The three of us met as grad students at Stanford where we were all working on different things \u2013 I was doing AI research before dropping out of my PhD, Alex G was in a robotics lab (and just finished his PhD!), and Max was in aero/astro. We worked on a variety of classes, research, and side projects together, but we wanted to start a company and none of our ideas were looking particularly commercially viable. Then, as I was winding down a project building an autonomous weeding robot, it crossed my mind that one of my own biggest daily frustrations was something that was worth building a company to solve.
That frustration was that eating well in America requires spending a lot of time cooking or a lot of money buying meals. In grad school, I didn\u2019t have enough time to cook every meal, but I also couldn\u2019t afford to spend $10 or more at Chipotle, Sweetgreen, etc. It turned out that most of my friends, in and out of grad school, had the same problem. So, with Alex G and then Max as well, I started looking into why good/healthy restaurant meals in America are so expensive.
It turns out that a lot of it comes down to costs that are passed down to customers. An average Chipotle restaurant costs a million dollars to build and runs up a $600K/yr bill for on-site labor. That all gets passed on to customers, so that a $10 burrito bowl has only about $3 worth of ingredients in it, but also $3 of restaurant labor and $4 to cover things like rent and profit margin \u2013 which for most restaurants is quite thin. We realized that reducing the cost of building and operating a restaurant could unlock much cheaper great-quality meals. So Alex G and I, soon joined by Max, started talking to people all over the restaurant and automation spaces and brainstorming how to solve the problem.
It turned out that if we constrained ourselves to bowl-style meals (grain bowls, salads, soups, curries, etc.), we could use a lot of existing automation equipment off-the-shelf, put it in a shipping container and integrate it with a few pieces of custom hardware to make an autonomous restaurant-in-a-box. The hardest part turned out to be the dispenser technology \u2013 putting ingredients in a bowl reliably is not trivial! We came up with a new approach for that that we\u2019ve recently filed a patent application on and we'll be able to talk about more publicly once the patent is granted.
Like most restaurant chains, we do the bulk of our prep in a central kitchen and then the auto-kitchen itself uses a variety of heating and finishing steps (e.g. applying sauces and dry toppings) to make bowls to-order. Unlike some food automation companies, we\u2019re focused on creating a fully automated \u201crestaurant in a vending machine\u201d rather than human-in-the-loop partial automation. Getting our tech to work reliably enough to not need a human to monitor it is a challenge, but comes with benefits like being able to make more meals, faster, out of a smaller space. It also gives us food safety advantages because there\u2019s less room for human error, and we can also do things like bathing the insides of our boxes with high-intensity UV light that kills germs but would not be very employee-friendly!
We\u2019re also taking the point-of-view that solving food automation requires leaning into special-purpose hardware, rather than just trying to program a robotic arm to do everything a human cook does. As a former AI researcher, I can speak to the difficulties of programming arms to do even simple tasks like pick-and-place, let alone cooking full meals. And if you\u2019re going to constrain the kitchen environment to help the arm\u2019s actions be more repeatable, you might as well use special-purpose hardware that can do the same tasks more quickly and reliably.
We\u2019re now executing on both the food side and tech side of things in parallel. Our human-powered ghost kitchen is dishing out our Mediterranean menu from our San Mateo location (Stop by! https://order.mezli.com). At the same time, we\u2019re building our full-scale food-safe v2 prototype and are shooting to have it up and serving customers later this month. Once our auto-kitchen is working reliably and is robust enough to handle a few knocks, we\u2019re going to start forward-deploying it to parking lots and garages in the Bay Area to test out our operational model. Then, it\u2019ll be time to build multiple auto-kitchens and eventually develop multiple concepts so each auto-kitchen rotates to a new menu on a regular cadence.
At that point, we might start partnering with restaurant chains, chefs, etc. to roll out their menus/brands to many of our auto-kitchens at once. Since our hardware can make just about any kind of meal that goes in a bowl, and the side of each auto-kitchen will be a digital billboard, we\u2019ll be able to roll out new brands to hundreds of locations overnight without having to update signage, retrain staff etc. \u2013 a sort of \u201cAWS for bowl-style meals\u201d model.
