thing I remember from my days in the LMS world is that obfuscated copies of prod tenants were used for testing. Almost every dev had at least one tenant from prod on their local computer. So with some de-obfuscation at least some of the data is plausibly retrievable. Whether that data is also public depends on how the negotiations go.
Comment · 9 months ago
NPR member stations in many communities have _not_ made up lost federal funding through donations, in fact many are at risk of closing: https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/rural-alaska/2025/07/22/kotz...
Donations are definitely a piece of the puzzle but local journalism will never reach the level it was in the early 2000s without a new revenue stream.
Comment · 9 months ago
Can you give some examples?
Comment · 9 months ago
The death of local journalism is fundamentally a revenue problem. My cofounder and I have been working for the last year to find new revenue streams for newspapers at https://seward.presspass.ai/.
Our current hypothesis is that local rewards programs could be a sustainable revenue stream and give the newspaper a way to prove their advertising works with locals.
While trying this out, we've also helped a few papers get up and running - we're calling it "newspaper in a box". Check out a few of the papers we've helped launch: https://sewardfolly.com/ (9 months old) https://homerindependentpress.com/ (2 weeks old).
Comment · 9 months ago
I'm working on creating Lovable for popular CMSs like wordpress, ghost, substack etc.
I've spent that last year working with news organizations to improve their online presence and a lot of my job has ended up being translating their ideas into wordpress clicks using Claude or ChatGPT. They can't take advantage of products like Lovable because the resulting code won't work with the CMS that their staff is used to.
Email me if you'd like free access! [email protected]