steve-benjamins

The right calendar, notes and task manager is worth way more than $7 per month to many people.

Marx didn’t propose a new system of government though, Marx proposed a theory of history (“history as class struggle”) in which the inevitable outcome was communism.

Cleanshot is amazing

I’m an indie artist and here’s the avg split on my plays per week:

Spotify: 25,000

Apple Music: 600

… Not trying to make a statement— just sharing cause it’s interesting!

I’m a musician and Indie Shuffle was my first “break.”

It gave about 20,000 plays which BLEW MY MIND at the time. Nothing like waking up to a huge increase

Today I’m a modest success. Several songs have 1-2m plays on Spotify and I make $800 / month from streaming. It’s just something I do in my evenings for fun.

I owe my success to outlets Indie Shuffle and SubmitHub—- I’ve found Spotify really privileges discovery for major label artists.

For sure! Though I don’t think Adele would get this if she was an independent artist.

Good or bad this shows how much influence major labels have over Spotify.

Can you imagine YouTube bringing back dislikes for MKBHD?

I can assure these strategies still work when done well.

Source: I run several SEO projects

You should consider taking back your comment about it being misleading— the author is from the UK— vernacular is different for busses and coaches.

Misleading is a pretty negative thing to call someones story!

Is this your experience or something you read about? I take the bus all the time in Toronto and have never had a bag searched.

I wonder how many of those “small business” owners that Facebook loves to talk about are apart of the 96%?

I know I am. Facebook Ads are super effective for me— but I care more about privacy.

Web.com charges 13 months in a year.

They bill months in 4 week intervals— so a month = 28 days which = 13 months per year. This is all in their fine print.

Screenshot: https://twitter.com/stevebenjamins/status/138531992456700313...

I think it’s just that the smarter you are, the more likely you give nuanced answers.

It’s called epistemological humility but I’m sure you’ll just assume I’m an asshole.

You seem pretty sure of yourself— you must know his existing savings and cost of living?

Good luck AB testing things in the real world :p

Awesome. Just did. Thank you!!

Hey I'm the original author!

How much data would you need for confidence? According to my calculations this is 98% confidence. That feels like 'enough' to make a decision for my small startup.

I'm pretty explicit in the blog post that this isn't meant to be universally applicable— it's just what happened to us.

Is there any way to get his attention for this? That would be amazing...

Hi, I'm the author— this is 98% confidence.

An Indie Hackers thread about this post was posted on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24059438

This is the original post though.

Hey I'm the author.

This links to an Indie Hackers post which doesn't have the full context. You can find the original post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24060501

Sorry OP— just thought I'd point that out :)

Hey I'm the OP— we give more of the story here: https://www.atlistmaps.com/in-good-company/chat-bubble-blind...

Sorry. I didn't submit this!

Thank you very much— that's awesome to hear!

That's amazing!! Very serendipitous :)

Youtube channel sharing our startup story :) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdgsCa2Ap6AqHSk3QVjjHzw

You could also rest. You don't need to force feed yourself creativity and productivity.

I don't mean to take anything away from the author, just seeing a lot of this sentiment on social media. Thought it would be worth voicing a counter balance.

Have you been a jobless adult or on food stamps?

Congo produces 2/3rds of the worlds Cobalt. It really doesn't matter if Apple, Microsoft, Dell, Tesla and Google admit they used child labour.... They have.

Instead of levelling skepticism at the lawsuit, why not level skepticism at the companies with a collective market cap of ~$2 trillion? Doesn't that seem more constructive?

There's a real failure of imagination in these comments. Working conditions can and have been improved by advocacy. Saying child labour is an inevitable outcome of capitalism is the same argument that was made by slave owners in the south and Industrialists in Britain at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. You're wrong.

Your argument is exactly what industrialists said about child labour in Britain in the early industrial revolution.

I think the assumption is that ethical suppliers would be more expensive and that these companies have the margins to pay more.