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FlyMachine raises $21 million to build a virtual concerts platform for a post-pandemic world

TechCrunch LA

In terms of actual experience — and I had the chance to experience one of the shows (pictured above) before writing this — FlyMachine has done their best to recreate the experience of shouting over the tunes to talk with your buddies nearby.

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Framework Benchmarks Round 22

TechEmpower

Renowned as one of the leading projects of its kind, it benchmarks the peak performance of server-side web application frameworks and platforms, primarily using tests contributed by the community. Numerous individuals and organizations leverage the insights from The TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks to enhance their framework’s performance.

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Generative AI – The End of Empty Textboxes

TechEmpower

Profile Blurbs and Writing Prompts Let’s look at our job matching site in more detail. This gives Mark more control over the process, without requiring him to write much, and gives the LLM more to work with. The LLM didn’t just write a blurb for Mark, it wrote the blurb that Mark would have written, if only he’d had the words.

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Mythical Games raises $75M to build an NFT game engine

TechCrunch LA

Mythical Games , an NFT games startup based out of Los Angeles, has banked a $75 million raise from new and existing investors betting on the startup’s aim to expand the ambitions of their first title and locate a substantial platform opportunity amid helping developers build blockchain-based gaming experiences.

Platform 308
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9 Innovative Startups To Watch For in 2024

Tech.Co

Calendly Calendly is an online scheduling platform popular among business and personal users. Gumroad Gumroad is a web-builder and ecommerce platform that lets creators sell products directly to consumers. Writesonic Writesonic is an AI writing tool designed to help writers overcome writers block and level up their skills.

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Frameworks Round 6

TechEmpower

July marks the fourth month of our ongoing project measuring the performance of web application frameworks and platforms. The new plaintext test demonstrates the extremely high request routing throughput possible on very high-performance platforms. This new chart type compares frameworks versus their underlying platform (e.g.,

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An Entrepreneur Platform To Put You Above the Crowd

Startup Professionals Musings

According to many experts, including Michael Hyatt, in his book, “ Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World ,” you need to build the highest platform you can, to stand out and be heard above all the rest. If these are not complete and consistent, your platform will always be splintered and lost in the noise.

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