Lila Rest is the product and engineering co-founder of Clearbox. He previously helped build an RB2B-style de-anonymization startup, turned down Shawn Tenam's first co-founder approach, then reduced a sprawling prototype to the focused inbox product Clearbox is today. He is also the author of a quantized build of Google's Gemma 4 31B that runs on a single consumer GPU.
“It's important to see that Reddit is a player highly incentivized to keep its content as human as possible.”
“That's a matter of doing less, but at the right place, and writing human content.”
“It's just people openly complaining about the problem you solve.”
“Don't share your links, don't share your products before people beg you about it. That's like the biggest rule on Reddit.”
“Just don't be excited by the volume. There's so many opportunities, but start small, start with like five to 10 comments a day.”
“It's going to cost you like $5,000 a month minimum. And on Clearbox, it costs you $75 a month.”
“There is a huge potential at creating small models that are very good at something like a thousand times cheaper than the models from the big labs and like retain 95% of the intelligence on that specific task.”