Y Combinator Startup Podcast
00:38:33 · S1, Peter Steinberger
[00:38:33] S1: Can you tell us more about your own personal setup? What do you host your claws on? What model are you running? What harness do you use? Do you still read... Can we scroll? Do you still read your code? [00:38:48] S0: I use my my MacBook, but I usually use jump desktop to screen share into my studio, and then just use the computer there, because that one's always running. That one, I can run whatever I want fast, and it'll not drain my battery, and I can close my laptop, and things keep working. And I have a few other remote machines where sometimes we can see in. The the part that's really nice about it, because I do a lot of Mac software, agents love to take over my screen and click around, and if you put that in their own, if you give them their own machine, it will not bother you, otherwise you'll fight with the agent for the mouse cursor. [00:39:39] S1: Do you still read your code? [00:39:41] S0: I think I answered that a little bit with the term risk management, and also if I do open source by myself, it's a different risk management than if I do software at OpenAI, where we do still read all of the code. [00:39:58] S1: Peter, how would you approach your next startup idea?
00:39:58 · S1, Peter Steinberger
[00:39:58] S1: Peter, how would you approach your next startup idea? [00:40:02] S0: I don't know, should I tell this to everyone? It's like I feel like it gets a lot of copies. I mean the most important thing is you need to build something that you wanna use. Otherwise it'll just not gonna be good. Second of all is, I hope you worked on your personal brand and on visibility, because in this day and age, there's so much noise out there that your hardest problem is not the tech, it's not the software, not even the people, the hardest problem now is like getting eyeballs. Maybe I would pick something again that's in the category hard and boring, because that's usually a category that is a little bit easier to actually find people that will appreciate when you solve something. If you pick something that is fun, even if it's hard, you're gonna have a very tough time, especially in a time where people can just prompt things into existence. [00:41:10] S1: Alright, last one for today. What's a product you want someone to build? [00:41:16] S0: You know, feel it's very easy to have, to get a test box for Linux. It is unreasonably hard to get one for Mac that works really well, and all the stuff that I got for Windows is also quite annoying. I haven't found a really good provider yet that does all of that fast and cheap. I'm not sure if this is the business you wanna be in, because dev tools are inherently hard, but that's something I would love to have. Thanks everyone.