This looks great, excited to try it out

you're obviously joking, but it'd be interesting if you actually tried :)

people seem so caught up in founders' particular ideas at the pre-seed stage and forget that YC is investing in people - specifically: people who try. you can jokingly quip that you'd be better at forking vs code, but at the end of the day they're doing it - not "waiting for their check" - and you're making fun of them on the internet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> people seem so caught up in founders' particular ideas at the pre-seed stage and forget that YC is investing in people - specifically: people who try.

Are they? Seems like based on this YC alum [0], the reality these days is otherwise.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41697032

You're right, I am joking. I have my own ventures that carry some dignity. It's also premature for a claim that they are "people who try" as they have not produced anything except mistakes and apologies.

Also, maybe consider you're spending your time baselessly defending strangers on the internet. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

When there's gold rush, sell shovels: create a startup with an AI product for defending other AI startups' blatantly unimaginative idea.

yes, we should be celebrating this. also, 1) cash comp was $1m and the $190m equity grant vests over 10 years, 2) see the comment posters username - are we surprised by this take? lol

re (1): https://x.com/eshear/status/1761483016936046596?s=20

nice, congrats on shipping

thanks! move fast and ship is my mantra

Love the spirit! App looks very cool, keep up the great work :)

seems to be unnecessary criticism?

if you want it, build it :)

ignore the naysayers; nice job building out your idea

Thank you! I got pretty thick skin, but always a bit of insecurity involved in doing something the first time -- first public GH repo and Show HN :D

+1

Simone Giertz partners with Viam, a modern robotics platform founded by the co-founder and CTO of MongoDB, Eliot Horowitz, to build an autonomous charging robot for her custom Tesla truck.

(I work at Viam)

Gonna be honest she rinsed you guys. Made a 10-min vlog that basically said nothing about your product and you guys had to do the whole thing.

Quick honest question: What benefit did Viam bring that isn't brought by ROS for this project?