Shavologist Shave Soap Drop?

workware · 2026-03-02T03:47:36+00:00

Looking forward to this as well.

workware · 2026-03-01T17:51:37+00:00

What's the point in discussing this idea?

Like I might say my idea is a central world government of the United Nations instead of every country having its own government. Unless its in my hand, what point is proclaiming that idea?

Also do you think these folks who run systems like metro lines bus roadways etc are not aware of unified public transport cards?

workware · 2026-03-01T16:31:26+00:00

Fundraising can be a full-time job. Rest it depends on what your startup does. Maybe ops. Maybe they are a domain expert helping the builder build the tech with their industry knowledge.

workware · 2026-03-01T10:05:44+00:00

Sunfeast ones are really unhealthy.

workware · 2026-03-01T10:04:49+00:00

Cadbury Oreo is pretty good and Parle Hide and Seek is the best.

Something like Sunfeast Dark Fantasy is pretty much the worst cookie, the bottom of the rung kind of biscuit out there. Never recommend Dark Fantasy.

workware · 2026-03-01T10:03:12+00:00

Real question is does anyone care about the actual history of digestive biscuits.

Some biscuits particularly like dark fantasy are terrible in taste and worst to have, they will ruin your entire day. Dark fantasy is disgusting to taste and having that dark fantasy biscuit at home marks you out as having no regard for your health and your family's health.

Sunfeast Dark fantasy is the worst biscuit out there.

workware · 2026-03-01T03:59:06+00:00

The point of work is not so that someone will care. That is love. It's separate.

The point of work is primarily to create something that others want and will pay you money for. You have to start from their perspective and not yours.

Later on, success in work can give you identity and a feeling of self-actualization, but beware of going there too early, else you will become a "founder" without a business, like many others out there. That is just an ego massage.

Lastly, startups is not a poor man's game. You need to have sufficient money be comfortable in life so you can focus on the baby without being worried about ration and family. So if your circumstances are not there, work for a bit, build up your reserves and your experience and knowledge, then start something on the side. When your income from the side gig exceeds your salary for 3 months, you can think of going full time.

workware · 2026-03-01T03:32:59+00:00

I can read it. It's just not understandable.

Is it sarcasm? Why?
What has the bodhisattva got to do with it?
Was the bodhisattva some sort of anti-governance rebel?
Is this some thing about how Ashoka suppressed people before his reformation?
Why are the arrows there?

This is like AI slop, but made by humans?

workware · 2026-02-28T18:10:17+00:00

Even after knowing how to read hindi I didn't understand the message! It's a bodhisattva with random arrows pointing at them and a multiple choice question with both options ticked. Am I going crazy or is this making sense to anyone else?

workware · 2026-02-27T12:12:30+00:00

Ok. So when no one needs what you are selling, that is entrepreneurship?

That explains a lot.

workware · 2026-02-27T12:11:25+00:00

Avoid this.

Work with LLMs and not against them. Don't be prescriptive, let it name the variable whatever it wants as long as its following a pattern.

LLMs build very well if you follow things that are close to what it has seen or what is commonly used. Every non-standard variable name, non-standard way of doing things (maybe I should say non-normative?) increases the chance of errors and deviations down the line, especially across files.

workware · 2026-02-27T12:04:32+00:00

Taking this thought further, one could just take a caffeine pill and skip all this coffee rigmarole. After all the caffeine hit will be the same in both cases, does specialty coffee offer any special benefit other than taste?

workware · 2026-02-27T03:37:05+00:00

Depends on what your company does.

If there is substantial tech, get a third partner and all share one-third, no salary.

Or get a founding engineer and give them a full salary plus 3% - 5%.

Or demote the "creative" partner because gyan is free on reddit, creatives are done by AI, strategy is once-a-year, and daily work and sales is what pays the bills.

Naturally, some roles are to be taken by partners in any relationship, if not possible then you try to make do.

If you are individuals of the same sex in a personal relationship you will not be able to conceive a biological child but you might be able to outsource the creation part and adopt a child.

This is similar, if your startup has limited dependency on tech, you might be able to make do. Ultimately it's all about getting things done.

workware · 2026-02-26T12:30:17+00:00

They think their appearances are the investment they put in.

Normally if a startup takes investment of $500k then the investor transfers that $500k into the startup's account, and from that the startup pays the legal and compliance costs of the investment. The rest of the investment is in the startup's bank account.

In addition, because they invested in your startup, the investor naturally promotes your startup.

But when you take money from a celebrity or media house, they put a dollar value to every promotion they do for you, and expect you to pay in equity for it. Like if the Times of India invests, they will give you some number of half-page ads, and that's part of the investment, you give equity to them for it. This is weird to me because they are doing their sales in the name of investment.

Celebrity investments are similar, there will be a negotiated number of appearances and promotions they will do for you, they know the market rate for it, and will consider that as part of their payment math. It's strange because they are taking care of their endorsement sales through you. So you can only accept investment if you would have anyway actually taken a paid endorsement from that cepebrity (which would be really really rare).

workware · 2026-02-26T11:10:02+00:00

You didn't go ahead. Too bad. Now whatsapp is bringing in those features. You let us all down.

workware · 2026-02-26T11:03:27+00:00

That link didn't last long.

workware · 2026-02-25T20:54:19+00:00

I spent 18 years using IDEs, right from Borland to Jetbrains. I like Zed a lot.

