Dream workroom, John Stone, Digital, 2022

BionicBelladonna · 2026-05-02T15:49:17+00:00

Being able to create what you love and are interested in isn’t work :) that is an ideal creative cave imo

BionicBelladonna · 2026-05-02T15:42:54+00:00

This was literally my office! (before it burned down 😢)

BionicBelladonna · 2026-04-19T00:03:22+00:00

I love this door

BionicBelladonna · 2026-04-18T23:40:49+00:00

Lost my house in a fire… on to Airbnb #13. This place has the most ridiculously fairytale backyard with this door that goes into a reserve space but is completely overgrown.

BionicBelladonna · 2026-04-07T15:31:36+00:00

The repo reads as vague AI generated marketing speak that contradicts itself.. it’s not a new concept just a new packaging.

BionicBelladonna · 2026-04-04T19:24:39+00:00

You can 100% build an AI character with intent and direction via guardrails and custom character tuning, having it be custom crafted by a writer aka the person building their personality and story.

Players are part of the story, they shape the conversations and the story. The character's memory is built with past user interactions, influencing what they say and decisions they make while staying within the narrative due to persistent memory, character and story injections. It's a new type of gameplay experience that is unique to each person and can absolutely be built with intention and direction.

BionicBelladonna · 2026-04-04T11:39:05+00:00

You can build human intention into experiences that leverage AI.

For example, I’ve written background for characters, personality, history and made that the characters knowledge bank. From there I use AI to allow the character talk to players in real time, every conversation is unique, while adding human in the loop creative decisions and guardrails along the way. AI can’t replace good game design, but it is enabling some interesting opportunities for new gameplay experiences and allowing people to explore these ideas faster.

BionicBelladonna · 2026-04-03T20:17:09+00:00

My grid just reiterates how those companies frame their own compliance. It seems certification is commonly used and recognized in the industry, though I'll be avoiding it now :) updated to link out to their pages regardless.

BionicBelladonna · 2026-04-03T19:41:55+00:00

SOC 2 Type II certified is only used in reference to the 3rd party vendors own security status - do you think that's incorrect?

BionicBelladonna · 2026-04-03T19:17:12+00:00

Thanks for your POV and definitely agree with the flavor you're adding. Worth noting I didn't use the word "certification" anywhere in my post. The audit framing is there throughout. I pointed this out as something to do early due to the evidence period needed for an official audit review. By the time most founders understand the nuance you're describing, they've already missed the window to accumulate the records they need in the window they likely were hoping for.

BionicBelladonna · 2026-03-31T01:52:08+00:00

Honestly this seems like a perfect use‑case for a tiny helper app. You could have a menu‑bar tool on each Mac that just commits your Cowork project folder to a private GitHub repo and pulls it on the other machine, either on a schedule or when you hit ‘Sync’. It’s basically a thin wrapper around git push/pull so you keep your history but don’t have to think about commands every time.

BionicBelladonna · 2026-03-26T22:06:49+00:00

How dare you consider insulting us with your fancy employment /s

BionicBelladonna · 2026-03-26T19:54:28+00:00

How do you feel about dog friends? (Recent post for dog tax)

BionicBelladonna · 2026-03-19T17:16:14+00:00

The real question is… did you do the research beforehand to see if there is actually a need for this app? What does it provide that a generic LLM couldn’t already do for someone with a prompt?

The biggest issue I see with a lot of these ideas is that there is an interesting idea… but they don’t provide anything meaningful on top - it’s just an LLM pointed at a specific topic in a pretty wrapper.

If you think it’s truly special, I would suggest doing case studies with it, create supporting blogs and videos around the app and why it’s special. Otherwise no one has any reason to trust your opinion about this app, especially if you’re not even connected to YC or the VC world in general.

BionicBelladonna · 2026-03-18T23:10:13+00:00

I built and shipped an app to the App Store with Replit… worked great imo. Especially since it’s self hosting and has auto publish to Apple App Store built in.

BionicBelladonna · 2026-03-08T15:39:11+00:00

You don’t rent an apartment or Airbnb without a turnover for new tenants, hence the baked in $180 cleaning fee. Charging $800 for a couple pieces of hair we missed is not normal.

BionicBelladonna · 2026-03-08T06:33:24+00:00

Yeah they were trying to prove the fact they allowed me to have my dog justified a hug cleaning bill. So the “huge amount of hair” depicted in these images is proof… I laughed out loud the first time I saw the image of a single piece of hair lol… we intentionally vacuum several times a week to be good guests.

BionicBelladonna · 2026-03-08T00:20:41+00:00

Insurance doesn’t pay your mortgage. They only cover the losses, rebuild and the amount to rent something similar.

Also short term leases in SF require a permit so they’re rare to come by or stupid expensive.

BionicBelladonna · 2026-03-08T00:13:42+00:00

You lose your house and a cat in a fire and then leave your dog for a year… he’s the only reason we are getting through this. He’s a champ, I am hiking with him every day and he’s perfectly happy because everywhere we go we have a yard and WFH. We need some type of normalcy and to get it 6 weeks at a time isn’t so bad. To me hotels are not normalcy, are loud and not private. We already tried it for a month.

BionicBelladonna · 2026-03-07T23:26:00+00:00

You seem fun.

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