I wonder how sustainable the free model is for ai startups. This shows how you can switch easily from one to another. Maybe we are in the golden days like back when Uber was cheap…

For Uber, car prices and salaries go up over time naturally

For computing, silicon has become cheaper and more efficient over time

I expect a race to the bottom and then some stabilization, much like we have seen in general cloud computing, and have seen with token prices

"For Uber, car prices and salaries go up over time naturally"

Or, your VC money runs out and you start treating your gig workers like crap to save a few cents here and there.

The bottom can still be pretty high! Storage has become an order of magnitude cheaper, yet I still don't bother with block storage pricing

Dedicated or S3 is where it's at, still plenty of room for gamification

The point is the VC money funding something unsustainable (burning through billions). Token prices will never be zero IMO.

Yes they will. They are already, if you run local models, that are only getting better. There are 7-11B models that are as good as ChatGPT 3.5

Token costs are not zero when you’re running local models, because you paid for the hardware, and you can’t scale inference indefinitely without paying for more hardware.

Ok, but running a 11B model gets things 60% of the time right and consumes maximum of electricity of your machine. Not sure if that makes you product the best. Further video generation is very compute intensive. I guess price will decrease over time but the technical advance will allways be for the smarter model

> and consumes maximum of electricity of your machine

OpenAI isn't a eletricity company so the token prize is still zero for what is worth for VCs.

> but the technical advance will allways be for the smarter model

Not true. Currently, the small models are advancing much faster with daily new releases

I've been a loyal user of Mailparser for years. They provide an email address where you can send any email (tracking, invoice, etc..) and it extracts data based on pre-defined rules.

Then, you use Zapier to do almost anything with that data: send it to a google sheet, use that info to trigger an email to your customer, etc... The possibilities are endless.

My favorite use case was to use it for tracking emails sent out to our customers. We would have fedex-generated emails from our 3PL sent to a @mailparser address, which strips relevant info from the email, sends it to our Sendgrid account, re-skins the email in our format and sends it along to the customer as us. Won't bore you with the details, but we had a unique challenge that required something like this.

Great to hear that you like Mailparser and that you are using it since a couple of years already! I'm the founder of Mailparser and reading your comment made my day! :-)

I thought I should mention that we also launched a sister-product called https://docparser.com two years. Docparser is basically like Mailparser, but for documents (PDFs or scanned documents).

Coinbase is apparently seeing a 300% increase in euro/btc exchanges from users across europe in the last few weeks, but not much from Greece itself.

https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/615949087829946368

Journalism.

Times have a five article cutoff, isn't that right? You're paying for consuming a relatively large amount of news on a weekly basis after hitting that limit.

It's not like this is an essential piece of information you cannot Google to find elsewhere.

I think this is a super realistic way to approach project management in when we're using a bunch of different services, all in different tabs in a browser.

I use Evernote to do the task management that the Contextinator Home Page gives you and I have a shortcut to open up all my project-relevant tabs quickly in a browser. It's a pretty similar setup, and a bit less elegant but it does the trick for me. If the task-management side of Contextinator looked a bit more like Evernote (tags, sharing, etc...) I think it would be even better.

That being said, I think it's a super cool way to manage projects. Keep it up _ankit_!

I have no problem waiting if the thing actually works and will clean up my css. After implementing the new styles, is it looking just as good?

It's about damn time

Hey there! I'd love to follow up with you and chat. I guessed your email and was wrong. Shoot me a note when you get a chance - [email protected] - and we can take it from there.

Mack

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