We\u2019d love to hear any thoughts from the HN community. Do you have experience in the restaurant and/or automation spaces? Are you a prospective customer with opinions on our offerings? Another perspective yet? We\u2019d love to hear your thoughts!"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["health"],"value":"Launch HN: Mezli (YC W21) \u2013 Robotic restaurants that serve healthy fast food"}},"_tags":["story","author_kolchinski","story_26468204","launch_hn"],"author":"kolchinski","children":[26468463,26468466,26468513,26468519,26468528,26468604,26468650,26468659,26468666,26468815,26468848,26468926,26468941,26468943,26468988,26469023,26469099,26469171,26469438,26469552,26469573,26469719,26469735,26469821,26470168,26470182,26470430,26470896,26471251,26471299,26471600,26471675,26471679,26471990,26472330,26473031,26473162,26473461,26474241,26474905,26475214,26477062,26477216,26480267],"created_at":"2021-03-15T16:39:29Z","created_at_i":1615826369,"num_comments":127,"objectID":"26468204","points":201,"story_id":26468204,"story_text":"Hi folks, Alex here \u2013 I\u2019m the CEO and one of the cofounders at Mezli (https://www.mezli.com/). (I\u2019ve also been a Hacker News lurker since high school and always hoped I\u2019d be posting a Launch HN one day!)\nWe make \u201cauto-kitchens\u201d, fully autonomous restaurants in a shipping container form factor. They serve our menu of Mediterranean grain bowls for pickup and delivery, at a low price point enabled by our approach\u2019s low costs.
The three of us met as grad students at Stanford where we were all working on different things \u2013 I was doing AI research before dropping out of my PhD, Alex G was in a robotics lab (and just finished his PhD!), and Max was in aero/astro. We worked on a variety of classes, research, and side projects together, but we wanted to start a company and none of our ideas were looking particularly commercially viable. Then, as I was winding down a project building an autonomous weeding robot, it crossed my mind that one of my own biggest daily frustrations was something that was worth building a company to solve.
That frustration was that eating well in America requires spending a lot of time cooking or a lot of money buying meals. In grad school, I didn\u2019t have enough time to cook every meal, but I also couldn\u2019t afford to spend $10 or more at Chipotle, Sweetgreen, etc. It turned out that most of my friends, in and out of grad school, had the same problem. So, with Alex G and then Max as well, I started looking into why good/healthy restaurant meals in America are so expensive.
It turns out that a lot of it comes down to costs that are passed down to customers. An average Chipotle restaurant costs a million dollars to build and runs up a $600K/yr bill for on-site labor. That all gets passed on to customers, so that a $10 burrito bowl has only about $3 worth of ingredients in it, but also $3 of restaurant labor and $4 to cover things like rent and profit margin \u2013 which for most restaurants is quite thin. We realized that reducing the cost of building and operating a restaurant could unlock much cheaper great-quality meals. So Alex G and I, soon joined by Max, started talking to people all over the restaurant and automation spaces and brainstorming how to solve the problem.
It turned out that if we constrained ourselves to bowl-style meals (grain bowls, salads, soups, curries, etc.), we could use a lot of existing automation equipment off-the-shelf, put it in a shipping container and integrate it with a few pieces of custom hardware to make an autonomous restaurant-in-a-box. The hardest part turned out to be the dispenser technology \u2013 putting ingredients in a bowl reliably is not trivial! We came up with a new approach for that that we\u2019ve recently filed a patent application on and we'll be able to talk about more publicly once the patent is granted.
Like most restaurant chains, we do the bulk of our prep in a central kitchen and then the auto-kitchen itself uses a variety of heating and finishing steps (e.g. applying sauces and dry toppings) to make bowls to-order. Unlike some food automation companies, we\u2019re focused on creating a fully automated \u201crestaurant in a vending machine\u201d rather than human-in-the-loop partial automation. Getting our tech to work reliably enough to not need a human to monitor it is a challenge, but comes with benefits like being able to make more meals, faster, out of a smaller space. It also gives us food safety advantages because there\u2019s less room for human error, and we can also do things like bathing the insides of our boxes with high-intensity UV light that kills germs but would not be very employee-friendly!
We\u2019re also taking the point-of-view that solving food automation requires leaning into special-purpose hardware, rather than just trying to program a robotic arm to do everything a human cook does. As a former AI researcher, I can speak to the difficulties of programming arms to do even simple tasks like pick-and-place, let alone cooking full meals. And if you\u2019re going to constrain the kitchen environment to help the arm\u2019s actions be more repeatable, you might as well use special-purpose hardware that can do the same tasks more quickly and reliably.
