ah. so over $100 billion, about 25% of which safe to assume went to friends and CEOs and executives at companies of friends of people making the big decisions at the top.
Nice work! Getting the moon info is a challenge, isn't it? My first sun clock was written in C++ in the 1990s. I decided to stick with a 12-hour clockface mainly because people are so much more familiar with them.
The concept for my Steampunk clock comes from the early 2000s. It's amazing what you can do in 3d these days in javascript!
Isn't it? The ability of the cloud-hosted intelligences we have access to is so hard to imagine. 1990s huh, and 2000's, you have a lot of experience and wisdom to share! I'm curious about some of your opinions/perspectives on topics, so I'm writing myself a note to look through your comment history and learn a bit more about you.
Thanks for sharing!
edit: OK just looked at your steam punk clock. so cool! & thank you for the kind words earlier.
I see you have a weather feature that predicts temperatures for the day. How about showing that info on the clock itself, maybe as color coding? Some ideas for other useful info that you can hang on your clock: (1) tide info indicated by a ring of varying width could be cool looking, (2) a second time zone so you can coordinate with a distant person. I did add this second time zone to my www.dayspiral.com clock, it even shows a green line where both people will be awake. (3) appointments?
yes, thank you for that! love those ideas. for your day spiral clock, hmm maybe I'm missing something, im not seeing the green line and not sure what happened with the show interface button. it stopped working after clicking it a few times.
incognito reset and I can see the tide feature now, very cool. and the side by side time comparison too.
I find myself a bit confused by the inner spiral, when the clock hand for me now is on 11am its on the inner spiral which intuitively leads me to believe its on pm, but after thinking a lot, I kinda get it. when I was making an interaction of my sun clock, I had a spiral that looked like this. to make it more "readable" and grokable, had the spiral come out a lot more so that inner spiral when the clock is at 11am would still be outside but break off right before it meets the outer spiral and just barely turn inwards. not sure if that is clear, but that helped me with readability.
TBH I delegated it to the cloud-intelligence, and it took a bit of time to get the algorithms right and once I validated it for one zip code, I scaled it for the others 3-years in advance and batched it over a few days and just uploaded a bunch of .json.gz files of the astronomically calculated data into blob storage. Didn't do much thinking besides how to boss around and order the patterns/"thinking" from the cloud-intelligence and my vision.
Sun Signal. A simple signal for the sun in your zip code, USA only now though happy to expedite your area if you want, it lets you quickly intuitive the sun through your day, week and month and plan around sun events.
however dont all these AI companies retain your non-training data indefinitely? Did I miss something where they suddenly gave you the option to opt-out of retaining your non-training data? I thought that was a big money grab of theirs.
Hi Eric. In this day and age, and in the next year or two, what do you foresee as the most practical first steps for someone to work towards delivering a startup for income they can sustain themselves on?
And how has the traditional loop of validation, delivering and iterating on products, and getting your first paid customers changed since fast output is now possible with AI and technology?
Please structure this for someone with no startup experience, and such that event a child can understand. And please create a version that works for someone to begin to validate their idea right now and measure progress, and modify/iterate towards a goal of money generation for themselves or a team now and long-term. (And would you also describe then how this person can work on attracting a team for someone who has never successfully navigated choosing their own team before.) (And would you also accept my thanks, this is very kind of you)
This is kind of a big and deep question, more than I can get into with so many other questions pending, but let me see what I can offer. First of all, we are living through a golden age of entrepreneurship. Unfortunately, because times of tremendous turmoil are often times of tremendous startup opportunity.
But in particular, this moment, the capabilities of individual people are being amplified thanks to all these new technologies. You have the opportunity to be an early adopter of a technology that billions of people will use just a few years from now, but you get it first. That probably means that the things you care a lot about or know a lot about, you could do something about it that would have been absolutely impossible even five years ago.
Now, you have to avoid that feeling that you're too late. I remember feeling, in 1998, that I'd already missed the internet. The vast majority of people have never used Claude Code. The vast majority of people have no idea how LLMs work or what they do. The vast majority of people simply don't even know that starting a company is something you could use this technology to do.
As inexperienced or behind as you might feel, just the fact that you're here having this conversation right now proves that you are way, way, way ahead. All you have to do is use that advantage.
It was a lot, I see that now. I appreciate you responding anyway! Thank you for the words of encouragement.
Personally, I think my challenge is less on starting, and more on finishing, and on the pieces of extending it from personal project to something others use and pay for. A bootcamp I did inspired by your methodology was still running on old paradigm and had us doing a lot of validation before building a thing; it didn't make sense when I can quickly development and produce with AI.
Would love to hear more if you would speak to that and I can clarify and focus my question(s) later. Thank you so much.
Ah I hear that. Do you think it's more like a self confidence problem? Not to attack or bring you down in any way, just wondering from a self diagnostic and awareness perspective.
I feel your way some times too, and when I reframe it and share with others from a place of interest and passion and let go of performance & anxiety, I usually don't come across as total garbage.
The OP said that this was coded by a product person though. The product people coding and using these tools, who are spreading the pro-LLM propaganda, are not doing proper prompt engineering nor lint fixing.
> _no_ LLM will _ever_ generate that
Did you even read the post? Seems you are being overly hostile, defensive and dismissive. Honestly, you sound like an astroturfer to me. I'm curious to check your history to see if you match the vibe.
Great extrapolation and extraction of value.
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