I see Nova has been very popular. Why did the original developer sell it? There must be some business model for these sorts of popular apps that don't involve selling it? Crowdfunding?
The trick here is that they describe internal loadshedding as quota limits.
There’s a quote for your general class of query, and there’s a quota for how many can be in flight on a given server. It’s not necessarily about you specifically.
That should not be the case, if so it is a bug, if we load shed (which does happen some what frequently given the demand our systems are under) we should be returning a 503, not 429. If you suspect something is amiss and you get a 429 even though your limits don't show it in https://aistudio.google.com/usage?timeRange=last-28-days&tab..., pls email me: Lkilpatrick@google.com
This was the vibe I got, that they were actually just load shedding but writing it as a 429 with a message about the quota being hit. And if they need to load shed, fine, I get it, but it is a waste of time for me to go in circles trying to figure out wtf is wrong when they're just too cowardly to admit it because it might impact whatever SLA some PM has.
It just leaves a bad taste, and the second a competitor comes along that has an acceptable offering, then I'll move. Just ridiculous gaslighting behavior.
Regular honest hard working people, who struggle to make ends meet in large part due to gambling addictions and related poor financial decisions. Financially the guys who gamble are even worse off than the alcoholics that don't; there's only so much money you can spend on shit beer a week. The gambling addicts lose far more money far faster. If they were all tossing dice and losing money to each other that wouldn't be nearly so bad, but the way of modern industrial gambling is that it's done through apps and run by far away corporations or even the government, who take their money and basically make it disappear from the community. There's no winning it back, everybody but the casino owners loses in the long run. I used to be libertarian on gambling but not after what I've seen. It hurts not only those who choose to gamble, but also their families and communities.
There's a podcast by 99% Invisible about state lottery. Basically the journalist reporting the story kind of reversed his view on state lotteries over the course of reporting the story. Going from: It's good that we have state lotteries because the money goes back to fund social activities to: It's bad to have lotteries altogether, mainly because of the societal cost of gambling that you've outlined.
Not sure it changes EVERYTHING as the issue of sales and marketing still favours LinkedIn. Sales/Marketing is very expensive and sometimes even difficult to predict. Building is not everything.
Right, the point Im trying to make is that if someone has a requirement, they can build it on their own, for themselves, at much lower cost (because they don't need sales and marketing for themselves).
It was always possible (hire software devs to do it), but the bar and cost is much, MUCH lower.
I created PivotRadar which, to the best of my knowledge, is the first database on startup pivots. As pivots are relatively relevant for startup exits or investment monitoring, it might be useful for some of you. Happy to hear any feedback, good or bad. Thanks.
Hi, Looks good on first try. You mentioned the tool currently searches abstracts only. Searching full papers appears impossible as they are mostly behind paywalls, right?
A decent fraction of research is open access these days (it's highly dependent on the field, though). That fraction is also growing. We're building systems to access full texts whenever possible.
Hi,
getting funded is quite the challenge for startups founders. There are a many, many guides out there on how to get funding and prepare. I felt this can be made more intuitively by using Open AI and Pinecone (and several WP plugins), so I came up with PrepForDeal.com.
It offers “AI Tools”, i.e. AI chatbots and vectorized content (term sheets, investor criteria etc.) for the following categories of founders’ challenges:
- Investor interviews / due diligence
- Defensibility analysis
- Term sheets
The first two allow users to get the view of potential investors (VC and angels) on their inputs (e.g. founders’ characteristics, problem, market size, moats, financials and more). It’s also a way to self-analyze one’s startup.
The Term Sheets section is meant to enhance term sheet understanding and consequences of the major provisions in an interactive way.
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