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Amazon's overall goal is to take a cut of pretty much every piece of economic activity. Taking a cut off of every payment made on the internet outside of their own stores is an objective greatly aided by a stripe acquisition

Can you give some more information on the 3d printed blind automations? I've got a house with a lot of windows and I'm looking for an unobtrusive and cheaper way to automate all of the blinds

A rabbit warren

One of those ideas I wish I'd had

I've been toying with three ideas recently and it's time to take development of one a bit more seriously - What does HN like best?

1) A better Mac App Store

2) Letterboxd, but for reviewing Music, Your interpretations of songs and human-powered recommendations

3) A UK-staffed Charge-Per-Task Virtual Assistant service (Ala Fncy Hands)

Problem with this is that you then create incentive for businesses to pay less for staff, knowing the government will pick up the tab. Alternatively, the government prescribes the work - But then I suppose you end up with jobs which don't motivate people to get out of bed in the morning and leaves them in the same cycle we're trying to prevent

Interested in hearing more about that - How does the NFC chip get results?

I'm guessing Thread?

Do Spire ever hire Contractors in Glasgow?

https://www.popcornmetrics.com/?

Hey - Sorry to post an unrelated comment on your thread but HN has no PM system. Do you mind dropping me an email @ nile.frater@gmail.com so I can ask you some questions about a post you made a year ago?

Working for a bank processing millions of calls a minute; using WebTrends

Try this out https://github.com/IonicaBizau/scrape-it

Any recommendations for third-party lights?

That's why he asked...

Hey guys, thought Gophr might be relevant to some of the London-based HN users. The industry has had a massive issue with fair wages, including protests inside the Google campus in London - We jut became the first courier company in the UK to pay a London Living Wage, guaranteed and accredited by the living wage foundation. We wrote a bit more about this here:

https://medium.com/@SebRobert/trying-to-fix-a-broken-industr...

Happy to give out free credit to anyone who wants to take us for a whirl, let me know!

If I can't communicate effectively with a candidate, why would I pick them over someone I can communicate effectively with? How can I communicate complicated technical concepts? It's an English-language forum, I assume people reaching out to me can communicate well in English

youngstartups.io - It's a slack community for those under 25. As the name suggests, we talk about businesses, tech and...school

Not brilliant in my experience - lots of 5 minutes resumes, graduates for "experienced" positions and really poor English speakers (Might not be a problem for some, but not a fit for us)

Couple of diamonds in the rough though

Saw this on ProductHunt yesterday - Really cool looking service. Not sure booleans as a service is the best way to phrase it though

Agreed, absolutely terrible service. My last two next-day Prime deliveries have been dreadful: 1 came a day late, the second still hasn't shown up.

This is the world we envisage with gophr.it - Unfortunately, we're only inside London at the minute.

Can you elaborate?

Baremetrics, GrooveHq

Really surprised to hear it's big in the techno scene!

What's your email address? Email me first if you prefer to stay anonymous - My email is in my profile :)

Thanks for the info, that's really interesting stuff. Do you mind if I email you a couple more questions?

I was interested in a startup in the cassette industry - No major research or anything, just a weekend idea I had once upon a time. Where does one find and market to the cassette fanbase?

It's obviously not a legit solution for all 10% of people out there but this is kind of an exceptional case - The guy is literally the best person in the world to fill the gap in the market which is about to be created by the lay-offs, so why is starting his own business unrealistic? Especially given that he's really just trying to do the exact same work without HP as a middle-man

Google Spreadsheets is absolutely not what a government school would consider private or secure, nor is it likely to be able to handle a database like this, as it tends to crap out a little ways into the 5-figure row region.

They also won't pay some college kids to do it, enterprises, especially government enterprises, tend to require contractual support, which is probably outside the realm of what a college kid can or would want to do

Computer vision for self-driving, then longer-term, automating logistics. Something has to load all those self-driving trucks...