Dag

I want to have my own startup.

Currently building HouseHoldr because I needed it myself.

Belgian CS PhD Student @ KUL.

[Dag @DagMalstaf]

Just built my first app! It is a personal/family finance & budget tracker.

It's still in very very early stage and still need to fix some bugs but I want to share it either way! Feel free to check it out :)

Get free Pro membership (forever) with the code: TESTING9294

Not all features are ready yet so no need to pay!

Probably nobody will see this but would love to get some feedback!

Oh yeah, its called HouseHoldr:
https://t.co/W9wsXDvSOJ

[Dag @DagMalstaf]

@jerome_fletcher @dharmesh Yes haha

[Dag @DagMalstaf]

@jerome_fletcher @dharmesh Bro, be less AI haha

[Dag @DagMalstaf]

Day 17 of waiting for DSA approval for my app on the App Store.

This really shows how bureaucracy kills innovation speed. I can't distribute my app in Europe because I need 1 paper to get approved... No one is responding to help....

What do I do? @EU_Commission @AppleSupport @AppStore

Did you have problems with this? @jackfriks

[Dag @DagMalstaf]

@StockMKTNewz @Jason as you forecasted on the @theallinpod

[Dag @DagMalstaf]

This has to be one of the most frustrating bugs in the world... @OpenAI @ChatGPTapp

How is this even possible for company which is almost worth 1 f*cking trillion??

So it thought for so long and then the message does not display, this happened multiple times already... @sama

[Dag @DagMalstaf]

@nikitabier @ProofOfTravis We need this

[david friedberg @friedberg]

why not just raise income tax rates?

because your real intent is not to just “provide healthcare”.

you’re masking that you are proposing the creation of, for the first time in the 250 years of this American republic, an organized government seizure of private property from citizens.

you’re calling it a “wealth tax” or a “billionaires tax” or “millionaires tax” or whatever nom du jour polls well. but at the end of the day, it’s the seizure of private property from citizens by the government. citizens that earned money, paid their fair taxes on those earnings (53% if they live in California) and are now being told they need to hand over after-tax assets because the government has failed to provide promised services with the revenue it’s collected, and are now re-casting their own failure to be a socio-economic inequity that must be justly resolved... a slippery slope that has never gone anywhere good (see economic effects in USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, France and Norway wealth tax etc.)

the American founders fled tyranny in Europe and this amazing nation was populated by immigrants (myself and your parents) from around the world not just looking for a “better life” but for a place where they could have freedom from tyrannical governments that can take what they want from private citizens. a great nation borne of property rights, the rule of law, and endowed freedoms to believe, speak, or act. these principles led to the greatest run of innovations, successes, and widespread increase in prosperity, for all citizens, ever seen.

the citizens, the individuals, not the institutions, delivered this progress. those who invented, who toiled, who bled, who sacrificed, who took risk and persevered, who led, and who changed the world, are not charlatans, kleptocrats, or oligarchs. they’re what made us all better off. prosperity is a measure of america’s success, not its failure.

it is your principle that is so offensive, as evidenced by the broad disdain for your flippant flirtation with the darkest of human fantasy - socialism. you and other neo-socialists have led so many of us to reflect on America’s history and what it is becoming. that now leads so many to consider, so unnecessarily, leaving their homes for a place where everyone stands up to shout down the principle you suggest. because if your ideas are now considered moderate, it’s clear this titanic is sinking.

that a “simple tax” of taking assets that have been earned, through toil and tribulation, rightly taxed, and preserved, should now be unjustly seized, is your solution to a problem of obvious government mismanagement and outright fraud, tells us that your true motivation lies not in giving people healthcare but in cutting down success and deleting the system of prosperity and opportunity for all.

i don’t care, and neither should anyone else, what the sum total market value of a private citizens private assets might be. it is none of my business and should be none of yours. because, again, once you open that pandora’s box, we might as well study Lord of the Flies … there is literally nothing stopping 51% of citizens demanding that their government go out and seize 100% of the private property of the 49%.

want to give healthcare to people in need? do your job and fix healthcare. make it affordable. want to be lazy about it? then do your job lazily and raise income taxes.

want to take private property from private citizens who have paid their fair share of taxes and legally earned their property, then honestly declare that it is envy, not inequity, that you strive to resolve…

[Dag @DagMalstaf]

@ericzakariasson @cursor_ai @jksmithnyc Yes, this is the request id for the prompt in plan mode:
e6e00dc9-0ca8-4740-808a-86e58207aebd

The follow up request then asked in chat the built the plan when I switched back to agent mode:
f5357b2c-62e3-4f7c-adeb-d8aad82db2ea

[Dag @DagMalstaf]

@ericzakariasson there is a bug in @cursor_ai.

It happens when you switch between Plan and Agent mode multiple times in the same chat.

Sometimes you switch to Plan mode and when the plan is made, the build button is not working because it is already marked as Built. But this is not true. It has only made the plan but not changed the code, because it was in plan mode!

Screenshot:

[Dag @DagMalstaf]

@ericzakariasson @_EricHu We should be able to add text as part of the answer when selecting an option. Sometimes more context or nuance is needed to guide the answer!

[Jason Freedman @jasonfreedman]

I've read 8,000 Y Combinator applications.

You would think the reviewers are thinking through a standard set of questions.

Is it a good idea?
Is it a large market?
Is it an experienced team?
Do they have traction?

During my time as a reviewer, we went back and tested which questions actually predicted success. The process was look at the best performing companies and then ask whether the application question would disqualify any of the biggest outcomes. If so, eliminate that question.

Is it a good idea? Well, Airbnb was a bad idea. Air bed and breakfast. Nobody thought it would work.

Is it a large market? Airbnb, Coinbase, Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia all started in tiny markets.

Experienced team? John and Patrick Collison had no experience in fintech when they built Stripe. Brian Chesky had never built a company. Brian Armstrong was just a product manager.

Do they have traction? We learned to invest in slope, not Y intercept. The initial traction doesn't tell you anything about the angle of ascent.

Sooooooooooooo...none of these standard questions worked.

The best question that predicted success was determination. Who is the most determined?

Even if they're not the smartest. Even if the market hasn't developed yet. Even if their initial product is wrong.

It outpeformed by a mile. And didn't disqualify the winners. AND was evaluatable.

It was so predictive that YC took that one question and found five different ways to ask it.

[Dag @DagMalstaf]

Getting to a good build soon ;)

[Dag @DagMalstaf]

@jeiting No need to apologize haha people are to obsessed with all these metrics sometimes.

[Dag @DagMalstaf]

@BerticusIT @iyoushetwt True

[Dag @DagMalstaf]

@cursor_ai won. It’s that simple.

[Dag @DagMalstaf]

Any feedback?

[Dag @DagMalstaf]

@pmitu I like emdash

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@juneyear21 @marcelkargul Fair

[Dag @DagMalstaf]

@levelsio So we need SEO for LLM tourist places?