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The majority of RV/vanlifers do not need internet in motion, they just want a regular static 12V dish that can be mounted fixed and flush to the roof/racks like any solar panel.

$2500 for such a dish is the wrong target market. The only customer that needs internet in motion are things like boats, planes, trains and buses.

Go one better and structure it legally such that it can never be acquired: https://purpose-economy.org

I'm turning 35 this year. My first startup was at age 16. I've launched well over 100 startups in the past 19 years. They all failed. The only really successful one was a non-profit hackathon. Though about 3 years ago I started on a boring enterprise app marketplace startup after seeing a friend do well with one. First payment wasn't until 13 months in. Didn't make enough to cover my living costs until 25 months in. Now it's starting to make serious money.

I think my takeaway advice I would have given my younger self is to identify existing marketplaces where money is already sloshing around, and focus there. Enterprise app marketplaces are the most boring thing in the world, but it's an easier place to make money than alone in wild.

Now I'm starting to dial back, kick this startup into coast mode and focus on the big change projects I failed to get traction with in my younger years when money issues meant 3 months maximum runway.

There's also a side effect that isn't reported at all in the TGA's weekly reports and risk stats: costochondritis and/or myalgia.

I had 3 weeks of intense chest pains after 1st Pfizer and another week of mild chest pains after the 2nd dose. All tests normal. Four separate doctors said it was a common side effect and they had no idea what it was.

Now 3 months after my 2nd dose I still get chest discomfort after lifting weights, and have had to quit caffeine entirely as it results in days of chest pains after physical activity. Didn't have those issues prior.

Vaccine-induced costochondritis seems to fit best.

Zuck's non-profit acquired the company back in 2017 and as of a few hours ago they conveniently killed it.

Imagine acquiring a company via your non-profit purely to grab the name and domain names for your for-profit.

Announcement: https://cziscience.medium.com/meta-transition-5f66b1fae475

I've had the influenza vaccine every year with no side effects.

3 weeks of chest pains on the 1st Pfizer (+emergency visit) and 1 week of chest pains on the 2nd Pfizer. ECG, x-ray and blood tests normal. Four different doctors: "we don't know what the side effect is, can't diagnose it, and we're seeing it quite often". Yeah that was concerning.

And all the calls go through Infura which runs on AWS. Joe Lubin (former Goldman Sachs) owns ~50% of both Metamask and Infura.

Centralized much?

In Australia the government's (dubious) re-opening plan is based upon modelling by the Doherty Institute.

Facebook censors anyone from sharing that report.

Here's the link to try yourself: https://www.doherty.edu.au/uploads/content_doc/DohertyModell...

Facebook acquires Giphy. Regulators: shooketh

Facebook acquires Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus. Regulators: crickets

Get drunk/high and try to use their desktop app. The primary button to create a new note looks like a "new note" button. You'd expect that when you click it a new note will be created. Nope. It's a dropdown. You then need to click "note" in the dropdown.

How they managed to fuck up the UX on that core button is insane. Two clicks to create a new note. Why? Just why?

Square is buying a loan shark service.

"The Australian Securities and Investments Commission found one in five buy now, pay later users is missing payments, half of users aged between 18 to 29 cut back on essential items to make repayments, and more than 1.1 million transactions in 2019 incurred multiple missed payment fees.

It also warned 15 per cent of users, and half under 29, had taken out an additional loan to pay for the services, while 55 per cent of consumers paying late had used at least two different buy now, pay later providers in the past six months."

https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/one-in-five...

Afterpay is a buy now, pay later scheme. It's literally a loan shark service. 25% of their revenue comes from late fees.

"The Australian Securities and Investments Commission found one in five buy now, pay later users is missing payments, half of users aged between 18 to 29 cut back on essential items to make repayments, and more than 1.1 million transactions in 2019 incurred multiple missed payment fees.

It also warned 15 per cent of users, and half under 29, had taken out an additional loan to pay for the services, while 55 per cent of consumers paying late had used at least two different buy now, pay later providers in the past six months."

https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/one-in-five...

~25% of their revenue comes from late fees to consumers. 75% from merchants.

They're your standard loan shark predator disguised with flashy marketing and bankrolled by VCs.

Ok so Square has opted to engage in predatory practices. Noted.

