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dokein commented on New material looks like frosted glass but lets in more light than a window   popsci.com/technology/gla... · Posted by u/raybb
inamberclad · 2 years ago
Wow, this sounds pretty nice. I remember watching a MedCram video recently that pointed out that long wave IR light has anti-inflammatory properties and that modern IR blocking glass is actually depriving people of many of the beneficial effects of sunlight. If this could get people more IR, it could raise the bar for health across the board. Still, I have some concerns. It's a polymer nanomaterial, so it's probably fairly fragile. The "self cleaning" part is just that it's hydrophobic, which is nice but relies on the nanostructure. Again, probably susceptible to damage. The chemical itself, poly-dimethylsiloxane is pretty common but it appears that they're forming the nanostructures using a mould made via silicon lithography? That's not going to scale at all, nor does the coating seem durable enough for decades of outdoor use.

I only skimmed the paper so please correct me if I'm wrong but this is very far from production-ready.

dokein · 2 years ago
I can't comment on the manufacturing process, but in terms of durability -- would probably just put this in between two panes of glass in a double pane window?
dokein commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
dokein · 2 years ago
SmarterDx | 180 - 230K + equity + benefits | Remote first (but U.S. only due to data confidentiality) | Full time

We are an early stage health tech company using AI to improve hospital revenue cycle (making healthcare costs lower and allowing doctors to focus on patient care). The team is small but high functioning (MD + data scientist combos, former ASF board member, Google and Amazon engineers, Stanford LLM researchers, etc.) and initially scaled the company to $1MM+ in contracted revenue without raising capital.

We have been backed by top investors including Floodgate (Lyft, Twitch, Twitter), Bessemer, and are currently on pace to 30X in revenue over a two-year time period.

Who we are looking for:

- Data scientists

- ML Ops

- DevOps

- FS Eng (Senior and Staff)

- Product designer

- Technical PM

- Customer success

Be part of the journey as we hone our PMF and build to scale! For more, see: https://smarterdx.com/careers

If interested email us at hiring at smarterdx dot com

dokein commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
dokein · 2 years ago
SmarterDx | 180 - 230K + equity + benefits | Remote first (but U.S. only due to data confidentiality) | Full time

We are an early stage health tech company using AI to improve hospital revenue cycle (making healthcare costs lower and allowing doctors to focus on patient care). The team is small but high functioning (MD + data scientist combos, former ASF board member, Google and Amazon engineers, Stanford LLM researchers, etc.) and initially scaled the company to $1MM+ in contracted revenue without raising capital.

We have been backed by top investors including Floodgate (Lyft, Twitch, Twitter), Bessemer, and are currently on pace to 30X in revenue over a two-year time period.

Who we are looking for:

- Data scientists

- ML Ops

- FS Eng (Senior and Staff)

- Product designer

- Technical PM

Be part of the journey as we hone our PMF and build to scale! For more, see: https://smarterdx.com/careers

If interested email us at hiring at smarterdx dot com

dokein commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
GenerWork · 2 years ago
I see you're looking for a lead product designer, any chance you guys'll be hiring for a senior product designer in the near future? Would love to apply (have exp in all the areas you're touching on), but am considered a senior rather than a lead.
dokein · 2 years ago
If you send a portfolio sample, we'd love to take a look.
dokein commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
doublemint2203 · 2 years ago
worth an email to y'all as a student looking for internships? qualified for most junior biz/cs positions, interest in product & marketing
dokein · 2 years ago
Unfortunately not at this time.
dokein commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
dokein · 2 years ago
SmarterDx | 180 - 230K + equity + benefits | Remote first (but U.S. only due to data confidentiality) | Full time

We are an early stage health tech company using AI to improve hospital revenue cycle (making healthcare costs lower and allowing doctors to focus on patient care). The team is small but high functioning (MD + data scientist combos, former ASF board member, Google and Amazon engineers, Stanford LLM researchers, etc.) and initially scaled the company to $1MM+ in contracted revenue without raising capital.

We have been backed by top investors including Floodgate (Lyft, Twitch, Twitter), Bessemer, and are currently on pace to 30X in revenue over a two-year time period.

Who we are looking for:

- Data scientists

- ML Ops

- FS Eng (Senior and Staff)

- Product designer

- Technical PM (not listed yet on careers but we are hiring for this!)