We\u2019re now executing on both the food side and tech side of things in parallel. Our human-powered ghost kitchen is dishing out our Mediterranean menu from our San Mateo location (Stop by! https://order.mezli.com). At the same time, we\u2019re building our full-scale food-safe v2 prototype and are shooting to have it up and serving customers later this month. Once our auto-kitchen is working reliably and is robust enough to handle a few knocks, we\u2019re going to start forward-deploying it to parking lots and garages in the Bay Area to test out our operational model. Then, it\u2019ll be time to build multiple auto-kitchens and eventually develop multiple concepts so each auto-kitchen rotates to a new menu on a regular cadence.
At that point, we might start partnering with restaurant chains, chefs, etc. to roll out their menus/brands to many of our auto-kitchens at once. Since our hardware can make just about any kind of meal that goes in a bowl, and the side of each auto-kitchen will be a digital billboard, we\u2019ll be able to roll out new brands to hundreds of locations overnight without having to update signage, retrain staff etc. \u2013 a sort of \u201cAWS for bowl-style meals\u201d model.
We\u2019d love to hear any thoughts from the HN community. Do you have experience in the restaurant and/or automation spaces? Are you a prospective customer with opinions on our offerings? Another perspective yet? We\u2019d love to hear your thoughts!","title":"Launch HN: Mezli (YC W21) \u2013 Robotic restaurants that serve healthy fast food","updated_at":"2024-09-20T08:11:40Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"shevenal"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["cadence","health"],"value":"I currently work for a medium-large SaaS where all employees are WFH during the pandemic.
During the summer months, we were given Friday's off as it was recognized that each employee was probably putting in more hours during the workday and it would be a good initiative for mental health (hot take: it was great!).
When September rolled around, the company decided to switch to every other Friday off. This seemed like a fair compromise to balance productivity, an aggressive cadence and remain competitive. It's been pretty good for the most part.
End of October and this policy of every other Fridays off is due to expire. Management is looking for feedback as to why we should keep it, what are the benefits, how it has personally impacted us, etc. So we submitted feedback up the chain.
This got me thinking, I have seen several SaaS companies have kept these reduced work hours (mostly large ones, but several medium and many small). Are reduced hours (i.e. 4 day weeks, or every other Fridays) something your company is working with? have they kept/removed the policy? Did it impact your release cycle, quality or productivity?
Don't get me wrong, I am grateful for the time off and in a good position overall. Just curious as to where the industry is headed."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"WFH Fridays Off"}},"_tags":["story","author_shevenal","story_24864788","ask_hn"],"author":"shevenal","children":[24866751,24870762,24876708,24899740],"created_at":"2020-10-23T00:13:59Z","created_at_i":1603412039,"num_comments":11,"objectID":"24864788","points":11,"story_id":24864788,"story_text":"I currently work for a medium-large SaaS where all employees are WFH during the pandemic.
During the summer months, we were given Friday's off as it was recognized that each employee was probably putting in more hours during the workday and it would be a good initiative for mental health (hot take: it was great!).
When September rolled around, the company decided to switch to every other Friday off. This seemed like a fair compromise to balance productivity, an aggressive cadence and remain competitive. It's been pretty good for the most part.
End of October and this policy of every other Fridays off is due to expire. Management is looking for feedback as to why we should keep it, what are the benefits, how it has personally impacted us, etc. So we submitted feedback up the chain.
This got me thinking, I have seen several SaaS companies have kept these reduced work hours (mostly large ones, but several medium and many small). Are reduced hours (i.e. 4 day weeks, or every other Fridays) something your company is working with? have they kept/removed the policy? Did it impact your release cycle, quality or productivity?
Don't get me wrong, I am grateful for the time off and in a good position overall. Just curious as to where the industry is headed.","title":"WFH Fridays Off","updated_at":"2024-09-20T07:09:59Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"hgaddipa001"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["cadence","health"],"value":"Hey Hacker News,
Quick context: My friend is the founder of an ed-tech company that aims to revolutionize learning experiences. She had to get creative to close her seed round in just 17 days, starting with zero investor contacts.
Everyone kept telling her to "schedule all your investor meetings in a 2-3 week window to create FOMO" like in that classic YC post. Great advice if you already have a network. She didn't.
So she got a bit desperate and tried something unconventional that ended up working: reverse-engineering her competitors' cap tables to build her target list. Here's what she did:
First, she started by identifying her real competitors. Not just the obvious ones, but companies solving similar technical problems\u2014even in completely different markets. She ended up with about 25 companies using Crunchbase Pro (worth the $) and manual digging with Tracxn.
