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2yr ago

What determines whether it makes sense to put energy into the business or quit?

Hard decisions at the start of the week. A few years ago, the hard thing for me was "to start". Today, it is "to stop". What makes you stop? (besides bankruptcy and running your funds... hh) What amount of time is needed to know if it makes sense to try to run that business? *God, give me a sign.
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5yr ago

Fb's daily active users have fallen for the first time since its inception. What's your take?

In the October-December quarter, Facebook s (Okay, Meta's) daily active users fell by about half a million, from 1.930 billion during July-September to 1.929 billion. This loss was mainly due to a slide in contribution from Africa and Latin America. Source: https://indianexpress.com/articl... What's your take on this?Where is social media heading towards, and how do you envision a new future of social networks? This gif is totally unnecessary but I think it's alright
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5yr ago

What aspects of running a startup/ a tight-knit team need to be written about more?

In other words, what's that one topic that you would really like to understand more about, but can't find anything that covers it in depth? Think team collaboration, time-off management, workplace cultures... literally anything you're interested in. I'm trying to understand what people want to read but can't find, rather than add to the same beaten topics while writing for Pause. Thanks in advance for the help
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6yr ago

What are your best resources for marketing a new app?

Obviously, PH. But I'm curious as to what other resources you've successfully used, especially if your product is a Mac OS app? Thanks.
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1yr ago

What's your favorite criminally-underrated AI coding tool?

I recently installed @Augment Code based on an ad somewhere, and I'm super impressed, but haven't heard a peep about it in most channels. But it got me wondering what else I'm missing. This is a crowded field with a few frontrunners and a lot of more esoteric newcomers, but I want to know about the ones that blow your mind but hardly get any coverage.

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8mo ago

Would you lie about your company's performance just to get better opportunities?

I think we all lie every day (even when we say "Good night" to someone, and we don't even have to mean it sincerely).

We also lie on our resumes, we don't fully disclose everything on our tax returns, and we sometimes fake income.

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25d ago

My coding agent may forget contents of CLAUDE.md, but it can't skip a hook.

There is one global CLAUDE.md that every project follows, plus one per project. Works most of the time. Not always. After a long session the agent drifts and does exactly what the file says you are not to do.

So I put anything that must never happen into a hook. There are 62 of them at the moment that run before the command and just stop it.

They include things such as DROP, rm -rf, editing files directly on a production server or clicking into a password field on the browser. The permission list contains 71 allows and 25 denies on top of that.

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10mo ago

We let AI drive our product roadmap (and it 10x’d our activation rate)

We ve been growing really fast (30%+ MoM ARR) at @Basedash since launching last year. Most of that growth has been the result of hard work, but we ve also had a secret weapon: an AI agent that acts as both a data analyst and a PM, working 24/7 to optimize our product s activation and conversion rates.

For decades, companies have been making product decisions based on intuition and manual data analysis. We wanted to see what would happen if AI could take the wheel completely.

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4d ago

How do you catch visual regressions when restyling?

I m restyling a live app screen by screen, with Claude Code doing the edits. My test suite has 262 tests and all of them pass, but none of them check how a page looks. So a change to shared styles could break a screen and nothing would tell me.

Before each change, I have the agent screenshot every screen I m not supposed to touch, using a fake signed-in session and mocked API responses so no real data is involved. After the change, it captures them again and compares them pixel by pixel. Anything that differs has to be explained.

That caught something I would never have seen. 34 screens matched exactly. One modal didn t: 1,334 of about 215,000 pixels were different. To my eye, before and after looked identical. The cause was that my first version moved the page into a new wrapper, and the old container had been quietly centering the modal s heading. The new one didn t. No test would have complained.

It also showed that a modal kept outside the new wrapper still changed colour, because my theme variables are set on the whole page, not just the wrapper. I had to re-scope the old colours around the modal.

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