Zach @zach_dev1

ex @google, raised 1m to build https://t.co/L8XCrO517J, computer science @georgiatech, community adjusted ebitda, your mom is an angel investor San Francisco Joined January 2015

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Zach @zach_dev1

2 weeks ago

1/ kubernetes runs on etcd. etcd runs on raft. and that stack quietly powers much of the internet.

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Zach @zach_dev1

2 weeks ago

who’s working on global consensus? how can we make etcd faster?

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Zach @zach_dev1

2 weeks ago

delusion is a startup feature

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One of the most impressive people I've ever worked with was a guy who spent a decade prior working on the same team at the same company iterating on a kernel driver for a single specific network card. He clocked in at 9 and out at 5. Predictable promotions. Nothing crazy. During…

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Taylor Otwell @taylorotwell

2 weeks ago

me stressing about how we are going to build the best backend infrastructure for the future of agentic workflows and quantum mcp hacker news:

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Zach @zach_dev1

4 weeks ago

bitnami rugged cloud infra like it was a shitcoin presale

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Zach @zach_dev1

a month ago

stuck at the DMV next to a founder from romania. clerk asks why he’s here in sf. he just says: “fundraising.” the most startup answer ever

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Zach @zach_dev1

a month ago

what tf happened to the fonts @v0 @rauchg

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Zach @zach_dev1

a month ago

to win you have to be based

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Zach @zach_dev1

a month ago

so many founders get oneshotted

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Zach @zach_dev1

a month ago

raising money is a lot easier than building a unicorn business. said differently, it’s harder to build a good company than to raise money. most founders start with raising money when they should be focused on building good businesses

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Zach @zach_dev1

a month ago

how to turn an intro call into an annual contract: 1. intro call (no demo) 2. mnda → demo (with live data if creds) 3. define success criteria 4. 45–60 day paid poc (“cloud costs” $2k–$100k) 5. prove value → annual contract (no opt out) paid pocs aren’t a hurdle, they’re…

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Zach @zach_dev1

a month ago

the current interaction loop with LLMs needs to be flipped. i shouldn’t have to direct all the work via prompt. it should simply ask me questions when it gets stuck but operate independently. who’s building this?

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Zach @zach_dev1

2 months ago

torture vs torture early-stage founding is its own kind of torture: your product is breaking, users aren’t coming, prospects aren’t responding. the shift isn’t from pain to abundance — it’s from one kind of torture to another, where the problems get bigger, and so do the…

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Zach @zach_dev1

2 months ago

think of startup ventures as a game. most people don’t just skip levels and go straight to level 10. the goal is to pass level one and then you can figure out level two. either way, you have to pass tutorial island first

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Zach @zach_dev1

2 months ago

nvidia ceo said he’s created more billionaires on his management team than any other ceo in the world. AI is the “internet revolution” that people in their 20’s/early 30’s missed out on and it’s 100x bigger

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Zach @zach_dev1

2 months ago

so much happening in the browser automation space. internally, we have an ai agent that interacts with the browser 2x faster than most of the competitors. do we rip and ship or find our niche?

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Zach @zach_dev1

2 months ago

is being faster enough of a differentiator to win customers?

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Roy @im_roy_lee

2 months ago

unpopular take: virality >> talking to users 10,000 users’ worth of data is a lot more helpful than talking to 3 users it’s just not recommended because not everyone can get 10,000 users’ worth of data immediately except thx to short form, u can now think more ab going viral