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5yr ago

INVESTORS, what's the strangest/weirdest place/situation you were pitched? Same question to FOUNDERS

A friend of mine (he is an Angel investor) told me that he was pitched in the toilet once _ It would be interesting to read your stories (:
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3yr ago

Roast my startup idea: Pictell - A translator for image-based Text.

Target audience: Multi-national teams and Multilingual nomads Problem: They spend a lot of time manually identifying foreign text on images in chats, shared documents, and websites; making communication less effective. Solution: Automatically translate text on images to your preferred language on the original images. Landing page: https://mmntm.me/pictellai Do you know of anything like this? What do you currently use to translate content on images in foreign languages What do you think of the landing page and explanations? Thanks for your time and insight provided, much appreciated!
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2yr ago

You are invited to share your healthy eating habits!

We want to hear from you: How do you maintain healthy eating in your busy day-to-day life? Do you have any special recipe recommendations that are both delicious and nutritious? What apps have you used to help manage your diet plan, and how effective have they been? How do you make healthy choices when eating out? How do you balance your intake of various nutrients? Do you have any simple, effective dietary tips you d like to share with everyone?
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3mo ago

How do you implement AI quota controls for indie web products?

Adding AI features to indie products often brings unexpected API cost spikes. I ve been testing user-level rate limits, token quotas and cached responses to keep spending predictable.

I m curious to hear practical approaches from other builders:

  1. Do you enforce hard monthly caps for every user?

  2. What fallback workflows do you offer once AI quotas are exhausted?

  3. Which caching strategies work best for repeated AI requests?

Many generic guides skip these operational details, so real production experience would be really helpful.

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1mo ago

Are AI dev tools creating a generation of coders who struggle with high-level architecture?

I love how fast AI helps us ship features but I ve noticed a risky habit creeping into daily workflows. Because it takes two seconds to generate a fix for any error there s almost zero reason to step back and analyze structural design choices.

It feels like we're spending all our energy making code work in the short term, rather than learning how to architect scalable long-term software.

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20d ago

Do you use templates or build your slides from scratch?

Fixing slide alignment and spacing takes up way more time than actually writing the content.

You spend an hour tweaking margins and then someone asks to translate the whole thing into another language, which completely breaks every single layout.

I started using strict layout grids to speed things up, but multi language formatting is still a nightmare.

Do you rely on standard slide templates to keep things consistent or does every deck get a custom design?

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19d ago

Conversation I had with a user that changed my pricing

A user told me my product was too cheap. Not a complaint about quality. They said the price made them doubt whether it was serious.

I had spent years worrying that I was too expensive. It never occurred to me that some people read a low price as a warning sign. Cheap can mean accessible, and cheap can also mean fragile.

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19d ago

The habit that makes me a worse founder every time I do it

I check my competitor's product every morning. Not productively, not with a plan. Just a quick scroll to see what they are doing.

It is the worst ten minutes of my day and I keep doing it.

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4mo ago

How should autonomous AI agents pay for online services?

Autonomous AI agents can already browse websites, call APIs, use external tools, and complete tasks with limited human involvement.

Payments are still a major interruption. When an agent encounters paid data, an API limit, or premium content, it usually has to stop and ask a person to complete the transaction.

I m curious how makers think this should work in practice.

Should an agent:

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2mo ago

Hypership Day is today! Help out the launches by trying their products!

Today is all about shipping velocity. You can leave requests for the products launching today and they'll build and launch the features in real time!

Appropriately, given the speed theme, we've partnered with TypeSafe AI, makers of @Jev, a frontier model at real-time speed, and @Supabase.

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