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Link aggregators/social networks cannot generate VC expected returns without dying in the process.
This death cycle of social networks has repeated itself in silicon valley for decades.
At this point doing VC investment into social networks is like a game of hot potato. Who gets to exit first before the social network self destructs
I am working on framework to quickly build simple web apps/ui. http://WidgetTerminal.com
Would love to talk to you about your use case. Contact info in my profile.
>> P.S. Registering is frictionless, just need username and password, email is optional, no email validation required. Please try it out!
Hard disagree. This is a high friction registration. A password field for a non-essential website is like an instant conversion drop off. Just ask for an email, and send login link to email. That's it.
Like the du command, except it shows the size of directories over time. Doesn't have to be precise, daily historical snapshots of directory sizes isfine.
When your disk is almost full, you want to know which directory grew the most recently, not which directory takes up the most space
Subscribe for early access, and i can give you a demo.
Also, have contact info in my HN profile.
Someone needs to make a chrome extension to shift Google Cal 1 week at a time. Cause the engineers at google sure aren't gonna do it :(
Google Calendar web does allow you to shift your calendar view 1 week at a time (i.e. you can see 2 weeks from feb, 2 weeks for march). The UX for it is just super hidden and cumbersome.
In the top left, there is a date selector. Click it, and then select a date in the middle of the month
https://widgetterminal.carrd.co/
My contact info is in my HN profile. Reach out if you want a demo.
Feel free to reach out directly to me if you want early access / demo (contact info in profile)
Think of it as combination of glitch.com and bubble.io / www.adalo.com
My contact info is in my HN Profile. I would like to learn more about your use-case.
Send yourself notes from an untrusted computer, without entering passwords.
Currently using YouTube music, and its pretty good, except for one annoying bug that drives me crazy.
It allows any individual to own PURELY DIGITAL floating point numbers in a "distributed spreadsheet", and to issue a command to transfer a part or all of the that number to another "person", and NO ONE can reverse that command (and NO ONE except you can change the floating point numbers that you own). The system that prevents the reversal has a caveat. There MUST be a liquid market for the floating point numbers (i.e. you should be able to exchange it for currency).
But that creates a paradox. Why would anyone buy numbers in some "distributed spreadsheet"? Well the ONE and ONLY reason to buy them is if you can use those numbers themselves as currency.
Lets summarize. block-chain can only work if somebody buys the numbers for real money. People would only buy the numbers if they are a useful currency (and non-reversibility is a useful property for a currency, so some people determine it valuable and buy it).
That's it. That's block-chain in a nutshell.
Anything that exists in physical world is absolutely pointless to "put on the block-chain".
there is one more small use-case that's a side effect of block-chain existing. You can prove that a piece of digital information existed at some point in the past.
edit: Also forgot to mention. The other MUST have requirement for block-chain to work is there must be a physical resource that is difficult to monopolize, easy to obtain, and easy to prove that you have it. (CPU power is so far the only resource that exists that has those properties).
I bet the software would improve pretty quick.
1. There are great cheatsheets online that you can just print out and keep on your desk.
2. Write a user friendly cli wrapper on top of git (i think there might already some projects out there)
Could you explain your point in a bit more detail. I am kinda curious.
Except that the gov't picks and pays for the contract (construction), instead of the local residents.
For service and maintenance contract the gov't would subsidize the monthly fees (which are expected to bee higher than a high density city)
Last mile infrastructure is always a winner takes all market.
Even if all the barriers to entry are removed, you won't have 20 different providers competing in a single city. Only 1 or 2 providers will survive. This is because operational costs for running your own lines will be constant, but you will always have only a fraction of the customers if you are competing with 20 other providers.
I've commented on this topic in a previous HN thread. But I believe the solution to the problem is a bidding system. Companies bid to build infrastructure. And companies bid to maintain it for short period of time (3 years).
- Reduce friction for unregistered users to see content.
- The instance you use, only aggregates from specific instances of their choosing. You might miss content from other instances.
- Work on custom curation / discovery features in the future.
I started working a little bit on this idea, by creating simple aggregators for mastodon and pixelfed (still thinking about how to improve the discovery/curation aspect)
Currently I built a few simple aggregators:
But I am thinking of adding features to filter and surface, high signal/quality content.