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by tene80i 5d ago
What do you think US bureaucrats do other than regulate? The federal government drives people crazy. Have you ever tried to file taxes in the USA? It’s so complex you end up having to pay for the privilege. The innovation gap is real but it
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by tene80i 5d ago
The staggering lengths to which some people will go to avoid actually creating or enjoying human art, even the very most average of which is better than this.
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by tene80i 9d ago
This is, with respect, a naive and ideological take. Imagine you create a highly niche board game. Or a new kind of fabric scissor. Or you are a new bike shop, just opened up on the edge of town. Let’s assume what you’re providing is great.
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by tene80i 10d ago
You're both right. Some people hate ads. Some people find ads (usually well-targeted ads) helpful for discovering new things that could help them. Different people find different things helpful / intolerable.
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by tene80i 10d ago
Right, you’re just getting lost in the statistics. Overall revenue is a function of revenue per user and number of users. They could go after you by reducing the ads, but they would also be reducing the revenue per user, and they might not
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by tene80i 10d ago
That is a strong selling point! I didn't see it front and center. Maybe I'm not the target market, or maybe the contrast could be highlighted more. However, beware the strategy of undercutting your competitors, unless you have som
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by tene80i 10d ago
You're experiencing market segmentation. You won't pay $8.99 a month, so you don't get an ad-free product like the people who will pay. The service would rather get less than $8.99 from you than nothing, so you get ads.
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by tene80i 13d ago
Is there a USP? Lots of sites do this kind of thing. Is yours better? More comprehensive? Why should anyone use it over the alternatives? That tells you your next steps.
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by tene80i 14d ago
What’s the one line pitch? You need to grab attention. What problem(s) are you solving? Not features - problems. You talk about “losing context” - that’s interesting but a little abstract. Unpack it. Imagine you have one sentence to explain
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by tene80i 17d ago
Most jobs don't involve formally verifiable outputs. Lots of things involve judgment, nuance, parsing ambiguity and indeed just being a human who can be in a meeting and explain themselves. Maybe those jobs will go too, eventually, but
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by tene80i 18d ago
Sure, there’s an argument for improving the default too. I was just replying to what I thought was someone saying “it doesn’t matter, most people won’t use it, give up”
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by tene80i 18d ago
Why not give people the option? They don’t all have to use it, but it means some can.
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by tene80i 21d ago
To some extent, the U.K. They’ve had flock-style cameras for years, and while there is of course police abuse there’s far greater accountability. Brits are more comfortable with the idea of police having those powers - but of course that’
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by tene80i 1mo ago
Sadly true. I just felt the person I was quoting was waving it away as if it was a harmless irrelevance. But you’re right, appalling views have become mainstream.
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by tene80i 1mo ago
“Europe was better when it was more white” isn’t “conservative leanings”
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by tene80i 1mo ago
I imagine we’re not as far apart as you might think. Leave Musk to one side for a second. Is there no one, even hypothetically, whose actions would make you turn away from their company’s products and services? Even if it has no effect on t
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by tene80i 1mo ago
> “I realize that there’s a population of people who just refuse to use anything associated with Musk because politics have eaten our brains” People have values. Many people strongly disapprove of Musk’s actions. Many don’t - fine! Perso
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by tene80i 1mo ago
The cost of losing is only jail time for criminals. Your alternative is a carte blanche for any number of crimes in office.
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by tene80i 1mo ago
If you're saying "piracy is justified in those parts of the world where access to any art or culture is prohibitively expensive", then that's a pretty defensible position, not unlike "It's ok to steal bread i
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by tene80i 1mo ago
It’s not tautological. Explain why, and particularly why it’s only information, which is the thing that purportedly wishes to be free.
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by tene80i 1mo ago
There was no way in your country to pay and watch it? FIFA will have sold the tv rights there to someone, surely. In which case your complaint is what, that it was expensive?
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by tene80i 1mo ago
I agree there is an archival justification. I just don’t think that’s why most people who pirate things are doing it.
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by tene80i 1mo ago
Plenty of written works aren’t “information” but rather art. Most piracy is just about people preferring not to pay for novels, TV and film.
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by tene80i 1mo ago
There’s “how to be a good parent” advice and there’s also “oh boy how do we manage mealtimes and laundry and the school run” type advice. Someone with lots of kids is going to have great insights into the latter at very least.
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by tene80i 1mo ago
Great! But is the focus exporting short clips? I’m thinking more in terms of assembling long pieces of audio scene by scene, like 30+ mins. That’s a major workflow headache you could make radically easier. Depends on your target audience bu
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by tene80i 1mo ago
If you extended this to allow assembling audio from multiple takes of the same dialogue, you’d have something very useful for audio drama post-production.
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by tene80i 1mo ago
You’ve already received the answer to this. The platform was already built. There’s every reason to think it would require only very small operating costs from now on, whereas a company has every reason to maintain profit margins with a fix
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by tene80i 1mo ago
It’s possible, but there’s a difference between vastness and difficulty. Humans can’t compete with AIs on vastness of material they are familiar with, or the depth of effort they are willing and able to throw at a problem. But scale isn’t t
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by tene80i 1mo ago
I don’t think people on bluesky particularly care about X. Twitter turned horrible, so they left to do their own thing. Each to their own.
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by tene80i 2mo ago
HN is an unrepresentative crowd. Don't focus too much on what people here hate/want, unless it's your target market. Very successful businesses have famously not found approval here.

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