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I will keep Twicsy going until it makes much less than no sense at all!!!!!!!

But, I am already working on the next thing and we have generated more revenue in the last few months than Twicsy/Dumbfind/Searchles did in 10 years.

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I agree with this perspective. Every idea can't be curing cancer, and many innovative ideas are stumbled on while playing with something else - like Feynman discovering quantum electrodynamics because he was curious about why spinning plates wobble. You need to follow your instincts.

At a minimum, you're providing a service to thousands of people and sheparding a product through its lifecycle. I don't know if working on Twicsy will have any real influence on your future work, but following its story seems more valuable than dropping it to "pivot" off in some random trajectory.

There is also not much money in "curing cancer", unfortunately.

That's non-sense, people (and their pets) will continue to get cancer, even if a cure is found. The Nobel prize alone would be worth it.

I think what he means is that the ratio of the profits to the cost to discover a cure is much smaller than in other industries.

What she meane is that wellness is not a welcome topic in most circles, nor easily monetized. Everyone wants a new drug, literally or figuratively -- a quick fix, easy answer. No one wants to eat right, exercise, make dramatic lifestyle changes, etc. Wellness looks more like religious edicts than it does medicine.

This I cannot comprehend. Compared to the drugs I have gotten off and the potential surgeries I have evaded, what I am currently doing is a pleasant picnic. But trying to share that info has gotten me mostly open hostility. So I took the site down.

I'm not entirely sure what specifically you're talking about but if my cofounders or I can ever help at all, please email me tyler@stayinyourprime.com. I totally agree that wellness is not something most people want to do. We're building something that focuses on a core need some people actually do have with their health (getting their medical records automatically from any doctor) and as we go we'll be focusing more on how we can remove the stigma from wellness and health, etc.

You shouldn't ever have to feel guilty or alienated when talking about your health.

Please note that "cure cancer" is in quotes. I am speaking from (bitter) firsthand experience about some other condition.

I don't expect to ever get the Nobel Prize. I mostly get called crazy.

Well now you have to elaborate?

No, not actually. But you can check my other comment, below, for a crumb more info. I have mostly walked away from this topic. I am getting myself and my son well. If the rest of the world wants to be openly assholish to me, hey, their health issues are not my problem. Paying my bills and getting off the street is my problem.

Can I just say that I love your attitude? A borderline unhealthy sense of self deprecation and just 'doing it' because you can - qualities I wish more tech people had.

That's incredible, congratulations!

Care to share what you're working on? Or at least what process led you to the new project?

http://distillerylab.com Sounds boring to most probably, but I love to play with data! And we have real clients!

I do not know what distillerylab.com does. On the site I found only general info about it. Could you say more, what you are doing there?

It's a BI platform for analyzing social media. Unfortunately, it's not presented very well.

At least you understood! To be more specific, we analyze specific topics for companies and quantify their presence in the market. Right now it is still hard to measure ROI on your PR and marketing, we are trying to change that.

I am currently playing in a very similar space - would you care to throw me a bone and give me some idea of how you landed your first clients?

I'm totally stuck in this regard. So much so that I've begun to hate myself.

I cannot understand what service distillerylab provides. Did you get any leads from your web site?

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