I have been a member of HN since 2009. Back then I was fascinated by startup culture after seeing major exits like AdMob and Zappos. I used to think there was something magical or lucky about achieving startup success. But what I learned from 15 years on HN is that the secret to a successful startup is pretty straightforward (if not easy). Solve a problem that a lot of people or businesses have, charge money for your solution, talk to customers, stay lean early on, fail early and often, iterate and improve, and don't run out of money.
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I was having trouble getting GPT-4o to extract data like address, email, phone, tracking number from random emails in an inbox. Sometimes it would do it perfectly and other times it would fail miserably on a similar email. Then I tried asking it to first markup the email with schema.org metadata. Then I asked it to extract the data from the schema.org markup. That worked nearly every time.
Maybe there is an extra step you can work into your prompt that would help it get to the proper classification
byoung2 commented on Alaska Airlines grounds all flights fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_other... · Posted by u/1123581321
Looks like a software glitch, but no confirmation
byoung2 commented on Ask HN: Is vibe coding viable for real work or operating products/services? · Posted by u/haebom
There is a reason it is called vibe coding and not vibe architecting or vibe systems design. I have had better results when I come up with the overall architecture first. Then I'll vibe code to stub out classes and methods, and then vibe code the tests, then vibe code to fill in those stubs, making sure the tests pass. You have to handhold the AI like you would an intern or junior dev.
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My car detects an attached carseat and flashes a warning when the car is turned off: please check back seat. More cars should have this warning
byoung2 commented on Tell HN: My 3 competitors are all super polished companies run by solo devs · Posted by u/gametorch
Have you considered the possibility that 1 million similar companies worth $100 each will appear?
I know nothing about product, but think how many people could have done it with the same tools as you.
An app like an AI resume customizer based on job description will quickly devolve into a million clones. Something with a network and a first-mover advantage would have some staying power even if people clone it. For example an app where you post a job description and it sets up an AI voice agent as a virtual employee ready to be onboarded. once you have thousands of of virtual employees with company email addresses and attending zoom meetings, it will be hard for clones to break into that vertical
byoung2 commented on Tell HN: My 3 competitors are all super polished companies run by solo devs · Posted by u/gametorch
That's the double-edged sword aspect of AI: these models are commodities so you can expect to very cheaply build almost anything out of code as the price of code generation gets driven down to zero through competition. But so can anyone else.
Exactly...so if anyone can generate the app in a few days, you've got to find a vertical where you sign up everyone first and lock them in. Then the. next 10 competitors who generate the same app won't be able to get your customers.
byoung2 commented on Tell HN: My 3 competitors are all super polished companies run by solo devs · Posted by u/gametorch
How are your customers finding you?
byoung2 commented on Tell HN: My 3 competitors are all super polished companies run by solo devs · Posted by u/gametorch