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scoop : first gpt-6 failiing key benchmarks; still unable to choose users' hopes, dreams

I want to get something like this going so bad

people misunderstand the icarus story. the problem was not that he flew too high. it's that the wings were made of beeswax, which offered very little resistance to heating. with modern materials he would have had no problems. we can fly as close to the sun as we want now

yeah i've been stuck at 6'1" since seventh grade

no higher-kinded types until series b

@stringlandscape @qualiascript as if they have ever been?

@qualiascript Has anyone checked in on the category theory people recently and made sure they're okay? I think someone should check.

y'all know the equal sign 🟰 is a visual representation of the diagram of (co)equalizers, right? it's explicitly referenced in the 1955 paper introducing the symbol

the cto may have a ltitle type theory, as a traet

@aijoonlee the village아니면 fort green 것 같아

@benleejamin Where the hell is Cheongunhyojadong

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once you make the nyc -> sf journey enough times, your brain learns to make peace with the 6 hour flight and stops resisting

they don’t remember what happened to dropbox

i'm going to get a S+ in Creative Nonfiction, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve

@YengT9 lekondo feature request please make a one-tap self-timer selfie camera so i can take ootd pics with one tap!

We spent 6 months at 800 users. Then we hit 20,000 in eight weeks. Here's what we learned building Lekondo: 1. Go far > Go fast. Rapid growth means nothing if users leave. We focused on retention before scale, and held 35%+ because we grew with intention. There's a version of speed that's really just impatience, and impatience before you've understood the shape of what you're building is one of the most expensive mistakes a founder can make. Don't raise money until you understand exactly what that capital unlocks. 2. Design is undervalued, and I mean design in the fullest sense of the word. When I talk to our users about why they stay, a huge part of it is that the app is simply delightful. And delight, in practice, comes down to two things. First, the core experience has to be intuitive and approachable, but with genuine depth. You can pick it up in seconds, but weeks later you're still discovering new dimensions of what's possible. That kind of balance requires enormous restraint. Second, and this is the part most people skip: performance. We're an image-heavy platform. If things are slow, if there's friction, if there's lag, the spell breaks. Our stack is AWS and GoLang, and that wasn't an arbitrary technical decision. Kudos to Mitchell Overfield for being one of the most technically gifted minds I've ever had the privilege of working with. When infrastructure works, you don't notice it, and that's the whole point. 3. Your users are your best marketers. Yes, marketing matters. You should be testing every channel: Instagram, TikTok, Substack, paid, organic, all of it. We do. But here's what we've found: marketing gets people in the door, and what gets them to invite their friends is the product itself. There's a threshold, and I don't think you can engineer it exactly, where the experience becomes good enough that sharing it feels natural. Telling a friend about something great is one of the most human things there is. 4. Curate your information diet. This is your most effective advantage against incumbents. Large companies cannot adopt new technology waves as fast as you can. Too much process. But that only matters if you can actually see the wave coming and understand how big it is. Your job as a founder is to determine the order of magnitude of a shift before everyone else does. That judgment call changes everything about how you build. And that judgment comes from your information diet. The world is large. There are many worlds within it, and most of them never meet. Lekondo sits at the crossroads of fashion, commerce, and philosophy, all supported by a robust technical platform. That combination works because we spend time in domains that seem unrelated and pay close attention to where they intersect. Reading widely, thinking across disciplines, and staying curious about fields outside your own compounds in ways that are hard to predict and almost impossible for a larger company to replicate.

@YengT9 i'm a lekondo fan

@jai_mansukhanii YEAH

need to move to nyc man.

wow love how everyone's posting about taste and agency. wonder what this could possibly suggest

bosco sticks

kicked out of karaoke for queuing Knee Play 5 by Philip Glass (8:53)

from john beck and ryan bishop's excellent book "Technocrats of the Imagination"

ur shaped like a tool