I had exactly the same feeling. I've spent most of my career working on software for investment banks in the UK and at the end of the day you can't show your work to anyone (even if they cared) and you only get paid for the time worked. I'd known for years and years I wanted to build my own business but waited until I was in a financially feasible position to do so. And with that I had many many ideas but it mainly came down to ideas which weren't capital intensive and had a viable gtm. And with that I chose to pull the pin on https://www.getdestash.com
Thanks. Great question, improved trust, quality and experience would be the main areas.
We can do better on trust by cultivating it from this caring demographic and supporting them with a fair process. Trust for example that the product you are buying is actually in the condition stated. Parents would likely pay a small premium for this.
We feel that competitors in this field have done well expanding globally but at the same time have not done enough to improve and move forwards the overall experience of buying and selling secondhand. Even as a tiny startup we feel we are already better than the market leader in some of these regards.
Lastly by targeting only parents it allows us to change and optimise the whole process for them specifically. For example we prioritise time saving features (no bidding or offers) and we can offer services that don't make sense to non parents (school clothing).
I generally don't read anything by gh but I think he is cryptically just referring to something like XLA, whereby your NN architecture gets compiled straight to hardware, say to a custom asic, or to an FPGA bit stream, etc.
It's definitely going to happen but I don't think it will replace CPU's much like human brains can't quite replace CPU's and what they are optimised for.
Trying to make out that TinyGrad is leading the charge in this is quite self indulgent.
Dotnet is crying out for a lightweight front end for desktop and mobile.... But not a new backend??? That's already sooo good. Strange choice to add to the ecosystem.
Awesome work, I've developed my own projects which are fairly similar to this. I would say that the auto router is the most important aspect for this to work well, and unfortunately one of the most complex areas :)
The only minor complaint is that the wires / nets / traces are also components themselves. JSX can only build tree structures but wires turn circuits into graphs, so for those I would have used plain js classes or hooks like useWire and then pass the + and - into the components. That gives you the added benefit of warning when you haven't wired up a component fully. Also allows for required and optional wire inputs on components.
useWire and other type-safe routing features are coming soon! You are 100% correct that the way it’s currently being done can’t leverage the type system. I also agree that autorouting and auto-layout are critical (in the same way flex is important for web!!)
I like the idea of autolayout like flex for routing wires. There needs to be things like busses etc., feels like there is something there that could be flexed. Problem is the multiple dimensions of connections, so maybe something inspired by grid layout and grid template area?
Exactly! I'm hoping to expose autorouter/autolayout to userland (e.g. "drop your function here") and see what clever people come up with. I have some ideas but there's so many fun ways to do it so I'm cautious to sink too much time in. But it's a super important problem and I do think a new multi-layer flexbox/cssgrid could make wiring work really well.
Also checkout projects like spinalhdl, it's not really for PCBs and doesnt have JSX but the concepts are similar. Has things like wire bundles which is where the payback from these approaches really kick in.
Do you think some form of memory would help, i.e. RAG using semantic lookup of prior situations and thoughts and outcomes. I feel like this is something humans do intuitively to bring similar scenarios to the front of mind so we can get a basis for how to deal with novel situations...
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