Joined June 2012
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Jun 13
🚢 Shipped a bunch of visual changes to flightschools.fyi just now:
1. Aircraft images: you can now see a picture of each specific aircraft available for rent on the school page
2. Aircraft types and locations: added even more pictures to the landing page to make things stand out
3. Added a map: to visually show where all the schools are located. Shows up on the landing page, explore pages, etc
4. New logo: no longer an upside down airplane, seemed like a bad omen for flight training! 😀 A regular airplane top-down as the logo is much better.
What do you think, is the extra context I've added useful?
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Jun 11
Never trust a man who follows 0 people and brags about himself in the third person
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Jun 9
I'll never understand this mindset where you start a company, only to turn around a give a VC so much power that they can fire you at any moment.
Some people wear this as a badge of honor. I think it's an inability to negotiate investment terms, and that it defeats the entire purpose of starting a company.
For whatever it's worth, I worked for a company that was backed by Khosla Ventures and I'm 100% sure there was no such "Vinod can fire the CEO whenever he wants" term in the term sheet.
To this day, even after series A through G and an IPO - the CEO and the founding team of that company retains 70% voting power to negate any board/investor influence.
That's how you do it if you want to take VC funding! Clean deals only and retain control the entire time. Don't sign bad deals just to get a famous VC logo on your website.
Jun 7
I’m backed by Vinod. Every founder who raises from Vinod knows the deal.
Could he try to fire you from your own company if he thinks that’s what the company needs?
Yes. That’s not a secret. We even joke about it.
But making this entire drama about “firing founders” misses the point.
The point is that Vinod will always make the call he believes is right for the company, no matter how uncomfortable it is.
And there are 2 sides to that coin.
If he thinks you’re in the way, he’ll move you.
If he believes the company should win and you’re the person to make it win, he’ll move mountains for it. He’ll pull strings, take the hard fights, and push harder than almost any investor would.
The ruthlessness that makes him dangerous is the ruthlessness that makes him exceptional.
That’s the deal with him. Vinod is not founder-first, he’s company-first. And if that makes your uncomfortable, you should probably pitch someone else.
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Jun 3
🥳 Just launched FlightSchools.fyi:
As a student pilot myself, I noticed that finding a good flight school was surprisingly difficult.
Pricing is often unclear, fleet information is scattered, and it's hard to compare schools without calling a bunch of them and making your own spreadsheet.
So I built a free directory that brings it all together:
🤑 Real pricing data
✈️ Detailed fleet and avionics information
📍 Flight schools in all 50 states
✅ Completely free
It's also live on Product Hunt right now:
producthunt.com/products/fli…
I'd especially appreciate feedback from pilots, student pilots, and flight instructors.
Is there anything you wish you would have known when you started flying? I'd love to include whatever that is on the website.
Thanks in advance!
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May 12
Been a minute.
I’ve been building something new (coming soon!), helping @watchdog_chat customers, AND focusing on learning how to fly ✈️
Just finished my 2nd lesson in a Cessna 152 and landed the plane myself!
But the complicated airspace in NYC has made things interesting:
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May 12
For those of you who aren’t pilots:
There are 3 airspaces almost/exactly stacked on top of each other every time I take off
1. Class D (KFRG)
2. Class C (KISP)
3. Class B (KFRG sits underneath JFK’s airspace)
Notice how close my ground track is to all 3 😅
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May 12
On one hand, this complexity will cost me more time, money to master - it’s a struggle so far.
On the other hand, it’s super valuable as I’ll be able to fly anywhere in the US without worrying about airspace complexity too much
So, going to continue w/ it until I’m competent ✅
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Apr 28
After suffering poor sleep for years, I finally fixed it recently:
Before:
- 29% humidity 🏜️
- CO2 ppm at 1500 while sleeping 😷
After:
- 50-55% humidity (bought a humidifier) 🌊
- CO2 down to ~700 (cracked the door) ✅
Unbelievable difference in hours slept:
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Apr 28
Finally, here's the stuff I used to track and fix this problem:
1. Qingping Air Monitor Lite (ad): amzn.to/4d9n5fo
2. Levoit OasisMist 450s Smart Humidifier (ad): amzn.to/4t3Zxxl
3. My own door and simply opening it 😄
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Apr 28
Oh also, the humidifier needs distilled water.
Instead of wasting a bunch of plastic buying bottles of distilled water at the store, get yourself a water distiller like I did.
Costs about $60 but saves tons of time:
amzn.to/4mWxyOF (ad)
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Apr 28
Welp, @watchdog_chat's X integration has been retired ahead of the death of X communities 🪦
X blocked it from logging in.
Took them long enough - the bot had been running for nearly 2 years uninterrupted 😎
All affected customers have been refunded. Onwards and upwards!
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Apr 23
⚠️ X is getting rid of the Communities feature with a laughable 2-week notice period.
If you're an X community owner, I want to help:
I'm working on a tool to export your entire memberlist so you can properly notify your members.
If this sounds interesting, reply below 👇
Apr 22
Today we're announcing two product changes for organizing communities on X:
1. XChat now supports joinable links for groupchats. Create a public link & share direct to Timeline. With support for 350 members per chat (and growing), Groupchat Links are the fastest way to bring people together on X.
2. Due to declining usage, we're deprecating X Communities on May 6.
To migrate your Community's members, pin your groupchat link so people can join it over the next 2 weeks.
This is part of our broader effort to simplify the experience on X. Make no mistake: we are investing heavily in niche communities with the launch of Custom Timelines—and much more to come.
Community note
Communities' purpose is different from chat. Communities works asynchronously, meaning members can browse posts and choose which ones to engage with.
help.x.com/en/using-x/com…
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Apr 23
Separately, this means the @watchdog_chat X integration will be shut down on May 6th along with the communities feature itself.
I've already reached out to all affected customers via DM, but let this be a reminder in case you're a customer that happens to see this post.
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Apr 23
Update: Seems like X walked it back and now it's May 30th.
Let's see if they walk it back further or keep going with this stupid move simply because they were too lazy to improve Communities to the point where people would actually use it.
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Apr 20
Latest scam marketing tactic I've seen from ISPs in the US:
Marketing speak: "Fiber-powered internet" 🤡
Translation: "ancient cable internet with ~15mbps upload speeds"
They say "fiber-powered" because fiber is used upstream, but by the time it gets to your house it's coax
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Apr 20
Shame on the below ISPs for using this deceptive marketic tactic
@Ask_Spectrum
@astoundconnects
@FCC go after these fools if you know what's good for you, receipts attached for both companies
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Apr 18
OK, @watchdog_chat onboarding is completely automated now including invite links to the dashboard
Made a new post checkout page and hooked up Stripe webhooks
Time to hop back into marketing mode 🏃♂️
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Apr 17
😅 If you're a Watchdog customer, you might have noticed the crappy onboarding experience.
Sorry you had to put up with that for so long. I learned a ton doing manual setup for every customer, but it was time to fix it.
The new flow (live now) is completely self serve. Enjoy!
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Apr 17
New: depending on the category of group you have, Watchdog will use a tuned set of rules.
You can always customize your rules, and rule wording is completely transparent after setup, but I learned that good defaults are important.
Hope this makes things easier across the board!
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