Artem Smirnov

Very cool, very useful, one annoying thing though -- please please don't tell me how strong my password should be. This is not a bank app, this is a burner page, nobody's gonna bruteforce my account, I'm pretty sure about that. Just let me use my Google account for logging in. Please?

I need to enter one or two mp3s, stolen from YouTube, into our system to test-drive "English for startups", a possible feature for our language learning startup. And I need to recheck the timings for 10 other texts so that I could cut them into pieces and send to my friend in S.Korea who'll feed it into his Text To Speech system that would supposedly make it speak Lithuanian. Plus, I have to...

Yeah, fuck paywalls. Fuck the dying news industry that can't survive on displaying ads anymore and struggles to pay journalists. Fuck the creators who are trying to sell their content. We are C00L H4CK3RZ, we never pay.

With my next product I'll do the opposite that @robinkunz suggested: I'll ask the users what exactly they need, then show them the prototype. By the time I have a barely working product, I'll already have a few customers willing to pay me.

I should have hired a mentor who would force me to think more clearly about our startup and hold me accountable. Or join a preacceleration program. I think we would grow much faster.

1. I think nobody will give you the money without you explaining what you will do with them. So you have to have a plan long before that pile of cash. 2. I assume it's smart money, so there are some mentors/advisors as well. Advisors bring connections, connections can help with hiring. That said, I would definitely hire a person as a contractor for a month or two first so that I can be pretty...

I use Visual Studio and VSCode for coding, Terminus for command line, TODOist for tasks, Notion for notes, Toggle for tracking time when I freelance and PomoDone to avoid burnout. Can't live without all these tools.

Would be cool to see the acception policy. Like on BetaList, I can see that I'm not eligible at my current stage, so I don't even bother. For example, do you accept landing pages, or should it be at least a working prototype/MVP?

The most useful and entertaining teardowns I've ever seen. Just seeing a new one in my mailbox lifts my mood up.

Improving user stickiness.

Will it be available in the EU?

Do you have writers in other languages? Interested in East and North Europe..

I've got very annoyed at the registration stage -- why do I have to invent an extra-secure password? Do you really think that somebody's going to hack my account? Why don't you let me decide on my password's complexity myself? And is it too hard to add a social login?

The 2-letter country code is buggy -- need a font that supports European characters I guess. Just try Norway or some East European country.

Do you have an API?