u/rather_pass_by

I have an Android app that is pretty heavy. Because of the 3d content in it, it takes time to download and open as well. .

I've a pretty low retention rate.. is it because of the loading time issue? Or could it be other factors.. such as the onboarding steps.. lack of clear value proposition?

Some numbers. 360 mb install size. 5 second boot time, then another 10 seconds for the login and the 3d scenes to be fully ready

I'm not very new to this community but engaging more just recently. And I feel, I'm genuinely pleased with the level of details the community provides, some people going to the efforts of extracting screenshot and zooming on the racket to give people feedback.

I do feel the joy of helping other people learn and improve. Still I can't exactly put it into words .. what is it that drives us here to come and help others learn and improve.

This is mostly anonymous platform, so any coach or real players probably don't get much recognition or rewards from the upvotes.. so I guess there are little to no financial incentives, which makes it great.

So what exactly it is? Keen to hear how you formulate it.. how you put that in words.

I know the dashboard says no training for deep seek v4

But I went to the provider's terms and conditions link on the dashboard and was surprised to read stream lake very red and unfriendly terms.. they can use your data to build their own product.. they have unlimited royalty free license on your inputs and generated outputs

I hope there's a mistake for this paid api on open router..

but the terms and conditions on the link, officially speaking, allows them to use the data for everything they want..

Can someone please clarify? This is streamlake.ai provider based in Singapore serving deep seek v4

Just got access to aws SES outside production environment.

Going to try it with plunck.. the self hosted email marketing tool, open source and built by solo founder. My favorite

Anyways, so I'm wondering if I should really setup my own email server for plunck or use their cloud hosted platform. That is, will my self hosted setup with dedicated aws work better than say brevo?

I have been using brevo for sometime but they rarely manage to deliver emails to quite a few email domains.

Can aws SES work better here?

Also what precautions do I need to take to keep my SES over long term? I read they need us to send very high quality emails.. has anyone got banned due to high bounce rate or high unsubscribe rate?

I have been building some thing for a while and one ideas after another, finally I have come up with a real novel algorithm for training model that works very well. As it should, because it's grounded in physics.. (if I explain you the ideas behind my model, you'd actually agree that it should work better). The kind of ideas that are obvious but hidden in plain sight or thought about it but just no one tried so far.

I have already filed a provisional patent application on it.. and now looking to publish it.

I have published in other ai domains but never in cvpr or the likes. And it's just my own work.. completely solo. Not a professor, nor have a PhD degree.

I'm now looking to get it published in a conference but I also feel like going all my own might be tough just because I'm not affiliated to any research labs or universities.. I know how to write papers.. what kind of results are expected and so on.. but I also know lot of editors just send out desk rejections to anyone without affiliations.. sad but true thing. Depends on scientific community and editors

What should I do? Target a second tier conference or even a workshop first? There is enough merit in the paper and deserves better in my perception.

It's unfortunate and sad people resort to anything to make money

They know there are a lot of founders and so to get funded they will do anything.. even pay.

So a lot of pseudo investors are nowadays charging 5-7 bucks to reply to your email, to give you feedback. To connect you to investors

Truth is these people are not investors, they are in real life struggling to pay their bill.

Even accelerators like YC only encourage more and more people to apply for the sake of increasing their denominator.. most founders don't know by applying to them, they only help them claim that they selected "top" 1% .. in reality, it's never top 1% .. it's just 1%.. from top of bottom, depends on the success. Chatgpt wrappers and yappers can never be top one per cent.

Regardless, even YC never charged anyone to pitch. Other accelerators are also trying hard to get more and more applicants but never charging anyone.

But now, there's a new brand of "angel investors" who will ask you to pay 5-7 bucks.. to reply to your pitch email.

If they had been charging like 500 bucks, I might have actually paid, but 5-7 bucks?? Literally?

Don't help them in paying their bills and mortgages. Never fall for this!