jonthepirate

"Ridesharing" as we know is it going to crash https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13762242

Their valuation got so far ahead of itself that priced into it is global domination. Now that it clearly is not a global monopoly, there's nowhere to go but down. Everyday one of their employees goes to work is a day wasted where they could have been vesting at a company which is not horribly over valued.

Disclaimer: Former Lyft engineer / stockholder here (2014-2016)

-----

Hi,

I get a lot of messages like these. Since time is valuable, I promise to fully read your original email plus any job web pages that describe the opportunities you are hiring for for $100. You can paypal me at <your email here>.

For $500, I'll even do a coding exercise or come in for an onsite interview.

Cheers,

<Yournamehere>

-----

My new rule of thumb: Use plain databases for most things and only use DynamoDB if there's a precise feature in your system that it is well suited for.

DynamoDB is a horrible general use database.

In my view, all of this technology is much better suited to aid the human driver as a safety enhancement system rather than a full replacement for vehicle navigation.

I would bet a donut that Slack is off PHP within 2 years.

  php > var_dump("hello" == 0);
  bool(true)
  php >

I suppose any other dating sites that break through will be based on extremely simple ideas with elegant or new user interfaces. For example, How About We is an extremely simple idea. The concept of dating friends of friends was already tried several times. The last time I heard of it it was being done by circl.es. I would suggest trying something that is really unique that nobody has ever heard of which would help you break out. I hate to say it but one of the other stories in the last year that was a break out story was Ms. Travel. Try to package what you're doing in a really crazy way. I hacked together a crazy photosheet interface that I've never seen before and it just wouldn't catch. Trying to think of any other thing I could think of which nobody has done, I tried the idea of online dating via the unix command line. That did get me some exposure but certainly not enough to get the wheels of traction turning.

For what it's worth, here's a story that came out on Jezebel.com about my project at the time (which I shut off after a couple of weeks after this article came out).

http://jezebel.com/5934969/new-techy-online-dating-site-is-u...

Good luck w your project!

https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/654790

did the trick on this one. ;)