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Eric Jung

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Co-founder @ SoBrief | World's largest book summary catalog | $460K Raised

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Eric Jung
3 months
I think I just built the largest book summary app in the world. 73,000+ books summarized by AI working prototype at
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Trying this before-bed caffeine pill by tonight. Supposed to be released 7 hours after and wake you up.
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- 🎉 $300k+ raised by @readwise , @ShaanVP , @FurqanR , @fdotinc , @shranchio for - 🤦🏻‍♂️ problem: got too much equity as a solo founder - 🤙 solution: looking for 3 founding members! offering 2-3x more equity than avg. trial project → part-time → full-time
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2 years
8 years after signing up, this is my 1st tweet 😎
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Eric Jung
2 years
Turning 30 today! I wanna keep looking like 25 tho
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Eric Jung
3 months
Added audio 🤯 You can listen to 73,500+ book summaries in 8 to 12 minutes each Atomic Habits:
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1 year
i should've hired @aribk24 last year now he's printing $ with @MusicfyLol
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After winning the #1 Product of the Day, Week, and Month in 2021, I'm launching a new product! 73,530+ AI-summarized books. Audio narration. 40 languages. 100% free to read. Would appreciate your support!
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1 year
A typical office in SF 2023 @fdotinc
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Eric Jung
2 months
My ex was like "Why do you have so many emails?" I was like "Cause I have so many failed businesses 😅" How many do you have? I got 7.
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1 year
my brex cash balance started increasing 🤯
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1 year
Thanks, Starbuck Grand Canyon. I drove to the National Park with my family visiting USA 1st time but decided to debug here by myself and skip the tour. 1 customer scaling fast + 2 more going live. Hitting $20K MRR this month for sure.
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1 year
1 business paying $10K/mo vs. 400 consumers $3.5K/mo. Which is better? Same tech.
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2 years
Man, I accidentally pushed some code to serverless Lambda, and it fired 1.4M emails to 10,000 people 🤦🏻‍♂️ @Mail_Gun
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2 years
Just launched on PH. Is it dumb to compete with AWS? 😂
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2 years
DM open for: 1. Architecture/AI: customize the architecture, train, evaluate (GAN, VAE, speech synthesis) 2. Data/NLP: collect & preprocess (grapheme-to-phoneme) 1,000s of hours of data. a lot of NLP 3. Infra: data/training/evaluation/inference/etc pipeline
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Sobrief on front page Hacker News
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3 months
Posthog is so sick 🤯 I’m seeing 10-60 minutes of engagement on SoBrief
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lol
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Eric Jung
3 months
ofc 100 people visit when the backend is down
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Eric Jung
2 years
SF coffeeshops got the audacity to ask for a 35% tip 🙄 makes me feel shitty tipping 20% for a counter service
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I just looked up on Web Archive and found this from 1998...
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Fire your engineers. The cost of coding is approaching zero, fast. New formula = right product + rapid distribution
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Eric Jung
1 year
is there like a list of top ai newsletters (to sponsor)?
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Eric Jung
2 years
Got a bunch of bananas as a launch gift 😂, and I assume it’s from @erikdoingthings @kylejohnmorris at @BananaDev_ . If not I’m dead confused. Thanks for the delivery @joherkhan 🙌🙌
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2 years
@thealexshaq @atbeme seems like it's missing a narrator? hit me up 😜
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Eric Jung
3 months
can only go up from here
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Eric Jung
3 months
ran out of posthog free tier 1 day after signing up 😓
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2 years
I love fundraising lol
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Eric Jung
8 months
@levelsio Thanks for the shoutout 🙏
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Eric Jung
11 months
anyone else dating chat gpt while frequently having affairs with claude?
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Eric Jung
2 years
Why are people on @hackernews so mean?
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Eric Jung
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Launched SoBrief on HN 👀
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3 months
RIP perplexity...
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3 months
Why are people signing up? I just added Firebase Auth to SoBrief, and it literally does nothing. 15+ sign-ups in 1 hour🤷‍♂️
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3 months
SoBrief listeners spend 4.5x more time (18 mins) than non-listeners (4 mins)
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2 years
Here's the FTX Wikipedia page read out loud. Includes its brief history, liquidity crunch, etc. Pretty fascinating
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11 months
Is anyone using GPT to build a 'find things to do' tool? How I'm finding an EDM show for the weekend via GPT-4
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Is there a tool that handles feature requests, bug reports, and customer support (e.g. chat/faq) in one place?
