Edmond Bitay

I managed to get a cheap hetzner VPS (hardly available these days), CX23 for like 4.50 a month is so nice.

You need to start doing some thought leadership to land a gig these days, outside of network, seems a lot like job applications are on life support, oil prices, AI, layoffs, some such.

Messaging poeple on Linkedin and getting LLM responses, really just makes m not want to be on the platform. How far will this go?

🛜 WhyFi is live on Product Hunt today. I'd appreciate any support :) producthunt.com/products/whyfi

I am deeply saddened by the suffering of the victims in this case, and I unequivocally condemn abuse and exploitation in all forms. I want to be clear: I was never involved in, nor did I participate in, any criminal or exploitative conduct. Any contact I had was limited and unrelated to abusive activity. Some past email exchanges have surfaced that reflect poor judgment in tone. I regret that and understand how they read today, given what was publicly known at the time. My focus remains on supporting accountability, prevention, and efforts that protect and support survivors.

🇪🇺 Europe we neee to talk: If you wonder why you dont know about more epic european startups - because they are all there. Mentality. Americans present the future. Europeans barely showcase at all. On my youtube we try to showcase epic stuff behind the scene. We reach out to companies building stuff you wouldnt believe - genuinely potentially generation definining stuff. You won’t hear about them. Or only years later. Why? Mindset. Those are all actual responses (paraphrased) While small and PR is founderled: - “still stealth…” (2years in) - “we havent finalized our PR strategy yet” - “would it be ok to film in 15months once we gear up for the next round” - “we arent ready yet for too much publicity” (wtf does this even mean) - “yes we do in but can you not present it too hyperbole. We still dont know if will lead to ” Once they raised money and got a PR team: - “sorry we cant really facilitate press right now for this ” (still wtf for me) - “sorry the channel is too small. We can only do major news stations.” (Which nobody watches anymore) - “we are doing a demo for investors on this day for 1h with 80 other people… whatabout we do the shoot then” (and not 1h before when not 100 people run through the shot) - “yes we are happy to do a show&tell but the new facility isnt really done yet and the old one not impressive enough so we cant show anything” - “yes we are happy to do the shoot. But we decided we cant shown nor nor talk about details because we want a big PR push in 8months” Context: I am doing a youtube channel where we showcase the best European frontier tech startups. Get them to brag about insane stuff they do. Fix self and external image. And trust me its hard work. We can only shoot half the stuff we want. And its super sad bc the companies are insane. And it’s *never* a good reason why they chicken out. All of the responses above are real cases. Meanwhile the US: “Yo we rented a warehouse in a toxic zone next to an airport… bought a german machine and put a giant ass US flag up… let me now go on 60 shows and talk about how we reinvented the future of ABCD” Anyhow if you want to see my windmill fighting subscribe link in the reply 🇪🇺😬🇪🇺

The more I have AI agents write all my code, the more I feel that us devs will be alright (and possibly more in-demand for important stuff) Hard for me to imagine anyone building *reliable* software without an understanding of how to do this (either via experience or study)

@GergelyOrosz Just applied. Good luck with finding the right candidate! :)

I'm hiring! For a pretty fun job, if you ask me. Talk to some of the most interesting teams and companies across the globe, understand what they do, then explain this to fellow software engineers. Full-remote, flexible €150+/$175+ per hour Details: blog.pragmaticengineer.com/tech-industry-…

✅ New bot is live. So far 35 people said they are coming to a Hacka* event tomorrow!

@RodrigoSanudo @CoachDanGo Nice, I'll download and try this out!

@CoachDanGo You can do this with Pretty Progress apps.apple.com/us/app/countdo…

This needs to be made into an app.

A lot of people's minds are getting warped by fake/juiced MRR numbers on here. So they think they "failed" and give up too early. It took me 5 months and 7 days to get to $1k MRR for Rephonic. It's now dramatically beyond that and by far my most successful endeavour. Also that was after ~10 years of grinding on tons of other failed apps. In my opinion even if you're at ~$250/mo with a few customers you already did the hardest part and you just need to avoid the usual foot guns and find more people like that.

@bentay Also Spec means bacon in dutch and everyone likes that.

It seems insane that we live in a world where Mac can run code that lands rockets, but somehow that meeting you had scheduled for 3pm, which got moved by your boss, often gets lost in the clutter. For my friends with OCD or ADHD, Spec is literally everything you need in a product. Spec immediately catches that change in meetings, updates your calendar so you can visually see the shift, and can even draft a text telling your team you may be late or absent. Enough is enough with stressing over things that should be made evident to you. Health is wealth and you can’t live a healthy life stressing over bs.

Your Mac just got a brain. 🧠 Spec proactively drafts replies, summarizes docs, and helps before you ask. It connects knowledge and memory across iMessage, Slack, email, and your calendar, finally making your apps work together. Goodbye silos and context switching.

@jamespotter They stress you out so you buy stuff, that's why the shopping mall is after the security check.

Airlines are smart and they realise that what passengers crave the most as they finally sit down, after enduring two hours of airport hell, is a 500 decibel brand advertisement - that cannot be turned off - dressed up as a safety training video

@loaibassam No, it was good ol' rental contract, perfectly not enforceable or worth pursuing in this jurisdiction 🤷‍♂️

@edmondbitay Wait, what! Wow... was it through airbnbn?

If you're in Bali right now, be careful...

@sachf_ @jamespotter 😂😂😂

@jamespotter @edmondbitay 👀

I tried to prove a point to my gf that Instagram is toxic by scoring each post of her feed (+1 positive, 0 neutral, -1 negative). Negative is when it makes her compare herself to others, or feel sad because it’s about war or other bad news. She ended at -12. Feeling smug, I declared victory for my mental health superiority. But then she suggested that we do the same for my Twitter feed. In my case -1 means it’s raigbait/drama, or it’s some AI improvement making me feel bad that I haven’t used it yet, or a success post that I compare myself to. I ended up on -14.

@jamespotter From my IG feed: cc: @csonotes

@jamespotter no titties whatsoever