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@starter_story this is famously how the Samwer brothers launched their careers.

$1M business idea for NON-ENGLISH SPEAKERS: Take a $1B SaaS, and replicate it in your native language. > Klaviyo: Email marketing for ALL ($700M/year) > Acumbamail: Email marketing for SPANIARDS ($1M/year) Absolutely... genius 🤯

Zurich getting found recently

Brave new world

@SimonHoiberg “Just not with us” lol. I don’t remember the wording for our rejection, but it wasn’t that awkward

Is it time to do another round of these, this time with vibe coding theme? 😂

let’s try again!

Self-sovreign LLM setup, currently takes unreal specs to be worth anything in my experience.

Imagine you’re expecting to sell and the information gets used against you to copy your edge 😭

This belongs in the same category of stupidity as Ballmer’s reaction to the iPhone. Truly stunning levels incompetence.

Patrick confused everyone haha

@thealepalombo that‘s Verbier

10/ BANSKO REGION, BULGARIA 10% flat tax. 10% corporate tax. Coworking for €100/month. An apartment for €50K. This is the cheapest EU base with a real community. Bansko built Europe's largest nomad community organically. 300+ remote workers in any given month. 231% growth in 5 years. Best for: Bootstrapped founders. Anyone who needs the cheapest EU base with community. Ski/outdoor enthusiasts. Drawback: Infrastructure still developing. Healthcare below Western European standards. Limited flights. Language barrier. I'm not a winter person or a skier, so Bansko isn't for me. But I have friends for whom this would be the best pick overall. The Bulgarian tax regime is incredibly good, we're living in the Eastern Europe decade, and bonus: Bulgarian people are amazing.

On the map: Cangas de Onís, Llanes, Ribadesella. Mountains meet the Atlantic. Mild summers (22-25°C), wet winters. Sidra (cider) culture, Picos de Europa national park at your door. 2-hour flight to Madrid/Barcelona/London.

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@SimonHoiberg I feel truly sorry for most of my friends around Europe that don't get it.

It's too expensive for most digital nomads, so we can have it all for ourselves 🥰🇨🇭

@kamathhrishi followed!

Lately, I have been trying to beat Google. Ok not really xD I have been building a search engine over niche web data and it's been one of the most fun projects I've ever worked on. The idea of querying the internet exactly the way I want, at scale, has always fascinated me. Especially what I could do with it: look at 1,000 companies' job postings and find hiring trends using natural language, map competitive landscapes including the lesser known players, find alternative data for investing. Or just a personalized corner of the web, curated for me. It's been an interesting journey. Started out with 200 workers on localhost, rewrote the crawler from Python to Rust to get up to 1,600 workers in parallel. Moved it to the cloud. Hit challenges that made the whole Rust rewrite useless xD Then I woke up to an abuse report from a French website with the words "European Commission", "appeal", "court" in it. For a second I genuinely thought I was about to have legal proceedings against me. Phew. Nevertheless it's been the most fun project I've worked on. It's surprising how you can cover a lot of information starting from a modest number of seed URLs. I'll be sharing everything I learned in the open. Code will be open sourced soon and the search engine will be live too. If you're curious how to build a distributed web crawler that covers 10M+ pages under $200/month, do read my blogpost. Blogpost Link: lnkd.in/g7MsaXYA

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We’ll take the compliments, in whichever form 🏃

@JohnONolan @Ghost Makes total sense tbh. I don’t think I’d want to spend any time in the UI any longer, except for seeing the final post/page on the actual site.

