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Great work! Had a similar project i built before COVID and saw the need and value here. Once the pandemic hit I never went back to it but this is a great execution of this!
I had a similar idea running but was AI based. Mirrored some workflows into a personal Product Manager and wanted to help people stay on track. Kinda upset I never pushed it seeing this full for $35 a month.
I still find this hard to believe as ever since 2009s recession, I personally have never met so many people recently who have been laid off and looking for work in a lot of different industries and also the amount of people who work multiple jobs. Almost everyone I know who’s not very wealthy is doing their day job and has some other form of income to be able to pay normal bills
Very cool. Been looking for something like this.
Pickem is straight up normally so would be money line bets essentially.
The spread is designed to make the bet a 50/50 so it would need to take into other factors or compute it’s spread to determine if there is an edge on Vegas.
As someone who has loved Twilio from the early days and have built many apps for small and enterprise cases as well as fully embraced Flex in the customer experience space, I really have no idea what the hell they are doing now. Not sure if they are right sizing after trying to capture markets like video and Contact Center but it seems like even successful sales teams are let go now so curios where they emerge from this.
What is "low risk"?
Just because a hurricane hits Miami doesn't mean the entire state feels it. It rains, streets may get backed up with water around the sewer just like there was a thaw of snow in northern states. You would be surprised how much of a city on the water is not in a flood zone.
You want to live on the water, you are mandatory to pay the fees to maintain insurance if you have a loan or if you own, you can roll the dice and not. Each storm causes areas that may have not been hit in decades to have higher premiums and areas that have never felt a storm in decades that are older builds get knocked down and rebuilt with new code and higher up to prevent another wipe out.
This is not right.
Most damage is from flooding due to storm surge which exists on coastlines. Wind and power outages happen and can take down trees just like elsewhere in the world but the massive destruction is caused by the force and amount of water on the coasts.
Building codes exist on probability of what can happen. When buildings were built, they had codes to follow based on the current time. When they are destroyed, they are rebuilt with new codes such as on stilts, better windows, different materials, etc. It isn’t like we just keep building the same building and expect things to change.
If you do live on the coast anywhere in the US, it should be a general assumption that at some point, that water is gonna be in your house or that your house is gonna be taken out by the water over its existence.
Aero was amazing. Windows XP and Windows 7 were big UI revolutions.
Even when Windows 7 was active, there were plenty of projects trying to bring Windows XP and Aero to Linux GUIs.
The only thing I miss from being only a HackerNews/X user is birthdays and events.
As adults realize more and more people are not daily Facebook users, invites has gone back to other platforms like eVite but overall, the lack of seeing the latest TikTok trend is much better mentally and productivity wise than endlessly scrolling through content I don’t care about.
I started using Safari for everything now the last few months and now won’t look back.
Chrome in a sandbox with devtools is the only thing i miss and need occasionally but they have really shifted from the original Chromium branch.
Thank you for posting! This was the first venture down posting more relevant and real world use cases not having to use third party hosting for builders.
A side by side comparison of the speed per model?
Thank you for posting! This was the first venture down posting more relevant and real world use cases not having to use third party hosting for builders.
- Dog usually is up by 830-9. Take on walk and get sunshine and fresh air to help wake up for about 20 min.
- Jump on morning standup calls. Some are active and some aren’t so use the secondary ones to start breakfast consisting of eggs, protein, and some fruit.
- Make coffee. I wait 90-120 minutes before I drink any caffeine from waking up.
- Work on short higher priority items that I noted from the night before until noon and hit the gym to break up the day.
Being in a desert during an El Niño season is a poor decision. It does rain occasionally and I don’t think people going to camp with a days worth of food in small tents understand the risk of a desert climate.
Also, it’s not that remote. Diplo and Chris Rock walked 5 miles out of the site and got picked up and driven back so while the situation does suck, it’s not like they are alone in the great white north 100 miles from civilization. It’s off a road only a few miles.
Apollo user with multiple active accounts that was on daily. Active for 12 years with karma for posts and comments.
