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by leros 3mo ago
Cool idea! FYI. Something is off about the data. It said there was one route and that scooter was 7 minutes faster than biking. E-bike was 16 minutes and scooter was 24 minutes.
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by leros 3mo ago
Companies are happy to pay for SaaS products that are being run by a team of people who are experts in that domain and are also responsible for anything that goes wrong. Cloning something in house, no matter how it's done, doesn't
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by leros 3mo ago
The $20/mo plan was almost enough for me coding daily. Once I added Claude Design, I'd easily spend $20-50/day in extra usage. Upgrading to the $100 Max plan, I never come anywhere near the limits.
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by leros 3mo ago
I don't really like the model of scrapers paying small fees. I think it devalues things. I make money when people use my website. I don't make money when AI scrapes my content and answers the question without the user coming to my
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by leros 3mo ago
That's interesting because about a month ago, I noticed Claude Code starting to use about 5x as many tokens. Just my rough estimate.
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by leros 4mo ago
With the advent of buying online, from sites like Newegg, I felt like the local stores were much less exciting even back then. It was nice to be able to buy something same day but browsing Newegg and having broad selection was more fun for
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by leros 4mo ago
They dry up in unrepairable ways if you don't use them often enough.
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by leros 4mo ago
How have you made money?
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by leros 4mo ago
I haven't had any issues like that. Maybe your system is some kind of bad state?
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by leros 4mo ago
Don't worry about title inflation, it doesn't matter. In lots of companies, everyone is called an executive.
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by leros 4mo ago
Google killed my startup in a similar way many years ago. In my case, they turned quota on services I needed down to 0, refused to tell me why, and closed my appeal. I never figured out what went wrong. I'll never again use a cloud ser
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by leros 4mo ago
What's your marketing look like? A bad product that gets put in front of a lot of people will gain more traction than a great product only a few people see. A competitor with funding may simply be able to kickstart product awareness wi
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by leros 4mo ago
Presumably being able to influence their roadmap is worth it
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by leros 5mo ago
I haven't even looked at your idea because it doesn't impact my answer. Starting something is harder than having a good product. You also need marketing, growth, etc which I have no idea if you're capable of doing. Zooming ou
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by leros 5mo ago
I have a lost wallet with about 300 Bitcoin sitting in a landfill somewhere. I tried out Bitcoin really early on and mined those over a few weeks. But they were worthless back then and I was burning electricity for "nothing" so I
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by leros 5mo ago
Why not just pass through charges for them? Let them pre-buy credits or charge them for usage. Seems like a huge hassle for users to setup.
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by leros 5mo ago
Technology is very cool and certainly has value in improving our lives. That being said, I have realized that I'm generally happier the less time I spend looking at screens. I opt for paper maps when I can. I read physical books. I&#x2
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by leros 6mo ago
They must have really bungled something if they can't roll back and get the site operational again.
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by leros 6mo ago
I'd argue setting up a semi-fake version of one side of a marketplace is a little more in the cheating category. Plus it sounds more fun to me :) But yeah same thing.
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by leros 6mo ago
It's a thing in second world countries too. There are small communities that don't get package delivery, so they ship packages to the capital city and then pay someone to drive packages to their community once a week or so. I&#x27
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by leros 6mo ago
Without burning money you'll need to be creative. Either do it yourself or go sourcing the supply side. Can you go find a group of people you can use to transport things and basically sign up on the platform on their behalf and then ha
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by leros 6mo ago
You need to cheat to kickstart one side 1) Incentivize people on one side to join without the other side. For example Uber paid early drivers money just for signing up even though they had no riders. 2) You provide one side of the marketpla
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by leros 6mo ago
Managed services have value. It's less to set up, less to maintain, and less worrying about waking up at 3am when something breaks. I've spent time eating the costs of things like DigitalOcean or SaaS products because my time is b
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by leros 6mo ago
You shouldn't assume it's a hostile design. Do you think Google Maps is a hostile design? It's a similar use case.
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by leros 6mo ago
So far I haven't seen crawlers or agents utilize the interactive map widget where the final useful data is located. I'm sure it will happen eventually. I can tell they're not using it because the page is getting hit by their
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by leros 6mo ago
You sure have jumped to a lot of conclusions. I have a consumer product that people purchase. My free content is a gateway to that product.
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by leros 6mo ago
I don't want my site to be agent ready. I'd prefer people visit my site so that I can make revenue than have an AI scrape my content and answer the question for someone else. I've redesigned my site to have enough content so
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by leros 6mo ago
Yeah 99% of consumers are still going want an app from the app store even with that.
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by leros 6mo ago
My basic rule is this: Don't use cloud services if you're not big enough to have a dedicated account manager and can get customer service. This means spending like $10k/mo on the big clouds. I don't use GCP, AWS, etc for
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by leros 6mo ago
No issues at all. I have two tabs in the RN app. One tab is basically the entire app, which is just an embedded web view. The other tab is a basic account tab (sign in, log out, delete account, cancel plan). I also have native auth and nati

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