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by pembrook 3y ago
You can always spot an emotionally-driven law (as opposed to one driven by logic) by the fact that it requires carve-outs for 75 different edge cases to be passable. Critics will call this the work of “special interests,” but this means the
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by pembrook 3y ago
On a hot sunny day, the blacktop beneath the traffic jam is radiating more heat than all the cars on top of it are creating. And a car engine is producing far more direct heat than the increase in ground-level ozone from exhaust pollution i
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by pembrook 3y ago
Why wouldn’t the abuser just create fake gmail accounts?
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by pembrook 3y ago
Ahhhh yes, the classic “this time is different” screed. I remember in the early 2000s after the first dot com bubble I was told “don’t go into computers, you’ll never have a job! That’s all going to be outsourced to India!” Pessimists alway
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by pembrook 3y ago
From what I can tell, yes.
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by pembrook 3y ago
Not necessarily (although, hard to imagine there's even 1 spammer willing to spend $100,000/yr on some enterprisey crap like Salesforce Pardot or Marketo). But I'd just go with whatever sender isn't the cheapest and has
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by pembrook 3y ago
Every SMTP service (Mailgun, Sendgrid, Postmark, etc.) does the same things AWS does to try to prevent spam and has the same features you mention (shared IPs to start, warmup on mass sending, developer tooling, etc.) Email delivery is a com
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by pembrook 3y ago
Literally all ESPs and SMTP services have super strict anti-spam policies. The problem is it only takes 1 bad send to end up on a blacklist. The cheapest service will always get the most attempts from spammers. You can try to detect them be
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by pembrook 3y ago
Email sending is a largely efficient market, and SES is the cheapest sender. Thus, the SES IP pools have the worst IP reputations among all the SMTP-based senders. I would never use them (or an ESP that sends with them) in a million years.
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by pembrook 3y ago
Unfortunately though, this was likely good advice. The yandex source code leak revealed that keyword proximity to root domain is a ranking factor. Of course, there’s nearly a thousand factors and “randomize result” is also a factor, but sti
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by pembrook 3y ago
If you have employees, you’re paying hundreds of thousands of dollars per year for them. Paying an extra $10/m to save 2 hours of their time is still a profitable trade.
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by pembrook 3y ago
I don’t doubt it’s possible, but I would love an example of a Saas product that successfully scales pricing from $10/m to $23,000/m on customer segments that aren’t enterprise-scale and has the kind of lock-in you describe. I ask
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by pembrook 3y ago
I take frugal to mean being smart or conservative with spending. However, optimizing to the extent some people are talking about here would redefine the term to mean "irrational" for me. In the context of a business, nearly any pi
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by pembrook 3y ago
Does nobody here see the irony in bending over backwards to avoid spending money on software products when the entire purpose of your business is to sell a software product? I could see if we were talking about a side project with no comm
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by pembrook 3y ago
That playbook has been around loooong before the 2010s VC-boom. It's pretty much as old as history itself. Aristotle complained about some dude corning the market in Olive Presses back in 300ish BC. I wouldn't bet on humans changi
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by pembrook 3y ago
I can assure you, people running robocall scams out of Nigeria and Morocco could care less about the ease-of-incorporation in the territories where their victims are located.
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by pembrook 3y ago
I'm surprised you'd say Webflow has the constraints vs. Framer. Framer definitely seems promising but is way too limited and basic at the moment. They don't even have an API, and the CMS just feels super sandboxed. Good luck
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by pembrook 3y ago
> Static makes so much sense for sole-author sites with technical owners. Totally agree for this narrow use case. But you're also correct that if you're a startup with a marketing site--going the Gatsby/Hugo/etc. ro
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by pembrook 3y ago
The market incentives are absolutely not set up that way. While you can make money in the short term by scamming people, in the long term, you always get found out. Markets are not perfectly efficient, but in aggregate they trend toward eff
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by pembrook 3y ago
I would say it’s actually now the “modern” approach. The old way was to move fast and break things. The new way is extreme risk aversion and lawyers. We’ve swung in the complete opposite direction because in the eyes of the current zeitgeis
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by pembrook 3y ago
It's become common practice in B2C software to distill the UI down to an insane degree (eg. basically an infinite scroll feed). Since the job to be done of most B2C software is basically: placate my existential angst with various form
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by pembrook 3y ago
By referring to arbitrage as “games” OP’s comment has poisoned the well for this entire chain of responses. So to get an understanding, first we need to fix. A “game” implies non-productive or zero sum. By definition, an arbitrage is not th
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by pembrook 3y ago
Email is old and established, so basically you get what you pay for. We’ve found deliverability to correlate directly with the price of the service we’re using. The cheaper the company offers access to a sending IP, the lower the quality of
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by pembrook 3y ago
> Ever since learning the phrase "enshittification" [1] from Cory Doctorow it becomes more apparent when it happens around you. This is just the natural lifecycle of all things involving humans. Why people want the same stuff
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by pembrook 3y ago
Have you been to Twitter in the last 6 months? It's basically a GPT/Midjourney/Stable Diffusion hype generator. Everybody there is now an expert on this topic. And you can be too! Step 1: Tweet fake troll screenshots of GPT o
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by pembrook 3y ago
This is the crux of the issue. It's frustrating how many people are stuck in this loop, where they think any company can "easily" follow GDPR by just swapping data regions with their cloud provider. It's not that simple
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by pembrook 3y ago
Do you honestly believe that Meta's hundreds (possibly thousands) of both full-time and contracted out lawyers would collectively advise them to break the law? Knowing full well the outcome would be $Billions in fines? EU to US data tr
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by pembrook 3y ago
There’s a new EU-US data framework that’s expected to be ratified within a year which should make EU-US transfers possible again under new guidelines. Its possible this fine was intended to pre-empt the passing of any new frameworks and cas
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by pembrook 3y ago
This is the issue with trying to derive market insights from an upvote based community. Unfortunately, people do not say what they truly think when internet points (formal sanctions in the sociological sense) are at stake. They instead bend
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by pembrook 3y ago
The problem with Substack is they'll never make enough revenue to cover all the VC expectations they raised without turning into a network effects/semi-walled-garden social media platform. They just don't know it yet. You can

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