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Reddit does this on their IOS app.

This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you!

This sounds like a problem that might actually be solved best by blockchain.

This look similar to https://www.specialproject.io, a company based in my hometown that just raised VC.

I'm curious how you provide transcriptions for these videos. Is there a way to pull the transcriptions off of YouTube, or are you transcribing them with something like Cloud Speech-To-Text? I'm working on a project where YouTube transcriptions are required, any insight would be super helpful.

I'm working on the same thing and am also in the validation phase! Email me at sam@dailypages.co if you're interested in talking.

Bozeman is great if you can make it happen.

ClassPass HQ is in Missoula. Bozeman has fiber internet and a good sized tech community that’s growing by the day. Plus Montana’s outdoor rec access is a great complement to sitting on your computer all day.

Hey I’d love to pick your brain about what it takes to do this kind of work coming from a web/systems engineering background. Shoot me an email at samheutmaker at gmail if you’re open to it.

Yes, make more money over a longer period of time, create a better experience for your customers, and be treated well.

Their free money isn’t free, and venues are starting to notice.

This is not true for artists. 1/3 of all tickets end up on the secondary market, a few of which Ticketmaster owns. This where fans spend a huge amount of money that artists never see. If Ticketmaster is charging a 10% markup in the primary market and a ticket sells for $100, they make $10. If they charge the same percentage in the secondary market (tip: they don’t) they would make $40. That money the artist never has a chance to see. Even though a fan is willing to pay $400, most of it goes to Ticketmaster’s scalpers and Ticketmaster.

Ticketmaster is still around because of anti-competitive practices, not because they’re a lightening rod.

Shameless Plug: It’s still a WIP, and obviously this covid stuff has been hard for us, but my company sellout.io is trying to build a fair alternative that ultimately gives artists the ability to sell tickets directly to fans. Ticketmaster’s rein will end soon.

How to solve the rubrik’s cube that’s been sitting on my desk for three years.

A thread on Handshake from 6 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20995969

It really does depend on the idea. Is it a consumer product? B2B? In the last few years I’ve seen a growing number of companies start with little or no seed funding and grow to a respectable size. If you’re technical, I would start by building a prototype and trying to get a few paying customers to prove it something people are willing to pay for.

I’m curious to learn more. Reach out to me at sam@sellout.io if you want to chat.

I agree that the issue is a problem of management. Though without oodles of cash to wash away missteps, poor management would be much more obvious. The ability to distill user feedback into the minimum number of valuable feature enhancements is what sets successful product orgs apart from failed ones. When cash is largely not a constraint, the tendency is to build exactly what each customer has said they want rather than try to come up with succinct improvements. The result is often bulky products that cost a fortune to maintain and only appeal to small number of customers.

VC is good if used correctly. But dumping wads of cash into a company to develop a product that isn’t capital intensive (like web or mobile tech) has the tendency to create bloated product orgs which optimize for the wrong things.

Feature addiction is exacerbated by VC. Without real consequences to a poorly planned product roadmap due to the years of runway afforded by massive funding rounds, entire orgs fall into the “one more feature” cycle and never focus enough on measuring success in terms of real dollars. No one knows what went wrong when all the money is gone and devs/designers/PMs rinse and repeat at a new well-funded startup.

Hugged to death.

“If you were using federated Kuberenetes with node auto-scaling and the latest cloud-native AI-enabled service discovery OSS tools for geographically aware traffic distribution your static site wouldn’t have gone down.”

Thanks for the thoughtful reply, this is helpful. The RFP is from a municipal event center and is for ticketing services. We're a team of four and up against some big players. Our website is https://sellout.io if you're interested in checking us out.

The RFP process is definitely sucking the life out of us, but we're so close and likely have a good shot getting at least an interview.

Thanks for the response. Can you provide an example of a template? I can't find one that seems like it would cover everything I would think a company of this size would be interested in.

It’s true that a single static IP address is easy to block, but what is stopping an oppressive regime from building tech specifically designed to block Handshake? Correct me if I’m wrong, but Handshake still functions over IP and as such a government could potentially block all IPs associated with Handshake via similar mechanisms that are used to block a single IP. If there exists some kind of public list of all Handshake resolvers, as, from my understanding, there would have to be, they could very easily continue censoring content deemed inappropriate. I don’t see anything built into the core of this that will solve this problem. Oppressive regimes will adapt.

And DNS as it stands is fairly seizure resistant as long as you use secure passwords and the customer services folks don’t get tricked into resetting your account or something.

The vision is grand. I’m excited to see where this project goes and will definitely be following along. Best of luck.

I love the idea but it seems like like a long shot to get the network effect working in your favor instead of against you. You mention a bottoms up approach and what happened in Catalonia but that is such a tiny percentage of the population facing problems that most people will hopefully never face. How does this go mainstream? Why should the average person care about a more secure solution to DNS? Most people happily ship their data off to Google and Facebook and are blissfully ignorant about the potential consequences. It seems like you would have to make people care more about internet privacy before something like this would work on a large scale.

IMO, it faces the problem that most crypto projects are running into; it might be good solution, but the problem doesn’t effect the average person enough for it gain mainstream traction.

Bruce Springsteen’s autobiography. He’s a master storyteller and has an amazing story to tell.

Documented where?

Be open about it. Be prepared to talk about what you did during that time and how it helped you grow.

Your users have a right to know who created the software they are putting on their devices. Apple understands this and rightfully requires your personal information. I don’t think work-arounds exist.

3 years ago I made the decision not to get a CS degree and haven’t had a problem getting interviews. There are other things to consider. If you’re interested in talking reach out to me at samheutmaker at gmail

I use ethermine and have been getting about 180Mhs. I've only mined eth, as it has been the most profitable and I have less confidence in other coins that don't require specialized hardware.

See Swagger

https://swagger.io/