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What I find particularly funny about the mask conversation is that if you remember way back to March-July 2020, if you tried to buy a box of surgical face masks on Amazon, there was a large, bold warning in the top description that said “does not prevent the spread of viruses”.

The reason for this was the FDA, which regulates masks, clearly held the position that face masks were for preventing transmission of large droplets and saliva, NOT aerosols.

Those bold warnings went away when the narrative changed and the FDA issued an EUA that meant sellers no longer needed that disclaimer.

I built a little reddit/forum service awhile ago that pings me when a conversation related to my other project is happening. Its been a great way to generate leads - plugging the product right where its completely relevant to the conversation.

Ive thought about making it public - email is in profile if you think the tool would be useful to you.

Speculation, incredible liquidity in the system, etc.

That would be my guess.

Remote work will likely continue trending, but the Bay Area will probably remain a hot spot for venture capital for some time.

> because the API endpoints needed don't exist unless you're a company with a large enough budget to afford it.

I’m pretty sure Plaid’s free tier is more than enough for the use case you suggest.

> Generally speaking, bank APIs are for use by businesses that want to be able to pull bank customer data.

Generally speaking, yes, presumably because API access to checking and savings accounts is only applicable to businesses 99% of the time.

Most consumers, even programmers, don’t have a real need for API access to their accounts that isn’t already covered by simple CSVs or Plaid.

Do you have an alternative to suggest with better support?

Where/how are you sourcing product? Do you have any experience in cosmetics?

A brand called “War Paint”, which I’m sure you’ve heard of, recently created some buzz and quickly attracted a lot of negative media. Did you learn anything from the negative feedback they received?

I (we) are building a challenger bank in the U.S., focusing on checking and savings accounts that expose a full API.

On a personal level, I have been doing a deep dive into the Napoleonic Wars, and spend most of my free time reading. I had an idea the other day to attempt to build some sort of battlefield/timeline visualizer using the newly realized Google Earth Studio. Has anybody used it for anything other than simple flyover animations?