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Too little too late as far as brand reputation. Feels like #DeleteUber on steroids.

Credit where credit due: I submitted this on behalf of my partner who built this during her coding bootcamp a few years back!

[author of the article] Great find! Had not seen this clip. We were just using our dear friend Wikipedia for the etymology :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzenegger_(surname)

Not about spelling but we had someone investigate what state is guessed when a different state is the answer... here's the gif showing that data: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/connorwaldoch_python-matplotl...

Is it also a word that is an occasional answer to a trivia question? If so... I can let you know what our stats say :)

Thanks! We have so many more to investigate... I'm thinking "cirque du soleil" is my next one. I see at least 48 different spellings on it at first glance...

Thanks! Happy to answer any questions or give you "the pitch" if you'd like :)

Was passive earlier in 2020 but am now full time on watercoolertrivia.com — not taking a salary yet though.

It’s weekly trivia quizzes via Slack or email for work teams to build connection!

Hah-- we were around earlier this summer! A few groups had actually changed their "personalized" category to Juneteenth so we did end up writing a few questions for that category :)

Let us know if any feedback as you give the product a whirl! Can always reach me on HN or the site's "live chat"

Consolidated platform makes many things easier: guidebook, "welcome to the home" onboarding, auto-remit of state taxes, ability to fill empty weeks, etc.

Mostly fair points, but figured I'd clarify a bit.

"You've got a property sitting empty for most of the year, driving up property values, so you can have a jolly holiday."

My grandmother (the homeowner) lives there more than 6 months each year. She spends the rest of her time in a retirement community.

It's a town with <500 people that swells 10x during summer months, there is very low demand besides vacation homes due to lack of nearby schools, healthcare, etc.

We have two maintenance people and one cleaner from the local community that we partner with; it is extremely common to have these "old school" side gigs up there as it is such a vacation-driven community.

One of the few here it seems who is actually an Airbnb host (a Superhost actually).

For three years, I've managed my grandma's home in Wisconsin as a way to generate income for her and allow the house to stay in the family. It has been our vacation home for four generations and we certainly would have sold it by now if not for Airbnb income during the months of June, August, September each year.

I am trying to earn enough to buy the home and then will continue Airbnb'ing (keeping July for family time) to pay much of the mortgage.

Just an anecdote admittedly, but hopefully one demonstrating that not all hosts are evil landlords, and I would not be surprised if some of our (repeat) annual guests were interested in sending us a card/support because of the relationships we've worked to build and maintain with them.

Thanks for posting! I'm the author of the article. We're sitting on over a million trivia responses and I'm sure there's much more interesting digging to be done. Happy to pay an aspiring data scientist to go spelunking for more fun facts if they'd like :)

We've received over one million responses to trivia questions at Water Cooler Trivia now, and we've learned some interesting things-- including 84 different spellings of Amelia Earhart.

-Collin, co-founder of Water Cooler Trivia

I have an idea called Check Your Bias which is basically to make readers more attuned to detecting bias in news they are reading by selecting words they think convey the authors opinion and gamifying “guessing” how right or left an article is. I ran a very basic MVP. I’m pursuing a different idea right now but would be happy to share all my learnings and docs with you :)