Hey! I just wanted to build this to show where gaming is going thanks to this AI Boom (choose your own adventure, but opinionated enough to move numbers, get items, have a game end, etc.)
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Philz Coffee reportedly nearing a $145M PE acquisition. Just another "only in SF" story. Where your barista’s startup dream comes true, and the morning pour exits before your Series B.
Postgres is a great DB, but it's the wrong tool for a write-heavy, high-concurrency, real-time system with pub-sub needs.
You should split your system into specialized components:
- Kafka for event transport (you're likely already doing this).
- An LSM-tree DB for write-heavy structured data (eg: Cassandra)
- Keep Postgres for queries that benefit from relational features in certain parts of your architecture
IMO They don’t have a high concurrency DB writing system, they just think they do.
Recordings can and should be streamed to an object store. Parallel processes can do transcription on those objects; bonus: when they inevitably have a bug in transcription, retranscribing meetings is easy.
The output of transcription can be a single file also stored in the object store with a single completion message notification, or if they really insist on “near real-time”, a message on a queue for every N seconds. Much easier to scale your queue than your DB, eg Kafka partitions.
A handful of consumers can read those messages and insert into the DB. Benefit is you have a fixed and controllable write load into the database, and your client workload never overloads the DB because you’re buffering that with the much more distributed object store (which is way simpler than running another database engine).
You mention global presence but the job application forms require legal authorization to work in the US. Can you please clarify if you're remote global, or remote US?
What's exactly the benefit of running on the browser? I get that accessibility to a broader audience is a benefit but from what I understand these agents run on the terminal because they have a more powerful runtime. You don't have the browser's memmory limits, you can install native tools such as curl or docker, the model runs directly on your machine, and you have more security on the CLI.
That's a great point. Newrev actually gives you the best of both worlds:
The AI agents still run terminal-based environments on a backend server (local or cloud), so they have full access to resources and native tools. The browser UI simply provides a much more intuitive, visual interface for interaction, file exploration, and live previews, making these powerful agents accessible and easy to use without deep terminal expertise.
So running this on the browser implies you need to know how to clone a git repo, run a chmod command, etc. How do you plan to productize this so that it actually gets to the hands of non technical people?
For the short term, newrev is designed for developers who want to try out these powerful AI CLI agents but prefer not to live in the terminal. This means they can start using them right away.
Our mid-term goal is to offer a fully managed cloud service, primarily still for developers. However, we're seeing more agents run highly autonomously, which means newrev could eventually empower non-developers too. Think of how many 'no-coders' are already using tools like Cursor or Winsurf for their projects today.
I would say that beyond the green corridors, the main difference is how global it feels now. Lots of international cuisine, international DJs playing here, foreigners around, real estate ads in English, etc.
But the prices of "nationally-distributed" "things" (e.g. laundry detergent right?) pretty much adheres to the national trend...
...however rent in Medellín has gone up in these past 2 years too, like in some places it has gone up to double, gotta account for inflation (in USD terms you know) too but still...
Unless you’re in tech or a few other sectors (eg: long tail exports such the company that manufactures transistors for Tesla, which is near here) the local job market is very bad. Particularly with new prices, in the wealthy areas it’s comparable to a city like Lisbon now.
If you have a remote job however, it’s a no brainer. For example, renting a 3 bedroom in a wealthy area (through the local route, not Airbnb) within a gated community that has a pool, a gym, etc = $1,000. A private maid/chef once per week = $80. Normal Uber ride = $4-$6. Meal for 2 in a very fancy restaurant = $50 - $75.
Regarding the crimes against some foreigners:
- It shouldn’t happen. That’s why we elected a new major with a very different philosophy from the previous one.
- 1,8M foreigners came here in 2023 and 35 got killed. Again, the number should be 0, but once you see it as a statistic it feels improbable.
- If you don’t do ilegal stupid stuff you shouldn’t be doing in the first place (you know what I’m talking about) you’ll be fine.
I dunno man, I'm a nomad, I looked long and hard at where to spend a few months this winter and Medellin sounded attractive...until I read more about it.
No thank you. 35 deaths is the worst possible outcome. I don't want to leave the house in fear of getting mugged at knife/gun point and I'm sure those stats aren't even remote to being listed/accurate anywhere.
A significant portion of deaths resulted from drug overdose, and there was also a notable absence of acknowledgment regarding criminal activities perpetrated by migrants/tourists who arrived last year, despite numerous reported cases.
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