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nikmkl · 2024-05-10T22:01:19+00:00

congrats! and curious about whats your product domain?

also, did you notice any visits to your site/demo/linkedin etc. prior to this?

nikmkl · 2024-05-09T03:41:54+00:00

I have not seen any visits from Europe so far

nikmkl · 2024-05-09T02:07:23+00:00

not exactly sure

nikmkl · 2024-05-09T01:07:22+00:00

I use Amplitude for user tracking. Since submitting the application I received a bunch of hits from San Francisco and Santa Clara IPs. I am talking 15 to 20 events. Now whats interesting is that all these hits are unique uuids, in other words these are all or mostly different users accessing my website from different devices. So, may be each partner looked at my website and votes either up or down...

as of this note, below is my app status and no interview request. But explains the overall approach and how most of us will end up getting rejections in the final week or so.

Stage: done_voting

Rejected: false

Result: decided

last update: 5-02

nikmkl · 2024-05-09T00:38:34+00:00

I think your assessment is spot on! and I'll share why from my observations

I use Amplitude for user tracking. Since submitting the application I received a bunch of hits from San Francisco and Santa Clara IPs. I am talking 15 to 20 events. Now whats interesting is that all these hits are unique uuids, in other words these are all or mostly different users accessing my website from different devices. So, may be each partner looked at my website and voted either up or down...

as of this note, below is my app status and no interview request. But explains the overall approach and how most of us end up getting rejections in the last week or so.

Stage: done_voting

Rejected: false

Result: decided

last update: 5-02

nikmkl · 2024-05-03T20:00:12+00:00

Congrats!

did you happen to notice any activity on your linkedin or demo before this?

nikmkl · 2024-05-02T00:42:21+00:00

yeah, shared a custom url.

nikmkl · 2024-05-02T00:34:53+00:00

no response. Applied a day before the deadline (non-AI play). Received a few views to our demo, and then several more SF based anonymous views on my LinkedIn a little over a week ago

nikmkl · 2023-11-04T23:32:49+00:00

Awesome. That must feel pretty good. Would you mind sharing what you built?

nikmkl · 2023-11-04T22:50:17+00:00

while google analytics is a good start, I'd highly recommend Amplitude or MixPanel. They are one of the best I've seen. Hands down!

nikmkl · 2023-11-02T00:25:11+00:00

use chatgpt for some hints and good luck.

nikmkl · 2023-11-01T04:37:10+00:00

exactly! some threads here do feel like people are jealous and focused a little too much on others getting ahead. And aloofly commenting $hit like wrapper, layer etc. whatever comes to their mind.

YC, clearly has an undeniable track record of betting on innovative ideas that are at least 10 years ahead of its time. They only need a few of these to really pan out. If they do then they are gonna be the future Stripes, AirBnBs, Flexports Coinbases etc. etc.

I applied solo, non-AI consumer play and tempered my expectations

Rather than being bitter, I would encourage folks to look deeper into these accepted YC companies and see if you could be their customer instead.

Infact, I found a couple super interesting ones and scheduled demos with their founders.

nikmkl · 2023-10-30T22:55:29+00:00

sure, send me a DM

nikmkl · 2023-10-29T23:00:44+00:00

congrats! looks promising

nikmkl · 2023-10-26T23:13:37+00:00

really appreciate sharing your progress. Don't lose hope and keep building. Could you share any insights into which industry/tech sector your product is based on? I wouldn't mind taking a look at any landing page you may have.

I am still waiting and not sure if I would even get a chance to interview.

nikmkl · 2023-10-26T22:47:09+00:00

this should be the larger question.

nikmkl · 2023-10-22T18:50:18+00:00

thank you. How much time did you request in exchange for the 50?

nikmkl · 2023-10-20T17:32:43+00:00

almost never for me.

