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Looks really similar to what you can get out of floorplanner.com which I’ve used for several personal home renovation projects (full basement finishing and master bathroom renovation). Very happy with it. I finally got the paid plan in order to get the high res prints that my city’s permit office needed. But ~$25 is a lot cheaper than an architect!

For the Hummer crowd?

Apparently you just posted a link to Tron.

Will do. We're already "integrated" with nearly 1000 stores in 13 markets with upwards of 300,000 indexed products. Currently just a B2C focus though. I think there's another possible angle here.

OPs: I feel like we might have some synergies if you extrapolate a bit out from what our product does on its surface. I can't put my finger on it exactly though. See the How can I list my shop question at https://attic.city/owners.

Somewhat related, can anyone explain why in the world Fox would allow the entire World Series to be sponsored by YouTube Live? They have to be a competitive threat, no?

Well getting these types of articles is one way to rebuild their SEO! I'm not suggesting they'd do this on purpose -- that would be crazy -- but it might be a clever way to make some lemonade out of lemons. That is, sell the story of how they screwed up in hopes of generating some new organic backlinks.

My blink 7-8 years ago. Pretty crude, but was fun to learn CSS animation. For smaller mobile, use landscape mode:

https://technotarek.com/human

Carbon ads? Tech space only from what I understand.

e.g., JuicyAds Tried them for a NSFW-lite Apple parody website. Never saw a penny, but the site didn’t take off either.

What are we calling "passive" these days? Is there a notion about the amount of (ongoing) sweat equity/maintnence to payout we all have in mind? The original notion seems unlikely ==> finish initial work/build and then just sit back and collect checks. Seems like few of the projects posted so far, if any, meet that high bar. Realistically there is almost always ongoing maintenance, and if it comes from a passion, probably also constant tinkering and improvement. I've definitely got one of those -- I can't let it sit long enough to ever call it fully passive :)

Would be nice to somehow display or directly link to the caniuse entry for each applied filter setting.

Yeah, skate and indoor soccer-ish style are my favorite too.

Two years ago I vowed to only buy vintage clothing (with exceptions for under garments, shoes and concert swag). Two years later, I haven't bought any clothes! The problem is that vintage clothing for men is a really bad shopping experience, at least in DC. Few retail stores and the ones that do exist only seem to have clothes from a groovy era or a less fashionable, probably slightly older set. (I'm in my 40s. I like my clothes on the slimmer side.) The vintage option is so much more possible for women.

I hear you on the sneaker front. I now only buy ones with "gum" and other non-white soles for this reason. They last longer in the sense they don't look like $#it nearly as fast.

Definitely. Some larger bars (that have multiple ordering stations in the venue, e.g., music venues) just swipe and store the info. Then you can order from any location, or closeout from any location. Some even let you close out by an app.

Inspiring. Love the thoughtful design touches. My only immediate practical issue would be climbing that ladder in the middle of the night to wee! Regardless, the builder and family should be incredibly proud. Enjoy.

For those who might not read the article, the key here is that they're increasing the minimum hours/week required for the benefit to 30 (from 20). The article suggests they will help those impacted to transition to the longer work week, although that's certainly not an option for everyone.

If you're near one of our current 11 markets, you can find some local, custom makers: https://attic.city. Or ff you're in the DC area, see https://attic-dc.com/custom-furniture for an expanded offering.

Sorry if you're from outside of these markets; we're working on building out to more. Feel free to put in a vote for a particular one :)

Opportunities abound in this space for someone to do things better for consumers. The e-com retail space is soooo fragmented. Take furniture for example, a maker/dealer has all of the following online retail options (and probably more): Etsy, eBay, ApartmentTherapy, 1stDibs, Chairish -- and those are just the marketplaces. They can also chose a more roll their own such as an ecom site from SquareSpace, Shopify, Wix etc. The same is true, but even more fragmented, in the area of fashion. Add to the above PoshMark, theRealReal and many others.

The fragmentation is a disservice to consumers. If this move by Etsy leads for vendors to further disperse across some of the other options, then it adds even more barriers for consumers who want to see the full breadth of offerings in a particular vertical. It's unclear Google is really interested in or up to the task of resolving this.

