This is how I’ve been using Gemini and it’s the first time I’m really seeing consistent value.
I’ll get a context into a solid place with as much information as I can about a project. Usually getting up to 100k tokens.
Then I ask it to give me a summary I can use in a fresh chat, that will maintain the current context. This lets me reclaim space, bring responsiveness back to sane levels, have a baseline chat I use to spin up branches for marketing, design (it’s pretty helpful at trouble shooting Substance Designer graphs), etc.
I’ve found myself going into sub branches from there… like a marketing context that pushes branches into different marketing channels.
My wife and I do a retro date night once in a while where we hit up dandy’s to have burgers and shakes roller skated to the car, then rent a movie from Blockbuster… definitely a fun throwback.
I think, as others have alluded, this particular market might be tough with mountains being closed down. I have an aerial photograph of Burke above my workstation and a few other maps on my walls -- I always purchased them shortly after forming a connection to a place. That's just my anecdotal experience of course!
For marketing, are you also placing them on location? If so, I can likely help with placement in Burke Mountain Hotel. Edit: my email is in profile
Seconding The Mom Test. It's a fast read too, and the author was on a recent episode of the Indie Hackers podcast.
For more of the same, I got a lot out of Lean Customer Development by Cindy Alvarez. Here's a talk from Cindy if you'd like to get to learn more before committing to a book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5hc7sseHbE
I also enjoyed "Masterminds of Programming: Conversations With The Creators Of Major Programming Languages" [0]
It's a collection of interviews with creators of languages (FORTH, C++, Python, Haskell, and many more) You learn a lot about language design decisions and their pitfalls.
And a shameless plug: I shared MapFilterFold as a Show HN earlier, a project that collects recommendations from Ask HN threads. Browsing the books tagged computer science might yield some interesting results[1]
The site is a Phoenix app (Elixir's popular web framework) with PostgreSQL. The pages are just Phoenix templates and I let Cowboy, the default HTTP server for Phoenix, serve the app directly... so it's not sitting behind NGINX or any similar web server that's frequently used as a reverse proxy.
I used Bulma as for the CSS, just to try something I haven't used before.
The only line of JS is in the dropdown menu's onChange tag, to submit the "form" when you select a book category.
I like the UI on En Passant! Really clean - great use of icons so I know what the media type is at a glance as I scroll.
Hey myu701. Thanks for the link. I unticked the setting mentioned a bit lower on that page[0] to disable reCaptcha. It's not clear to me if that changes it for their landing page.
Testing an email alias of mine in incognito mode _looks_ like it's gone for me. Thanks again for bringing this up.
Hi, thanks! Frankly the articles (the three panels/links at the top of the home page) need more attention, but I wanted to have the feeling of "done" so I pushed the site out as-is.
On those pages, books aren't ranked in any particular order, other than trying to pull attention to some slightly buried books that I do personally recommend. I'd love to hear, are there any books you'd add to those pages?
The "Oddities and fun" page is simply a collection of books from my notes that stuck out as interesting while I manually approved all parsed comments and book mentions.
MapFilterFold is a side project I’ve been kicking the can on for a while, it started out as a monstrous spreadsheet I maintained for a few months in 2018.
The site uses Amazon affiliate links.
There have been a few similar projects [1] [2] which create lists from links to Amazon and other stores. MFF differs by only using data from Ask HN threads about books and using book titles (or acronyms like GEB or SCIP) since most comments on those threads don’t include links. More about the data can be found on the About page.
This is also my first Elixir + Phoenix project, which was a joy to use once I got moving.
Exploring for opportunities as a Technical Product Manager (Senior Engineering background in customer facing roles) but if you think there may be a strong fit in another role at your org, it doesn't hurt to chat!
Location: Vermont, USA
Remote: Yes, experience leading and hiring multinational remote teams
Willing to relocate: Yes, for the right opportunity
Technologies: On the engineering side, I'm strongest on the frontend (React and Angular most recently) but I've worked full stack both professionally and on my own projects (see resume for details) Tons of experience in enterprise developer support (wrangling our APIs and SDKs across countless stacks)
I have a few years under my belt of leading and hiring remote engineers, helping to scale a team from 10 to over 100. I'm passionate about enabling others to build successful careers.
Customer facing experience: In my first startup attempt I felt pain from a lack of experience talking to customers, so I took a role in Success and Support engineering to gain customer facing skills. I've now been working on honing my customer development skills and data driven product decision making.
I'm currently consulting with a few startups, providing guidance on their upcoming major product releases.
Misc.: I'm most interested in technical B2B products (developer tools, data, other tooling), fintech, or health. I don't have any experience with blockchain/cyrpto.
I'm interested in working on a lifestyle business rather than chasing a unicorn. I have the classic spreadsheet of ideas tucked away, but I'm certainly open to others ideas.
Strong preference for B2B. No experience in blockchain or ai.
In my previous attempt at putting together a business, I felt pain from a lack experience talking to customers so I spent a few years in a customer facing role as a senior success and support engineer for a fairly well known startup. I now love working with sales & marketing, grinding customer development for ideas, but still keep my coding chops sharp.
Remote: Sure, I have experience working full-time remotely.
Willing to relocate: Yes: CA, CO, maybe international
Technologies:
Mostly front end. MV* usually Angular. I'm excited for React Native to mature some and have the Android support released. Responsive frameworks. Data visualization, living on g.raphrael for a while now. LESS. Git, of course. Outside of my comfort zone, I've pushed projects with NodeJS, Socket.IO, Twilio, NGINX as a reverse proxy, mongoDB. I used to work with WordPress a ton, so I have some super rusty PHP and MySQL chops.
My most recent side project won first place in the Twitch.TV App Challenge that I developed it for, winners were announced just this past Friday https://1800streamer.com/p/landing
For 1800streamer, I had to work with a handful of technologies I've never used before and solve a few interesting problems, like dynamic namespacing for Socket.IO.
I like technical screens in the form of take home projects. I'm terrible at coding within the whiteboard IDE, and I haven't spent time memorizing common interview algorithms.
Since I haven't worked on a team larger than 4 people, I consider myself a junior level applicant, who could (hopefully) quickly move up to mid-level with the opportunity to get some blunt code criticisms and a few nudges in right direction.
I'm most comfortable on the frontend, playing with JS and MV* frameworks. A fair amount of data visualization with g.raphael. I like snowboarding, hiking, biking, and running long distances. I served, briefly, in the Navy before injuries sent me home.
I would like to request that technical recruiters hold off on reaching out unless you _really_ have a position you think is a great fit. Thank you!
I’ll get a context into a solid place with as much information as I can about a project. Usually getting up to 100k tokens.
Then I ask it to give me a summary I can use in a fresh chat, that will maintain the current context. This lets me reclaim space, bring responsiveness back to sane levels, have a baseline chat I use to spin up branches for marketing, design (it’s pretty helpful at trouble shooting Substance Designer graphs), etc.
I’ve found myself going into sub branches from there… like a marketing context that pushes branches into different marketing channels.