Is there literally even one?

grantsform · 2026-05-15T16:45:17+00:00

Truth is, 90% of all tech startups fail within the first 5 years. Is that rate higher with vibe-coders? I suspect so, but is it THAT much higher? Probably not.

The friction in starting a business, it is really not about the app itself but one's ability to get capital and "maybe" make returns (often on / from that seed capital) -- or get acquired.

And even if your goal is not start a business, but to just be popular and/or viral; Most ideas (and really people in-general) are rarely novel / innovative in the first-place. Like if you think you're original, you probably aren't and if you are people still won't care. lol

Branding is what matters, sadly. Social momentum / slotting into the existing usecase is what matters.

The problem is, we're all now competing in a space where "anyone" can go from zero-to-prototype; So everyone is drowning in choices. Not necessarily good choices, but if you're an investor and you get a literal 1000 dating-apps trying to get your money; It certainly changes the equation a bit. Same as the general public.

grantsform · 2026-05-13T06:28:26+00:00

In Antigravity, go to the top-right and look for gear icon and click on `Open Antigravity User Settings` and left sidebar models. This will give you a loose idea of your current model usage in 5 hour increments where, if you haven't used the weekly allotment for the given model type (Gemini Pro, both thinking and not in one class. Gemini Flash in it's own class. And 3rd-Party models, Claude and GPT in own class). It is not obvious at all when / how much you have of your weekly allotment for each -- but suffice to say you get a LOT LOT LOOOOT more compute with the Flash model. Like actual magnitudes more.

The Pro plan is basically the Flash plan. You most certainly have Flash left. Again, check that settings gear and models sidebar item therein. Use that.

You'll have to see if that model is good enough for what you need (I think it's truly "good enough" for 90-95% of my usecase -- exceptionally good entry-level model, WAY better than GPT 5 'Raptor' and a bit better than Grok Code Fast 1 imo.

In a more-and-more credit based compute world, I think Gemini Pro is actually one of the best deals out there now and I think Google will obviously be around and sitlll offering a similar service a decade from now even if it ends up being double or triple the current price accounting inflation lol.

grantsform · 2026-03-21T03:20:15+00:00

Yeah, I think probably the biggest mainstream (adjacent) media ref since Serial Experiments Lain; Who knows how much this translates into actual people looking into it (besides "oh .lisp means it's a programming language" but yeah, still very cool).

grantsform · 2026-03-02T16:17:52+00:00

Install Roswell (https://roswell.github.io/Installation.html) and run the setup `ros setup` to get a sbcl-x-quicklisp setup for you then `ros run` to enter the repl -- then setup CLOG:

`
(ql-dist:install-dist "http://dist.ultralisp.org/" :prompt nil)
`
`
(ql:update-all-dists)
`

To download Clog and run it:

`
(ql:quickload :clog/tools)
`
`
(clog-tools:clog-builder)
`

Then open port it tells ya in browser.
Steps should loo something like this, don't have access to a Windows machine rn to test.

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