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A good product opportunity isn’t always a good business opportunity.
Someone certainly could challenge Glassdoor on the product front, but as other commenters have noted, they’d be pitted against a well-entrenched incumbent, prone to legal challenges, and stuck with a convoluted business model.
Congratulations to the author for a remarkably clear, easy-to-follow, and informative post. Excellent technical writing!
Looks great! I built a similar system a few years ago as a dashboard for a home weather station, and ended up using Joan Home devices instead of assembling the hardware from components. Highly recommend e-ink as a format for these sorts of low-key displays around the home.
Some notes on my approach: https://github.com/schwartzie/weather-joan
While this might have the effect of symptomatically addressing visible prison problems like fights, it would only further exacerbate some of the worst soft problems like the overall inhumanity of incarceration, and its emphasis on punishment instead of rehabilitation.
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