Be part of the journey as we hone our PMF and build to scale! For more, see: https://smarterdx.com/careers

If interested email us at hiring at smarterdx dot com

dokein commented on Why you shouldn't join Y Combinator   newsletter.smallbets.co/p... · Posted by u/georgehill
MacsHeadroom · 2 years ago
I'm fairly certain most independently run american crop farms require many multiples of that in capital for around that much revenue if not less and NEED to exist. Of course they aren't good candidates for venture investment capital. But saying they shouldn't exist is probably a bit too far.
dokein · 2 years ago
You're right, and there's other things like restaurants that require capital and have a cap on earnings.

I should have phrased it as venture capital, which is structured to look for unicorns.

There are other forms of capital that are appropriate for businesses with a high chance of returning a moderate gains instead of a low chance of extraordinary gains.

dokein commented on Why you shouldn't join Y Combinator   newsletter.smallbets.co/p... · Posted by u/georgehill
greatpostman · 2 years ago
If you build a business that makes 500k a year, which can be done with 30-50 customers for saas selling for 10-15k, you can sell the business and retire. Even at 250k a year, you have an asset that could change your financial life for good.

If you raise VC money, the above scenarios are considered a failure. You will have to shutdown/get acquired for nothing. You have to shoot for the moon to get massive ARR, that very very few companies ever hit.

It’s really about the level of success needed to have a financial windfall, and bootstrapping is way lower for that.

dokein · 2 years ago
I would add some things to the framing:

There's two axes. One axis of the matrix is what the founder wants. The other axis is what the business needs.

The business needs axis is continuous:

- Some businesses obviously don't require outside capital (e.g. founder is equipped to get a sellable product built by themselves).

- Some businesses require tons of outside capital and cannot be bootstrapped; self-driving cars is an obvious example.

- Some are in between; e.g. many b2b products require a baseline level of features / complexity with active competitors that's hard to achieve by bootstrapping.

If a business requires a significant amount of capital AND the maximum outcome is e.g. $500K a year, then it shouldn't exist. This is why VCs ask what the market size is.

Some founders think raising outside capital is a "win". They want that external validation and then convince themselves and/or VCs that there's a big outcome on the other side (or, in the ZIRP 2021 era, get convinced by VCs). This is a mistake -- the only external validation that matters is market validation.

Instead, founders should think of outside capital as a necessary evil, and make a clear-headed decision as to whether the benefits of capital for their businesses is worth the cost (in the form of preference and control -- or at least influence). And it should be worth the cost by some significant margin, because outside capital is often optimizing arithmetic mean outcome whereas the founder is often optimizing something closer to geometric mean outcome.

dokein commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
d4mi3n · 2 years ago
dokein, SmarterDx seems like an interesting company but I think your SecEng job req needs a it of work: https://smarterdx.com/careers.html?gh_jid=4074835007

To somebody working in security, you're more or less asking for a combination IT helpdesk, system administrator, network engineer, and compliance specialist.

I've worked at a number of startups and understand that the nature of the job requires folks to wear a lot of hats, but security engineers are in high demand and you'll likely have more luck if you can focus the job req a bit more on the work you need.

If the work really is that diverse, you may have better luck hiring a reputable security consultancy that has all of those specialists on hand.

dokein · 2 years ago
We appreciate your feedback! We will experimentally see what type of candidates we can attract and update our process from there. I may be overly optimistic, but am hopeful this will attract the "T-shaped" candidate who's great at one area but is willing to roll up their sleeves in others.
dokein commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
dokein · 2 years ago
SmarterDx | 180 - 230K + equity + benefits | Remote first (but U.S. only due to data confidentiality) | Full time We are an early stage health tech company using AI to improve hospital revenue cycle (making healthcare costs lower and allowing doctors to focus on patient care). The team is small but high functioning (MD + data scientist combos, former ASF board member, Google and Amazon engineers, Stanford LLM researchers, etc.) and initially scaled the company to $1MM+ in contracted revenue without raising capital.

We have been backed by top investors including Floodgate (Lyft, Twitch, Twitter), Bessemer, and are currently on pace to 30X in revenue over a two-year time period.

Plus we have 4 full years of runway.

Who we are looking for:

- Data scientists

- Security engineers

Be part of the journey as we hone our PMF and build to scale! For more, see: https://smarterdx.com/positions.html

If interested email us at hiring at smarterdx dot com

u/dokein

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