You can still make shit websites. Lots of people do. The problem is, they're more fun to make than to visit. So don't get huffy if potential visitors go to social media instead.
Ha! You mean the one mention in the article where they said that diet seemed to have a bigger impact on sleep quality than popular mindfulness practices? So even an article that downplays the significance of mindfulness contains too much mindfulness for you?
I feel like 'and you don't know where they are' is maybe the redeeming phrase in halpert's post. If you have an idea that you think would help some people, and you have no idea where such people are concentrated... maybe it's a sign you don't know enough about said people to really be able to help them?
Man, I miss those parties sometimes. I also don't miss the 3am night bus home, already hung over, with the creeping realisation that I spent all night spouting bullshit and may have accidentally committed to joining an extremist political party and/or cult. So, swings and roundabouts
Counterpoint: OP sucks at talking about the ideas that interest them, which is why all their attempts at conversation about those ideas are unsatisfying. They prefer monologue to dialogue, but it's not a failing in how dialogue works, or their interlocutors.
It's not about increasing throughout, it's about increasing user satisfaction. A system where 60 customers are served an hour, and none of them has queued, is theoretically better than one where the same amount are served, but each has queued for 10 boring minutes. You achieve this by disincentivising queueing.
High acquisition costs and high churn meant the unit economics made no sense.
If you have a subscription model and you're dependent on ads for acquisition, it's not enough to believe that with enough optimisation your business model will start to make sense. If it doesn't make sense from day one, it's highly unlikely there's a viable, reliable business there.
Remember that we stuff toddlers full of stories from books and telly and games where, to simplify, we present antagonists whose sole motivation is that they are 'baddies'. Culturally we push ideas of absolute moral character quite hard, and only add nuance later.
The idea being discussed here is being branded a 'decentralised' startup to make it sound sexy and crypto, but honestly, to me it feel like 'open source' covers the idea better.
I like the idea. Making remote junior hires feel comfortable inteerupting and asking stupid questions is something I think about a lot, and that sense of connectedness is a key part of it. We're experimenting with Cosmos Video, defaulting to video on and mic off, but always being visible to others is a bit daunting. Blurred video might help.
I looked at this on mobile and on my first attempt had no idea what the point of this was. (Hint to others on mobile: scroll to the bottom of the search results page.)
"The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation."
Both the android phone and the payment terminal can be on another continent. The only thing that needs to be in close proximity is some commercially available electronics.