janeshmane

I'd be curious to know how many "slapped it together in 3 weeks" products end up thriving. My experience has been that any time I've thought of something that could be done that readily, I've eventually found someone else that already tried it (usually unsuccessfully). The successes I've had have come from long, hard slogs. May MeetButter meet better fortune.

I'm glad to see people building for this audience. I have to say I'd be a little reluctant to gift this to someone for fear of offending them. That said, it seems like it would be a great addition to a doctor's available interventions or a workplace wellness program.

Is email actually an urgent problem for people? Most of my personal communication is outside of email these days. In fact, I have gmail up for texting more than sending emails. Unsubscribing from commercial email generally works fine. My inbox feels very much under control. Maybe I am just not important enough for an Imbox.

Or better yet take the family photo sharing out of Facebook. I don't consider it a safe place for that. I just use Facebook for groups and events now. Family stuff goes through vzg.me or shared albums. But I agree within Facebook it would be cool to have them classify post types and let you filter: Family, Flamewar, Humblebrag, Meta

It's hard to imagine why the board thought that was a good idea. They should've bought Twitch or something Twitch-like that could be more easily molded to be "on brand".

Congrats! Would love to hear more about how you acquired your earliest customers and what growth channels have worked best for you.

This seems like the personality you have to have to want to work at Facebook. Money uber alles.

"By sitting here, you accept the Terms of Deuce."

"Your solutions are not any worse than the ones on the internet."

Sorry, I just don't agree with this. Of course you need to vet the solutions you find online, but chances are you will find solutions that have already worked through bugs and edge cases you would only learn the hard way if you went forward naively.

This novel completely changed my perception of time. Very much worth the effort.

JM Coetzee - all, but Disgrace and Waiting for the Barbarians are good starting points.

This is intriguing, but how does one go about scaling this? Relational DBs are often where scaling breaks down and sticking more of the application in that problematic part of the stack seems like it could end poorly...

I was hoping to use them for an application, but their API pricing is orders of magnitude higher than Google's and Microsoft's. I guess they must be focused on the web application primarily.

Longecity.org/forum is one I've been visiting for many years. It has some pretty knowledgeable regulars and has never gotten popular enough to attract a ton of corporate interest