Recently, I've found my preferred way to interact with lots of products is getting Claude to use a CLI tool, and then just talking to it out loud about what I want to happen. So I made a CLI tool for @Ghost, to see what it would be like in our own product - it's called `ghst` and it essentially makes everything in the UI available by CLI (and MCP) Mostly this was an exercise in doing it just to see if I could - but it turned out to be a lot more interesting than I expected We've spent 10+ years focusing on having a clean, well designed interface for Ghost. It's something we care a lot about, and spend a lot of time on. But within about ~1hr of using Ghost via Claude/CLI, it was hard to imagine going back to caveman-clicking around a browser to get something done. Particularly for complex or compound tasks that might require visiting several different areas of the app. Which is both obvious, and at the same time kind of jarring. I know Ghost's UI extremely well, and know exactly where to go and what to click to do the thing I want -- and even for me, using Claude is significantly faster/easier than clicking myself. So how big would the delta be for a regular user who *doesn't* already know the UI inside out? My initial thought was "huh, I wonder if UI even matters anymore?" - maybe everything just becomes a CLI / voice interface for a database, as various people have been suggesting about CRM tools. But I don't think that's quite right. I notice when I interact with the product via Claude - I usually still keep the UI open, but my relationship to it is different. I use UI to see what happened, verify things look "right", and get an overview of what's going on. Which is kind of familiar, because "agent does the actions for me / I review the results" has obvious parallels to AI coding workflows. Before I'd be in VS Code all day doing the thing myself, but now I use Codex Desktop which is a *UI* designed entirely around optimising for: agent does the actions for me... I review the results. Anyway, I don't know what my conclusion is here other than to say that AI+CLI is a really cool pattern, and I think it's likely to meaningfully influence what "UI" means over the next few years. There are still tons of rough edges and reasons for why this is not yet a fully-formed paradigm (regular humans do not, and should not, ever need to know what "CLI" or "MCP" even means), but I like where it's going. If you want to try ghst CLI - it's linked in first reply below 👇

Makes sense. Have you ever seen a bald bear?

@IRCSS very cool

finished another part of the cathedral. Also added a bunch of gizmos for modifying the building. I have been doing so much procedural modeling these days, it feels like the geometry just appears as I think of it. Feels nice!

@levelsio We’re getting there imho. Here’s a related setup using Remotion for a Remotion update youtu.be/EayVHo7XTEg?is…

Video editing with Claude Code

@OlafGierhake willkommen

Ich bin mit meiner Familie in die Schweiz ausgewandert und habe es nie bereut. Vor ein paar Tagen wurde ich eingebürgert. Merci vilmal! By the way - weil viele drüber nachdenken: Das zusätzliche Schweizer Bürgerrecht hat eine Vielzahl von Vorteilen gegenüber einer (alleinigen) EU-Staatsbürgerschaft: - Gewährleistung des Eigentums (Art. 26 BV), da anders als in Deutschland in der Schweiz gesetzlich keine "Enteignung zum Wohle der Allgemeinheit gegen gesetzliche Entschädigung" (Art. 14 Abs. 3 GG) nach freiem Ermessen des Gesetzgebers vorgesehen ist. - Uneingeschränktes Erwerbs- und Halterecht für Schweizer Wohnimmobilien. - Stimm- und Bürgerrechte einer direkten Demokratie, die diesen Namen noch verdient. - Einer der stärksten Pässe der Welt. - Volle Reise- und Niederlassungsfreiheit in der EU und im EWR - auch ohne Mitgliedschaft. - Weltweite Reputation aufgrund strikter Neutralität. - Wirtschaftlich liberal und stark: keine Behördengängelung, keine strukturelle staatliche und gesellschaftliche Überschuldung, bürgerlicher Wohlstand. - Deswegen auch: Keine Wegzugsbesteuerung. - Zeitlich unbefristetes (Wieder-)Aufenthaltsrecht, selbst wenn man den Wohnsitz in der Schweiz einmal wieder aufgeben sollte. - Jederzeit uneingeschränkter Zugang zu einem der besten und leistungsfähigsten Gesundheitssysteme der Welt. Für mich aber das Wichtigste und zugleich Traurigste: keine weitere Abhängigkeit und wirtschaftliche Erpressbarkeit durch Deutschland. Meinem Herkunftsland, deren Menschen ich liebe und auf deren Grundgesetz und die darin enthaltenen Schutzrechte gegenüber einem übergriffigen Staat ich einmal stolz war. Als sie dort noch Bedeutung hatten…💁‍♂️ Wie auch immer. Ich freue mich jedenfalls, nun wirtschaftlich und emotional „angekommen“ zu sein. Hopp Schwiiz! 😀