🛄 Only bring carry-on luggage. Often cheaper + less time waiting
🛒 In case of doubt, don't bring it. You can buy it at destination too
🎫 Ticket prices vary wildly. Do your research. (kiwi.commomondo.com etc)
💬 Meet people through Meetup, Couchsurfing, Nomad List, Tinder
📅 Stay flexible by not planning too far ahead (my preference anyway)
🏨 Pre-book hotel/airbnb for only first few days, research more when at destination
💳 Use @RevolutApp for easy payments (not a sponsor haha)
✅ Make checklists for prep before flight, and arrival
💧 Stay hydrated during flights
🍛 Select specific in-flight meal during check-in. You'll get food first + your choice. AFAIK there's never an additional cost for choosing beforehand
🎧 Noise-cancelling headphones for flight
🗺 Add trip to nomadlist.com to receive arrival email with local tips (which sim card to get, tipping percentage, etc)
👕 You can wash clothes during travel. No need to pack weeks worth of clothes.
💺 Use SeatGuru.com to find the best seats in plane
👍 Enjoy
Build a simple browser agent as proof-of-concept for the new function calling API.
1. Enter URL 2. Tell it what you're looking for
It will browse the site, click on any links, and return the results.
This is all you need to provide to the API.
You then need to watch for any "function_call" response, run the actual function yourself, and send back the results to the API.
I didn't record this session, but this was one magical. It used the search feature to find Andrey's profile. I saw it live tapping each search result page until it find the list of users, clicked Andrey's profile, and summarized his recent work. 🤯
Some thoughts on originality, competition, and one of my biggest weaknesses as an entrepreneur…
In 2010, I launched BetaList because I recognized how difficult it was for founders to get publicity, particularly for those outside of the Silicon Valley bubble.
It turned out to be my first successful product.
Product Hunt launched a few years later. A similar product with a different take: Reddit-style upvotes.
Combined with their access to SV influencers, funding, and talented team, they quickly took over the top spot in the "daily list of new products" category.
I never shared this before publicly, but I owned @WIP on Instagram (probably worth $10k+) for about a minute.
I figured with all the recent handle talk, now would be a good time to share the crazy story…
June 2018 I was considering getting more active on Instagram with WIP. I owned @wipchat there, but I thought it would be much nicer to get @wip instead.
So I checked who currently owns, to see if there's *any* chance I could somehow get.
I was expecting it to be either suspended or used by some big brand. Instead, it was just a regular person with a bunch of family photos.
Turns out it was owned by a Dutch guy that lived in the small city (200k residents) I'm from. Odds of that happening are less than 0.1% 🤯