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That's good insight. I am not an artist but I've also run this idea by a friend who is. He loves the idea and is curious what a technological interpretation of his work might look like. He's also interested in how we might use those interpretations to create a new segment of collections for this brand.

this comment seeded an interesting idea! Many artists and photographers want to get into the NFT space but they don't necessarily have experience in digital art creation.

If you could leverage AI to generate digital art based on real artist/photographer inputs, perhaps you could create a nice little marketplace business.. or maybe just a simple AI generator plugin for an existing marketplace..

Looks like a neat NFT generator.

Why do you think people want this?

For a second I read $194m in revenue, is it Friday yet.

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Lots of exciting movement in this space. Since you've mentioned Canada, I'll throw a shoutout to my friends at Emerge commerce https://emerge-commerce.com and clearco https://clear.co

The latter provides a new funding mechanism for e-commerce companies.

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They sold some of their BTC holdings right?

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Why not try a few different things and see how that goes? Your idea with becoming a PM sounds intriguing. You are likely technical enough to understand the 'how' of what's being built. Remember, your job as a PM is to own the 'why', you should intentionally stay away from trying to manage the 'how'.

I'm just squarely keen on learning from their acquisition integrations team, that's where the magic happens to make any good use of these acquisitions.

Microsoft has, imo, a monopoly of sorts on two critical pieces. 1. Its ability to permeate Enterprise, 2. Its channel strategy/network.

What comes to mind most recently? See Slack.

I guess it's also true that earnestness often leads pursuits resulting in "build it and they will come".

Do you really think that the CFO should be accountable for pricing in market hype? I would much rather under-estimate and over-perform then over-estimate and fall short. The narrative between those two scenarios is drastically different.

Related. Look at Snowflake, it's trading well beyond any logic. Most retail doesn't realize that ~10% float is trading. Watch for Monday as lock-ups expire, the price action will be something.

Why can't we just accept that it takes time and effort to create good content and that paying for that content, is expected. I mean I'm not sure the alternative with outline is any better imho (https://imgur.com/OuDudVL).

I was just starting to think about whether I'm ready to move from Macbook only to iMac + iPad pro

I think the points you're making are accurate and fair, however I also think these issues are solvable only because of the strategic direction Satya has led, specifically referring to the evolution of MSFTs business models.

I don't think there's anything wrong with being confident and contrarian, as look as you have some type of validation, or driving force, grounded in a reality. Often founders, especially those with less founding experience, over-value confidence "hustle" and under-appreciate experience and advice; I don't have much empathy when dealing with that particular cohort.

Completely agree, I almost always screen comments before I get to the article.

I think it's interesting at how many of these are "Ask HN" type posts. It could be that people are often seeking to gather specific crowd-sourced knowledge from experts, what happened to Quora?

I love how this contributes to our understanding of how we like to consume information. Great work.

You might try selecting a song that you enjoy and listening to the playlist radio for that specific song, it's an alternate take on the discover weekly.

How are you currently managing calendar invites and scheduling while using hey?

It's a really interesting question. My gut tells me that Shopify is looking for a suitor and this is facebook's way of de-risking (validating?) a potential investment.

Thanks for this, well worth $3.61 CDN.

I can't help but acknowledge how accurate this comment is, this is a damn hard industry.

Here's all I'll add; you should really think about what problem you are solving and why. Is it true that artists don't sell art because buyers can't find it? Or is it rather that buyers are very specific about why, and from who, they buy art when they buy it?

One of the most important things successful artists do is market themselves well, even the "best" artist won't sell art without an audience and a brand, period. Perhaps instead of creating a marketplace you can create tools to help artists market themselves and build that audience, GL to you and the team.

Hey Mike, congrats on the launch, Zappy seems like a handy tool so far. Here's some quick feedback:

- The signup process felt disjointed. I was excited to give Zappy a try but then fell into a Zapier signup and onboarding flow with Zapier messaging, etc. I was greeted with a Zapier trial when all I really signed up for was Zappy? Anyhow, not to nitpick but the experience and value perception here could be better. I understand Zappy is an acquisition tool but think it could be more relevant, example, when I actually do take a Zappy, poke me with an automation suggestion on how i might leverage Zapier to easily share that to a slack channel..

- I honestly could not figure out how to use Zappy. I installed the tool successfully, clicked the donut in my top bar and couldn't figure it out. I finally realized you have to click the orange donut in the drop-down to activate the tool. Suggestion, instead of your empty state CTA being a push to join a Zapier paid plan, make it an arrow pointing to the orange donut, I bet you a donut that'll alone increase conversion on # of Zappy's taken. Run an experiment and let me know. I bet this also represents a large friction point for your users.

- How do I delete a Zappy? I still can't figure this one out.

- I am unable to create a shortcut. I keep pressing "press combination" but can't seem to create a shortcut.

One thing I always try to strive towards is extreme empathy for the user, literally put yourself into the shoes of your customer and make every effort to see/experience the product through their mindset. Complexity is an unfortunate aspect of most products, the good products just do a good job of emerging users into that complexity.

I wish this was a reality here in BC, Canada, unfortunately our required basic car insurance provider is a crown corporation. So instead of competition we get to pay the highest rates in Canada, incur annual increases despite ZERO claims and finally, watch growing debt because of an inherently flawed insurance model. Good thing we have oceans and mountains..

FB has a little something called Workplace - https://work.workplace.com/