Sim🧐n Schm🕹d

Working on @iubenda since 12y+. Wearing many 🧢. Occasional 👼.

[Sim🧐n Schm🕹d @s2imon]

depressing.

[Kai Baumgartner @kaibaumgartner]

Where’s “Skin In The Game”?

This 20 year chart tells a remarkable story about Germany. This chart is not merely describing a decline. It is explaining it:

+820,000 public-sector jobs
−800,000 self-employed

Wealth is created through entrepreneurship, innovation, capital formation, and voluntary exchange—not through the expansion of the administrative state.

Germany became wealthy through builders, engineers, industrialists, family businesses, and entrepreneurs. Yet the incentives increasingly reward compliance over risk-taking, administration over innovation, and redistribution over production.

The result is visible in plain sight.

A society that attracts its brightest minds to government desks rather than company formation is slowly consuming its economic seed corn. Exceptions, such as Singapore, may prove the rule.

Prosperity cannot be regulated into existence. It must be created first.

Germany needs fewer barriers to entrepreneurship, lower taxes, less bureaucracy, and more capital formation.

#Germany does not suffer from a shortage of bureaucrats. It suffers from a shortage of entrepreneurs.

[Sim🧐n Schm🕹d @s2imon]

England as the only group favourite not to end up on top

[Sim🧐n Schm🕹d @s2imon]

Switzerland wins Group B over 5400 times, The host coming in 2nd

https://t.co/sXL5rXeQju

[Sim🧐n Schm🕹d @s2imon]

another spin by Viktor "just ask about us"

[Sim🧐n Schm🕹d @s2imon]

love these "prompt to use our product" elements on product pages. Here @browser_use

[Sim🧐n Schm🕹d @s2imon]

I've just recently committed to Cotypist. But this is exactly what a privacy-first product should look like. Helps that it's a one-time payment as well.

[Hiten Shah @hnshah]

Been working with @SamAsante on a new company.

Today we’re releasing our first product.

It’s called Typeahead and we’re live on Product Hunt.

You type and inline suggestions appear right in the text field. Tab to accept the full suggestion or right arrow for one word at a time. It learns how you actually write.

Everything runs locally on your Mac, works offline, and you pay once. $79 and you own it forever.

If you write a lot on a Mac, check it out and let us know what you think.

Live on Product Hunt right now → https://t.co/5H9VwvqmcS

[Sim🧐n Schm🕹d @s2imon]

@karrisaarinen @jorilallo 😸

[Sim🧐n Schm🕹d @s2imon]

Any potential use for ads effectiveness tracking is purely incidental

[Google Research @GoogleResearch]

Introducing a research system that enables passive heart rate monitoring (PHRM) during everyday smartphone use. Using the front-facing camera, it achieves industry accuracy standards for heart rate across all skin tones.

Check out the blog to learn more: https://t.co/O4F4Uh8gN4

[Sim🧐n Schm🕹d @s2imon]

@osanseviero @EMostaque very cool!

[Sim🧐n Schm🕹d @s2imon]

prepare to see things changing going forward. Finally an in-message app store that works?

[buildwithjay @shipwithjay]

poke getting into Apple Messages is the hint

the next consumer AI winners won’t feel like “apps”

they’ll live where people already type:
texts
camera roll
calendar
email

boring distribution > another shiny wrapper

[Sim🧐n Schm🕹d @s2imon]

@seraleev true for me

[Sim🧐n Schm🕹d @s2imon]

@drbarnard congrats on launching!

[Sim🧐n Schm🕹d @s2imon]

@karrisaarinen @linear congrats on shipping another nice feature

[Sim🧐n Schm🕹d @s2imon]

Your digital future is made in Europe.

[European Commission @EU_Commission]

Your digital future is made in Europe. 🇪🇺

We are building a stronger European tech ecosystem, reducing reliance on critical technologies from outside the EU.

Our new Technological Sovereignty plan will help to change that ↓

[Sim🧐n Schm🕹d @s2imon]

what a beauty. Now 5 more of those.

[Alex Xplore @AlexXplore]

🇨🇭 Une entreprise suisse, FlexBase, construit à Laufenburg l’une des plus grandes batteries à flux redox au monde dans une fosse de 168 m de long.

🔋 Cette installation pourra stocker plus de 2,1 GWh d’électricité, soit l’équivalent de la consommation d’environ 210 000 foyers pendant une journée entière.

🏗️ Le projet combine une batterie géante avec un campus technologique incluant un centre de données IA et des laboratoires de recherche.

♻️ La chaleur produite par les serveurs IA sera récupérée pour chauffer les habitations locales, évitant ainsi 82 700 tonnes de CO₂ sur 30 ans.

🇪🇺 Situé au carrefour historique des réseaux électriques suisse, français et allemand, ce projet renforce la stabilité du réseau européen.

https://t.co/SyZqc3oi2j

[Sim🧐n Schm🕹d @s2imon]

https://t.co/AJHpbgNzfP

[Sim🧐n Schm🕹d @s2imon]

There's nothing quite like checking out Apple Design Award winners

[Sim🧐n Schm🕹d @s2imon]

Good morning and say hi to this interesting fact

[Kunz C. קונץ @ckberner]

Unglaublich, dass in Europa immer noch 40% der Eisenbahnen nicht elektrifiziert sind.

[Sim🧐n Schm🕹d @s2imon]

The state of contemporary architecture. Dogmatic Einheitsbrei.

[Richard Meusers v.W. 🇮🇹 ن @maternus]

Oh, zur Abwechslung mal eine häßliche Flachdachkiste. Das hatten wir ja noch nie in Köln.

[Sim🧐n Schm🕹d @s2imon]

Good morning

[Patrick Hsu @pdhsu]

people aren’t celebrating this pancreatic cancer breakthrough enough. it should be international news