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by majani 3y ago
If you think you went to a school for the gifted without your IQ being measured, then perhaps you're not as gifted as you claim.
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Ask HN: Why haven't we seen a race to the bottom in SaaS pricing?
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by majani 3y ago
Unfortunately this company would be hated by component manufacturers and they would actively sabotage it
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by majani 3y ago
It's intuitive. 1st generation, 3 children. They each marry and have 3 kids each. Those are now 15 people with a direct "right" to the wealth. Third generation all marry and have 3 kids each as well, now you have 51 people wi
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by majani 3y ago
Didn't happen on mobile.
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by majani 3y ago
Waste is part and parcel of luxury
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by majani 3y ago
Elon's arc is starting to look eerily similar to that of Howard Hughes
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by majani 3y ago
Honestly, in Google's eyes, nothing of value will be lost here. And Firefox gaining some market share will help get regulators off their back, so it's a win-win
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by majani 3y ago
I'm betting that ridiculous offer they made last week to cover developer legal fees has already blown up in their face
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by majani 3y ago
That's where you give him a pass since he's 16 years old doing this in his spare time
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by majani 3y ago
90% of apps could just be websites, so developers also bear a lot of responsibility for jumping onto that bandwagon for little benefit
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by majani 3y ago
Google's attachment to "low touch" approach to support is maniacal at this point. There's no use confronting them about it, they'll never change
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by majani 3y ago
Owning an operating system is the most powerful position in all of software. That's incentive enough
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by majani 3y ago
They're making money hand over fist right now, and they still have startup-esque growth rates, so they don't need to be tough negotiators. When Google's revenue and growth flattens, you'll see the toughness come in
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by majani 3y ago
Same. Surely they should not let you lose 3 times in a row, that just takes a person out of it. But there are people, mostly the elderly, who get completely taken in by the sights and sounds of a slot machine
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by majani 3y ago
Exactly. If governments were truly concerned with protecting players, they would have provisions preventing casinos from kicking out winning players
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by majani 3y ago
The play money casinos are now vastly more profitable than the real money ones. It's all just entertainment. Always has been
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by majani 3y ago
The only billionaire I am 100% sure is a genius is Jim Simons. For the rest, the most common trait seems to be that they are good at spotting trends early
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by majani 3y ago
Only victimless crimes should involve rehabilitation. If you harm others, punishment is fitting as a deterrent and to restrict your freedom to repeat the crime.
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by majani 3y ago
To be fair, there are business models where GAAP doesn't give the full picture. I am currently running an online poker business and GAAP is quite inadequate there
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by majani 3y ago
The problem with passion is that most people are passionate about 3 things: food, fashion and entertainment. This makes these areas extremely saturated and further still the distribution curve of success in these fields is brutal
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by majani 3y ago
Right observation, wrong conclusion. I would conclude that the pareto principle is just a force of nature and it always yields it's ugly head no matter the effort to beat it down
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by majani 3y ago
There was the SoLoMo (Social, Local, Mobile) hype train of the late 2000s which indeed came to take over the world as promised. Also the B2B SaaS hype train that Basecamp started in the mid 2010s has taken over as well
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by majani 3y ago
What stage of funding were you at by the end?
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by majani 3y ago
And it will fail again. Companies that target indie creators really don't fit into the VC model. Their customers will riot every time they try to maximize profits.
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by majani 3y ago
Exactly. The reason Patreon has been able to get away with a basic platform is because they served a basic need: giving your faves money. They also had good timing since they allowed you to send your faves money before the creator platforms
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by majani 3y ago
It's just 3 months. Before cellphones went mainstream, most people used to travel and simply disappear from their families for years. This need to be in constant communication with everyone back home is a phenomenon that just started i
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by majani 3y ago
The smoking gun is the fact that this story could absolutely kill his golden goose, which is easily replicable. In the next few weeks there will be 10 new competitors for ChatGPT wrappers, all armed with paid marketing budgets to try and ge
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by majani 3y ago
To be honest, YouTube should be charging hosting fees to people who don't qualify for the partner program. The fact that they try to make up the shortfall through ads is a huge favor
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by majani 3y ago
Funny enough, where I've noticed the most bugs is in the ad buying process. They want an active account (which many corporate accounts wouldn't qualify as), then they want you to be a Twitter Blue member(which requires a verified

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