throwaway61891

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by throwaway61891 9y ago
eh, etsy should've never gone public because etsy was trying to be a company that put "people above profits", which is extremely difficult to do as a public company. market backlash against that kind of sentiment is severe. s
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by throwaway61891 9y ago
> Pinterest is essentially bookmarks for shopping except they're trying to capitalize on the marketplace part too: https://about.pinterest.com/en/shopping-pinterest > Certain Instagram networks are all about
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by throwaway61891 9y ago
that would go over really poorly. nobody would spend $1000 on what is essentially a gamble (since etsy is determining whether you're 'selling mass produced junk'). sellers already feel like etsy is way too buyer-friendly (at
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by throwaway61891 9y ago
not really. some people, but very few all things considered.
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by throwaway61891 9y ago
i dunno, people like those centralized solutions because managing communication, payment, reputation, shipping, etc. are a huge pain in the ass. i mean even if you look at major alternatives to etsy (like shopify), they still are "cent
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by throwaway61891 9y ago
interesting idea, but i don't think this will solve the problem i'm describing. the hypothetical person on aliexpress isn't really interested in selling on etsy, they're interested in copying something successful and sel
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by throwaway61891 9y ago
it's trickier than you think. a VERY common complaint i saw while i was at etsy: "i make bracelets and someone on aliexpress is ripping off my designs and even my photos, what do i do?" i'm not denying that someone would
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by throwaway61891 9y ago
> By the way, all this time you're developing open source you're not helping the company so let's stop that, it costs us developer time and money. that was not my experience at all. officially, open source was encouraged b
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by throwaway61891 9y ago
former etsy employee here: lots of reasons, but around that time etsy invested heavily in infrastructure and tools like statsd resulted from it. the last few years the focus has been mostly on product, and product teams usually don't p