Congrats on the launch - there's a lot of unstructured public data as well (existing in the form of PDFs/Excel/PPT) are you planning to add support for those?
Also would be great to show the source in the list without having to click "source" :)
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instalabs commented on Launch HN: Parsagon (YC W21) – AI for public affairs and government relations · Posted by u/sand1929
> So that was a high-level overview of how all struggling companies are unique. But they’re also all the same.
Reminds me of Tolstoy's “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Have you tried selling to high-frequency traders / hedge funds? If they bite, it's probably not even worth having a low-cost/self-serve tier.
I'm in the business of selling AI tools to high-frequency traders / hedge funds and the bad news is that, most of them are so risk averse and/or technically illiterate that sometimes we joke that there's big alpha to be had in starting a hedge fund that simply embraces AI.
instalabs commented on Mercedes spends $8bn/year on R&D caranddriver.com/news/a62... · Posted by u/t23
Tesla build quality is atrocious, the interior feels cheap, and their repair process is very long cycle time. I’ve known several people in the “never (Tesla) again” camp and now they’re buying Mercedes EVs, rivians (surprisingly) and Lucids.
I have had a few Mercedes and they know how to maintain service on cars for a long long time.
I’d never buy a Tesla. They are a joke and you’re paying for the name and they used to be able to charge a premium because they were the first to market
The people who are impressed with a Tesla are the same people who are impressed with the build quality of a Chevy or a Buick. Ergo: they haven’t been exposed much to Mercedes-level build quality.
instalabs commented on Claude AI built me a React app to compare maps side by side github.com/veloplanner/ma... · Posted by u/caspg
What do you do if your app has a bug that your LLM isn't able to fix? is your coding experience enough to fix it, or do you ship with bugs hoping customers won't mind?
You start over from scratch /s(50%)
instalabs commented on All the data can be yours: reverse engineering APIs jero.zone/posts/reverse-e... · Posted by u/noleary
> Mobile apps have no choice but to use HTTP APIs. You can easily download a lot of iOS apps through the Mac App Store, then run strings on their bundles to look for endpoints.
Are there any good tutorials for that? 'strings' is not the greatest name for searching good information.
Not sure what "strings" is, but I always use Charles Proxy to inspect traffic for any mobile app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/charles-proxy/id1134218562
instalabs commented on How 'Factorio' seduced Silicon Valley and me ft.com/content/b9e419c6-a... · Posted by u/005vc16607
I know lots of people who play Factorio but for me, I guess it just feels too much like work? Whenever I play it, I get the distinct feeling that I could instead do the same thing but productively instead, such as by contributing to my OSS projects (sometimes, maybe even for profit instead). I never got into these types of programmatic games for precisely this reason but I'd like to understand other perspectives on this.
The games I play instead are wholly unrelated to my work life, such as FPS or RPG ones, where there is a clear distinction between what I can do and what I want to do.
> Whenever I play it, I get the distinct feeling that I could instead do the same thing but productively instead
This is me, but extended to all games. I stopped playing games because I feel like I can always do something more productive with my time instead. If I really want to check out, I watch some TV instead. But games (especially modern ones) take too much work without any real reward.
For the curious, here's the linked blog post describing how the project works: https://eieio.games/blog/writing-down-every-uuid/
Edit to add: I'd only tried searching for an exact UUID when I wrote this comment. I didn't realize it supports full text search! Now I'm even more impressed.