danenania.bsky.social
Developer and startup guy.
Founder of plandex.ai, an open source AI coding agent CLI for real world projects.
Also founded envkey.com, end-to-end encrypted secrets management. Now winding down after a 7 year run. YC W18 batch.
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Nice man, it really is the best feeling.
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Nice yeah that’s far better than a per-hand rake.
How much bankroll do you need to absorb the swings?
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It’s an interesting question whether we’ll actually have a 100% reliable way to do this or not in a timeline where we have really strong AGI.
I guess you could always require showing up somewhere in person, but short of that?
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How old is she?
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What’s the rake? A lot of soft live games are impossible to beat long term because the rake is too high.
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Yeah I wonder why that is
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NL hold em I assume? Is there NL omaha anywhere? It’s always PLO right?
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I’m pretty much self-taught in all those areas so I think it’s possible, but will grant it’s not the most efficient way to learn
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For sure. I think many people (myself included) default ignore anything that smells even a little bit automated, and default read/consider anything that feels authentically one to one.
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Yeah I think you always get a better response with the one to one outreach.
Apart from emails which definitely work, having a Discord has been helpful to me for encouraging these kinds of convos.
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Nice! I think it’s easy to feel you’re doing the right thing when talking to users. Not many devs do *that* too often 😀
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Unless an actual goat has caused you serious bodily harm
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Sure! Clicking that Get Started button is an important conversion point so I’d say it’s good to be trying to convince users it will be fun/valuable for them to proceed.
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Awesome thank you!
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Take it with a grain of salt but my feedback:
- why should I want to save my favorite locations? what is the benefit to me? I’d make a tagline that focuses on that as a hook
- I’d use a photo (or slideshow maybe) showing cool places it could help me remember. with brighter/louder design maybe
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Nice so you are getting steady signups then, good stuff! 😀
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It’s pretty stark when you compare the two side by side. I think X only works for the big shots now. bsky is making it fun for new accounts.
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Cool idea! The logos look good 👍
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20 waitlist signups is a solid start! Over how long a time period were the signups (if you don’t mind sharing)?
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Congrats!! W18 alum here 👋
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Hopefully someone will make it soon so I can follow it! 😀
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I’m in San Mateo, CA, USA
- Too expensive but a great place to live overall
- Nature here is wonderful. I ❤️ the ocean 🏄♂️🐬
- Startup VC land vibe can be too much sometimes
- Bay area homelessness is hard on the soul
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Congrats! 10k is a huge milestone 👏
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Yep imho only makes sense to consider if you need ultra low latency and eventual consistency is ok.
For the typical app I think you just end up (badly) reimplementing postgres once you realize you need read-after-write consistency or transactions.
First rule of distributed systems is… 😀
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Great post!
Seems like sqlite is perfect for projects that def won’t ever need to scale horizontally.
Otherwise, still seems simpler to me to use postgres/mysql even if it’s on a single node. Similar benefits and easy to scale if needed without distributed systems headaches.
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For sure. Integrating feedback into the app can also help.
Building with LLMs is a lot of fun but can also be quite frustrating when you thought you’d fixed a bug/bad output path but it turns out you just got lucky 10 times in a row and really it’s still broken. DX can be rough.
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Yeah short gets you eyeballs but long gets you true fans and conversions.
Top of funnel vs. mid funnel. People often aren’t ready to convert after eg a catchy ad and a short landing page. They need more convincing and longform can be the perfect way to get them there.
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If you’ve seen @dagorenouf.com’s twitter course, I’ve always imagined a feed that basically tees up all the ideal posts to reply to based on his strategy… which despite being aimed to grow a following is also very focused on authentic interaction as the way to grow.
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Yep, another thing is to show posts that don’t have many replies yet.
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Awesome will be happy to test it!
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Ninja is a good brand
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Only reason imo is if they’ll spend all their time selling. Hard to find someone who will really do this. Mostly they just want to talk all the time and bikeshed the product so they can feel a sense of ownership.
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:Laughing Bezos emoji:
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I’m all about the pen and paper as well. Can’t even count how many notebooks I’ve filled up. Also got a desk with a dry erase board surface so I jot stuff on the desk sometimes too.
I’m not using any kind of digital todo list. While necessary for teams, I never see the point when working solo.
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Glad you like it! These days mainly from spotify playlists and mixes.
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I would love a feed like this. Has someone created one?
Basically a “maximize authentic interaction” feed.
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Yeah it does but not always—it’s kinda random whether it decides to or not. Perplexity is more reliable ime if you know you want sources.
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Just use perplexity and you can skip the verification step.
Personally I use perplexity for stuff I would have googled previously, chatgpt/claude for brainstorming and talking through ideas where sources/factuality are less important.
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youtu.be/kP9RJnmniDU?...
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Starter packs have given me a great “following” tab here. Much better than on x.
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Tweeting a link is one of the most basic, natural things to do on twitter.
It’s like facebook downranking wedding photos or something
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For sure. For me it helps to find small-ish things I can do that I know will generate some quick traffic. Like I know if I make a video and post it around, it will at least get hundreds of views.
There’s also long term SEO etc but my motivation is mainly the immediate dopamine hit.
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Yep, a side effect is once the LLM starts making mistakes, it’s usually better to reset with a clean slate and try again than trying to iteratively prompt your way out of it.
Once negative examples are in context, you tend to get more of them, even if you’re saying *don’t* do that.
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👋 plandex.ai