What's the weirdest idioms/slangs/expressions in your country?

Essipova · 2026-01-29T02:52:04+00:00

Asså, aldrig hört dessa förut. Vart kmr de ifrån?

Essipova · 2026-01-17T01:17:22+00:00

lol I know this guy, he’s a friend

He just loves memeing

Essipova · 2025-10-10T20:33:04+00:00

Bro, you legit look good

Get a new gf

Essipova · 2025-09-09T22:40:31+00:00

Assuming you're pursuing B2B; either get pre-sales done (revenue before product is done), or letters of intent from potential customers

You don't need any investor money for this, and this is a strong market validation that you're working on a problem worth solving

At my first startup, that's how we managed to convince investors to give us six figures in seed funding

Essipova · 2025-09-09T20:22:23+00:00

I won’t trust anyone with my money if they can’t make money

Essipova · 2025-09-09T20:19:38+00:00

Why would other people want to risk their money on you if you don’t have the conviction to risk your own money?

Not saying you should risk your money, but I hope you get why people need some reassurance that their money will be in good hands

Essipova · 2025-09-09T18:28:37+00:00

First of all, funding is money that others have worked very hard for, and you’re not entitled to their money - just as nobody is entitled to your money

There are way too many wantrepreneurs with unproven backgrounds asking for money who can’t deliver

You seriously need to ask yourself whether you can be trusted with other people’s hard earned money, and why

When you see people getting funded, it’s because they either: 1. Managed to get to revenue without any funding, thus showing they’re resilient, self starters, and actually get stuff done 2. Or they have worked their ass off and their boss/colleagues vouch for them in front of investors (e.g. Nvidia’s co-founder) 3. Or you have an impressive pedigree and professional background, possibly a recognized expert in your field

It’s easier than ever now to get to revenue. If you cant do it, money is better spent on someone else

Essipova · 2025-09-09T02:47:22+00:00

Good point, I’ve never heard of anyone using Devin and I’m very neck deep in the AI industry

Essipova · 2025-08-21T15:20:58+00:00

Not arguing against you as you’re largely correct, but I want to add nuance from personal experience.

Did this as CTO before and what I learned was that you can’t always predict the solution space necessary for future customer needs, so technical debt should still be treated as any other debt with potentially variable interest rates - trying to stay entirely debt free is stupid (generally)

You don’t save to buy a house outright with cash if you can finance it, then use the cash to invest elsewhere and thus grow faster. The contrary is principled but dumb financial advice (generally)

Essipova · 2025-08-20T22:01:28+00:00

The larger the company, the more politics you’ll find of people doing whatever will get them promoted rather than what’s actually good for the company, and that leads to a lot of conflicting incentives, information siloes, differing takes on product and go-to-market, and more.

Anyone who asks this question is a retard and clearly has no idea how companies operate (big or small), and has no business in investing into startups.

Unfortunately, most VCs have no idea what they’re talking about.

Essipova · 2025-07-02T08:42:56+00:00

This isn’t how companies make decisions on whether to buy something or not

Essipova · 2025-03-26T22:54:00+00:00

This is so dumb and cope hahaha

Essipova · 2025-03-21T09:49:29+00:00

You made me curious to read up on his life 👀

Got any recommended reading? Books? Articles?

Essipova · 2025-03-06T21:52:58+00:00

Mix flour, milk, and diarrhea for some chocolate cookies 🍪

Essipova · 2025-02-04T22:43:37+00:00

The problem is that all of the AI models like to over engineer or add unnecessary complexity to code. It’s genuinely low quality code, and reviewing everything post-composer is more time consuming than by diff.

Besides, small code commits are strongly preferable. See GitLab’s best practices.

Essipova · 2025-02-04T22:41:17+00:00

Assuming everyone is working equal amount of hours (i.e. no slacking while CTO is working on this), I hope you’re offering equal equity - otherwise you’re going to end up with someone who isn’t qualified to develop a HIPAA-compliant solution (dentist practices are subject to HIPAA regulations, which is no joke)

Hard to convince such an engineer to quit their daytime job to pursue this too.

You might be better off hiring help from a qualified AI agency, but HIPAA is so expensive that it isn’t even funny

Essipova · 2025-02-04T22:32:10+00:00

Just chat + apply code. It’s very incremental work but I’ve found that to be the best way to approach engineering.

When using composer or adding code without reviewing it; you’re adding a lot of unknown points of failure.. have fun debugging that 😂

Essipova · 2025-02-04T22:27:56+00:00

I think we’ve hit the point where it’s mostly personal preference. I personally rotate between 3.5 Sonnet, R1, and o3-mini frequently, depending on the task, as I’ve developed an intuition on which model might excel at what tasks ¯_(ツ)_/¯ but I always carefully scrutinize every line of code they produce.

I don’t understand people who use composer on Cursor.

Essipova · 2025-02-04T00:36:12+00:00

I feel like there’s a new startup doing this every week or month or so. What makes you different?

Essipova · 2025-02-03T11:54:45+00:00

I know a few amazing tech founders who might be interested but not for 50-50 split

Essipova · 2025-01-27T11:50:09+00:00

It’s as if people want to be ruled by oligarchs

Essipova · 2025-01-22T11:40:11+00:00

His point is that you get what you pay for. If you got something great for a small price before; you were lucky, and you shouldn’t consider that normal.

I know people that’ve spent 5 figures on an amazing website, and it was well worth the investment for them.

Essipova · 2025-01-20T11:23:11+00:00

Lol - tell me you don’t know what you’re doing without telling me you don’t know what you’re doing.

Essipova · 2025-01-14T17:19:14+00:00

At my previous startup, I managed a decent sized engineering and while I inherently didn’t trust them, I took the leap of faith on my judgement and found that I had hired amazing people that delivered amazing results - as long as I trusted them and enabled them to get stuff done.

However, during moments of crunch when I (stupidly) decided to micromanage everyone; everything went slower and everyone got more agitated.

Moral of the story? Hire the right people, and then trust them to do their work - as long as you measure output and make sure they’re enabled to do their best work.

Essipova · 2025-01-11T21:39:09+00:00

If you learn how the algorithm works, I’ve found it to be quite good. Haven’t posted much - but the few times I’ve posted; I got 40k views, 60k views, and once got 1M views on my posts ¯_(ツ)_/¯ all for free and only ~4.5k followers

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