Good lord, no, it is not. I tried Sorbet on a small personal project and rather quickly abandoned it. It made the code ugly and was a pain to maintain.
The fact that Sorbet has not seen adoption outside of Shopify is also somewhat telling.
It’s disappointing, because Ruby needs this. Modern tooling has moved in the direction of typed languages, and Ruby’s tooling has suffered comparatively. Outside of RubyMine it’s still difficult to get “jump to definition” to work consistently, and in 2023 this is a rather embarrassing strike against the language.
Sorbet is the worse part of using Ruby professionally. It's actually so far removed from developer happiness if feels completely foreign to long time rubyists. I wished there was types build-in the language though... I see the value in that.
It's not, but the title is extremely misleading. You MUST be in a calorie deficit to lose weight. What the study shows is that simply by doing intermittent fasting, people naturally tend to eat fewer total calories per day, and can end up in a caloric deficit.
Please people, do not simply think that intermittent fasting makes you lose weight. If you still have a propensity to eat junk food or just a lot of food even in fasting windows, you could still be gaining weight or staying at maintenance.
Personal take here -- I try to time-restrict eating. I'll brush my teeth right after dinner and essentially close off eating. Git commit. Git push. Done.
The nice thing about this is how it prevents snacking at night because you're in an "off" state that is binary. I cant trick myself into thinking a tiny bit will be OK, because any tiny bit wrecks the binary state of fasting.
Good to note it's not impossible to be in a calorie deficit and not lose weight. Lipedema for instance makes it impossible to lose fat on the legs and arms. Hard to get a diagnostic for it too. Other than that your comment is right, you can also not lose weight when doing IF, it's all about calories in calories out.
Hate to be that guy because I know what you were trying to say, but not really, not necessarily. You can avoid eating for the first X hours of the day and then gorge yourself on a huge meal and be in a caloric surplus at the end of the day.
While your point is valid, the researchers in the paper cite evidence from other studies that intermediate fasting reduces calorie intake.
I think the OP has a pretty reasonable point, intermediate fasting, restricts calories to certain hours, calories restriction in general restricts calories to a quantity.
Probably worth exploring the citation to know how well this holds.
“Evidence shows that limiting the eating window to 6 to 10 hours within a 24-hour period naturally reduces energy intake by 200 to 500 kcal/d”.
(There are zero studies that show that time restricted eating causes a greater weight loss effect compared to other eating plans when calorie deficit is equated between the groups)
As someone who has been doing, IF for 11 years and has moved to OMAD (more or less) I’d say…not really
Yeah, you might gorge yourself on occasion and have one our two day surplus, but it’s not something that anyone would regularly do because it’s not only uncomfortable, but it also messes with your gut. So in function while you’re correct, it is possible theoretically to ingest the same calories in a tiny window of eating as somebody who eats throughout a whole day, your body can’t process food that quickly and will give you significant gastrointestinal distress
OMAD it will always be pretty hard to eat a lot. But, for slightly more accommodating feeding windows, people can still eat plenty especially if they have higher density foods
At Lugg (https://lugg.com) we did a few things that would not scale.
- My co-founder and I did all the Luggs ourselves in trucks we rented through GetAround for the first 4 months
- My co-founder and I's names, pictures, and phone numbers were hard coded into the app as the crew to fulfill the Lugg before we had crews or proper dispatching
- We launched without payments and would charge customers with a Square reader at the door
- Most mornings we would camp out in the IKEA parking lot in Emeryville, CA and approach their customers that were struggling to get their purchases in their cars and pitched them that we would deliver their items if they downloaded the app and made a request
- In the early days we didn't have operating ours and anyone could request a Lugg at anytime and my co-founder and I would hop in our rented truck and do it
A few months in we did a Lugg for someone that knew Sam Altman and made an intro to him for us. We met him for coffee, shortly after had a YC interview, and was later accepted in the S15 batch
BTW - I think my next door neighbor was a customer in those first 4 months. I remember helping him pack for a small move one night and we decided to see if There Was An App For That - and there was! I remember our both being surprised that we made the request at like 10pm and one of the co-founders showed up.
So, um, thank you and sorry! (We didn't order at 10pm to be inconsiderate - we just saw the option and took it). Glad things have worked out since then - I still remember the experience and use it as a reference when I'm telling people about this exact sort of hustle.
I got downvoted for this very short reaction, so, at the risk of having another downvote(s), I want to make a statement:
With my very laconic reply I wanted in fact to convey my congratulations the Lugg creator for their perservance during the hard beginnings of their startup; plus, I strongly believe that the human level of the aspiring enterpreteneur's life is much more HNish in spirit, than endless discsussions circling around running LLM in the basement (or basement-as-a-service) without apparent customers, and somehow strangely the latter seems to be dominating HN comment space. Thanks for listening.