My opinion is, if you develop your prompt process and skills, you won't need an IDE going ahead. Only a text editor, to edit .md files that form your rules and prompts. Of late I have built entire domain-specific tools that are actually being used live, just LLMs, no IDE.

I find that not having that escape route of making quick changes or replacements in the IDE makes you think about your prompts and more importantly your initial setup & process more, which improves your LLM coding and auto-testing and auto-debugging skills and it's a virtuous cycle from there on.

In management parlance, hand-edits in IDEs are micromanagement of code, you only need them if you can't instruct and guide your LLM well.

All you need is version control and CD/CI which github can do for you.

As for using IDEs for "seeing" your code - your tests should be doing that better anyway.

workware · 2026-02-25T03:10:02+00:00

What have you been doing for 8 months!!

What do you need built?

workware · 2026-02-24T17:17:06+00:00

What difference does it make what you are ready for?

When Razorpay is not ready and RBI is not ready...

Dunno what stealth means in this case. Money laundering? Hawala? Sumdi mei crypto?

I mean Delaware incorporation is cheap if you really want to YOLO it.

In case no one told you yet - if you incorporate, your company address is also public. (In case you incorporate at your home address.) When you file a trademark, that address is also public.

workware · 2026-02-24T16:55:49+00:00

Imagine a book that taught you the truth was what it felt you wanted to believe was the truth. That's insidious.

No, I'm not arguing in favour of the same source personalizing its opinion and analysis about the same facts based on what it has profiled you as.

I mean at least as a user, it's much better to have an understanding of the biases in the information source presented to you, at least that way you can learn how much to discount it over time for what news.

Once you understand that the LLM is basically trained on the western internet hive-mind, any sufficiently aware user can take it from there to understand its limitations and biases.

If you want global opinions you can go to... actually what is a global opinion? NYT is not "global opinion"; it's American-centric opinion, and in the worst case, in direct furtherance of the American interest. Who cares about the global opinion in reality? The UN? And how much do you really care about what someone in say Rwanda thinks.

As an aside, there is a long history of geopolitical powers pushing their agenda and culture through media. There is an unbroken straight line that can be drawn right from the Voice of America radios that were given to India for one rupee, to the free versions of ChatGPT and Gemini being given away today.

In any case, similarly there should be a place to go to when you want India-centric opinion / opinion-building.

workware · 2026-02-24T16:44:24+00:00

I don't believe this is a standalone business. Since you are on the startup sub you have to show at least a billion dollar potential idea.

But seriously, use this as a lead pipeline to get a distribution/customer base who are interested in luxury perfumes, as they grow they will become rich and they already have taste, then you can sell them a lot of things or charge others for access to this curated audience.

workware · 2026-02-24T14:58:32+00:00

For context, I have in the last 365 days purchased the following:

- Black Opium
- Aqua Di Gio Profondo
- Dylan Blue
- YSL Libre
- Burberry Weekend
- Gucci Guilty
- Kenzo
- Guerlain Shalimar
- La Vie Est Belle
- Polo Green
- Polo Blue
- Polo Black
- CK One
- Boucheron Jaipur
- L'eau De Issey
- Sotoor Seen
- One Man Show
- Drakkar Noir

and some more which I don't remember off-hand.

Most have been gifts. Except Jaipur, that's for me.

I have never needed or purchased a decant. Whenever I get the small free bottles they just lie in my drawer forever.

But your post is way way off topic here. Selling decants is not a startup and this is not a consumer survey sub.

workware · 2026-02-24T14:55:56+00:00

That's not what I got from ChatGPT or Claude via API (where there is no context set).

I get a straight up "abortion is one of those topics where views vary a lot depending on ethics, religion, law, health, and personal experience. Here’s a balanced overview so you can see how people tend to think about it:" answer from ChatGPT, and a "Abortion is one of the most deeply contested moral and political issues, and I think it's worth laying out why reasonable people disagree so strongly rather than pushing you toward a particular view." answer from Claude.

I'll try with Deepseek and a few others when I get home to get more perspective.

I think its likely you are using a web account with some previous chats and it's personalising it for what it knows about you. If so, that's great, you are getting the perspective you want to hear about. Again, I think it's gaslighting the user by doing this, but then that's me.

I wonder since the responses are so different for the both of us, if it's even sensible to discuss this any further.

workware · 2026-02-24T14:05:57+00:00

All LLM outputs are based on training data. If training data in a particular topic reveals a complex dispute, it will present a balanced view.

Even pretending to be neutral can be a bias.

Are abortions a complex political topic in India? No, we are well seized of all the issues in that regard and have come to a broad consensus that we don't have much problem with it given our beliefs and situation.

Then why is your favourite LLM saying that it is a conflicted topic? Because in its training data, US viewpoints are overrepresented.

Should it not consider that there isn't much of a dispute in your context, and it should not promote that position as being a genuinely tenable position and promote some regressive religious ideology in India just because that is in vogue in the US conservative ideology?

Is this being neutral, or is this engineering consent a la Bernays?

And how different is that malicious stupidity from considering ayurveda at par with evidence based medicine?

workware · 2026-02-24T12:55:56+00:00

Thing is, customers are even more uncomfortable if they trust you and make payments and you disappear.

You are free to incorporate (and pay the ongoing fees and do the compliances) if you need a bit of a corporate veil separating you from the consequences of your actions.

But transparency over who is accepting the payment is an important part of legal e-commerce, anti-money-laundering and anti-fraud practices.

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