It should have always worked this way. Without this feature you take the algebra out of relational algebra. That's the root of most of the composition issues in SQL.
Sadly it's a few decades too late though, and sadly this just fragments the "ecosystem" further.
The best strategy is to write a helper function in the console to click for you. Then invest heavily in the DVDs, DVD bounce rate, stimulation per bounce, and general SPS increases.
I reached several quintillion stimulation, at which point I was offered to purchase "go to the beach" for 2 million. This ends the game and plays a relaxing beach video.
This is a beautiful comment, and I couldn't agree more.
There is only one standard of accomplishment and it's set by people like Mozart.
Accepting that is humbling, but it's required to know yourself and grow. My contributions probably won't amount to much, but Mozart (et al) have shown us what good looks like and it's fun to strive.
This was not my experience. I have no degree, I'm not American, and I applied back in October 2021 about 3 hours before the dead line and filmed my application video from a coffee shop. I didn't have a good network. I didn't have a product yet. I was accepted first time.
As you say, a lot of YC founders don't have a real business yet, but they're not there because they're well connected. They're there because YC thinks they fit the profile of someone who really wants to build a big business and might pull it off. They're wrong most of the time but it's a numbers game.
You're right that I didn't mean to communicate that, but it's a good point. I agree with you entirely that this is the big downside of YC and frankly all VC backed entrepreneurship. It is not the path of highest expected return for a founder. If you want a high expected return then a FAANG job or a bootstrapped SaaS product you can build yourself are good options. Some days that's what I wish I was doing to be honest.
I think a lot of VC backed founders aren't just in it because they want to get rich though. Sure, we all want that, but we're also all predisposed to irrationally believe that we're the exception. That trait (for better or worse) comes with implications, and many founders I speak to are simply compelled to try because it's hard, and it's theirs, and they're impatient.
I also very much agree with the sibling though. Getting rejected does not carry that much signal, because YC are wrong more than they're right. So just keep trying.
or still do it, but know that YC's incentives and yours are pointing in different directions. Sometimes taking their advice is good for both of you, sometimes it is only good for them.
I'm in the UK (Oxfordshire) and have a 1gb symmetrical connection at home. It's provided by Gigaclear - there's a handful of other similar operators that do fibre in more "rural" areas. It costs £79 a month, so it's not cheap to be honest, but I love it.
Ring em up and tell them you’re leaving, they’ll drop you down to the new customer pricing. I’ve got the 1G up and down for something like £38 a month now?
Don't overthink it, just get out there and talk to people. The more the better. In my experience, the limiting factor on day 1 is a lack of information, so your job is to learn until it's fairly obvious what to do. Thinking doesn't really generate new data, only action can, so walk into every restaurant you come across, write cold emails, etc.
As far as how to conduct these sorts of interviews goes, a few people have mentioned the mom test - it's v short and simple but it is indeed good. People, for the most part, avoid conflict and so don't give you honest feedback. Instead they tend to be complimentary, but non-committal. As a result, you need to be a little indirect in your line of questioning, and pay more attention to what they do than what they say.
When it comes to testing a product, try and deliver the value manually instead. Businesses don't buy software, they buy solutions to problems. Software is just a way to deliver the solution to many customers. If you can't convince someone to pay you to keep their menu up to date by hand, they won't pay for your software to do it either. Perhaps you convince them to give you the relevant credentials to update menus across platforms yourself, and then they email you when something changes, or you give them a google form, or you go into the restaurant every day and ask what's new. Not everyone is open to working with someone in a scrappy way like this, but you'd be surprised.
You can easily serve a handful of customers manually like this, which will give you the data you need to decide if it's worth it, and the data you need to build the product.
Congrats on the launch! It's a bit early for me to try out something like this but I'm keen on exploring a usage based pricing model for my product... I'll come knocking when the time is right :).
This is similar to what I do (although I use esbuild), however like an idiot I just run tsc manually so obviously I forget sometimes and it takes 10 minutes to realise the build failed.
Not great... I'm ashamed but it's just me on this project atm.
Appreciate where you're coming from re the detail. It can be hard to know where to draw the line when explaining projects and it depends on the target audience etc.
In this case, I would say it's ok that they don't explain what Wayland is on the project page. Wayland has pretty widespread adoption now and I reckon the vast majority of people that might be interested in projects like tiling window managers for linux will have heard of it (and that has probably been true for quite some time now, Wayland has been around for over a decade).
If you're keen to dig into it more, another popular project in the space is sway https://swaywm.org/.
Sadly it's a few decades too late though, and sadly this just fragments the "ecosystem" further.