Sydney Cohen

Building a collaboration app for engineering teams with @axolo_co

[Sergey Nazarov @sergeynazarovx]

We used to go to a special website, ask strangers for help with programming, and get humiliated in return

[kache @yacineMTB]

now that coding's been solved i spend most of my time thinking and thinking is honestly so much harder than writing code

[Sydney Cohen @chnsydney]

Your code deserves a better social life

[Quentin Zibra ✦ @Zibra_]

Today’s the day—we’re live on Product Hunt! 😻
After two years of pushing hard every day, we’ve crafted something we’re so proud of. Now we need your support to reach the top!

Every upvote and bit of love would mean the world ❤️

[Zojo @zojo_officiel]

"C'est du mytho, personne peut rien faire avec mon IBAN"

J'ai testé pour vous 👇

[Sydney Cohen @chnsydney]

I just finished universal paper clip, this was a wild ride

[Sydney Cohen @chnsydney]

@softwaredoug Thank you for the shoutout it’s highly appreciated :) @axolo_co

[Doug Turnbull @softwaredoug]

At Daydream we use Axolo, and I've been really impressed! One of those nice tools probably built by a tiny company that should get shoutouts :)

https://t.co/axfUVWI1Zu

[Sydney Cohen @chnsydney]

@deletethistheo My eyes are bleeding

[Sydney Cohen @chnsydney]

Axolo milestones: one of our users found out about us through ChatGPT

[Sydney Cohen @chnsydney]

I'm launching Minty today on Producthunt, with Minty you can create a video from any text prompt.

It takes 2 minutes on average to create your first video. Check it out here:
https://t.co/FV2ttxeDi5

[Sydney Cohen @chnsydney]

@ThomasTerrier il est 2h du matin pouvez vous arrêter le tapage nocturne svp

[Sydney Cohen @chnsydney]

@ThomasTerrier pouvez vous arrêter le tapage nocturne à Veyrier du lac svp

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Say hello to GPT-4o, our new flagship model which can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time: https://t.co/MYHZB79UqN

Text and image input rolling out today in API and ChatGPT with voice and video in the coming weeks.

[Sydney Cohen @chnsydney]

@oggyxe Don’t compare yourself to others, only compare yourself to who you were yesterday

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

Products that resonate tend to violate traditional values of anglo society and founders (or their partners) will dismiss these directions very early in brainstorming process.

For example, let’s say you think of a disappearing photo app: the next thought might be “that shouldn’t exist, what do you have to hide, anyway?”

You should be extremely conscious of these biases, because sometimes you might reject something that people really want. Even if it is egregiously amoral, there is probably a derivative concept that is a net good.

For example, it would be awful to anonymously rate people on an app. In fact, I was rejected from YC for pitching this idea. But several years later, I modified the concept where you could only say positive things—which had immediate viral success.

There are plenty more unexplored areas that are regularly rejected: someone pitched me an app that showed how much money everyone had. My gut reaction was to reject it since that’s private and money is taboo to talk about. However, I quickly caught myself, realizing that in many Scandinavian countries, your tax returns are public — so maybe it could work.

[Sydney Cohen @chnsydney]

@VictorTimsit "Life is probably a simulation" hahahaha

[Arthur Coudouy @ArthurCoudouy]

I loved @dhh 's takes on "lifestyle business":

"People who call our style of business a lifestyle business, usually do so in a derogatory way. Because they have this concept in their head that unless you raise tens of millions, you can have no impact on a broad scale"

[Arthur Coudouy @ArthurCoudouy]

@chnsydney had the opportunity to talk with @dhh for an hour yesterday, they talked about what it is to be a CTO, the benefits of having a small team and many more things! Watch the replay here https://t.co/5Hx9hXwNr4