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I'm CTO of a govtech startup. About a month ago we received the contract for a pilot with our first customer. My co-founder (CEO) wanted to have the contract revised by a lawyer since it is our first contract and didn't want to take any risk. In fact, there are a couple of clauses in the contracts that are favouring our client too much, so I do believe that a revision was necessary.

What frustrates me is that it has been a month since we received the contract and we haven't sent back the revised contract yet. That's because of how long it took to engage a lawyer expert in these things and the lawyer is not done yet with the revision. I thought the whole thing would take a week, 10 days max.

The contract is very important for us because it is all about market validation (and it's a pretty fat contract too since it includes not only the pilot but also what follows after that). I think taking so long for a contract revision might jeopardize this opportunity and is poor execution.

What do you guys think? Is it normal to take so long to send back a contract? Do lawyers normally take that long? What should have we done instead?

I wanted to share a small civic project I’ve been working on: Make Vienna Cool.

My city, Vienna, is getting unbearably hot in summer. Last Sunday it was 40 degree Celsius. And to make it worse, many buildings don't have AC, including my apartment. What I do in these cases is simply going to some public spaces having AC and spending some hours there. This is how I got the idea for my project.

It’s an open-source, mobile-friendly map that helps people in Vienna find places to cool down during hot days and heat waves. The map includes:

• public indoor places with AC where to rest, seat, have a drink or even work
• public drinking water fountains
• bathing and water refresh spots
• public toilets

The project combines official City of Vienna open data, OpenStreetMap data, and community contributions into one tool for heat safety.

Repo: https://github.com/tommasodesantis/Make_Vienna_Cool

Hosted version: https://makevienna.cool

You might wonder, can't I find these places on Google Maps? Hardly so. Google Maps doesn't offer an AC filter and also doesn't tell you if you can stay in a place without consuming, if there are tables, seating, sockets, WiFI, etc. Also, in my experience, Maps is pretty bad to find fountains, toilets and public swim places.

Curious to learn what you think, any feedback is welcome!

Servus liebe Wiener:innen,

ich gehöre leider auch zu denen, die daheim keine Klimaanlage haben und unter der Hitze ziemlich leiden. Mir bleibt oft nur, mir irgendwo in einem öffentlichen klimatisierten Raum Abkühlung zu suchen oder mich in die Donau zu retten.

So ist die Idee für ein Open-Source-Projekt entstanden: Make Vienna Cool.

https://preview.redd.it/g16yy1omf0ah1.png?width=1837&format=png&auto=webp&s=2e32df10026f0277b5038720093835259e8737c9

Die Idee dahinter ist, alle klimatisierten Orte in Wien auf einer Karte zu sammeln, an denen man sich hinsetzen, etwas trinken und zumindest ein paar Stunden der Hitze entkommen kann. Google Maps ist dafür aktuell nicht besonders hilfreich, und die Karten, die ich gefunden habe, waren oft eher unpraktisch, vor allem am Handy.

Ich habe bewusst keine Orte aufgenommen, durch die man normalerweise nur kurz durchgeht, wie zum Beispiel Supermärkte. Der Fokus liegt auf Orten, an denen man wirklich eine Weile bleiben kann. Ich habe auch versucht, einige Orte zu finden, die kostenlos sind.

Zusätzlich zeigt die Karte auch über 1.500 Trinkbrunnen in Wien sowie Badestellen und Wasserzugänge, an denen man sicher ins Wasser kommt.

Das Projekt ist kollaborativ gedacht, damit die Datenbank mit der Zeit weiter wachsen kann. Aktuell stammen die Daten unter anderem aus OpenStreetMap, der „Coole Zonen“-Datenbank der Stadt Wien, offiziellen Daten zu Trinkbrunnen und Badestellen sowie aus früheren Reddit-Empfehlungen zu diesem Thema.

Hier ist die Website: https://makevienna.cool
Und hier ist das GitHub-Repository, falls jemand mithelfen möchte: https://github.com/tommasodesantis/Make_Vienna_Cool

Ich hoffe, es ist für die eine oder den anderen hilfreich. Trinkt genug Wasser und passt auf euch auf!

EDIT: vielen lieben Dank für all die netten Worte! Ich habe auch öffentliche WCs hinzugefügt. Falls du falsche Informationen in den Karten siehst, verwende bitte den Button „Falsche Info melden“ auf der Website, um sie zu melden.

We are about to sign a paid pilot worth $3k that if successful will lead to a $50k contract with a local gov in the US for our govtech AI product. Is this enough to get an angel pre-seed investment? We would like to raise $150k to finance conferences which is our GTM channel.

Praticamente metà degli italiani non va a votare. Se sei tra quelli:

1. perchè non voti?

2. Cosa ti farebbe andare a votare?

I’m a non-US founder / non-US tax resident receiving restricted founder stock in a Delaware C-Corp. The shares are subject to vesting, so I’m planning to file an 83(b) election protectively in case I later join a US accelerator, or raise from US investors.

The issue is that I don’t have a US SSN or ITIN.

For founders who were in a similar situation:

• Did you file the 83(b) without an SSN/ITIN?
• What did you put in the TIN field: “N/A”, “Foreign Individual”, “Nonresident”, “Applied For”, or something else?
• Did you apply for an ITIN at the same time, or only later if needed?
• Did the IRS accept/process the filing or return anything?
• Did this cause any issues later during fundraising, legal diligence, or tax filings?

Just trying to understand what other non-US founders actually did in practice.

