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He's right though. You may be too young.

Interesting technology, this Column. Thanks for sharing!

To me, Meerkat is the one that looks like a one night hack...

I wouldn't mind

It's absolutely deadly in traffic

I'm sorry not everyone subscribes to your own personal views. Some people think it's funny, others don't. That's just life.

Yeah that sounds like a bit much. Honestly for me, I max out at 4 a day, I really can't do much more than that even if they're small meals.

I don't get how people do it 365 times a day, but then again I was never much of an eater.

I mean look at what we get here on Hacker News. It's people complaining all day long.

Honestly, I think this whole hoopla about AI is overblown. I think when we reach the point where this discussion matters, we will know it, and know it quite obviously.

Right now, we're at a point in AI where Amazon recommends me new types of deodorant immediately after I just placed an order for some. That tells you the state of AI and if we really need to be worried about some of the things that these pundits are, imo, dreaming about.

Let progress happen, and we'll deal with it as it comes. No need for pre-mature fear to halt the speed of progress.

None of the leads that I know are financially rewarded, they are just the people that happen to start the neighborhood and are often the most involved in making it take off.

I think what the above poster is referring to is the referral program where if you invite someone to Nextdoor AND that person starts a neighborhood, you get a $25 Amazon giftcard. I've personally invited a few people to Nextdoor, but all of them already had a Nextdoor website for their neighborhoods so I didn't get anything even though I referred them.

The thing is, each neighborhood has it's own content ecosystem that probably takes much time, money, and sheer effort to build up. It's not like Facebook where the network builds on top of itself once it's let loose. There's no "global virality" like FB or Twitter but that's probably a feature by design.

The upside I can see with this is that it's incredibly difficult to replicate what Nextdoor have created and that probably plays a part in why it's now so valuable. I mean the stickyness of a network like this is insane.

It's easy for a WhatsApp or SnapChat to come in, ride off of users' contacts or address-book and build massive social networks to compete with Facebook. How the hell can you compete with what Nextdoor is doing without a significant investment of time, resources, and just grinding it out.

To me, this looks like a classic example of "Doing Things That Don't Scale" and a company benefiting tremendously from it.

There are probably a ton of confounding variables at play here that aren't being accounted for.