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Daniel Puglisi @daniel

Hi, I'm Daniel. I make, Shimatta and Desk Hunt. Cofounded Codegestalt. This is where I dump my brain.

@feyyaz just shared this great question set for projects/startups in our Slack:

So what are you working on?
Have you raised funding?
What makes new users try you?
What competition do you fear most?
What's the worst thing that has happened?
Will you reincorporate as a US company?
What's an impressive thing you have done?
Where is the rocket science here?
Why did you pick this idea to work on?
Why do the reluctant users hold back?
What problems/hurdles are you anticipating?
Who is "the boss"?
What is the next step with the product evolution?
What obstacles will you face and how will you overcome them?
Who needs what you're making?
How does your product work in more detail?
What are you going to do next?
What do you understand that others don't?
Where do new users come from?
How big an opportunity is there?
Six months from now, what's going to be your biggest problem?
What's the funniest thing that has happened to you?
Tell us something surprising you have done?
Who are your competitors?
What's new about what you make?
How many users do you have?
Why isn't someone already doing this?
What are the top things users want?
What is your burn rate?
How do you know customers need what you're making?
What domain expertise do you have?
What, exactly, makes you different from existing options?
What's the conversion rate?
What systems have you hacked?
Who would use your product?
How will customers and/or users find out about you?
Why did your team get together?
In what ways are you resourceful?
What is your distribution strategy?
What has surprised you about user behaviour?
What part of your project are you going to build first?
How are you understanding customer needs?
What's the biggest mistake you have made?
Who might become competitors?
What do you understand about your users?
What is your user growth rate?
What are the key things about your field that outsiders don't understand?
Who is going to be your first paying customer?
Who would be your next hire?
How do you know people want this?
Would you relocate to Silicon Valley?
What do you know about this space/product others don't know?
How much money could you make per year?
How long can you go before funding?
How will you make money?
Will your team stick at this?
How much does customer acquisition cost?
How did your team meet?
Who in your team does what?
How are you meeting customers?
How many users are paying?
How is your product different?
Are you open to changing your idea?
How do we know your team will stick together?
What is your growth like?
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Another pixel art piece I've made inspired by the style of Dave Grey:

Me typing along on a Macbook

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I started playing around with pixel art today and created my first piece:

That's me

Here are some resources I stumbled upon:

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Well, I'm looking into adding a recurring payment integration with Stripe for the third time. Already tried it twice on two other projects with no/part success. I'm always stumbling upon something new while developing and I haven't found a guide which shows a nice and clean complete overview of what's required for building a subscription service. It's not that I couldn't build a working prototype with the information available. More that I want to have a clear vision of how the system has to look instead of building the walls and realizing that some parts of the foundations are missing and wasting time refactoring everything five times. I did some research today and combined with my experiences from the last two trials I think I got a pretty good overview together (for now). I've thrown everything into a list and split it into different iteration steps which I'll tackle one after another. If everything works out as imagined I'll write up a complete guide on how to integrate Stripe subscriptions into a Rails application. So others can benefit from my struggle. So long.

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Oh, btw: Shimatta know supports public and private posts.

Where ma high fives at?

Hint: You can save posts as "drafts" by making them private, updating them and publishing them later on.

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The current plan is to add a simple "keyword" search to Shimatta which returns posts that contain the search query in their content. On a later stage (which means when we have more content from different users) it might be interesting to make search more "content aware". One possible solution could be by using a bayesian classifier.

It was introduced under a different name into the text retrieval community in the early 1960s and remains a popular (baseline) method for text categorization, the problem of judging documents as belonging to one category or the other (such as spam or legitimate, sports or politics, etc.) with word frequencies as the features.

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  • Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI): Weak AI, only specializes in one area
  • Artificial General Intelligence (AGI): Human Level AI, smart as a human across the board
  • ANI is everywhere in todays world (cars, phones, email spam filters, recommendations (ads, friends, ...), google translate / search).
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Chapter 6 (The geography of future markets) notes:


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  • every year the amount of data grows by 50%
  • Other examples can be found in farming and fintech.
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Chapter 4 (The weaponization of code) notes:

  • Cybersecurity is going to be an industry of the future.
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