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True! I can see a gym membership adding a non-significant monthly expense. Or having to re-locate to accomodate additional working space (rent asides, the cost of moving can be significant). Good insight.

Is that a time or monetary expense? Are you paying for cleaning service?

(More than you would be for the corresponding takeout that cooking from home is replacing?)

Really? What expenses have gone up?

Food? Unless your company provided a LOT of food?

Are you paying more for internet? Paying more for sq footage?

Curious

"If you bought medical insurance policies on your own for yourself or your family, you might qualify for a self-employment tax deduction on the premiums." [1]

"If you are enrolled in an employer-sponsored health insurance plan, your premiums may already be tax-free. If your premiums are made through a payroll deduction plan, they are likely made with pre-tax dollars, so you would not be allowed to claim a year-end tax deduction." [2]

[1]: https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/taxes/self-employment-tax... [2]: https://www.investopedia.com/are-health-insurance-premiums-t...

There's a fascinating change in willingness to pay between between digital and physical products!

I used to DM a weekly game. Every Thursday night our group would get delivery, at $10-12/pp, plus beers, etc. Once we moved to a remote session, I adopted Roll20, and was trying to decide if the $5/m was worth the extra file storage :P

Agreed! I was expecting some "Slumlord Saas" tool

(with featured such as automated denial of maintenance requests, and the immediate investment of security deposits into long term CDs)

These?

Link: https://www.amazon.com/Aqua-Globes-AG011706-Watering-2-Pack/...

I've found them to be extremely annoying. Great for plants such as succulents that need only a little bit of water, so you can set and forget.

But for plants that need more water, I've found them to be less efficient due to the time to fill than hand watering.

Thank you! So simple, so beautiful of an explanation.

Interesting. What a fascinating idea. I have no idea how I'd go about the problem, but I wonder if there's an opportunity to buyout some of the licenses and software when some of these gambling companies go bankrupt, and pass the maintenance and support to a public good organization....

My guess is cost of living. Either between "working remote" while paying city rent prices, or paying real estate taxes for one of the better school districts, I imagine there's a high percentage of residents that don't believe they are getting what they are paying for.

It's interesting that California is right there next to Massachusetts, but New York is further down the list

High caliber firearms could be cost prohibitive, or simply illegal in that jurisdiction. Alternatively, firearms are only as useful as you are aware and capable of reacting...

They tried!

"Fyre Media" was the talent-boooking app/startup that Billy was trying to get off the ground in parallel with the festival :P

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/fyre-media-inc

> Fyre Media, an app that ostensibly allows customers to book performing artists for private events, and the Fyre Festival was intended to be an extension of that brand.

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/qvz5m3/fyre-festivals-25-...

I really love the idea of photofeeler, and I want it to work.

Just to share my 2c: I can't get over how strange the pricing structure for photofeeler is. I've come to the site a few times with my credit card ready, willing to drop a few dollars to get results.... but the abstraction of your pricing model is just confusing enough that I've dropped off the funnel each time.

Ok, so I need credits or karma to run a test. So I answer a few photos, get my karma to medium, and leave the test over night. The results are often inconclusive - my photos are consistently rating as "meh->ok" across the board. Ok, that's fine, I'll try another. Upload another, get more karma, leave that over night. Ok, this photo has +.8 attractiveness, but -.6 smart. Ok, not sure what to do with that information, but it's intriguing. The results are close enough, that I'm curious what the margin of error is if each is getting ~10 votes.

Ok, well maybe this is just the downside of the freemium model. Let's take a look and see what I can buy. 40 credits for $10. Ok, so 1 credit is .25c. Cool. What's a credit get me. A CREDIT GETS ME ONE VOTE! Ok, hold on, that can't be right.

Let's think about this backwards. How many credits do I need? So I probly want 15-20 votes on any one photo to get enough data to be conclusive about the results. Sure. And I'll want to run at least 3 photos. So, I'm looking at $15 per test to know which of 3 photos is preferred.... but realistically if I want to get rid of my own biases, I'd be testing 5-10 photos... Hmmmmm.

At this point I do some work to get some free karma (note: if there were hotkeys for voting it would make a WORLD of difference).... leave the test over night. Look at it the next day, say "meh, results are inconclusive based on sample size" and forget about the site for 8 months.

I like this theory a lot.

If you're looking to self promote, you can either target the larger audience base of beginner content, or provide domain expertise with advanced topics.... with the gap in the middle then being underrepresented

...or at least provide a better constant? Due to WFH, free time, and general discontent I'm sure site traffic for any location is up. How does the increase in suburb searches compare to the (likely) increase in urban searches?

