Yuki_Code1

Yuki_Code1

Building intuitive DX tools at Ark Lab

About

Founder of Ark Co., Ltd. in Tokyo. One developer, one dog, one PC. I build small tools around a simple idea: the information you need in an emergency exists somewhere, but never where you are when you need it. That led to survivalOS (disaster preparedness) and ANZEN (crime prevention), plus a few workflow tools along the way. I comment on launches in the areas I actually care about — developer tools, productivity, anything that touches how people handle information under pressure. I haven't launched anything here yet, but I plan to start sharing what I'm building.

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Maker History

  • MarcheZ
    MarcheZTaskBox: Turn tiny chores into shared contributions.
    May 2026
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    Joined Product HuntApril 22nd, 2026

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25d ago

Is raising money still in demand, or has the sentiment around VC funding changed?

When someone raised money, especially from a prominent VC with a strong reputation, like Antler or Y Combinator, the company immediately sounded more trustworthy to me.

But the latest analysis shared by @4kulia showed that in the first half of the year, only 26 launches were VC-funded.

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26d ago

Your model provider can change your product overnight and you find out from a user

We run 30+ models across six studios in Arteza and every one of them belongs to someone else. If a provider retires a version or quietly reweights it, the thing a paying user made last month stops being reproducible this month, and I have no changelog to hand them.

Pinning a version only delays it. The pin gets deprecated too, usually with a few weeks of notice, and the replacement is better on the benchmark and different on the exact prompts people have built habits around. Better is not the same as the same.

The part I don't have is detection. You'd need a fixed set of prompts running on a schedule with a person looking at the outputs, which is an eval suite for taste, and I've never seen one that works. So in practice we find out when someone writes in to say it used to look right.

If you're building on models you don't own, do you check for drift at all, or does a user tell you first?

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28d ago

How do you see the shift of the Apple company under the new CEO leadership?

There have been several articles about Apple in recent days from many angles.

For example:

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