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Cool idea. I’m curious how that pricing structure is working for you - one person paying monthly for unlimited members in a group? I could see an HOA taking that on for a neighborhood though, and a place where this would be very useful.

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My reasoning on this is only allowing one fixed location per-pool, as I'm guessing that the value for most pools is inversely proportional to the distance they are from the other members. Maybe some people will operate some virtual pools that mail stuff to each other, but I think groups will naturally begin to feel pressure if their pool members are more spread out than reasonable. I can imagine this happening for a group in a major city with huge suburbs, where they might all be less than an hour from the central group, but going from the very northmost suburb to the southernest suburb could require going through town and take hours just to drop something off. In cases like that, I think the solution would be to create a north group, and a southern group, etc.

But this is all theoretical, I'm still looking to see how people start using the platform! At the end of the day, I'd much rather that more groups would be able to use it rather than focusing/depending/needing on less but bigger ones.

I also have a pet theory of how AI in software development speeding up commodification of software will play out, and I think involves less prevalence of large-customer/contract-centric company models in favor of others, but that's just my theory. Maybe there's just a bit more appetite for trying new platforms and things at the moment

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