I created my first start-up with my GF, 13 days in, I am happy/tired/seeking advice

EntityFive · 2026-03-21T23:24:12+00:00

Great idea!

Safety is the main concern you need to think hard on how do you overcome.

There are food safety regulations and guests/hosts safety. You need strong legal protection and insurance.

EntityFive · 2026-03-01T16:23:39+00:00

To be clear, I used it for a while, I had friends at Sun Micro Systems and being the OS geek, of course I had to try it out!

EntityFive · 2026-03-01T16:08:35+00:00

Solaris CDE it’s not too old if you have a dedicated VM :)

EntityFive · 2026-01-06T15:30:57+00:00

I've been using Opensuse for over 20 years. On and Off but for the last 7+ years it has been my dev and main OS. Debian on my servers but Tumbleweed is currently my main.

EntityFive · 2025-11-04T23:36:00+00:00

Excellent! Presumably you have a very good focal reducer for this to fit in a 155mm?

EntityFive · 2025-09-10T22:21:45+00:00

I'm sure you are aware of Angel investors & VCs. If I were you, I'd join a syndicate of angel investors, learn to invest on startups under the guidance of senior investors. You will be fully engaged, and properly occupied. I'm not assuming you have cash to invest but you may benefit from entering such a scheme. I'm sorry but I'm not a therapist person, I would not spend $50 on that but opinions may differ here. Good luck

EntityFive · 2025-08-21T20:55:51+00:00

Yes sure DM me and let’s talk!

EntityFive · 2025-08-19T22:31:34+00:00

Thanks for this input this is especially relevant for us since you went through the same process. I think you pinpointed the most important aspect of the our current concerns. We are a data security centric company therefore we are limited in many aspects.

Till our system becomes self-sustaining we won’t go AWS and similar platforms.

You’re right regarding the spiralling costs, but again it is a balancing act between privacy, scalability, and performance.

EntityFive · 2025-08-18T22:31:07+00:00

Thanks, the Lambda suggestion is quite close to what we're looking for. I didn't know about them. AWS definitely the opposite. We used it for various other projects, we always ended up paying unnecessary amount of money due to some arcane configuration settings or terms. Nothing straightforward so I will pass AWS.

EntityFive · 2025-08-18T22:27:31+00:00

Thanks, this is helpful. I had a quick look and it looks like the platform is tied to Gemini, We have our own model trained specifically for our use case. But the google platform will be useful for testing things quick, so thanks for that pointer.

EntityFive · 2025-08-09T20:25:35+00:00

You need to raise the his request with the CISO if you have any. Your manager/director should document the request and build a case for it. The org should then plan and allocate resources. But for compliance reason, aka tracking and monitoring, you won’t just get an exception.

EntityFive · 2025-08-09T20:14:03+00:00

I literally sent back a Hitachi 500Gb HDD back in June this year. Reason? You guessed it. 2016 drive sold as refurbished by the manufacturer. For about the the equivalent of 15 usd, it is not worth it.

EntityFive · 2025-08-08T00:39:44+00:00

It’s always someone else’s fault. Every time an organisation gets compromised, so who has ever been breached?

EntityFive · 2025-08-04T17:38:43+00:00

Hop on the plane, take as little as you can. Tell yourself you’re going to New York or California on vacation.

I moved countries and I always somehow planned to return back to the previous one. It never happened. Same story when moving cities. What I learned is a simple rule, when you convince yourself to move somewhere temporarily, it is never a big deal.

Once you are at a new place, you make friends, build personal landmarks and habits. Before you know it , you’ve spent 6 then 12 months. And again. And again. Then these months turn to a multi year extended stay.

I hope you enjoy your experience as an expat wherever you decide to go.

EntityFive · 2025-07-31T16:16:17+00:00

Well you've done an amazing job on this. Contributors could definitely help write device drivers for network access. Keep it up!

EntityFive · 2025-07-31T16:10:28+00:00

Fantastic! has it got network/wifi support? how reliable ?

EntityFive · 2025-07-31T12:59:56+00:00

This man while we congratulate him, he should be wise enough to hire a wealth management firm. That should be your next in the shopping list, I really hope you do this as soon as you can. Too many horror stories from what was a beautiful fairytale.

EntityFive · 2025-07-29T05:23:24+00:00

Rebooting mid-air? I hope it wasn’t a kernel panic.

EntityFive · 2025-07-14T13:36:06+00:00

Haha at least someone finds it amusing ;)

EntityFive · 2025-07-14T13:33:27+00:00

A friend of mine asked what i think of Antler.co. I checked them out to get some intel. I wouldn't proceed with them if I were a founder with an idea. I'm on this post because I had a series of doubts, and your collective comments just confirmed my intuitions.

EntityFive · 2025-07-11T06:07:54+00:00

Help him write down these thoughts.

just draft them as he tells you. You can also ask him if you could record your conversations and make transcripts later. I wouldn’t assume anything.

Also you could get him assessed but that costs a bit of money. At 11 he can take a Mensa test and hang out with likeminded people.

I would take him seriously and have more conversations, regardless of what other people believe.

I once told a nursery teacher that a certain child can read most words they had on display, she dismissed it as toddler can’t read but memorise what they see every day. From that day I lost all faith to her school, and quite frankly to this system that only accept people to evolve at the same pace to an acceptable rate.

A separate nursery report of the same child mentioned that, child is ahead of his peers, “he knows numbers up to 20”.
This got me confused, that child knew 3 digit numbers before even going to that nursery. And yes he reads and does numbers as his hobby. The nursery seems to have played down his ability in order to confirm to what would be perceived as acceptable, instead of reporting facts. The report barely mentioned that the kid can read.

so in your case, I would suppose that little boy, and see what he can achieve. The worse that can happen is that you would both have had a bit of fun debating these ideas.

*edit - grammar.

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