Arthurus Blast

Looking for the right opportunity 👀 #entrepreneurship

[@levelsio @levelsio]

👨‍💼 People always ask me how I invest my money, so I open sourced my investment portfolio at https://t.co/sQ0aiU7v02

There's no big strategy here and no certainty that this is a good portfolio either, right now it returns about $120K/mo

I try buy mostly ETFs and they have the highest return for me overall

Sometimes stocks rise so much though it becomes disproportionate % of portfolio (like NVIDIA)

I don't invest in startups now, but maybe one day I will. Why not now? From my studies of VC funds: you need to invest 100 to 1000 times @ $100K = $10M to $100M to have one home run exit that makes your fund profitable statistically

Unless you for example put in $1M yourself and then raise another $9M to $99M from rich people and pension funds (via LPs) that means you statistically you make no chance of ever making a profit on your investments. So not sure I should do it at all now.

ETFs though are nice, they let me invests in tens of thousands of companies all around the world while paying for ex 0.07% in fees (called TER, Total Expense Ratio)! That means investing $100K in 10,000 companies costs me only $7 per year! The cheapest investment products on the planet.

Since I'm not American I buy the European versions (but still in USD) of ETFs (called UCITS), for ex VOO in US is called VUSD in EU, there's some tax savings if you buy it in Europe (if you're not American) etc.

Anyway I don't know much about it, just trying to do the right thing and not chasing short term profits but long term 20-30 years

Some of my inspirations for investing are John Bogle (inventor of ETFs) and Ray Dalio (tl;dr Asia is the future) and those depict my investment strategy

[MATT GRAY @matt_gray_]

@naval My advice? Don't wait for every answer before making the move.

Find your criteria, trust your gut, and take the leap.

Build your life where you're celebrated, not just tolerated.

Dubai was my bold move. What's yours?

[MATT GRAY @matt_gray_]

My goal in life: visit all 195 countries in the world before I die.

But after going to 100+ cities in the last 8 years, 1 place has BLOWN all the others out of the water.

Here’s why this city is perfect for high-value founders who want to build their empires:

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Met Portuguese indiehackers @afonsolfm @vascoabm today

They're at $20K+ MRR now with Journalist AI (see their bio)

I moved to their 🇵🇹 land so it's nice to see people from my scene actually being Portuguese now too

I wanted to make them 🥩 steak but Afonso is a 🐟 pescetarian (can you believe it?) so we had fish

Then we walked around the beach

And I even got them to 🏋️‍♀️ deadlift w/ @andreyazimov and @rameerez

They're weirdly normal as in, they're socially adjusted, friendly and polite, like a new generation of indiehackers/nomads

The previous generation of indiehackers/nomads (including me) everyone was a bit maladjusted and weirdo and we obviously escaped our country cause we didn't fit in

These guys function properly though, it's fun to see. Just healthy nice non-traumatized people hyperfocused at growing their business and becoming successful

[Jon Yongfook @yongfook]

Make sure to keep the copyright year in your footer up to date, otherwise indiehackers will copy your product.

Few understand this.

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

This should not be possible 🤯

I've enhanced this 8x from 1.2MP to 77MP (10.752x7168px) using Magnific ai.

64x more pixels than the OG image.

You can do the same. Each super enhance takes 10-15 minutes and can run in the background.

A thread

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

AI is re-inventing "Waldo" with Fractality

MJ + Magnific + Stiching = +150MP "Waldo" inspired illustration

Insane

[@levelsio @levelsio]

✨ Added country pages to Remote OK to find remote jobs in each country

🦄 The header image is pulled from Nomad List ☺️

https://t.co/ZHXG7lLuZm

[Afonso Matos 🇵🇹 @afonsolfm]

Arrived in Lisbon about 5 days ago and

✅ Apartment secured
✅ High-end gym secured
✅ Co-working space secured
✅ Mobile Data secured
❌ Portuguese girlfriend
❌ $100k MRR

[@levelsio @levelsio]

What sensors you want an air quality sensor to have?

AQI, CO2, what else?

[Cody James 🇺🇸 @codyaims]

$660,000,000 annual
50 employees
Private

You thought raising was impressive?

[Jon Yongfook @yongfook]

New line of business

[Min Choi @minchoi]

This is mind blowing!

AI can now Outfit AND Animate Anyone from a single image 🤯

This Outfit Anyone + Animate Anyone is integrated together to take an image of a model, dress them with any style, then animate them 🤯

https://t.co/MjvDkpGS4h

[@levelsio @levelsio]

ChatGPT/LLM style text AIs are limited by that you have to type everything, you ask something and it replies with text when most of the day we use Graphic User Interfaces (GUIs)

A good solution for that would be for LLMs to add dynamically generated interfaces

I asked @adamwathan from Tailwind to try go into it as he's essentially the UI king of the internet now, yet he had no clue what the heck I was talking about

So I tried to explain with these examples, which might help other ppl understand what we mean too. Because if he doesn't get it yet most ppl don't probably. So imagine this:

--

me: Hi, I have this photo can u help me color grade it?

ChatLLM: sure, I’ll code up a mini color grader for your photo with an interface for you:

--

me: hi i want to become a nomad and travel this year, where should i go?

ChatLLM: here’s a mini nomadlist-type GUI i made for you with the latest data of where to go:

--

me: what’s the weather in Porto now?

ChatLLM: here's the weather, you can tap the days to see more:

--

me: hi, i want to code my first app

ChatLLM: sure here’s a simple IDE that will help u code it:

[Jon Yongfook @yongfook]

Actual checklist for launching a startup in 2024:

☑️ build scrappy MVP
☑️ see if anyone will pay

That’s it. That’s the whole checklist.

[Jon Yongfook @yongfook]

If you check any of these boxes you have launched too late.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Okay I made another one because it's too fun to create these GPTs:

🛠️ https://t.co/E4U5IOSX46

Make a starter pack of yourself:

1) @abroadinjapan in Tokyo
2) @edwinwee in San Francisco
3) @dannypostma in Bali
4) @balajis in Singapore

[Marc Lou @marclou]

7 years as an entrepreneur and 1 takeaway:

Ship more

[Jon Yongfook @yongfook]

Starting a fund that invests exclusively in Show HN startups that receive a “but I could build this in a weekend” comment.

📈📈📈

[Jon Yongfook @yongfook]

This landing page got me to $12K MRR. If you care about design you have launched too late.