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by robryan 7y ago
I would say the vast majority of SASS where the primary product isn’t some kind of heavy compute/ storage.
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by robryan 7y ago
eBay have been trying to enforce UPC/EAN for some years now but don't seem to be making a lot of progress either. Amazon have also made the burden of proof for getting changes to a listing made so high that it isn't really wo
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by robryan 7y ago
Yeah no burden of proof, they just check a box to say their claim is legitimate and your legal action is probably the only way they can be held to account on that.
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by robryan 7y ago
Yeah, it depends how determined you are, from my experience they rarely stop replying completely. Terrible process though, the truth doesn’t really matter, just that you can convince some first level reviewer in India that your appeal hits
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by robryan 7y ago
There are lots of duplicate products with slight naming style variations. No one seems to have solved grouping products together where the same UPC hasn’t been provided from each seller. Would require building a parser/ some AI that un
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by robryan 7y ago
As long as it is sold as used it as wouldn’t be any different really to the potential contaminates that could be on anything second hand.
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by robryan 7y ago
If nuclear could be bought online with the same kind of investment profile as solar and wind I doubt the political aspect would be anywhere near as big a factor. Even without the politics someone building nuclear is being forced to make a v
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by robryan 7y ago
To be fair aerospace was never really a full time thing and was budget restricted. Given fulltime and Bezos money who knows.
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by robryan 7y ago
This wouldn't be too uncommon in branded ecommerce. If you are selling well known brands it is going to be very hard to get decent organic search rankings for them in the short term.
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by robryan 7y ago
This is basically eBay, there should be no reason for their site the be ridden with display ads, much less the massive performance hit they seem to be taking on desktop because of all the adtech junk loaded in.
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by robryan 7y ago
Surely the boss realises what is going on in that kind of case? I guess they are a slave to the culture just as much as those beneath them?
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by robryan 7y ago
The number of political activists that are just joining Twitter now and want to start by posting my times a day about the one issue must be small compared to the troll accounts. It even should be relatively easy to come up with a model to p
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by robryan 7y ago
Subscription model fits better. There are ongoing costs to maintaining the service indefinitely. One off cost only really makes sense when you can sell a piece of software as being done essentially and move onto the next piece of software t
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by robryan 7y ago
Easily solved by a notification on first use after updating which asks if you want the new default.
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by robryan 7y ago
Seems crazy to hire the best engineers and pay them top dollar only to put a bunch of organizational barriers in the way they have to try and navigate if they want to get anything done.
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by robryan 7y ago
On the other hand it makes it a lot more cost effective to launch satellites with enough fuel to maneuver around and collect space junk.
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by robryan 7y ago
Better programmers maybe. In terms of finding someone at half the price that communicates at a high level and cares enough to investigate past what is precisely assigned and understand the business case, I am not so sure.
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by robryan 7y ago
Even if it is terrible, is the business such than a 26 cent overhead on rides is going to make or break it? Companies like Lyft are doing a lot more than updating a few fields for each ride. They would be processing massive amounts of locat
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by robryan 7y ago
If someone has to get in their car at all to go to the shops I would say it is likely to be more carbon intensive than a delivery service with high utilisation. A shopping center in general would be generating a lot more emissions per produ
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by robryan 7y ago
The issue is comparison, a lot of customers are going to have to build their own spreadsheets to try and compare the terms with alternatives. What you have is basically the industry standard for this form of capital, but definitely an oppor
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by robryan 7y ago
The negativity is around how they are asking to be valued. They want to be valued at tech company revenue multiples but are running a real estate business. As the article evaluates unlike a tech company there is really no opportunity for ex
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by robryan 7y ago
I don’t think the barrier to entry in a single city market is particularly high. Short of exclusivity on self driving cars I think Uber is only ever one price rise away from losing dominance in a city.
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by robryan 7y ago
I deal with this by calculating the average sales per day and std deviation of each product and using that to pull products that might go out of stock in the next day. The hard case is a slow moving product with 1 unit, you want to list it
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by robryan 7y ago
I assume a lot of that Alibaba volume is them collecting smaller commission amounts on a larger number of transactions? Would be interesting to know what the gross profit margin is on their revenue figure for the day.
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by robryan 7y ago
The problem is when a tip is expected in almost all circumstances. Pay them a proper wage for their ability and set prices accordingly. You can still have tips but it shifts from basically every time to instances of truly exceptional perfor
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by robryan 7y ago
eBay and PayPal are an inconsistent mess. The changes often make it hard to even Google to find what you are looking for. Some pages on PayPal as far as I can tell seem completely inaccessible from the UI and require you to know the endpoin
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by robryan 7y ago
A minimum wage is far better. Why make every company try to guess what is reasonable on some moral level?
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by robryan 7y ago
Yeah, that is the issue we have. Something like Stripe at 2.9% you don't think twice with a high margin SASS product, on 15% margins and enough volume though it makes sense to go through some pain to setup with a cheaper processor.
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by robryan 7y ago
This service might be interesting to look at: https://www.liquidweb.com/products/managed-woocommerce-hosti... Fills a space somewhere between full self hosting/ developing from a base open source cart and Shopify.
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by robryan 7y ago
Amazon while solving a lot of problems comes with massive risks for a business, Amazon can and will send you out of business on a whim. You will be trying to convince lowly paid people in India going down a checklist that you should be allo

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