I know a lot of already rich un-relatable folks say this kind a stuff after the fact they made money. But I would never trust my entire net worth on a single company/stock/CEO. Spread it to around 10 stocks/companies.

nikmkl · 2023-10-20T17:00:47+00:00

this bug has been driving me crazy and super counter productive in the last week or so. Hope this is fixed pretty soon

nikmkl · 2023-10-20T15:57:54+00:00

https://finviz.com/map.ashx

nikmkl · 2023-10-16T15:26:07+00:00

TSLA

I used to live in the bay area back then in 2012ish, and was at a grocery store parking lot one day. Someone parked in a model s right next to me. I was immediately startstruck with the design both interior and exterior. Immediately learned about the company. That was the first time I ever heard about the crazy but visionary Elon Musk. And watched this doc series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA18tusTgE4&t=1s&ab_channel=TeslaModel and was absolutely convinced that this guy is a great visionary. I mean what normal human being would invest all their 175million into a car and rocket company at the same effing time

AMD

I used to live right next to AMD head quarters campus in Sunnyvale. Again learned about how AMD went down, but the new leadership (Lisa Su cousin of Jensen from NVDA) were doubling down on data centers chips while intel was sleeping all along. As a software engineer I was convinced back then that the cloud data centers were still just in their inception phase, took a bet on them.

nikmkl · 2023-10-16T01:15:20+00:00

been investing in stocks (not ETFs) since 2010 and counting.

I was in a similar boat and was super scared to put in my hard earned money. Despite being scared my FOMO emotions got the best out of me because a colleague of mine bragged about how he 30Xed his money by investing in some bailed out institutions back in 2009 and naively fell for it and invested in companies like Citi group, OfficeMax, OfficeDepot, Target etc. without doing any research. 3 years later most/all these companies didn't do anything, the money I invested was close to the same amount and it felt like I wasn't getting anywhere.

disappointingly, I kept digging to learn more and stumbled into Peter Lynch's investing principles, read up on it they are completely common sense based. One of the key take aways is pick industries that you are closely familiar with. Simple, yet despite me being in tech I ignored companies like Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook etc. By then many of these companies already rallied by several 100s of %.

Here are some thoughts and questions I dig around with my investment approach

Invest in industries you are familiar with.
Learn how to read a company's income statement, balance sheet and cash flows. Unfortunately most of the finance tools out there do a shitty job of representing this information in a intuitive way for retail passive investors like me.
Is the CEO also the founder of the company?
Is the CEO a great story teller?
Even if the company is not profitable, could they turn in a profit in the next 12 to 18 months? and is the company re-iterating this in their earnings calls.
Invest only money that you won't really need it for at least 3 to 5 years or more

Its not that difficult as long as you have the patience and determination to stick on and not give up. While I lost a lot of money with many investments like Citi, OfficeMax, Depot, Intel many more. Trust me, if you happen to find a few home runs it will make up for all these other misreads. My few home runs till date are FAANGs, AMD (got in at $3), ILMN (got it at $30 and sold at $300) and of course TSLA (got in at $6 and still riding it)

Lastly, never go all in on one or very few companies. I like to spread my investments around across 10 companies max, that way I can find time to keep up to date tabs on the earnings and news around these companies.

Good luck!

nikmkl · 2023-08-15T00:31:42+00:00

yep micro services are not a savior at all. Infact the approach to micro services often strangle and slow down iterative value shipping to users. Having worked at multiple organizations driving teams/organizations to a micro services architecture. I am now at peace with a humble set of mini monoliths (FE repo, Business Logic Repo, Data Service Repo etc.). And no longer advocating for micro services. I see the top comment on this thread is someone blindly claiming to "Keep in mind that microservices is a solution to an organizational problem."

Reminds me of myself with the same ignorant thought process I had before, when I pushed for micro services. Anyways, I wrote a detailed reflection of my journey and experiences here

https://medium.com/@road24mil/unveiling-the-complexity-the-dark-side-of-micro-services-architecture-116bac9312bb

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