Basically use the old website on a laptop once every few weeks now and never engage with any content anymore. Mostly check news, click a link maybe, and move on but has been replaced by other information sources.
Forget inflation data. Companies are not doing raises and a lot are not doing bonuses. Is anyone honestly saying they spend less now than a few years ago? Would love to hear the back story.
I’ve been in the contact center consulting space for years and unfortunately, some industries just know there aren’t many alternatives or the effort to move somewhere is so high they really don’t need to strive to make the customer feel special or welcome.
Airlines, internet providers, larger companies like Amazon and Meta can run on such low quality support because face it, most people will continue to use them.
Coinbase even offers “24/7 priority support” if you subscribe to their monthly plan.
The industry is a mess but companies are starting to move the traditional contact center as you mentioned focused on just limiting the complaints and placing a bandaid on the problems to make them go away and turning into a fully personalized experience where calls and feedback help feed the entire customer experience. Metrics typically looked at such as higher hold times are not as highly weighted as the reasons and how often someone is calling and helping really drive a lot of companies in a positive way.
If the hype of it being a “Twitter killer”, doesn’t it need to provide the features of Twitter minus Elon?
Wasn’t that the whole point of all these new apps?
Articles around (micro) SaaS projects and tech info like no-code alternatives , landing pages, and product and development tips for people trying to get involved or starting their micro SaaS adventure.
This is going to be the next big legal battle. Google said in their new policy that anything you serve on the web can go into their AI data set so will be curious when this does happen, who actually starts it as the legal powerhouse. Will we see frivolous RIAA style claims or a larger battle of the massive companies.
Yelp you can’t see more than 3 reviews or photos without downloading their crap app.
This anti pattern exists all over.
Basically it’s a bandaid. There is a massive problem with the talent pool coming from minority communities.
Look at any school in a lower income area and it’s plagued with issues of attendance, resources of things like access to technology, commitment of parents to help their kids outside of the classroom with homework, and general safety that fails to provide a quality learning space for children to become qualified when they leave school.
Since you can’t put massive school reform with budgets and funding to provide this to schools in a political cycle of 2-4 years, we just keep kicking the can down the road and accept instead of helping build better youth who all can compete for jobs and colleges, let’s just lower the bar and make it seem like we are doing something.
I feel like if you are making it to the higher echelons of success, you typically have this type of track record.
A lot of companies start small by people who like what they do. It’s the business leader or visionary who sees the future and how to apply it on the larger scale usually leaving the loyalty and honor behind and doing what’s best for them and their company.
This would be interesting to see how it plays out and if the market solves this on its own.
While a regulation and mandates usually requires an employer to keep extra records, cause confusion for a lot of smaller companies trying to comply based on each different governments rules, as well as generate more government costs to enforce, the Texas heat is nothing to mess with just as in many states in the south.
I would think an employer who has crews working in the heat would want their crews to be rested and hydrated. Someone handing heavy machinery and passes out, or god forbid, dies on a job would crush that company and cause hell on the general costs of insurance. Also with the number of construction companies, ones that basically tell their staff they can’t drink water I would have to believe quickly will find no one will want to work for.
That is an interesting point. Would assume your subreddit isn’t yours so at any point you could grow and generate content and users and Reddit could take it over and add in their own moderators?
Debating something similar. Always loved the problem solving MVP and had a few small ones in the past but have been looking at launching a wave of micro-SaaS projects even if they are already out there to solve a single problem and stay sharp with new ideas and industries.
Anytime I look, the game library is sub par. I am a pretty regular console gamer and own different platforms. I would love to have one but anytime I look at to games, the list is years old and looks like like a dead ecosystem.
Also, if you want to play games on Steam, you need a PC capable of running them so if I am dumping a few thousand into a PC as well, would rather get the higher rated Steam headset for a few hundred more than the Meta.
Lastly, I don’t trust Facebook at all. I think the recent update was the first you didn’t need an account but some people I talk to like me are sketched out of a device staring at your face and expressions and wasn’t rated too high for privacy.
What about a credits type setup?
You get a few free uses each week and then you need to buy credits/sign up and unlock more?