That was my thought. Same as ads. If the currency is the attention of users, why not double-dip profits!

It's the same reason when I book a plane flight, someone's always trying to sell me the rental car while I'm there

Similar to what others are suggesting:

Month-to-month doesn't work.

Mint's budget breakdown totally fails if my Landlord cashes my check too early/late.

Month-to-month doesn't work for expenses that aren't monthly. Example: travel.

Month-to-month doesn't work when the calendar lines up and you get 3 paychecks that month instead of the normal 2.

I'd be curious for a budgeting app that still has the concept of a month, but isn't locked to calendar dates.

Rolling average? Bucketed allotments that roll over? Maybe

Correct, MCEdit is an amazing tool, but hasn't worked for a few versions ever since they updated the way in which blocks were stored....

Here's an idea.

Give users an option to put $1,000 in limbo. The condition being, if you date/marry someone for 2+ years that you met on the app, the app gets to keep that money.

In return, you get a badge on your profile. It's a certified stamp that your "money is where your mouth is" and that user either as plenty of disposable income, or is intent on long term commitment.

^ Both are positive signs for the prospective market.

I don't have any citations for this - but I'm assuming it's all a result of the US and it's venture capital / investment scene... combined with laws that favor company rights over worker rights - creates the right environment for throwing money around at companies....

Alternatively, the internet was a shot in the dark that took off and gave the US a massive head start?

...like a personal board of directors.

> a misspent youth of getting into minor legal trouble and tax-dodging can actually be beneficial, in that you learn how these agencies actually work

There's the problem. It's no small task to understand the underlying functions and behaviors of a complex system.

It's easy to recognize a "violent criminal". You know it when you see it. Something much more complicated like the IRS? You don't know what you're looking at.... or if it's even legit/legal.... entirely shrouded in mystery and fear.

The real threat is the one you don't know.

This is the exact problem that my company is trying to answer. There's no shortage of budgeting apps, but the real problem is addressing how people think about money, and how they learn and balance different goals they might achieve. So many educational resources, guides, and "suggestions" come from companies that offer (and profit off providing) the financial services they recommend.

If anyone is interested, I'd love to get feedback, hit us up on LearnLux.com

I don't know if there's a term for it - but I was under the impression it's sole purpose was for marketers to create content that read/felt like it was written by "your friend". Lays on some heavy cringe-worthy "fellow kids" type of vibes.

Because "Software Engineering" isn't (currently) held to the same standards of certification, ethics, and peer review that other Engineering and Medical fields are. Maybe some day.

I don't have the numbers on hand, but it's likely even more drastic.

The original blog post has long since been deleting (https://theblog.okcupid.com/your-looks-and-your-inbox-8715c0...), but according to one of the OKCupid founders:

> [Women] rate a whopping 80% of men on the site as ‘below average’.

You can imagine that people aren't swiping for "average", so the selected percentage would be even less.

Link: https://techcrunch.com/2009/11/18/okcupid-inbox-attractive/

I'm assuming that's due to the mental framing of the relationship. When a Junior Developer identifies the student/teacher relationship, you can encourage their growth in a way that you can't with a peer-to-peer relationship. The questions asker needs to understand that they're getting help LEARNING and not just an answer.

> Whereas previously it was tempting to look at my roadmap and think "what would people like me pay $9 for", now I am thinking more about what actual businesses would pay $50 to $100 a month for.

Two things have changed here. The $ amount, and the TARGET AUDIENCE. While the title suggests the article is about pricing, the text is about finding the right audience.

This is the first time I've heard of "Votemojo". My first reaction was, that's cool! I'd like to use that for some side projects I'm working on, but a single tool isn't worth $50. As a consumer, I'd expect it to deliver more than services I'm paying for such as Google Mail ($10/m), Adobe Photoshop ($20/m) or Dropbox ($12/m). It's fine to price out the consumer in favor of enterprise sales, but I'd be curious what the user demo breakdown is for a single tool.

There are some core fundamentals you'll need that will help with any web development route you take. Javascript, CSS (SCSS), REST APIs, etc. These are fundamentals that you can self-teach from free code camp, and other online resources. However for the sake of locking in a job, it's easier to come in on a specific framework. Angular, React, Drupal, Wordpress, etc. However, as others have mentioned in this thread, popular frameworks and the jobs that use those can vary city by city. So it's worthwhile to find what the desired skillsets are in your area.

> How you attract the men to your platform is up to you...

Women. Period. If you have women, then men will come. And they'll jump through absolutely every hoop and hurdle to do so.