(Shameless plug time.) So we built ATTIC, a hyperlocal search and discovery engine for a limited set of product verticals (furniture, decor, fashion). Etsy makes up a fair share of the product you'll find, but we do it in a curated manner, namely by location. Even more important though, we also index products from hundreds of other stores, dealers and makers that are on other platforms. We're quickly approaching 1000 stores, currently across 11 cities and several more to come. See https://attic.city.

In the end, I'm not sure consumers really care where they get their product from. They're not that loyal. They care about the product and the ease of getting the product. If vendors flee Etsy, the customers will follow. We're hoping we can eliminate the worry about or need to figure out where those dealers went.

I'm always interested in these. Would love to get off Google Analytics. Alas, they always seem to forget to offer event based interaction tracking (e.g., button clicks). Most of our core metrics are tied to events of this sort, and rolling our own separate event log doesn't satisfy our needs either.

The Constitution gives the federal government the authority to establish a postal service, but "mandated" it is not. (I'm not a Gov downsizer, but think the distinction is important.)

To address #3, provide only the title and a very brief excerpt in your feed with a link to the full monetized post.

It would be a search engine of _______? I'm not sure there is a clear answer there and it poses a huge challenge to marketability.

It's hard to see Shopify resolving the issues at hand. The costs associated with mom n pop e-commerce are ultimately too high (eg investments in SEO). The same could be said for similar platforms like SquareSpace or Wix that offer e-commerce.

I have a side project that monitors mom n pop sites -- take for example vintage clothing store sites in New York City. The landscape has become a ghost town, with hundreds of previous sites now abandoned. They've largely moved to platforms like Etsy or Instagram.

We've been using UptimeRobot for this purpose for a number of years. Generally happy. Just something to keep in mind is that we've found their keyword check very handy, and in fact use it more than the status code check. That is, it looks to see if a word (or words) of our choosing are being rendered and pings us know if not. Some of our environments will serve a default 200, but it might not be for the page we hoped for (e.g., a default nginx page after a reboot).

I do like the open source option you've provided though. As I said, we've been using UptimeRobot for years and currently use it for around 50 sites. I fear if/when they change their pricing tiers.

You have a lot of the same motivations we have when started ATTIC -- as in helping smaller retailer operations compete with the technical and marketing budgets of big business.

To my original question, have you seen your platform in use anywhere? That is, has it been adopted to scale in any cities? Just wondering. If it's new and not there yet, no problem.

Thanks. Very interesting.

I gather your response was mostly in reference to food delivery services. The OP was suggesting this as a platform for more than food, which is what I'm primarily interested in. It's retail shops that are less experienced with and newer to the idea of everything needs to be delivered right away that I'm curious about. Having said that, our original focus was on furniture stores who have always had to deal with fulfillment and delivery. The type of delivery is very different in nature though -- a 200lb sofa vs a 16oz burrito!

Thanks again.

Very interesting. My most immediate question would be whether or not your platform has gained traction in any specific geographic locations? How many stores are participating and what percentage of that local market do they represent?

We've been working in a similar space (hyperlocal for furniture, home decor and fashion) for about 5 years with ATTIC (https://attic.city). The premise of our work runs a bit contrary and challenges a platform like this -- the primary issue is store willingness to participate in yet another platform.

Putting grocery stores aside, most other retail stores have too much to do and manage on the tech/marketing front: facebook, instagram, twitter, pinterest, snapchat etc. Add on their own website with its own e-commerce platform plus several other shopping or delivery platforms (etsy, posh etc) -- it's too much. As a result we've ended up with extremely fragmented marketplaces and none do a good job of showing a comprehensive view of your local shopping options. For example, some restaurants I like are on X. Others are on Y. Others still are on Z.

Like I said, we came at this problem from a different angle. We're indexing local stores to build the platform that actually has a comprehensive view of a local market -- and to fill in the gap that services like Google Shopping do a poor job of representing. It's slightly slower out of the gate as we do some preliminary research for each city/market. But we've launched ATTIC in 9 major US markets so far and expect to be at 15 by year's end.

As an aside, do you know where you first came across the term hyperlocal? I wonder who coined it. We've been using it as well, but we're certainly not the first.

Citation for the IQ / productivity claim?