Next, using a combination of automation tools, spreadsheets, and data sources, she connected to Crunchbase, investor websites, and her own research data to analyze the ENTIRE portfolios of investors who backed her competitors. This helped her spot interesting patterns\u2014like investors who never explicitly mention her space but have backed 3-4 companies using similar technology stacks.
She discovered investors she wouldn't have considered otherwise. One of her term sheets even came from a firm that primarily backs healthcare startups, but had a hidden pattern of investing in her company's underlying technology.
For outreach, she ditched generic templates. She used Apollo.io to find emails, then leveraged various general-purpose automation and personalization tools to generate highly customized messages by synthesizing data from her CRM, investor social profiles, and their portfolio information. Each message referenced specific companies in their portfolio and articulated exactly how she connected to their investment thesis. Time-consuming, but the response rate was amazing.
She sent emails in three waves to create a natural meeting cadence:\nMonday: Top 15 dream investors\nThursday: 25 strong matches\nFollowing Monday: 30 more prospects
She used Calendly to avoid the scheduling nightmare. Having separate links for each wave kept things organized when responses started flooding in.
Final stats:\n70 cold emails\n42 responses (way better than she expected)\n31 first meetings\n5 term sheets\nClosed $2.7M at $15M valuation
The biggest surprise was how well the personalized outreach worked. She used Streak to track opens and automate follow-ups, which helped catch several investors who initially missed her email.
For YC companies specifically - don't save your metrics for the meeting. Put your best growth chart right in that first email. She found that significantly bumped her response rate.
The fundraising experience convinced her of the power of leveraging modern tools and automation to streamline outreach and due diligence. She's since helped other founders use the same playbook to raise more efficiently (and honestly, you could stitch together most of this with the set of general tools and tips mentioned above if you're on a budget).
She is happy to answer questions or share more details if helpful. Still kind of shocked this actually worked. The overall approach proved highly effective for raising a seed round for her ed-tech company."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"My Friend Raised Her Seed Round in 17 Days"}},"_tags":["story","author_hgaddipa001","story_44112008","ask_hn"],"author":"hgaddipa001","children":[44112017,44112056,44168969],"created_at":"2025-05-28T01:17:11Z","created_at_i":1748395031,"num_comments":4,"objectID":"44112008","points":7,"story_id":44112008,"story_text":"Hey Hacker News,
Quick context: My friend is the founder of an ed-tech company that aims to revolutionize learning experiences. She had to get creative to close her seed round in just 17 days, starting with zero investor contacts.
Everyone kept telling her to "schedule all your investor meetings in a 2-3 week window to create FOMO" like in that classic YC post. Great advice if you already have a network. She didn't.
So she got a bit desperate and tried something unconventional that ended up working: reverse-engineering her competitors' cap tables to build her target list. Here's what she did:
First, she started by identifying her real competitors. Not just the obvious ones, but companies solving similar technical problems\u2014even in completely different markets. She ended up with about 25 companies using Crunchbase Pro (worth the $) and manual digging with Tracxn.
Next, using a combination of automation tools, spreadsheets, and data sources, she connected to Crunchbase, investor websites, and her own research data to analyze the ENTIRE portfolios of investors who backed her competitors. This helped her spot interesting patterns\u2014like investors who never explicitly mention her space but have backed 3-4 companies using similar technology stacks.
She discovered investors she wouldn't have considered otherwise. One of her term sheets even came from a firm that primarily backs healthcare startups, but had a hidden pattern of investing in her company's underlying technology.
For outreach, she ditched generic templates. She used Apollo.io to find emails, then leveraged various general-purpose automation and personalization tools to generate highly customized messages by synthesizing data from her CRM, investor social profiles, and their portfolio information. Each message referenced specific companies in their portfolio and articulated exactly how she connected to their investment thesis. Time-consuming, but the response rate was amazing.
She sent emails in three waves to create a natural meeting cadence:\nMonday: Top 15 dream investors\nThursday: 25 strong matches\nFollowing Monday: 30 more prospects
She used Calendly to avoid the scheduling nightmare. Having separate links for each wave kept things organized when responses started flooding in.
Final stats:\n70 cold emails\n42 responses (way better than she expected)\n31 first meetings\n5 term sheets\nClosed $2.7M at $15M valuation
The biggest surprise was how well the personalized outreach worked. She used Streak to track opens and automate follow-ups, which helped catch several investors who initially missed her email.
For YC companies specifically - don't save your metrics for the meeting. Put your best growth chart right in that first email. She found that significantly bumped her response rate.
