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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • Competing in a saturated market without a major disruptive edge is unfortunately futile.

    These kind of apps rapidly hit a wall due to the “Chicken or the egg” problem. Conglomerates like Match Group have deep pockets for colossal marketing spend, as well as an army of behavioural economist and sociologists to throw at the adoption problem.

    I respect free open source work but I think one’s time is better spent solving niche problems. Go reverse engineer DSPs or something, we need brilliant people who are running the opposite direction of the Forbes 500.

    I built a few somewhat successful social platforms during my career. Let that be a kind suggestion to you from a stranger who learned the fact after setting a few million of investor dollars on fire.





  • Nice! Plenty to read before bedtime. Thanks for that!

    I also build a lot of things, mostly programmable electronics housed by 3D prints. I learned so much on the journey. What I learned, in my case, are mostly transferrable skills but I don’t care very much because I like it. I see it same as collecting vinyl records. It’s fun to build stuff without financial motives or external pressure.

    Hello from the other side of the world and thanks for the chat and info on your motorhome. Enjoy it! :)




  • Slightly off-topic: Is there a similar website for sofas?

    When I moved out, I was in a hurry and bought one after testing it for comfort for about thirty seconds. Turns out, it is, and most their product are, drop-shipped, low quality garbage.

    It started falling apart after a month. Been postponing the purchase for about two years because I am not able to find reliable sources of information to guide my purchase decision.

    Great sources for a mattress though. Guess I will cop one soon, as I bought my current one from Wayfair, same shit. Good riddance!