{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Still Early","title":"My VC told me not to be cheap","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3170,"description":"In this episode:Peter's Tailwind ui.sh support inbox after inviting 30k people to early accessThe first vlog landed well on click-through but had a watch-time problem (probably because the clip we pushed was also the first half-minute of the video)OG Kit got hit by Meta's new scraper, which means another entry in Peter's Cloudflare block list (currently around 20 scrapers)Niklas onboarding three new full-time hires and getting a much higher ambition push from the new London VC than he's used to from Danish onesTelco infrastructure strategy musings: going one layer deeper in the supply chain makes phone numbers 27x cheaper and changes what commercial offerings are even possible---Peter's week started a day late after a road trip to Germany with his oldest, which sounds nice but also means feeling behind for the rest of the week. Most of Peter's Tailwind work has been ui.sh support. They invited around 30,000 people to early access, so the inbox just doesn't really stop right now.OG Kit got hit by Meta's new scraper, which is how Peter usually finds out big companies are training models (Apple recently, now Meta). He has a Cloudflare setup a friend helped him build that lets him add new scrapers to a block list, currently around 20 of them. The big customers with hundreds of thousands of pages are actually useful here because they get scraped first, so the system gets hardened before normal users notice anything.Peter and Niklas recorded the second and third vlogs in Copenhagen (you can check those out on YouTube). The first one did well on click-through but watch time was lower than expected. Peter ran the YouTube analytics through Claude and ChatGPT and both pointed at the same thing: the clip they'd pushed hard on social before release was also the opening of the video, so people clicked, saw what they'd already seen, and bounced. Obvious in hindsight. The plan now is to release clips after the video, not before.Niklas's week has been onboarding new full-time...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/jiN5sNwxC3favF-CuribFhPuNYrIJomhSIW6PRT4RAk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hYTNj/MDZmN2Y1ZjQxYjEx/MjA1YWIzYzhlNWYy/ZmExYy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}