100% - I can see how it might be great for FB where they have the capacity to optimize but without that engineering capacity it seems like it would turn into a net negative.
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Hi, I’m the founder of company called Merchbro. We're a bootstrapped and profitable mass customization e-commerce company. We're looking for 1 or 2 freelancers (also open to full time and small agencies) to help out on various projects. We need to expand our product offerings which requires building out a new design tool in React, fixing a bunch of old architecture issues, and more. Ideal candidates would be used to working on small teams (only 1 other developer at current time), experienced working across the stack (Rails backend, React frontend) and with digging into a lightly tested/not well documented code base and helping to clean it up. Bonus points if you could see yourself growing into a full time position leadership role and would be interested in helping us staff up over the next couple of years.
If interested please email me with some details on your background and why you think you'd be a good fit for this role: brent@merchbro.com.
Thanks!
I think almost no one with cable is looking for more talking heads. Since the back catalog has a value of effectively zero their main audience has to be cord cutters. I do think that would work for CNN+ eventually but it would probably take years to get to scale.
In general though: Single network news subscriptions like this encourage behavior that is a net negative for society. Right now it's hard enough to convince people to change the channel and step out of their bubble to form their own opinions. The last thing society needs is for everyone to only have access to one news channel. Especially one where the viewer is a direct customer as it's only going to encourage these stations to give the viewers more and more of the opinions they already agree with. This will just make people even more opinionated which then drives our politicians to continue down this path of zero compromise and zero legislative productivity.
Merchbro is an e-commerce supplier of custom printed products. We're bootstrapped and profitable. We're looking for the right full stack software engineers to join our in house team and help us build out a number of major projects from the ground up.
React, JavaScript/TypeScript, Ruby, etc.
Contact brent@merchbro.com
Everyone keeps talking WW3 but the more I think about it the less worried I become. I think the only real risk to that is if Putin literally is an irrational mad man. As in he is hell bent on destroying the west even if the price is his own country and maybe the world. This is possible but not that likely. When you follow that logic he also isn't likely to go after a NATO country and expand the war because he can't win and rational people want to win. It's entirely possible that the yes men he has built into the Kremlin told him this whole thing was going to be a cake walk because they were afraid to tell him otherwise and had no idea. He may want this to end as much as the next guy but now needs to save face and show something for the massive problems that he created.
I suppose drawing a definitive line where common sense ends and invention begins is difficult so we end up with the current system.
There are obviously issues that FB amplifies but the heart of the problem in my opinion is people. People like information that confirms what they already believe, other people are greedy and like to take advantage people for personal gain. It was easy when FB just had to worry about removing porn and gore. Now the line is much grayer. Half of the people think some piece of content must be removed ASAP and the other half call removing that exact same content censorship.
Merchbro is an online supplier of custom printed products. Looking to make our first two engineering hires outside of the founding team but also open to freelance / contract. Ideal candidates are resourceful and have experience building & designing systems from scratch. We have lots of big projects to work on like a new design tool, fulfillment planner, integrations with our print facility, etc.
Tech stack: Ruby on Rails, JavaScript (React), Heroku, Postgres. You'll have the freedom to make the change you need.
Bootstrapped & profitable. 11 member team and growing.
If you'd like to know more please reach out jobs@merchbro.com
Merchbro is an online supplier of custom printed products. Looking to make our first two engineering hires outside of the founding team. Ideal candidates are resourceful and have experience building & designing systems from scratch. We have lots of big projects to work on like a new design tool, fulfillment planner, integrations with our print facility, etc.
Tech stack: Ruby on Rails, JavaScript (React), Heroku, Postgres. You'll have the freedom to make the change you need.
Bootstrapped & profitable. 11 member team and growing.
If you'd like to know more please reach out jobs@merchbro.com
They only switched over to the SaaS model maybe five or six years ago, before that you'd buy one copy the application and then buy a newer version when you felt like it. Now you're basically buying a new copy every year no matter what, just like everything else.