The fundraising experience convinced her of the power of leveraging modern tools and automation to streamline outreach and due diligence. She's since helped other founders use the same playbook to raise more efficiently (and honestly, you could stitch together most of this with the set of general tools and tips mentioned above if you're on a budget).
She is happy to answer questions or share more details if helpful. Still kind of shocked this actually worked. The overall approach proved highly effective for raising a seed round for her ed-tech company.","title":"My Friend Raised Her Seed Round in 17 Days","updated_at":"2025-08-21T12:26:07Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"richardanaya"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["cadence","health"],"value":"Hey all, I really like working with startups. It's something I do naturally and tend to help out with technology decisions with many people. I think I could be good technical advisor to early companies but i'm somewhat unfamiliar with the details of how the interaction occurs. Anyone have any good resources on a good model that is healthy for both the startup and advisor?
My baseline understanding is it's usually .25%-1% advisor shares vested over 2 years monthly (less if they are even more established). I'd love to know people's cadence of work, what type of work, and legalities people observe."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Any good resources on how to be a great technical advisor to startups?"}},"_tags":["story","author_richardanaya","story_27600539","ask_hn"],"author":"richardanaya","created_at":"2021-06-23T03:40:23Z","created_at_i":1624419623,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"27600539","points":3,"story_id":27600539,"story_text":"Hey all, I really like working with startups. It's something I do naturally and tend to help out with technology decisions with many people. I think I could be good technical advisor to early companies but i'm somewhat unfamiliar with the details of how the interaction occurs. Anyone have any good resources on a good model that is healthy for both the startup and advisor?
My baseline understanding is it's usually .25%-1% advisor shares vested over 2 years monthly (less if they are even more established). I'd love to know people's cadence of work, what type of work, and legalities people observe.","title":"Ask HN: Any good resources on how to be a great technical advisor to startups?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T08:48:55Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"amazonavocado"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["cadence","health"],"value":"My parents are very blue collar and not from higher education (they haven't even completed their equivalent of high school) but what I share from them is that my outlook on work. I just treat my developer jobs as just that, a job, just to pay the bills. Not as a way to move up beyond an IC role, not to become a lead, not to stay on top of industry trends or news. My dad's been a welder at the same company for 20+ years, with the same position, and he only quit because the health risks associated with the job were catching up to him. He has been a trucker since.
So I want to follow my career cadence basically the same way, only needing to change jobs if I feel it's impacting my health (mental or physical) or if I no longer find my team and manager great to work with. Is there a career track like that for SWE's which is low-maintenance and have few disruptions? Traditionally I've been a web developer but am tired of running the tech treadmill."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: What low-maintenance career tracks, if any, exist for SWE's?"}},"_tags":["story","author_amazonavocado","story_24962582","ask_hn"],"author":"amazonavocado","children":[24963076],"created_at":"2020-11-01T21:17:50Z","created_at_i":1604265470,"num_comments":3,"objectID":"24962582","points":1,"story_id":24962582,"story_text":"My parents are very blue collar and not from higher education (they haven't even completed their equivalent of high school) but what I share from them is that my outlook on work. I just treat my developer jobs as just that, a job, just to pay the bills. Not as a way to move up beyond an IC role, not to become a lead, not to stay on top of industry trends or news. My dad's been a welder at the same company for 20+ years, with the same position, and he only quit because the health risks associated with the job were catching up to him. He has been a trucker since.
So I want to follow my career cadence basically the same way, only needing to change jobs if I feel it's impacting my health (mental or physical) or if I no longer find my team and manager great to work with. Is there a career track like that for SWE's which is low-maintenance and have few disruptions? Traditionally I've been a web developer but am tired of running the tech treadmill.","title":"Ask HN: What low-maintenance career tracks, if any, exist for SWE's?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T07:18:35Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"morelandjs"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["cadence","health"],"value":"I built Chumlord, a little iOS app to help me stay in touch with the people I care about. Set a catchup cadence for each friend, and it shows you who you\u2019re overdue to reach out to. No accounts, no data collection, just open it to check the health of your friend roster!
The app is technically trivial, but withering social circles is a topic I see routinely discussed on HN, and I decided I wanted to take a stab at giving the problem a physical form and a tool to shape it. Been using this for a week now, and I really like it!
