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This pets.com was bullshit but selling pet supplies at online definitely is not.
by antupis 5y ago
This pets.com was bullshit but selling pet supplies at online definitely is not.
- ojr 5y agostoring scarce jpegs is bullshit but decentralize storage definitely is not
- heyitsguay 5y agoIt's not bullshit but it's also not very useful compared to existing alternatives (compare latency, availability, and reliability), and it requires juuust enough technical knowledge to understand why that you can still build a convincing narrative about it for laypeople. Which you are incentivized to do when their buy-in makes you money.
- gowld 5y agopets.com was just a bit early, so the economy of scale didn't kick in. chewy.com made the same model work 20 years later, with 100x the potential userbase people comfortable shopping online.