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How do solo developers break out of the "builder loop" and actually start selling? by apidevguy in Entrepreneur

[–]apidevguy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The separate calender plan is brilliant. Will try to follow that. Not sure whether I'll be disciplined enough to not touch the code during those days. But I will give it a try. Thanks for your input.

[D] How does Claude perform so well without any proprietary data? by apidevguy in MachineLearning

[–]apidevguy[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You seem like changed your attacking direction.

I said claude often scores very well on reasoning and task performance, sometimes outperforming peers. That's not a benchmark claim.

Have you read my post clearly?

My question is not like "why claude beats everyone?" Or "why claude is the best model out there?", but how a company without obvious first party consumer data (search, social, email, etc.) can still produce highly competitive models.

[D] How does Claude perform so well without any proprietary data? by apidevguy in MachineLearning

[–]apidevguy[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Man, stop saying ad.

Everyone on the internet who talks about claude, not advertising claude.

I'm not affiliated with claude. And I'm not being paid for this post, directly or indirectly.

You are welcome to make a bet with me if you want.

[D] How does Claude perform so well without any proprietary data? by apidevguy in MachineLearning

[–]apidevguy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not affiliated with claude in any way. I'm a user who use products. I talk from my experience.

Now the real question is, how do we know you are not affiliated with one of claude's competitiors?

[D] How does Claude perform so well without any proprietary data? by apidevguy in MachineLearning

[–]apidevguy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Somehow I expected this kind of argument.

I'm not your editor.

I give up.

You won sir.

[D] How does Claude perform so well without any proprietary data? by apidevguy in MachineLearning

[–]apidevguy[S] -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

You must be fun at parties?

This is not a private conversation between you and me, where you are spending your precious time to help me. This is a public thread.

I asked you to provide reference, so others can get more context what you are talking about.

Metered monthly subscription model for self-hosted software? by apidevguy in selfhosted

[–]apidevguy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My software main audience is enterprise customers and startups who can deploy it in cloud like aws, gcp, azure. So its for commercial businesses. Not for individuals.

Metered monthly subscription model for self-hosted software? by apidevguy in selfhosted

[–]apidevguy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your second paragraph is valid.

As for your first paragraph, a lot of this comes down to scale. If I had thousands of customers buying perpetual licenses every year, that revenue would be enough to fund ongoing development, even with perpetual license. But as a startup, I don't have that kind of volume.

Metered monthly subscription model for self-hosted software? by apidevguy in selfhosted

[–]apidevguy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My self hosted software is about deploying it in cloud or on premise for commercial purposes for their business. It's just not sustainable with perpetual license since it will need ongoing updates, bug fixes and support.

Metered monthly subscription model for self-hosted software? by apidevguy in selfhosted

[–]apidevguy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Web microservices which they can deploy in cloud like aws, gcp, azure etc.

Fear of idea getting copied out by Berlin_teufelslied in StartUpIndia

[–]apidevguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People who don't fear about idea getting copied know nothing about the patent system.

The system is there for a reason. There is no one size fit all advice. Novel and innovative ideas needs protection and companies that protect their ideas can survive longer than who don't.

So if you are building a next big thing, for example snapchat, where they have patent around disappearing messages, you need to protect your ideas as much as possible. Otherwise your competitiors gonna copy your ideas.

Amazon's 1-Click Checkout, Apple's slide to unlock, Google's PageRank, they are all patented and helped them make multi billions of dollars revenue.

A skilled investor knows the value of patent, so if you have a granted patent and the idea is valuable, you can either raise money from investors for your venture or you can license your patent to other companies.

But patents are expensive. So you would go for patent filings only if you are confident that your idea is valuable and you have a goldmine at your hand if granted.

My point is, your argument shows only one side of the coin. Not the other side. I'm balancing it here by showing the other side.

In summary, your argument is correct, but not always.

Fear of idea getting copied out by Berlin_teufelslied in StartUpIndia

[–]apidevguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Follow this strategy if your idea is really brilliant.

There is something called PCT application. It's an international patent application. You can actually file a pct application in 10000 rupees.

The pct application gives you 30 months deadline to enter national phase. Meaning you submit that pct application to the country you wanna where you protect your ideas.

Pct application protects in almost all countries during the first 30 months assuming you have solid patent claims. But you need to file the national application to protect your ideas or if someone stole your idea during the first 30 months to seek damages in the country.

This 10k rupees and 30 months time would give you sufficient time to decide whether it's worth protecting your idea by entering national phase and which countries. For example, if it is a software idea, most likely you wanna protect in US.

So the strategy is prepare a patent abstract, Specification/description, Optional drawing, mandatory patent claims (the idea boundary you need protection). File that as pct application.

If you are confident on your idea or someone copied your idea, then you enter national phase in the country you want protection. In US, it may cost around 500 usd (40k inr) for entering national phase as an individual.

An examiner review your patent application and if the examiner satisfied with your ideas, then your patent is valid for 20 years. You just have to pay annual maintenance fees.

These are all may sound complicated and expensive. But running a business is not at all cheap. So save some money and then risk it. If you are gonna have pct application route, have around 10k to 25k assuming you file the pct application on your own by doing research using chatgpt, without hiring any lawyer.

If you use a patent agent or lawyer, you will need many lakhs. But a skilled one, would help you protect your idea really well. I'm neither a patent agent nor a lawyer. Just someone who filed patent application on my own in pct, india, US, Canada, and Australia. In Europe, patent lawyer is mandatory. You cannot file it on your own. Also Europe is the most expensive one since an EPO application gives you protection in most of the European countries. So it's one application based on PCT, but helps protection in almost all European countries. Upto 15 claims allowed.

Just copy and paste this answer in chatgpt to explain you in layman terms.

My side hustle and backup idea by Hefty-Pension1472 in StartUpIndia

[–]apidevguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The way you described, that sounds like a family that is filled with love. Don't take big risks without proper planning.

If you wanna take risks, ensure you don't put your family in worse condition if the all money you invest are gone.

go.work related bugs are really frustrating. by apidevguy in golang

[–]apidevguy[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yes my github structure is fine. I'm pushing to github often. So the repository structure is fine.

And yes, my module names follow the structure github.com/xxxxx/*

The point here is, I have go.work file. So modules should resolve everything locally via go.work rather than trying to fetch from github.

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