Ian Cheshire

When I first started out with #typescript coming from #javascript, I went right into making stuff instead of reading the handbook - but there are a few things I wish I had known. For others who are too lazy to read the handbook, here are typescript basics summed up 👇

It's hard to find a better example of what venture capital should look like than @1517fund. @DStrachman and @William_Blake have been the first believers in many of the greatest and gnarliest tech success stories. The source of their power is a philosophical rejection of lazy thinking. Essentially, if the greatest entrepreneurs are outliers, patterns and credentials must therefore be irrelevant. It sounds simple, but living that principle as an investor means sailing into headwinds. There's no simple narrative to sell LPs, the future is never clear, capital coordination is difficult, and your capacity cannot endlessly scale. It's the harder path, but it's the only true path to greatness as a venture capitalist. Success is extremely idiosyncratic; there are no shortcuts. You might reach this conclusion by studying the library of research on venture capital. Or, you could reach it much more quickly by just meeting a few of 1517's portfolio companies.

There’s 5 days left to apply to SPARC It’s a free summer camp in the Bay Area. I loved it and I met so many amazing people here sparc.camp/apply

If you’re struggling with startup ideas, just pay more attention What problems do you see around you? Is there someone who would pay to have their problem solved? And look outside of the most obvious things. Lots of developers make developer tools, so it’s a bit more saturated. Do you know a roofer, a construction worker, or a barber? There you might find something more unique

@seraleev Hope he has fun! For Lua I’m not sure

My son loves creating. When I step away from my computer, he asks me to open Figma so he can play around. In Roblox Studio, he’s already trying to build his first games. He’s 8. Now he’s asking for a course to learn basic Lua scripting and understand some game design. Nothing too hard, as he says – he’s not aiming to make a lot of money… $1M will be just fine 😄 Any recommendations?

@michaelgold3n jitter.video

who’s building cursor for motion design

Day 2 of scaling - my cousin came to visit me in Kenya so we went on a little safari - came home and fixed a few issues with the software - scheduled some interviews for tomorrow

@simonecanciello genius any other apps you've seen it work for?

@alexoakdev that'd be pretty cool imagine all the tokens tho 😭

Someone please make this into a virtual reality game using AI. I would pay a lot of money to experience the past in an immersive way.

Does product hunt actually convert?

there's a hidden feature in stripe that can cut your dispute rate by over 80% dispute prevention - enroll with visa and mastercard to automatically refund disputes right before they officially become "disputes" if you refund a disputed payment, it still counted towards the dispute rate. this is the only way to ensure that disputes never happen.

@divvsaxena It’s French toast lol

@IanTheDev What’s the name of this dish?

Day 1 of scaling my SaaS from $45k to $1m/mo - pr review - made a scraper for property data - made some intros to help a user - gym - went to a cafe at 8pm to keep working

easier than solving the merge conflicts 😂

we offered our churned users to meet with us for feedback and get 2 months free somehow everyone I talk to loves our software and can't afford it 😬

Someone posted on upwork to hire a developer to copy our software Go apply ->

I meant just knowing how to recreate a bug sometimes there's errors that pop up every now and again and I don't know why so ofc I can't give those to cursor but the debug mode starts some local server, then creates logs in my code that sends info to cursor's local server, so cursor sees what happened when I run the app

@IanTheDev when you say “recreate,” do you mean just writing a prompt that explains how to reproduce the bug, or do you mean actually recording the steps in the browser using dev tools and then exporting the javascript code? could you explain this a bit more?

cursor's new debug mode is insane now that it can see its own console logs and know what actually happened when the code ran, it can solve most bugs on its own. all I have to do is recreate the bug and it can solve it

nice there is not enough padding and whitespace the top-left share button is too complex, if it's a small icon, use a simple icon such as the arrow only without the box, or the simplified arrow and box such as iOS or on X the CTA to "visit list" isn't super clear - am I visiting my list? adding to my visit list? something else? call it "Add to list" or "Add to visit list" 100+ visit location - no idea what this means $5,000 day - not clear what this is either?

Practicing design! Feedbacks are appreciated!...☺️

@divvsaxena for sure, as we found more people and also made the product better we were able to get more customers

@IanTheDev that's really interesting as onboarding initial users is truly tough!

This was 9 months ago. We had to grind to get those first two users other than my cofounder's dad When they joined it seemed like they were more interested in becoming affiliates than using the product. We almost gave up.