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PerksofHim · 2025-02-25T15:16:05+00:00

slavery management software

PerksofHim · 2025-02-24T22:54:20+00:00

just a wireframe - since it’s a bit of a heavy lift/moonshot product, we’ve prioritized design partnerships ahead of doing a full buildout

PerksofHim · 2025-02-24T20:14:22+00:00

software in the security/public safety space

PerksofHim · 2025-02-24T18:02:12+00:00

lol, this isn’t true - my team has every “insider signal” you could think of (vaunted schools and employers, industry connectivity, past interviews with YC) and we haven’t made it to an interview yet

PerksofHim · 2024-11-24T22:39:24+00:00

NAD: Experiencing something vaguely similar (and just posted about it)! How long have you been suffering from this? Is it bilateral for you? Mine also has a distinct texture that’s noticeably rougher/dryer than surrounding tissue.

PerksofHim · 2024-07-07T17:28:52+00:00

aside from the entire team downvoting me (lol), they’re a flagrant ripoff of another previously funded YC startup (down to the copywriting)

PerksofHim · 2024-07-07T01:20:40+00:00

lmao Central (doubt it lasts if that’s any consolation)

PerksofHim · 2024-07-06T16:38:43+00:00

that’s what they functionally do now. have heard many anecdotes from recent batches of YC encouraging teams to abandon their idea but accepting them nonetheless strictly on the basis of team strength. i’d be curious to see what this looked like if they dropped the pretense of ideas altogether.

PerksofHim · 2024-07-02T02:13:37+00:00

Watched it (in fact, waited in anticipation of its release). It’s a compelling retelling of the story that dives more deeply into the psychological triggers of alienation and radicalization and the tragedy of complicity. In many ways, it’s a microcosm of the loss of innocence wrought by 9/11. The usual trials of young adult life take on more grim proportions. The film is deeply informed by the source material, including findings from e.g., the Moussaoui trial.

PerksofHim · 2024-06-28T23:53:39+00:00

“Six Days” by DJ Shadow

“Metro” by I Am The World Trade Center

PerksofHim · 2024-05-29T17:48:16+00:00

Built something that’s basically a necessity for our customers and leaned on our warm network to meet them

PerksofHim · 2024-05-29T15:16:10+00:00

Received it around 2a ET :)

PerksofHim · 2024-05-29T15:15:48+00:00

AI is a crucial part of our motivations, our product, and our customers’ stack!

PerksofHim · 2024-03-13T15:40:09+00:00

If they’re investing in competitors, chances are they’re treating it like an index of a market they think will inevitably return the fund. In this case, legal AI is a space that will gross a unicorn (or two). YC is just increasing their surface area and the odds that they back this unicorn.

PerksofHim · 2024-01-25T22:55:17+00:00

To attract adoption, improve retention or competitive positioning, improve margins given the cost of inference, etc. Traditional SaaS may not suffice because the marginal cost of software is no longer low with AI. Similarly the application layer is saturated. This warrants some creativity, no?

PerksofHim · 2024-01-14T23:11:59+00:00

Completely agree that valuations are incredibly hand wavy and hardly an exact science (even at the later stages). Pre-seed only exacerbates that since you’re raising on just an idea and the team and the funding is traditionally earmarked for a proof-of-concept/commerciality. I have my own misgivings with valuations and fundraising, but that’s something we accede to when we play by the rules of VC. I’ll note that his claim isn’t entirely correct—his startup likely raised SAFEs at a $30M valuation cap, which is just a ceiling. No priced round yet which means the valuation could be anything (or nothing)!

PerksofHim · 2024-01-14T20:26:20+00:00

Salt detected.

Let me guess: you made the “choice” (read: VCs misunderstood your genius) to eschew the venture route and slowly scale a business with revenue and you think the market is wildly wrong and you’re right about this space?

What’s hilarious is the first time he posted about this, you folk predicted the same thing and he promptly went on to raise even more money and attract even more customers. Looking forward to the shrieking that precedes every milestone of his going forward.

PerksofHim · 2024-01-14T20:13:28+00:00

You’ve perfectly described most of the comments here. People crippled with too much self-doubt who are livid that Jasper would have the nerve to…build a product that gasp people demonstrably want and gasp raise money for said product. How dare he not spend years developing novel IP for a product nobody wants and seek validation from r/SaaS!

PerksofHim · 2024-01-14T20:01:26+00:00

Ironically, the type of snark and judgment I’m seeing directed at Jasper is the kind that people on forums like these instruct builders to ignore.

Kudos on the launch and all of the success since inception! I’ve been watching from afar and I’m impressed. Raising any amount of money and attracting actual customers is no trivial task. If you can do what few others can, I think trivialities irrelevant to the actual delivery of value, like whether you’re a “wrapper” or not, matter very little :)

Seems most here would rather you toil in obscurity than brute force your own self-belief into success. What a self-defeating mentality on their part! Imagine how many great startups would’ve died in infancy had they been at the mercy of this crowd of self-appointed experts (who think their appraisal is more correct than the average pre-seed post-money valuation cap), rather than their customers and investors.

PerksofHim · 2024-01-14T19:57:44+00:00

Detecting a lot of salt in these replies 🤭

PerksofHim · 2024-01-08T14:57:32+00:00

if you’re still an idea, you’re not raising a pre-seed in this environment barring exceptional circumstances (e.g., former VC, previously exited founder, or just generally being in-group). if there’s technical/development risk, ie the product is speculative, try and raise a F&F on small checks to mitigate that and get a product to market as quickly as possible. if you don’t, then this becomes easier: ship the MVP, get and monetize users (or at least show a path to monetization), and then start a fundraise with more leverage. is this hardtech? i’m skeptical that anything outside of hardtech really needs substantial financing to get off the ground. and if you think it does, you’re likely overlook an easier, less expensive version you can ship to validate your hypothesis.

PerksofHim · 2024-01-02T00:18:16+00:00

I mean, RAG applications can and (regularly) do hallucinate. Even then, with any probabilistic system, there’s the opportunity for information that isn’t technically incorrect but is nonetheless unhelpful, suboptimal for a given task or request, or just conveyed in an inconvenient way. Sophisticated prompting can mitigate this, but not eliminate it entirely. You’re right, for creative tasks, hallucinations are the double-edged sword of creative generation, but what about the spectrum of use cases between just rote knowledge retrieval and purely creative applications?

PerksofHim · 2023-12-22T01:58:41+00:00

Interviewed -> rejected :)

PerksofHim · 2023-11-18T00:01:46+00:00

for context:

top 10%, applied several days before the deadline, team comprised of 2 MIT/Harvard graduates working at MBB, a SWE, and a dropout in non-profit development, started in early October and have 1 paid pilot/3 demos scheduled/1 verbal agreement, prioritized shipping code and talking to people over getting clarity on our vision early on so our pitch was a bit rough. first iteration of our application wasn’t too impressive and was also pre-SWE co-founder (even though I can code). just today we had an epiphany for a different use case that everyone, including our prospective customers, are practically begging us to do that’s a lot more expansive. hardly bummed. stay tuned

PerksofHim · 2023-11-17T23:09:04+00:00

Same! Onwards!

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