An extremely interesting podcast I listened to lately.

Peter Thiel on Interesting Times Podcast
• youtube.com/watch?v=vV7YgnPUxcU

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@Dagmawi_Babi

Crazy concept! 🤯 I saw how it works and it's still so mesmerizing to watch and feels like magic honestly.

Gaming/programming using water droplets
• youtube.com/watch?v=rf-efIZI_Dg

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@Dagmawi_Babi

> be @neural_netss
> full time researcher
> get early access to ScholarXIV.com
> spends days testing
> responds back with a full on PDF of feedbacks and ideas to make it so powerful
> Oh my!!

Thanks dude!!

decided to make it a blog post, hope it helps...

Where to Launch your Products.

This is a resourceful blog I wrote about platforms to launch and announce your products. Use it as a checklist for your next launch! Good luck!

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@Dagmawi_Babi

Slight announcement to make...

I am super happy to announce that ScholarXIV.com has gotten an amazing Angel Investor.

He is investing $10k for 8% of the company at a post-money evaluation of $125k, and also apart from the investment, this investor is paying and helping with the incorporation of the company.

The investor is very incredible first for reaching out and then in that the investment is solely based on me and not on the product itself. Meaning I could pivot, I could decide the date I'll accept the investment and just makes things very flexible for me.

Currently I have decided to deal with the investment after YC applications which the investor is completely fine with but I have now started speeding up the company formation process in the US while expenses are covered by the Angel Investor.

There's still so much to go, so many decisions to make and most importantly so much to build. But even being in this spot and position is all God's good doing and grace. I also would like to thank all of you for the support and encouragement.

This's wonderful news and it's all credits to God.

#ScholarXIVWeb
@Dagmawi_Babi

This is still a start, and lots to go, but I'm very happy to have these amazing options and most of all being connected to an incredible investor.

I am aiming much bigger, MUCH bigger. The only other platform that does what ScholarXIV aimed to do, but even less, is worth $7.4m and me and the investor really understand the worth in this and that's why things are very flexible.

Nearing 600 registered users now, what that means is that people were trying out so many things and things broke.

So been keeping notes on these errors and spent the night handling all of them.

One of the errors I had and was reported the most was that the MongoDB connection kept closing (MongoDB Topology Closed) and ScholarXIV would be offline, which is a major issue.

In Vercel, any function is short lived and terminated soon. Which was what I was doing for the MongoDB connection. Vercel would close it if no one's online on ScholarXIV for like a few minutes. So this's something to keep an eye for.

Now I've handled all the error logs I've seen, and I don't have to worry about it being offline. Keep telling me feedbacks, UI or non-UI issues. Thanks.

#ScholarXIVWeb
@Dagmawi_Babi

If the very basic version of ScholarXIV is stable and usable, I can incrementally build all the new features I've been planning comfortably without worrying about affecting the users.

So whenever you get the time try to break things up, report all the UI issues you've noticed, tell me when you see console logs, try spamming it if you'd like, tell me when things are slow, abuse the system. Then just tell me about it and I'll get to it.

A solid foundation is worth the journey tbh.