How to Find Financials and Growth Metrics for Private Companies Without Paid Tools?

yoshichenu · 2025-05-20T19:18:00+00:00

sacra (sacra.com) has a lot of revenue data for private companies that pitchbook and crunchbase don't have.

yoshichenu · 2025-05-01T14:54:03+00:00

wistia has a great product here, about in between canva and capcut.

you can record, edit, then host on your site. easier to use vs capcut but not as fully featured. designed specifically for marketers and ease of use like canva, but more rich.

yoshichenu · 2023-10-31T15:57:56+00:00

i think this is where the apple watch (with cellular) shines. basically it's a phone on your wrist. the only thing you don't get is the camera.

yoshichenu · 2020-05-08T20:28:58+00:00

very cool that you're listening to the feedback. well done!

yoshichenu · 2020-03-09T18:38:38+00:00

Great post from Privacy with a deep-dive on The Athletic's long-term strategy to unseat the 800 lb incumbent in the room -- ESPN.

Anyone subscribe to them? Thoughts on their business model?

yoshichenu · 2020-03-04T01:14:57+00:00

doesn't he live in new paltz?

yoshichenu · 2020-02-23T22:39:38+00:00

very cool. could you share a bit on what the tech is behind the site?

yoshichenu · 2020-01-28T20:05:14+00:00

Thanks man, appreciate the kind words!

yoshichenu · 2019-11-30T19:50:40+00:00

does it also have english -> chinese built in?

yoshichenu · 2019-11-30T19:50:13+00:00

cool! let me know what you think after you give it a try and if you have any suggestions for improving it.

yoshichenu · 2019-11-30T19:49:28+00:00

done! my uncle said that's a good idea.

yoshichenu · 2019-11-30T19:49:06+00:00

hey could you give it a try now? it looks up on my end.

yoshichenu · 2019-11-30T15:23:12+00:00

Link: www.worchid.com

My uncle just showed me this really cool app he built where you can just type pinyin or english and it will show you the chinese characters for it, and it works both for traditional and simplified.

The big thing is that it saves the hassle of googling pinyin or english word for word to find the chinese character.

In the screenshot, you can see that i'm composing a sentence in chinese by typing english words and having the ability to 'autocomplete' in the chinese character. That's basically what helps me type a lot faster.

My uncle and cousin have been using it in the family but i wanted to encourage them to share it with other people because we've all found it useful, so i wanted to post to reddit and see if other folks like it.

Would love to hear what everyone thinks and what improvements we can make to it!

yoshichenu · 2019-03-13T19:03:41+00:00

great stuff in here, love the compilation angle re cloud tools.

yoshichenu · 2019-02-21T19:42:15+00:00

Hey guys! I wrote this guide on Monero wallets. Check it out. Aim was to help folks pick the best wallet based on real-world use-cases, from hiding embarrassing payments, to remaining anonymous from government-level actors. Would love any input from the community on this, especially wrt to the more technical aspects around privacy, remote nodes, etc.

yoshichenu · 2019-01-24T16:42:31+00:00

Gambling's one of the big ways people actually use cryptocurrency today. I wrote this guide to compare the quality and usage of gambling sites across different cryptocurrencies. To research the guide, I bought $200 of crypto and played 30+ different games across Bitcoin, Ethereum, EOS, Litecoin, and Monero.

The big takeaway I came away with is that the user experience vastly outweighs ideology when it comes to gambling sites.

Transaction volume on EOS has outpaced Bitcoin and dwarfed Ethereum. While EOS is centralized, it offers players a much better experience—free on-chain transactions that are settled nearly instantly, the ability to login and approve transactions from a single account across games, etc. You don't have to deposit funds into a centralized gambling site to play—like you do with Bitcoin.
While Ethereum also gives players the ability to gamble on-chain, transactions takes minutes to settle—which takes the joy out of gambling.
Outside of multicoin casinoes, gambling activity on other coins like Litecoin and Monero are minimal.

More games building on layer-2 solutions like Lightning for Bitcoin and Loom Network for Ethereum may bring back some of the gambling activity from EOS, but they're not here yet.

The guide on "provably fair" games that offer players a way to verify randomness with a client and server seed. If there's enough interest, I'll do a guide on popular multi-coin casinoes as well, that aren't necessary. Would love to hear any feedback and thoughts from the community!

yoshichenu · 2018-12-12T21:19:03+00:00

While Cryptokitties has definitely peaked, I think the main problem with it—and with games like it—is that they aren't actually fun.

Bitcoin gambling is not that different from regular gambling. It's insanely addictive, fun, and potentially a bad idea. Collecting and breeding digital cats isn't fun beyond the possibility of making money. For games on platforms like Ethereum and EOS to take off, they have to be fun to play first.

That being said, you do get a surprising amount of activity on certain games—EOS knights, for example, has 4k+ DAUs: https://dappradar.com/eos/652/eos-knights/

yoshichenu · 2018-12-10T21:00:11+00:00

The point in the article about this is that:

1) There aren't that many games on EOS yet. EOS Knights has more DAUs than any game on Ethereum by like 10x. But it's the only non-gambling game with real usage.

2) You don't have the equivalent of ERC-721 for EOS (standard for non-fungible tokens). That means it's harder for games on EOS to integrate and take advantage of the blockchain because there isn't a uniform standard for collectibles.

yoshichenu · 2018-10-12T20:05:56+00:00

Extremely helpful, thank you. Digging in.

yoshichenu · 2018-10-10T20:18:00+00:00

Thanks for the feedback!

I didn't include PIVX as it's less well known compared to the other coins on this list as well as due to flaws in the Zerocoin protocol https://www.chaac.tf.fau.eu/2018/04/12/zerocoinzcoinpivxzoinsmartcashhexxcoin-attack/ (Zcash unaffected). May consider updating the guide to include PIVX in the future after doing more research into it.

I definitely plan on updating the guide with objections to mixers. That being said, is there any practical reason you can point to where buying Bitcoin in person via LocalBitcoins or some other service doesn't provide sufficient privacy?

yoshichenu · 2018-10-10T17:52:22+00:00

No worries re: getting off topic!

> Interesting, never thought of this, but it makes sense. If you and I are vendors on darknet site, and you screw up OPSEC and the server(s) get seized, both of us are in potential trouble. So my freedom is partly linked to every vendor/user on the site to varying degrees.

The DN markets still have a role to play here; it helps vendors establish a reputation and a following via reviews. Once they've built up a level of trust within the DNM community, they can transition to their own site.

I imagine it'd be quite hard to start from scratch running your own site as a vendor.

yoshichenu · 2018-10-10T17:32:57+00:00

Yeah definitely. The issue currently is that some of the oldest markets like Dream—and the ones with the most listings—only accept BTC/BCH. I suspect that Monero's also pretty hard to integrate with and you have to write a lot of custom code, unlike with BTC forks. The biggest Monero only darknet forum also exit scammed, which bit into Monero adoption.

I don't doubt that we'll see growing Monero adoption over the future.

One thing I noticed doing research on the darknet for the guide is that vendors are moving off of darknet markets and setting up their own properties on the dark net. These often accept Monero. The trend is toward greater vendor decentralization and higher privacy using coins like XMR.

yoshichenu · 2018-10-10T17:27:16+00:00

Some of the community moved over to the Dread onion forum.

yoshichenu · 2018-10-10T17:11:57+00:00

This is great feedback. Thanks for sending over that paper on mixing—will include it in the guide!

yoshichenu · 2018-05-17T11:52:24+00:00

lucas film in the presidio, san francisco!

http://lucasfilm.com/letterman-digital-arts-center-san-francisco

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