Trevor Loy

Trevor Loy

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Managing Partner & Founder at Flywheel Ventures. 3x founder, investor, and Stanford lecturer. Interested in startups, new technology, and the people building what’s next.

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4d ago

Why does my AI need 2 seconds to answer when the speech-to-text is already done?🤔

I'm building a real-time voice AI application, and I ran into a problem I didn't expect.

The speech-to-text part is already streaming and feels fast . But then...

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5d ago

40% lifetime commission for a SaaS affiliate program — too much?

I'm currently working on the affiliate strategy for a new SaaS product and considering offering a 40% lifetime recurring commission.

My thinking is that, as an early-stage product without a large distribution channel yet, I'd rather give affiliates a much stronger incentive and reach customers I probably wouldn't be able to reach on my own.

For founders who have already run affiliate programs with recurring commissions:

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7d ago

What tech stack is everyone using these days?

I m currently on Tauri, and I also have another project built with native Swift that s waiting for App Store review. After months of development, I can clearly feel that Tauri being frontend-based fits much better into today s agent/AI ecosystem:

  • AI is way more familiar with frontend stacks: React/Vue/TypeScript/etc. The code it generates is often more structured than what I d write by hand.

  • Tauri is cross-platform: Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android (even if I don t need all of them right now).

  • A lot of tools for making promo videos/posters like Remotion are frontend-based. With AI agents, you can produce videos that are pixel-perfect: e.g., spin up a Vite dev server, let the agent read the HTML directly, and render it with Remotion exact replica. Totally different experience from Swift. (Though for Swift/iOS, Goldie is actually a great project for generating marketing visuals too.)

  • Building a C/S architecture with a frontend stack is cheaper it s all TypeScript, lol.

But there are also plenty of pain points:

  • On Apple ecosystem, you have to roll your own packaging & upload scripts nowhere near as smooth as Xcode. And they break after updates (looking at you, macOS 26).

  • You miss out on native Apple component styles and APIs. My Swift project uses lots of new APIs and device-specific features with Tauri I d need a bunch of plugins and FFI.

  • Cross-platform UI consistency issues seems like a Tauri classic, and also why many still choose Electron.

  • Rust well, not a problem for me. And with AI + clippy, the Rust code isn t just fast, it s also fast. Good enough for most cases.

  • IAP requires your app to be a .app bundle can t just tauri dev for debugging, so that s extra workflow overhead (I now have 10+ scripts in my repo just for packaging).

  • Icon issues on macOS with Tauri, icons might appear too big at first, then too small later. Xcode is still the boss here.

  • etc.

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