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2 years
@joherkhan This is what it looks like
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2 years
@naval 's thread automatically turned into an audiogram using @UnrealSpeech and @editframe :)
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Selfish morality:
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Eric Jung
11 months
Anyone know how to send mass emails (10k-100k) to startup founders? Budget:$1k-$5k
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Eric Jung
3 months
Now I know running out of PostgreSQL space on @render takes down my company for hours.
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2 years
Roughly what % of your Google search is basically a simple definition/meaning lookup? (e.g., Wikipedia, dictionary, or similar)
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How to find the best-tasting coffee in SF: ✅ No wifi ✅ No place to sit ✅ Closed by the time you wake ✅ Latte costs federal minimum wage
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@mgsiegler glad you love our voices! took years of R&D :)
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2 months
Awesome video @futurepedia_io ! Thanks for featuring us. Driving lots of traffic
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2 years
@sudonymously Launching Unreal Speech on June 7! It’s a text-to-speech engine that’s better than 8x cheaper than AWS.
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I want to be more active on twitter. Just moved the app to the home screen and feel like i just accomplished something huge
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Eric Jung
1 year
@WouterTeunissen It definitely took a lot of effort but laid the soil (scalable infra) to get more easily
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@damengchen What if you could chat with PDFs via voice as if talking to someone who read the PDF for you?
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Eric Jung
2 years
I wish YouTube/Facebook/etc spoon-fed me with cool knowledge I didn't yet know I needed.
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2 years
@hackernews I'm straight up getting attacked lol. But #1 on Show HN though :)
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2 years
Was surprised how easy @GitHubCopilot made it to program in a language I'm not familiar with.
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3 months
New list view on SoBrief--more lists on the way
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@bentossell Something like this?
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2 years
so a friend sent me this and idk if it's offensive to post something like this here
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2 years
@Mail_Gun This is a confirmation that Lambda scales.
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Eric Jung
5 months
Addicted to your phone? Want to focus? How to fix in 1 day: 1. Trash your phone. 2. Buy an iPhone SE (2nd gen). 3. Transfer 0 apps, then uninstall all stock apps. Start here. Install apps as you go.
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when is the right time to start monetizing?
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Eric Jung
1 year
Average 2pm saturday marina in Sf
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@andrewjaykeller I took this picture
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not a bad spike from one tweet
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1 year
@matter Hell yeah
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Eric Jung
2 years
@TedSpare @linear @neat_run Holy shit how did you do that spectacular startrek shit?
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Eric Jung
1 year
Twitter Ads are so f**ky 😂 All of my ads stopped 2 minutes ago (no heads-up). To resume, it wants me to get Twitter Blue ($8/mo) or Verified Organizations ($1,000/mo) In addition to ads money + Conversion API ($100/mo) to track conversions in the backend. What the flip?
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2 years
@FarzaTV saw @FarzaTV sliding into @fdotinc office yesterday; immediately in his flow state Smashing👏
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1 year
@sirfloriank @homsiT Yes it’s coming up soon!
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Is it better to apply to accelerators early (fewer applicants to review) or late (w/ more traction)?
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@sathaxe Super cool!
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@InfiniteJulian0 Honestly i should pivot now
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@wordisbonz had no idea! really sick editing
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Is it worth publishing change logs for a b2c company (for SEO, user engagement, etc)?
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2 years
@joherkhan Wait, are babies minimum viable humans?
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Everyone in SF needs this weather app: Mr. Chilly
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@kirillzzy @humanapp ui is insane who designed it?
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@_johnnydallas_ @arnavbathla20 Lol love it. We should always wear other @fdotinc company swags for PRs
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2 years
@erikdoingthings Fantastic advice! What do you mean by "thematically consistent"?
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@matter @fede777 more to come indeed!
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@safwaankay what is this number
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1 year
Does anyone know roughly how much ChatGPT generates via the subscription (consumers) vs. API?
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2 years
@wetarynitup obviously
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@JacobCarter5550 @FarzaTV @andrewjaykeller @kylejohnmorris she absolutely loved being carried down while we absolutely struggled to carry the 80-pounder down the steep mountain 😂
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@kylejohnmorris I think doing 80/20 on areas I suck is high-leverage
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@andrewjaykeller @kunalshxh Which is why I got the Family subscription so can spoon-feed it to a few friends
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@erikdunteman
Erik Dunteman 🍌
2 years
We launched TurboBoot yesterday to solve GPU cold boot This is a problem we've chosen to solve after more than a year of manually building ML API services for the now giants of AI startups The biggest blocker was cold boot But what is cold boot and why is it important?
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New doomsday scenario: All AI goes down, and people can't do any shit.
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