... most important and challenging experiences you ll have as a founder is fundraising. I pitched VCs across London and San Francisco. Some spent 15 seconds on my deck. Some took the call just to diligence a competitor. One told me to ask for more money. Oh, and I found out your pitch is probably being recorded and run through AI. This is the high-impact version of all of those lessons to save you time, energy, and emotional damage. Please ... ... gateway. What do you see that other people don t see? Why are you unusually well placed to solve this? What access, understanding, network, or lived experience gives you an advantage that would be hard for someone else to replicate

... experience and hope to engage more meaning discussion with you. From my perspective I don t think the real question is How much should be free? I think it s: What should be easy to understand, but hard to replicate? I totally agree with you that the best free value builds trust. The best paid value compounds with context, customization, speed, and accountability. So I m happy to share ideas for free to various startup and people but the paid ... ... become decision-critical? If you charge before that point people don t convert If you give that away for free people don t need to pay Comment from Dan Sealey(@dansealey): I tend to draw the line at utility versus

... even a controversial case in China where a scientist was sued after attempting to create gene-edited babies in 2018 . But now we are talking about something different " mental cloning ." Not just genetically creating the body, but potentially replicating the consciousness of an existing entity . In theory, we could exist twice and continue experiencing the future in parallel. With intensive research, I think we might even reach something like this around 2050 . But can you imagine what could go wrong ... ... sceptical about that too). Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @martin_cervantes  It is fascinating, because you will have a memory of all events. Finally, we could possibly learn from our history and not replicate

... Today, I read a TechCrunch article about what investors are no longer looking for in SaaS, or rather, what to avoid if you don't want to lose their interest. The red flags were: Too easy to replicate light AI wrappers, generic horizontal tools, basic CRM clones, generic productivity or project management tools. No real depth products where differentiation is mostly UI and automation, anything without proprietary data, surface-level analytics. Becoming obsolete workflow automation tools that coordinate human work ... ... native team can rebuild your product quickly, investors won't bet on it. So, given all of that, how are you differentiating your SaaS product in the age of AI? Because let's be honest: almost everything can be replicated

... walk through how we approach these questions step by step , using Citable as the working tool among others: 1) Research Identify real prompt demand (not keyword volume) Cluster prompts by intent, persona, and buying stage Establish a clean baseline (replicated runs, frozen personas, citation normalization) 2) Diagnosis Where you re invisible vs

... industry average. The Numbers: For the highly utilized 0-32K Tokens input range, the model is priced at approximately 1.20 RMB/million input Tokens and 8.00 RMB/million output Tokens . Real-World Example: Tests suggest generating a playable "Minecraft" replica demo cost less than 0.2 RMB using this model. Performance Benchmark: In major programming evaluation sets, Doubao-Seed-Code s overall performance is reported to be only second to the current top model, Claude Sonnet 4.5 , outperforming several other prominent domestic ... ... active error planning and self-correction during development. Let's Discuss: What Does This Mean for the Community? The competition in AI coding is heating up, with models increasingly focusing on the balance between power and budget . A new competitor

... Just when I saw the launch @Hume AI how AI can reliably replicate a voice, it gives me chills. I wrote it under that launch, too, and I'll replicate

... least tens of thousands if not millions of minutes per month, which would be the most cost effective on the market? I've been looking at @ElevenLabs @Murf AI vogent.ai (not on PH apparently, new from @Y Combinator ) https://replicate.com/vaibhavs10/incredibly-fast-whisper/api Any others I (or o3/Perplexity) may have missed? Or should I build it myself with a transformer ...

... TLDR: I made a Kindle like white-label digital library that doesn't allow users to download files and also makes replication (piracy) of pdfs harder than usual. Would it be useful for you? ........................ Hello PH I recently made a digital library for a client. It was a freelance gig. They are a journal that sells research content as PDFs and had two strict requirements: The pdfs should be view-only. Users should not be able to download them ... ... prevent sharing) It should be hard for motivated individuals with the intent of piracy to replicate

... advice but I don t ever owe at the end of the year. Keep everything in your business and transfer if you need it as an income (bonus) Budget Breakdown: Total: $3500/month - Developer Salary:$1500-2K/month - AWS:$200 - Replicate Serverless GPU: $100 - APIs: $300 - Advertising:None (still in the test phase) Personal Finance: Pay our self first and then save for operations, taxes, emergency etc.): Remaining balance ($20k - $3500 = $16,500) We use about $10000 for salaries ... ... other businesses and the rest $6500 approx is for Living/operations/tax etc. Additional Finances: - Frontend Designer: $500/month - AWS Sagemaker: Very pricey; exploring alternatives