I need to try it again. When I tried it I found it was kind of overblown and went back to copilot. I also wasn't sure whether to maintain two IDEs - Cursor for scaffolding new projects, and VScode for daily driving.

He has had this theme in multiple works, the idea of paying your door to open was so on point. I think of it all the time when I see things like auto makers charging subscription fees for remote start, etc.

I had the pleasure of trying this out before it was released. I think it's one of those things I can imagine might have a high bounce rate, but I would really like to encourage anyone checking it out to really give it at least 10-15 minutes. There are so many details and easter eggs and the frustration that's baked into the game design compounds quite nicely given some time.

EDIT: it's also more rewarding if you delay looking under the hood for a while.

Your GPU infra is a local server?

not local, it's colocated, but I specced and built it specifically to do inference at scale

How did you go from "I built my own" to making your first few sales?

I shared with a couple of co-workers/friends and they all liked it, I then built a simple website with screenshots and a download button for free.

Then I started sharing the progress on LinkedIn/X, my co-workers shared on their network too which also helped.

After 4 months I put a price on it and sold it with a 50% discount for early adopters. A lot of people bought it, which to me was a signal that I was into something that could become bigger if I invested more time on it.

How many tokens per second?

Another data point:

17.6 tokens/s on an M4 Max 40 core GPU

I am away from my computer, but I think it was about 10/second - not too bad.

8.4 tps on M1 Pro chip with 32GM RAM (Q4 model, 18GB).

You can always artify the qr code.

When I saw the screenshot I almost laughed out loud at the thought that anyone would say this is innocent looking.

It looked like a PR stunt

Yeah, the guy is literally named evildojo.

And then a 666 to boot, I mean gosh. Bad news.

Maybe you're feeling relief from the other ingredients like if there's also an inflammatory or caffeine, etc. bundled with the pill.

Are you suggesting that chatgpt is as popular as it is because it's propped up by google in the serps?

I think they're suggesting that highly popular sites like ChatGPT get a ranking boost beyond regular page rank, making SEO efforts unnecessary.

But I don’t think that’s the case, at least not artificially. These sites tend to rise naturally in search rankings because they have a huge volume of links and media coverage. Which still makes SEO efforts unnecessary.