How do you stay alive when there's a billion AI email companies out there?
Readit News1zael commented on From Hackathon to YC producthunt.com/p/april-y... · Posted by u/rmason
1zael commented on What makes Claude Code so damn good minusx.ai/blog/decoding-c... · Posted by u/samuelstros
We get it; it helped you build a bunch of stuff. Why not just post your company?
We're in the govtech x AI space (building software for local governments and government-adjacent customers). I don't feel comfortable linking my direct startup yet - it serves me no benefit here (I just get judged by a bunch of angry programmers) and we're in the middle of fundraising with investors.
1zael commented on What makes Claude Code so damn good minusx.ai/blog/decoding-c... · Posted by u/samuelstros
> I've literally built the entire MVP of my startup on Claude Code and now have paying customers.
Would you mind linking to your startup? I’m genuinely curious to see it.
(I won’t reply back with opinions about it. I just want to know what people are actually building with these tools!)
We're in the govtech x AI space (building software for local governments and government-adjacent customers). I don't feel comfortable linking my direct startup yet - it serves me no benefit here (I just get judged by a bunch of angry programmers) and we're in the middle of fundraising.
1zael commented on What makes Claude Code so damn good minusx.ai/blog/decoding-c... · Posted by u/samuelstros
Well, don't be shy, share what CC helped you build.
Answered above, but to be concrete on features --> it helped me build an end-to-end multi-stage pipeline architecture for video and audio transcription, LLM analysis, content generation, and evals. It took care of stuff like Postgres storage and pgvector for RAG-powered semantic search, background job orchestration with intelligent retry logic, Celery workers for background jobs, and MCP connectors.
1zael commented on What makes Claude Code so damn good minusx.ai/blog/decoding-c... · Posted by u/samuelstros
> I hope this story becomes more and more common as time passes.
Why????????????
Why do you want devs to lose cognaizance of their own "work" to the point that they have "existential worry"?
Why are people like you trying to drown us all in slop? I bet you could replace your slop pile with a tenth of the lines of clean code, and chances are it'd be less work than you think.
Is it because you're lazy?
Congratulations, you replace my pile of "slop" (which really is functional, tight code written by AI in 1/1000th of the time it would take me to write it) with your "shorter" code that has the exact same functionality and performance. Congrats? The reality is no one (except in the case of like competitive programming) cares about the length of your code so long as it's maintainable.
1zael commented on What makes Claude Code so damn good minusx.ai/blog/decoding-c... · Posted by u/samuelstros
“Implementing test-driven development, and planning out software architecture in accordance with my long-term product roadmap” can you give some concrete examples of how CC helped you here?
Yeah, so I continuously maintain a claude.md file with the feature roadmap for my product (which changes every week but acts as a source of truth). I feed that into a claude software architecture agent that I created, which reviews proposed changes for my current feature build against the longer-term roadmap to ensure I don't 1\ create tech debt with my current approach and 2\ identify opportunities to parallelize work that could help with multiple upcoming features at once.
I have also a code reviewer agent in CC that writes all my unit and integration tests, which feeds into my CI/CD pipeline. I use the "/security" command that Claude recently released to review my code for security vulnerabilities while also leveraging a red team agent that tests my codebase for vulnerabilities to patch.
I'm starting to integrate Claude into Linear so I can assign Linear tickets to Claude to start working on while I tackle core stuff. Hope that helps!
1zael commented on What makes Claude Code so damn good minusx.ai/blog/decoding-c... · Posted by u/samuelstros
I've literally built the entire MVP of my startup on Claude Code and now have paying customers. I've got an existential worry that I'm going to have a SEV incident that will trigger a house of falling cards, but until then I'm constantly leveraging Claude for fixing security vulnerabilities, implementing test-driven-development, and planning out the software architecture in accordance with my long-term product roadmap. I hope this story becomes more and more common as time passes.
The Vulkan compute shader implementations are cool...particularly for FFv1 and ProRes RAW. Given that these bypass fixed-function hardware decoders entirely, I'm curious about the memory bandwidth implications. FFv1's context-adaptive arithmetic coding seems inherently sequential, yet they're achieving "very significant speedups."
Are they using wavefront/subgroup operations to parallelize the range decoder across multiple symbols simultaneously? Or exploiting the slice-level parallelism with each workgroup handling independent slices? The arithmetic coding dependency chain has traditionally been the bottleneck for GPU acceleration of these codecs.
I'd love to hear from anyone who's profiled the compute shader implementation - particularly interested in the occupancy vs. bandwidth tradeoff they've chosen for the entropy decoding stage.
1zael commented on Launch HN: Skope (YC S25) – Outcome-based pricing for software products · Posted by u/benjsm
1zael commented on Launch HN: Skope (YC S25) – Outcome-based pricing for software products · Posted by u/benjsm
I'd suggest making your developer documentation public. A huge part of understanding whether I need this or not is reading how to build in your outcome-based pricing integration into my product.