my exact same experience... you knew they would fuck it up... and they have!
If "we need to have this done by Nov 12th" is the milestone they were going for, and not a functional flow, then it was a great success.
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arvidkahl commented on Users Stuck in YubiKey Re-Enrollment Loop on X (Twitter) twitter.com/softminus/sta... · Posted by u/nake13
Same here, been reporting the broken flow to customer support. An interesting part is the "we'll send you an email to confirm you're you", followed by a "enter validation code here" screen that immediately gets forwarded to the re-enrollment message. Also, no confirmation emails are being sent. Very surprised to see this being deployed to prod.
arvidkahl commented on Lessons from 15 Years of Indie App Development lukaspetr.com/15-lessons-... · Posted by u/Lukas_Petr
My sense is the opposite. I meet and hear about many more successful B2B founders and a lot more struggling B2C founders.
If you look at who's speaking at conferences or who's appearing on podcasts to talk about their successful business, it's almost always B2B.
Look at the schedule for the last listed Microconf: all B2B.[0] Arvid Kahl's maybe the exception, as he does more B2C stuff now, but he was there presenting about his experience with his B2B SaaS.
Hey, Podscan is still very much B2B, I just had another Enterprise subscriber a few minutes ago :D
I am actively moving further away from B2C, and even though I have a few individual users, the true power of the business shines with agencies, departments and enterprise companies.
I'm curious, How did you know about this thread here? I've seen this happen where a blog or site is mentioned and the author shows up. It's there software to monitor when you're mentioned on HN or did you just happen to browse it?
You might find https://syften.com/ interesting. I use it for monitoring Reddit and all kinds of communities for mentions of my name and the titles of my books.
Why does every single language landing page not have example code? I don't want to read justifications. The code should speak for itself.
Show me an echo server. Show me how you open a file and read data. Show me SOMETHING. Right on the landing page. How are we still doing this?
EDIT: I stand corrected - this is but a subpage. The actual landing page apparently DOES have code.
Linked above is a subpage. The actual homepage at https://fennel-lang.org/ has code and even an integrated place to run it.
arvidkahl commented on Why people care about PostGIS and Postgres pathtocituscon.transistor... · Posted by u/Tomte
Love the episode and the guests, but let me point out just how good the hosted pages look at Transistor, the podcast hosting used here. I'm not affiliated, though I run my own shows there, too. The UI just vanishes into the background and puts the conversation right into the center. That's good SaaS :D
arvidkahl commented on iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus apple.com/newsroom/2023/0... · Posted by u/mikece
Looking at the A16 chip and the neural engine on it, I am really happy to see machine learning and "AI stuff" moving onto my phone, away from the cloud.
I can't wait to see phones becoming a place for _useful_ AI use cases — with the privacy improvements of on-device computation.
arvidkahl commented on Don't fire your illustrator sambleckley.com/writing/d... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Ive tried letting AI write my articles. It was horrible. I tried ignoring AI-powered tools (such as grammar checkers, summarizers, rewriters, speech-to-text apps), and the writing process felt sluggish.
The middle ground is what works best for me. I use generative AI exlusively mid-process, but neither for input (ideas) nor output (actual drafts.)
Here's how I write:
- I source my ideas from contemplation or conversations on social media. Topics discussed there have at least some pre-validated relevance - I sit down for ten minutes and dictate my thoughts into a tool like AudioPen (no affiliation, just a fan) which summarizes my 10 minutes in 5 or 6 paragraphs. THIS is the AI step. The tool suggests a few paragraph structures that I cycle through until I find a good one. - From there, I write my draft, following that outline. No more AI tools here other than grammar checking at the end.
AI is a great writing partner. It's a horrible writer.
SEO optimization is actively destroying the archives of blogs out there. Pruning articles to rank better is rewarded. Removing knowledge to "play the game" is a viable path to making money.
The saving grace here? The existence of the Wayback Machine. A non-profit by the Internet Archive that is severely underfunded. If you ever needed a reason to donate, this is probably it. And even then, the survival of this information depends on a singular platform. Digital historians of the future will have a tough job.
We'll have to see how this plays out. Games Workshop is (supposedly) notoriously litigous, and they've gone after artists who get too close to their art style. AI models are trained on that, so this is going to be an interesting thing to monitor.