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chrisfrantz

723karma·261submissions·April 21, 2017
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building loops.so (YC W22)

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I think that’s somewhat the promise of Web 3.0 at this point. Painful to use and relatively empty. However, it’s mostly people hyping random crypto instead of actually creating value.
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I'm really impressed with the list of data sources (120+) you have at launch. How long did you spend integrating each of these tools? Having some experience here, I can say that this is typically…
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That was fascinating, thanks.
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This isn’t the opt-in privacy statement that Facebook has been dreading right, these are just the “nutrition labels”?
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As a counter, I think free plans are the way forward. ProfitWell, Canva, Mailchimp, etc are all leaders. Freemium is how you win. I broke down my thought process here: https://www.chrisfran…
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Totally fair, but I wouldn’t expect Notion to work exactly like a code editor. What I do like is they stick to the universal language of “working apps”. So slash commands, markdown support, code snipp…
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Just as a counter, I use Notion personally, for my side projects and at my day job. I haven’t run into any of the same issues the author has had. Most of the comments seem to be rather small compared …
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Just a heads up, a few domains are coming back as free but are registered. Check out paa.com
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Isn’t that just forwarding and cc’ing? I’ll often have long threads where multiple chains will be going within it with different parties brought in. Not to sound like the Dropbox comment from back in …
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The power of a brand name though. Wish is memorable.
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What do you mean by “outsource the risk”?
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It looks like it was written as a single stream of conscience. While I couldn’t write that article, if I hit a flow state and was interested in the topic, it seems possible.
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Ditto over here, just updated and search a song is nowhere to be found.
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Start with the startupy books and it might be easier to get ahold of the publishers. Plus you might get a bit of an influencer impact when they share on social. Think about how masterclass does it, th…
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GPT-3 is just the enabling technology, what you do with the tool is where a company differentiates itself. The key argument the article and your comment is making is that GPT-3 is the moat. There’s so…
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I have to disagree with the central thesis. Disclosure, I’m building snazzy.ai, a company that utilizes GPT-3. Counter to the article, GPT-3 isn’t the moat, the moat is the company you build around it…
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