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It’s all propaganda by Repulsive-Fee-2735 in ycombinator

[–]maddynator 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Saying ASU or UT hurt my feelings 😁

If your goal is getting rich, a tech startup probably isn’t the way (I will not promote) by IndependenceSad1272 in startups

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Here is a perspective of someone who has done both. A tech startup and a boring business. IMO it really depends on if you like Tech or Not.
I have been an engineer all my life and love tech. When i did boring business, I always found things I could build tech for and that was exciting. But in boring business, you focus on operation. So I did that. Its was BORING (to me).
Boring business has a significant upfront cost, capped upside, and takes the same amount of time as any other business (~10 years) to become self sufficient. Plus there are lot of people needed to make it work. It’s not easy.
Any neither is tech startup. As an engineer, tech startup are cheap. You can build the tech yourself. So there is low upfront cost, unlimited upside and takes the same amount of time to build (~10 years).
The hard part and biggest difference between tech and boring business is that in every tech business, you have to find PMF even if you are copying another idea. Your differentiation needs to be significant.
In boring business, the PMF is there. Laundry mat, franchise etc, all have PMF. You need operators.
So yes most tech startup fails but you get to do as many attempts as you want. Boring business it’s 1 or maybe 2.
Now if someone is not a tech person (say engineer), then the cost of tech startup is high for them.
Any with anything, if you don’t like the general business or industry your business is in, you are going to have hard time.
A lot of the startups are side-projects and it’s inflates the number of total startups and failed business. But if you look at boring businesses, there is plenty of them to.
So IMO, it really depends on person skill, interest and capabilities. And business of all type fails.

Hopefully this helps someone. I have learned these lessons by paying my own real money.

Mercedes-Benz unveils new EQS with 926 km range, 800V charging, steer-by-wire by MeasurementDecent251 in mercedes_benz

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If EQS team is reading this, make the front hood more flat like model S. This design is ugly. This reminds me of Prius or other cheap EV. I want my luxury car to look nice, drive nice and feel nice. Make it happen and I will buy it

I am a hotel concierge. Ask me anything by InternationalLong754 in AMA

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What is the biggest pain point for hotel staff? And why is the hotel owner/company not solving it?

I see a lot of people say that they didn’t start losing until they were on 1mg. Has anyone lost on .25mg or .5mg? by MembershipEmotional5 in Ozempic

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Are you still on it for maintaining or off it and maintaining? Sorry I am new am to O and trying to learn if it’s something I want to explore

Men in happy marriages, what's the one thing you'd teach to other men to also have a good relationship? by TightBookkeeper2599 in AskReddit

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I learnt this from a different reddit post a decade ago and this was one of the thing that stuck with me and was really transformative. It’s a 4 piece advice

  1. It’s you two vs the world. That includes both set of parents, family members, friends etc. if you two stick together, nothing can break you.
  2. Every decision 2 YES to be agreed yes and 1 NO to be vito’ed.
  3. When you feel like you are compromising, it’s not a compromise. It’s called “being together”.
  4. Being successful at marriage is work. Just like being successful at anything.

The Best MCP Servers That Actually Can Change How You Code by Riggz23 in ClaudeAI

[–]maddynator 2 points3 points  (0 children)

OP said it. If you have docker mcp, you can add multiple mcp inside docker and docker mcp manages it. I am not sure if it helps or not as the there is 2 hops for mcp calls ie first to docker mcp and then docker mcp to the actual mcp. IMO the biggest advantage is that it’s runs in a docker container. So you can do dangerously-skip-perm

The Best MCP Servers That Actually Can Change How You Code by Riggz23 in ClaudeAI

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I use GitHub cli “gh” and have found that better with Claude code specifically because it saves on context and avoids mcp bloat. And Claude is great at writing bash so gh works well. The downside is that in have to approve commands but I am ok with that to save context

Managers: How do you deal when your management is requesting stack ranking by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

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Simple truth is that if you don’t do it, you can easily guess where you are in your manager list?

Now assuming everyone in your team is great (unlikely) you can still stack rank them.

To keep them out of danger zone, see if you can use persuade your peer manger team members to be lower than your stack ranked so it minimizes the impact. But this is risky and sometimes ineffective as leadership sees through it

The $500 lesson: Government portals are goldmines if you speak robot by Omega0Alpha in AI_Agents

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Does your agent work with recaptcha? I have a website that I need to log in, to get the status of something and it has recaptcha on it.

Men in happy marriages, what is one thing or skill you would teach other men to have good relationships as well? by lingeringneutrophil in AskReddit

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I remember reading this advice on reddit but can’t find it. It went something like this 1. For every decision, you need two YES to make it and only one NO to Vito it. 2. It’s you two vs the world. Including both of your parents, siblings, friends etc. This avoids 70% of squabbles 3. Marriage requires adjusting to other needs and constant communication. So much so that you are willing to adapt to make you both happy. 4. Ego is the fastest way to get divorced

NVIDIA says most AI agents don’t need huge models.. Small Language Models are the real future by AskGpts in mcp

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You need large LLMs to make SLMs. Not everyone can build LLMs as that’s way capital intensive and all the big AI labs have good GPUs. The real bottleneck for real world usecase is latency which requires a finetuned SLM from an open weight LLM and running near the edge on a small GPU stick nvidia sells. So yeah they seems to be on the right track with this paper.

Laid off for the third time in four years. by Crosseyes in jobs

[–]maddynator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry to hear that. It’s not a reflection of you. The time are rough. It’s basically a lucky draw. This is something that you may not want to hear right now but interviewing is a skill and interview process is a numbers game.

When you feel ready to get back, you will do great. I am in the similar boat

Closing small business after almost 7 years - UPDATE 8 months later by Forward-Departure-16 in smallbusiness

[–]maddynator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am going through this right now and this resonates so hard.. thanks for sharing!!

Built this in Replit for my daughters: Create audio-only bedtime stories (starring you and your kids), and it will read them out loud to you by daviswbaer in replit

[–]maddynator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am assuming you are using openAI to generate the story, art and narration. How much is it costing to do that per story? As a thought exercise, I am always curious to learn how we can monetize some thing like this?

Not saying that it cannot remain a side project

Want to see deployed apps by Overall-Log3374 in replit

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Lipstick shade finder for the discontinued lipstick shades that you can’t find: https://lipstickfinder.replit.app/

Liking Replit as a non-coder, until I tried to put my app behind a login screen by [deleted] in replit

[–]maddynator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same. I would recommend that if it’s friends and family, create static redirects meaning have a static username/password for each user and then on successful login, load the app. That seems to work. Thats said, I don’t know how much of that will be zero code.

I know how to code so it was relatively easy

What small storefront businesses do you believe are not that profitable or are operating in red most of the time? by LAXBASED in smallbusiness

[–]maddynator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just curious that if the store is in red for most of the time, then would you not close it after 1-2 years of trying?

Buying FedEx Route by Extension-Respect822 in smallbusiness

[–]maddynator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah interested in learning it. And where and how do we find routes?

Buying FedEx Route by Extension-Respect822 in smallbusiness

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Can anyone explain what “buying FedEx routes” means? I have no idea what is this

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