We are testing different products for product market fit. Normally we do the warm up of our own domains, but we are now thinking to skip that by buying prewarmed emails. What was your experience with those? Any recommendations?

This is a recurrent question and object of debates in here. Yet I couldn't find a source providing a reliable quantification of how many tokens you can expect to get from each codex subscription. I understand that this depends on a lot of factors, yet I'm sure it could be possible to obtain at least a range. Anybody can help here/

Servus zusammen,

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weiß jemand, ob es in Wien kostenlose public viewings für die FIFA-WM gibt, bei denen man nicht gezwungen ist, etwas zu konsumieren?

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Ich suche eher etwas Entspanntes im öffentlichen Raum, wo man sich einfach dazusetzen kann und idealerweise eigenes Essen und eigene Getränke mitbringen darf. Also nicht unbedingt eine Bar oder ein Gastro-Event mit Mindestkonsum.

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Falls ihr Plätze, Parks, Kulturzentren, Bezirksveranstaltungen oder andere Tipps kennt, wäre ich sehr dankbar!

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Danke euch :)

Data centers are stealing all the RAM available on the market leaving the rest empty-handed. Prices keep going up and with data centers multiplying I don't think this is gonna end soon. I think this is a good moment to start something in this space. I was thinking about starting a business in refurbishing, brokering, testing, sourcing, etc...

Anybody here have experience in this sector? Would love to read your experience

Hi all, I spent some time working through Austin’s public building permit records and wanted to share a summary of what I found. The dataset I used contains 526,892 public records covering permits, review outcomes and related timing information.

Why Austin? Because is one of the fastest growing metro areas in the US.

Results

For construction permits that ended up being issued, the median time between application and issuance was 33 days. The 90th percentile was 363 days.

For ADUs, meaning secondary units on the same lot as a main home, the median application-to-issuance time was 119 days. The 90th percentile was 411.4 days.

Site plans took muuuuch longer. These reviews cover broader land-development issues such as layout, access, drainage, and zoning. The median time to approval was 443 days, and the 90th percentile was 798 days.

I also reviewed the residential review-cycle dataset, which runs from January 2016 to January 2019. The median review cycle was 10 days, and 26.8% of cycles were labeled late or overdue by the city.

One thing that impressed me was that formal plan review rejection statuses were very rare, about 0.1%. However, when combining statuses such as expired, withdrawn, void, incomplete, and new-application-required, the share was much larger at 12.5%.

Project types with more revision activity

I also tried matching older residential review-cycle records back to plan-review cases. It gives a rough indication of which project types tend to involve more update or revision cycles.

The highest revision cycle rates I found included:

R- 102 Secondary Apartment: 83.4%
R- 103 Two Family Builindgs: 67.4%
R- 330 Accessory Use to Primary: 60.5%
R- 438 Residential Garage/Carport Addition: 59.0%

Here are the definitions:

R- 102 Secondary Apartment is roughly an ADU or secondary unit.
R- 103 Two Family Buildings is essentially a duplex or two-unit building.
R- 330 Accessory Use to Primary refers to an accessory use or structure connected to the main home.
R- 438 Residential Garage/Carport Addition means a garage or carport addition.

I’ll put a link in the comments with the more charts and results. Happy to answer any questions!

I'm planning to do more analyses like this one for other jurisdictions, let me know if you have ideas.

Hope this is helpful for curious planners or Texans in this sub :)

Shrinkflation is when a product’s package size or quantity gets smaller while its price stays the same or rises, effectively increasing the cost per unit. Oftentimes, the size is only slightly reduced (e.g. 50 grams/mL) so that it is barely noticeable to the consumer.

The psychological trick is obvious: make the distracted consumers believe that the price has not increased while the opposite is true.

I'm not against increasing prices, but that should be done transparently and not through deceptive strategies. Consumers have the right to make purchase decisions without being tricked by vendors. This is also unfair to honest vendors who don't adopt such strategies since their product might appear more or as expensive than the alternatives.

If the vendors want to release the same product in a different size then it should be done transparently: weight/volume clearly visible on the package and packaging size should differ significantly (e.g. >25%) from the larger option.

So was having an explorative call with a business with over 200 employees. They are not a tech company, they are an agency. The lead said that my product was really interesting and genuinely wanted to try it, however the CEO has just started a "SaaS ditching program". Basically some employees discovered vibecoding and showcased some vibecoded alternatives to the SaaS products they were using. The CEO got incredibly excited and ordered to replace one by one all of the SaaS products they were using with the internally vibecoded alternatives. Apparently its going really well and they are already saving 150k USD a year. Their plan is to ditch every single SaaS product except for things like operating systems. This is seriously making me re-evaluate the whole SaaS thing, I think at this stage everybody can just vibecode almost any SaaS. What's the value really?

So che questo post triggererà tutti gli edge lord che ritengono il calcio una cosa da trogloditi ma pazienza. Alla fin dei conti ero anchio un po' cosi. Poi il Como, città da cui provengo, è passato dalla serie D al quarto posto di serie A, che vuol dire giocheremo in champions, nel giro di 7 anni. Si è grazie ai miliardi di un indonesiano. Si i comaschi non hanno meriti. Il punto però è che sta roba mi ha fatto appassionare ad uno sport che non seguivo e mi ha fatto sentire fiero di essere comasco. Non è una cosa razionale però è cosi. Ora tutta la città è in piazza a festeggiare e c'è un'atmosfera bellissima che non avevo mai percepito. Normalmente Como è una città abbastanza spenta. Che dire, figata.