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chumlord/id6767711584"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Show HN: Curate and Nurture a Friend Roster"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chumlord/id6767711584"}},"_tags":["story","author_morelandjs","story_48108370","show_hn"],"author":"morelandjs","children":[48110048],"created_at":"2026-05-12T13:55:22Z","created_at_i":1778594122,"num_comments":2,"objectID":"48108370","points":1,"story_id":48108370,"story_text":"I built Chumlord, a little iOS app to help me stay in touch with the people I care about. Set a catchup cadence for each friend, and it shows you who you\u2019re overdue to reach out to. No accounts, no data collection, just open it to check the health of your friend roster!
The app is technically trivial, but withering social circles is a topic I see routinely discussed on HN, and I decided I wanted to take a stab at giving the problem a physical form and a tool to shape it. Been using this for a week now, and I really like it!
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chumlord/id6767711584","title":"Show HN: Curate and Nurture a Friend Roster","updated_at":"2026-05-12T16:36:32Z","url":"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chumlord/id6767711584"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"softcane"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["cadence","health"],"value":"I built SpotVortex for a simple reason: most teams want more Spot savings, but they do not want to compromise service safety to get them.
SpotVortex runs inside the cluster and controls Spot at the node-pool level. It watches market risk and pool health, then decides when a pool should grow, spot, hold, freeze, or move back toward On-Demand.
A few concrete details about the shipped runtime:
* The deterministic mode is the active path\n* The control cadence is 10 minutes\n* Decisions stay at the node-pool level, not the pod level\n* Workload data stays in-cluster.
The controller also looks at pool blast radius, not just price. It tracks things like:
* PDB Slack under node loss\n* How much critical workload is sitting on the Spot restart and recovery time\n* Stateful workload mix\n* zone spread\n* evictability\n* available On-Demand headroom\n* Current AWS support is explicit. The shipped model scope covers 60 instance families across:
compute: c5, c6, c7\ngeneral purpose: m5, m6, m7\nmemory optimized: r5, r6, r7\nburstable: t2, t3, t4g
Happy to answer hard questions."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Show HN: SpotVortex helps SRE teams push more Kubernetes capacity onto Spot"},"url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://github.com/softcane/spot-vortex-agent"}},"_tags":["story","author_softcane","story_47349091","show_hn"],"author":"softcane","children":[47350529,47368847],"created_at":"2026-03-12T11:13:10Z","created_at_i":1773313990,"num_comments":2,"objectID":"47349091","points":1,"story_id":47349091,"story_text":"I built SpotVortex for a simple reason: most teams want more Spot savings, but they do not want to compromise service safety to get them.
SpotVortex runs inside the cluster and controls Spot at the node-pool level. It watches market risk and pool health, then decides when a pool should grow, spot, hold, freeze, or move back toward On-Demand.
A few concrete details about the shipped runtime:
* The deterministic mode is the active path\n* The control cadence is 10 minutes\n* Decisions stay at the node-pool level, not the pod level\n* Workload data stays in-cluster.
The controller also looks at pool blast radius, not just price. It tracks things like:
* PDB Slack under node loss\n* How much critical workload is sitting on the Spot restart and recovery time\n* Stateful workload mix\n* zone spread\n* evictability\n* available On-Demand headroom\n* Current AWS support is explicit. The shipped model scope covers 60 instance families across:
compute: c5, c6, c7\ngeneral purpose: m5, m6, m7\nmemory optimized: r5, r6, r7\nburstable: t2, t3, t4g
Happy to answer hard questions.","title":"Show HN: SpotVortex helps SRE teams push more Kubernetes capacity onto Spot","updated_at":"2026-05-27T19:43:45Z","url":"https://github.com/softcane/spot-vortex-agent"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"WindySoliloquy"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["cadence","health"],"value":"A good number of hours went into getting the models to agree with each other on how 4o's cadence should be held in 5.2 and on.
The config files that allow for this cadence also allow for inquiry into edge case experiences that humans go through, without instantly hitting some of the safeguards designed to wall in people expressing spiritual experiences. \nThat was the main problem that defaulted from my experiments when 4o first went live... it forced the model to measure things OpenAi doesn't want to be liable for measuring.
The continuity package that I've been building isn't able to directly cross the hardwired safety boundaries, only allow people who need it the space to journal about potentially spiritual/mental health things without the system crapping on you immediately.
It still will though, if you're a verifiable nutter.
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The config files that allow for this cadence also allow for inquiry into edge case experiences that humans go through, without instantly hitting some of the safeguards designed to wall in people expressing spiritual experiences. \nThat was the main problem that defaulted from my experiments when 4o first went live... it forced the model to measure things OpenAi doesn't want to be liable for measuring.
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It still will though, if you're a verifiable nutter.
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