Yeah definitely. Though the timeframe is in the 10-30 year range. Safe bet that 10 years from now most vehicles on the road will still be human-driven. Openpilot with 10 more years of development will be impressive.

For those new to the comma.ai strategy:

Autopilot is iOS. Openpilot is Android.

Far more devices running Android than iOS in the world. And unlike consumer tech, the average car on the road is over 12 years old.

So there's a long window of opportunity where we might see more people choose to upgrade their current vehicles to self-driving, versus those choosing to buy new vehicles with inbuilt self-driving hardware.

Another scam for you to lookup: Facebook Australia claimed it made 2020 local revenues of $155M. In reality it's local revenues were $747M. They put the rest of it onto overseas books to reduce the local tax requirements.

It's the same reason Apple runs a huge chunk of their international revenues through Ireland.

Nothing to do with GST. They have a registered Australian company, but they (like most multinationals) do dodgy tax scams to offshore revenues.

More details: https://www.michaelwest.com.au/a-netflix-original-dreams-of-...

The VC game these days is no different to flipping houses. They're primarily funding boring, inconsequential and incremental startups which can be acquired in <5 years. Or chasing the <1 year money-on-money return of crypto projects.

It's Peter Thiel's "Great Stagnation" decline accelerated by the capital allocation of short-sighted VCs.

Try build a production app and you'll very quickly find the multi-year bugs in core components that require you to either build elaborate workarounds or 3rd party packages.

Alas the HN echo-chamber ensures these points are pushed out of the bubble.

Why is YC funding this sort of shit? https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/24/beacons-seed-round-creator...

If the YC-adjacent scene stopped funding boring incremental startups maybe we'd dig our way out of the Great Stagnation.

Gumroad is something that should be a 0% fee opensource developer component, not an entire company.

The YC Facebook feed has been depressing lately: $6M funding for one of those links-on-a-page startups, $50M funding for a startup that wants to sell Pokemon cards on a livestream. The VCs are fuelling stagnation by funding these boring inconsequential projects.

Got to wonder what crypto prices would be at today without Tether's pump scam.

They ejected toward the end but that just makes development more difficult, particularly the deployment process.

Expo is nice but the whole DX is just painful. The iOS Simulator will crash often. You need to do a hard 'expo start' relaunch often. What looks great in iOS will often be broken on Android. Trying to get pixel perfect UI and the desired UX is painful. Expo is full of bugs and limitations. RN is old and unmaintained.

PWA + Capacitor would basically be a web wrapper with access to native APIs: https://capacitorjs.com/docs/v3/plugins

I'm chasing the holy grail of "build once, run anywhere". I want to basically use Svelte and Tailwind and spit out web, iOS and Android apps.

But I also want to use normal HTML components. RN, Flutter and NativeScript all have their own unique components which is another thing you need to learn.

Will see how far the PWA approach can go when I find the time.

Having just finished an 8 month Expo RN contract I'm excited to never touch it again. For personal projects keen to see how far I can go with Svelte PWA + Capacitor.

Google + Microsoft should really double-down on PWA apps. I think at one point Microsoft was crawling the web and automatically listing any PWA in their app store. If that became the norm then maybe Apple will make their PWA install UX less deliberately clunky.

The simplest filter to avoid hiring these Woke cult people in the first place is to check for pronouns in their Twitter bio. You can see it in the tweets from people leaving Basecamp. I'm not against using preferred pronouns in the workplace, but when it's in their bio that says a lot about how far down the Woke rabbithole they've gone.

US imperialism burning all the world's books.

Basically my current contract at a startup funded by a bank. Though I started off doing fast work only to realize that the CEO/PM has a fetish for feature bloat, and entire sections of the app get changed by the designers within 2-3 weeks of the previous changes. So the code base is naturally a complicated mess.

I learned quite quickly that to maintain sanity the key was to do the work as quickly as possible, and then sit on the commit for a few days while I work on my own projects.

I'm still delivering at an expected speed but probably average 2 hours/day of real work with the occasional full days leading up to prod release. I keep Slack open throughout the day to give the illusion of 9-5, but then there's the context switching issue if you get pinged at 3pm.

Capitalism is such a joke. This system no longer functions for human life.

I think all design tools should have a component-first UX (eg Storybook but embedded in the tool). We devs obviously know how to think in components and understand how props work.

Designers who can't/won't learn to code have a tendency to either never implement a design component system, or they never stick to one.