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by pembrook 2y ago
By doing well, you mean they’ve reached a user base that is 0.00001% the size of Google (feel free to “actually…” me with the correct number of zeroes). If we want the productivity unlock of search (and AI) to be accessible to the entire wo
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by pembrook 2y ago
Big surprise. It’s almost as if internet 1.0 shook out the way it did for a reason, and for all the complaining about ads, fast forward 25 years and consumers still fundamentally refuse to pay for search. It’s the same reason the phone book
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by pembrook 2y ago
In fact it's far easier to sell ten $1000/m subscriptions than it is to sell 3,333 $3/m subscriptions (the equivalent). But you don't learn this until after you've tried the latter.
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by pembrook 2y ago
It might amaze you to know there are thousands of $million revenue software companies that never posted on Reddit and never wasted months trying to pump a fake-successful launch on product hunt.
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by pembrook 2y ago
This is advice for how to never build a big company and and just do the indiehacker thing building indiehacker tools for other indiehackers (which is fine!). But if you have bigger ambitions -- you might actually have to talk to humans and
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by pembrook 2y ago
An accurate rebrand could be renaming this place from “hackernews” to “middle manager IT dad news.”
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by pembrook 2y ago
Once you start trying to make a living from anything you do online, you start to realize that literally everything on the internet is gamed to extreme. Even this article was written and posted here for a reason. If your GitHub repo can in a
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by pembrook 2y ago
You’ve offered zero counter points to OPs claims though. Every time I travel abroad, I transact in local currencies for transactions large and small all over the world using real-time currency exchange rates via the magic of the Visa/M
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by pembrook 2y ago
The problem is the equivalent driving times aren't crazy on those routes either though. When you factor in that you need a car in both your departing city and destination city (except for NYC), AND the fact that nearly every household
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by pembrook 2y ago
If you ran high speed rail between the two most populated cities in the US (NYC and LA), it'd be a 14 hour journey. And there's not that many conveniently placed major cities along the way where it even makes sense to add more tha
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by pembrook 2y ago
Ahh the smoking gun...another conspiracy theory? Trying to convince internet leftists that a cabal of Evil Capitalists are not behind all of the worlds ills is like trying to convince internet right wingers that most vaccines work.
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by pembrook 2y ago
There’s so much low effort, low hanging fruit that Google could do to improve results, that I just assume they've realized those things are unprofitable for them. I mean just de-ranking any article with an affiliate link alone would sk
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by pembrook 2y ago
Advertising ruined the UX of Google’s search page, but I would argue the exact opposite when it comes to the web itself. The real thing that ruined the open web and viability of search was, ironically, when Google killed display advertising
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by pembrook 2y ago
This is a false conspiracy narrative that belongs on Reddit in the r/fuckcars filter bubble. Sure, the automotive industry stood to benefit from the decline of rail travel in the US. But they didn’t really need to do anything for that
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by pembrook 2y ago
Agreed, and the Apple Music Desktop App suffers from being a legacy franken-iTunes nightmare. After cancelling Spotify I surprisingly ended up on Tidal, and it's been amazing so far. Feels like how Spotify used to feel before they star
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by pembrook 2y ago
It’s amusing to me how I just read a thread on HN where the top comment was about the unintended consequences of regulation resulting in far worse outcomes than the problem they set out to solve. Meanwhile, at the top of this thread, we hav
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by pembrook 2y ago
Yep super simple. You just have to make individual value judgements every day on thousands of pieces of content for SEVENTEEN highly specific priority areas. Then keep detailed records on each value judgement such that it can hold up to leg
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by pembrook 2y ago
Yea same with Google. I mean search is nice. But broadly there’s no killer app that makes _everyone_ gladly pay for it. Jury is still out on whether they’ll be able to subsidize those massive server costs of indexing the entire web.
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by pembrook 2y ago
Interest rates are still well below their historical average right now. And yes, venture capital investing involves high risk, of which all participants are fully aware, and intentionally looking for. We're talking <2 years since Ch
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by pembrook 2y ago
Yea, I mean, if it can't show a return in the very short term, is it even worth doing? How could something possibly develop into being profitable after years of not being so? All you have to do is point to bankrupt bookseller Amazon, w
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by pembrook 2y ago
> no obvious large-scale product-market fit I mean, I know pessimistically "ackshually"-ing yourself into the wrong side of history is kind of Hackernews's thing (eg. that famous dropbox comment). But if you don't t
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by pembrook 2y ago
That has nothing to do with it. Businesses block fake email generators because they’re overwhelmingly used by fraudsters/spammers/etc trying to abuse systems. Anybody who’s ever run an internet service that allows open registratio
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by pembrook 2y ago
Seems like we should update that.
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by pembrook 2y ago
But that’s my point. Why use passwords at all. If we’re okay using our face to auth into all mobile apps (business, personal or otherwise) and also to auth into the country every time we fly into it, why not just move towards making it stan
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by pembrook 2y ago
I’m amazed how we have widely available biometrics in the consumer space (anything Apple with TouchID or FaceID) but not in the realm of business where security is far more critical. A rational market observer would have assumed biometrics
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by pembrook 2y ago
I think you may have that backwards, if trying to disentangle the individual from the household, a larger household would make the median income per person lower not larger. Also, I’d imagine Swiss housing costs could easily account for the
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by pembrook 2y ago
OECD disposable income per capita numbers already account for the benefits of the European welfare state vs. self funded ones in the US.
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by pembrook 2y ago
America blows past the rest of the developed world on disposable income per capita and it’s not even close: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per... And before someone chimes in “that’s because o
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by pembrook 2y ago
All of Jack Welch’s management tactics should be considered suspect now. His performance at GE was 100% fueled by financial leveraging that blew up in 2009, basically killing the company. Nobody should be taking management lessons from this
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by pembrook 2y ago
Absolutely, yea it’s all about keeping a clean, tight, high engagement list. Then your domain reputation will be good because Gmail/outlook’s algo will see good numbers coming from your domain. Then the only thing you have to worry abo

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