In part, I expect, due to the double full-stop which looks like it might be a miss-type ellipsis. It makes what could already potentially be seen as a sarcastic “cool story bro” response look even more so.
That, and the fact that HN generally disfavours short reaction comments (including, but not limited to, “Me too!”) which add nothing themselves other than perhaps (in the case of “me too”) an extra anecdata point.
Your follow-up post may well be downvoted too, because complaining about downvotes also being frowned upon (it is seen as adding unnecessary noise to a thread).
There’s a guy at my work that sprinkles .. in every reply. It makes him come off as an asshole. (I’m not the only person in my company that thinks so btw).
Recommend you stop, unless you like coming off as an asshole..
That's quite bad kind of reasoning. Using something from time to time in a context is different than using something all the time, so it should give different reactions.
It's definitely not intentional. It's just pattern recognition trying to recreate a humans voice and facial expressions from an extremely limited set of information. The less information, the more extrapolation has to take place, and if you provide basically no information but with a specific emotional signifier on it then that signifier becomes the main information converted in the text. Had you typed a sentence or two of your other comment with the 2 dots on the end people probably would have read it more charitably. But as it stands, the 2 dots are the only information available and so it reads like sarcasm and dismissal are the singular goal of your comment. This interpretation can be prevented by providing more guiding information in the comment.
No matter how you meant it, a reply saying "nice story.." contributes nothing at all to the discussion. And if you were intending to convey anything to the Lugg creator, you were replying in the wrong place.
Try to imagine thousands of people who don't know either you or the person you're replying to reading your reply. If it's meaningless to them, it's probably not worth posting.
Just want to say that Lugg has consistently been one of the best experiences I have moving things from place to place on short notice. Great customer service and the work is always done on point and on time.
It’s more reliable than any other short notice moving service I’ve used, but a little higher cost. I guess you get what you pay for.
Wow, that's a cool app idea and your website design looks so friendly. The closest company I can think of is Lalamove which operates throughout Asia (founded in 2013). Sorry if it's not the right place, but I couldn't find on your website how the fully insured part of your service works. Do you need to take pictures of everything before hand?
I recently ordered a medium sized table from ikea and the delivery options were a) $20 to receive in 3-5 days, b) $50 to receive on a specific day within a 12 hour window, and c) $80 to get a narrower time window and have the delivery person put the package in a room of your choice.
I'd guess you need a lot of scale to beat a) on cost, but there's probably room to undercut b) or c) on short distance trips.
I liked your story and technique in finding a need-now kind of audience with this method! And your bit about Square is underrated. Setting up auth/stripe/connecting everything can take so long you lose motivation. I like the idea of using Square.
I face a similar kind of situation in a similar market, would love to hear your advice on something, feel it may complement what you are doing as well - can be reached at lugg@revision.ai for this if you'd be up to chat.
We thought about it but ultimately decided that owning a truck would detract from what we really needed to be doing which was getting truck owners to do the luggs
That's an awesome/inspiring story, congrats & thanks for sharing. Was it all organic growth in the beginning? What took it from that early phase to the next step?
We almost used your service to get a lounge chair home the other weekend. We had to drive 45 minutes away to take a look at it and maybe buy it, and didn't really want to go there, rent a U-Haul, head home, head back, pick up our car, head home again.
We got lucky though that it managed to fit into our car so we didn't need to. But nice to know it's an option!
Good question: we mostly built Easyful to use ourselves, but if it gets a significant of usage we might build some more advanced pro features and sell those features as a paid tier upgrade, while keeping the base app free.
We've had success with that model before with Smallchat, a saas app we launched several years ago, and it's still going strong supporting millions of free users.
With low-operating-cost saas apps, you can get away with offering a pretty generous free tier. A small percentage of paid users can more than pay for your mostly-free user base.
> With low-operating-cost saas apps, you can get away with offering a pretty generous free tier. A small percentage of paid users can more than pay for your mostly-free user base.
Thats good to hear. Congrats.
I always wondered do low operating cost SaaS apps reach a point where the interest or subscription(s) for the paid plans outweigh the cost of running the free tier accounts? And how does one tackle that?
Do you have a blog or some stats to look at? I would love to read about this and this mission of yours.
I see many people suggest that there should be a small fee to cover the hosting costs, do you think such tactics lead to the race to bottom scenario where you can't really charge properly for the paid plan as the starter plan itself is under-priced?
I really wish Stripe would just make something like this. Just the bare minimum necessary to host Checkout for products entered in your Stripe dashboard. I wonder if they can’t due to some onerous clause in their agreement with Shopify.
Have you done a write it up English for how that works? Does stripe send emails and you just have the emails contain the content as attachments or straight text?
Definitely check them out - they're great. Easyful is just a fulfillment layer that plugs into Stripe payment links for emailing customers your content when they buy something.
