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by majani 4y ago
What makes it such that the majority of such stories are in SaaS? Or are the SaaS success stories just the loud minority since they are very dependent on content marketing?
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by majani 4y ago
I think what's more outrageous is that more devs don't find it worth to do a website yourself and get a 10x cost reduction on transaction fees
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by majani 4y ago
Conversely you could argue that that's probably a good way to go out after you get an empty nest
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by majani 4y ago
It's still kinda that way now. Eastern Europe has VK, China has WeChat, Japan has LINE. The 2 billion people in those geographies count for something
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by majani 4y ago
Nowadays the need for Facebook arises after you finish school and want to reconnect with lost friends
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by majani 4y ago
That "random" hand of poker becomes less and less random when you go down the family tree and trace their decisions
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by majani 4y ago
And for Tumblr (and most apps out there), they took on on all this headache just for some push notifications and fancy animations. They clearly didn't do their cost-benefit analysis when deciding to make their app
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by majani 4y ago
All Microsoft were ultimately trying to do was to insert their business model on to the web. Chances are that without the anti trust case, right now the web would have a lot more areas with an enterprise sales cycle rather than the self-ser
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by majani 4y ago
Actually the presence of an active, neurodivergent figurehead for eth is a more existential risk than anything on btc's end.
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by majani 4y ago
I wouldn't call it the end, but it would set crypto prices back 5-10 years
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by majani 4y ago
He probably meant that games dwarf the rest of the entertainment industry now.
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by majani 4y ago
Trump has already showed that 1 huge influencer cannot make a social network on their own
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by majani 4y ago
NBA vs OWL is a fair comparison IMO. Both are a top league of a top game
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by majani 4y ago
Indeed. I follow the fighting game community and the pattern there seems to be: Young prodigy climbs the ranks by playing ruthless winning strategies > he wins everything there is to win > he sees that the prize money isn't all t
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by majani 4y ago
There are several YouTube mirrors around. Clipmega and Tubidy come to mind
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by majani 5y ago
During covid there was a super viral video on Facebook of a commercial pilot saving the plane from crashing while landing in extremely windy conditions. Did over 100 million views IIRC. People love a happy ending
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by majani 5y ago
The next question to that is why does zoning exist in the first place? Zoning exists because of how hard it is to scale up infrastructure to match demand. And we decided to entrust governments with infrastructure, yet they are not nimble en
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by majani 5y ago
TikTok is able to stretch the organic period because of the absurd funding environment right now. It's parent company has raised $8 billion and is valued at $400 billion while still private! When the music stops they will surely charge
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by majani 5y ago
YouTubers are now bigger than TV stars by every conceivable metric
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by majani 5y ago
The way I see it, there is a small window of opportunity for organic growth on TikTok right now, but very soon it will become pay to play. That's the playbook for every social site out there: leave everything free during the growth day
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by majani 5y ago
I used to judge banks until now I run a company that handles deposits. On the third day of launch I ran into a small bug that allowed some rogue users to drain all the money in our account at the time (which was about $400 only at least). R
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by majani 5y ago
Most people who complain about Google are either paying for G suite or ad partners in the Adsense program. Those are Google customers and partners
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by majani 5y ago
The line that support would render billion dollar multinationals penniless is so tired at this point. Google made 257 BILLION dollars last year and has a 2 TRILLION dollar market cap. There's enough compensation in there to pay for the
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by majani 5y ago
This type of research needs to be controlled for age. The body of an 80 year old person is materially different from that of a 20 year old and that might change their outlook on life drastically. An unbiased researcher would seek out the re
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by majani 5y ago
At Wikipedia's scale, the red tape is more of a safety harness than anything
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by majani 5y ago
Anyone who manages to start more than one wildly successful business counts as a genius in my book. pg has done it with Viaweb and YC
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by majani 5y ago
And assertive. No ifs, buts or maybes
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by majani 5y ago
He moved to the US after reading a lot of tech publications and realizing that that's where all the action was
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by majani 5y ago
What's shocking to me is that the hack was actually real and not just an inside job by Bitfinex employees
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by majani 5y ago
One trip to Russia would have solved all their problems. Just saying

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