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Sure there will be middlemen trying to profit due to asymmetry of information / technical knowledge. But as technology marches along the barriers to entry of launching new things trends to zero. Smart creators are increasingly harnessing new technologies to cut out existing middlemen. Podcasts are a great example of this, anyone with a microphone can start an entertainment business now and collect money from direct relationships with advertisers.

Some artists choose to attach "perks" to their NFTs – i.e. meet and greets, access to private communities. They could choose not to honor these perks for NFTs held by contracts. They could even choose to re-mint the work if the new owner is doing nefarious things with the old one (though many would see this as a dubious action)

The people receiving royalties are the artists in these cases – instead of the record companies, instagrams, and etsys of the world. I fail to see how this won't be a net positive for wealth equality when we're shifting the advantage to those who have historically been taken advantage of.

Gov-supported digital currencies would mostly streamline things and replace existing bloated and slow programs. Imagine the current stimulus situation – instead of sending checks to people they could just press a button and immediately send credit to all citizens that have a certain account threshold or income rate. Currency units could be earmarked for certain retailers (i.e. food stamps, education, etc).

going public at any point after nov '19 probably would have been a disaster for most employees due to lockup period. Let's say I have $1M of RSUs at IPO – fed+state gov wants 450-500k for taxes total. When I went through Uber IPO they only withheld ~30%, which leads to a $200k tax bill at the end of the year in this scenario. If stock declines 75% due to COVID before I can sell at expiration of lockup period, I'm left with $175k ($700k post-withholding * 25%) and $200k tax bill. Not sure about you but I'd prefer the non-IPO scenario.

Starting a new JS project these days can be a huge hurdle for many users because they have to manually set up all the compilation/linting/testing/formatting etc infrastructure, each of which have multiple possible libraries, versions, and non-trivial configurations. You could spend a week configuring webpack alone to get code splitting, css compilation, etc to work. Projects like create-react-app and next.js have helped remove some of this fatigue, and you can see by their adoption just how much of an impact this has. Seems like Rome should be similarly beneficial without being inherently tied to an application framework like create-react-app or next.js – the challenge will be avoiding a confusing mess of 1000 configuration options to fine-tune each subsystem.

I'm building a no-code web app development platform. There are numerous existing tools in this space, but I don't think anyone has really hit the sweet spot of having the same composability/reusability/conditional benefits of code in a WYSIWYG interface that drastically increases development speed.

Also happen to be looking for a cofounder as well. I'm a developer myself but I'd love to partner with another product-minded dev or a product person with significant industry experience. Let me know if you're interested.

I'm using dumb-init for the main node process in my docker container (node in-turn spawns chrome instances via puppeteer as requests come in). Is there a way to use dumb-init for each individual chrome instance as well? Or are you suggesting we make chrome the main container process and start new containers for each session?

Hey Joel–awesome service and post. Your tip about parallelizing via browser instances instead of tabs resonated with me as I've had a lot of headaches with one bad request taking down a full instance. That said, it does seem like the constant launch/close of puppeteer browser instances does have some sort of memory leak – Here's what happened when I switched from parallelizing via pages to browsers: https://imgur.com/a/rCz3oow

Have you seen any similar behavior in your system? I initially thought I was forgetting to close the browser instance but triple checked my code and it does seem like I'm calling close() everywhere.

We provide visualizations to journalists and publishers for free and then monetize readers on our site through display advertising. Additionally, we have offerings for developers and companies who want to utilize our knowledge graph in different ways.

Our team at Graphiq has been working on a similar tool for publishers and consumers to quickly find visualizations. One differentiator from Atlas is that many of our charts are dynamically generated on the fly based on the search query–for example, "usa vs india gdp", "population of the country with the tallest building", "obama vs clinton approval rating". You can try it out here: https://www.graphiq.com/search