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This can be true but ultimately if this is a fear, you need VC money.

If it has revenue and is growing then I would look to get a loan to double down on what is working.

Pay back the loan whilst increasing revenue and keep the entire company to yourself/team. The additional revenue can offset the expenses which were taken care of by the loan.

Google introduces $50 4G smartphone to enable billions of people to *get more ad revenue.

Most people lack the 'hustle' needed to action any advice let alone boring advice.

Trouble is that most 'bad' companies (banks/pharma in particular) allocate and write off money for fines as a cost of doing business.

These fines won't cripple a company, it will just allow them to test what limits they can push and so on.

Yup, had this little gem appear for me on a very random video. So much so that I had to suspect that it was more of a requirement so that your credit card is locked and loaded for spending.

The trouble is not with the ease of development but the centralization and ease of finding the restaurant.

Marketplaces provide a one-stop location for customers, instead of searching Google then scrolling and clicking through each site to then get a 404 or poor website.

If you created a simple website it would need a whole bunch of work to get it to rank, get it added to Maps, Yelp etc. A well known marketplace/s provides everything for a very low cost in the long run.

Check out Google Dorks, it provides every option to essentially search and find many, many things.

> spent in the company of bitter old farts who just want to complain about things?

I'm sorry but this entire thread is a collection of various complaints. In fact I would argue that HN is nothing but an endless feed of people complaining about things.

I strangely had the same experience with hay fever. Never suffered from it then right around 15 it hit me pretty bad. I moved countries 5 years ago and again I no longer have hay fever symptoms so for sure they are not simple.

This is something that I've been told over and over - early exposure to things like dust, pollen, nuts etc basically eliminates allergies when older.

As an example, I was never exposed to cats early age but dogs yes. Now I have a mild reaction to cats hair and nothing with dogs. Of course this isn't a scientific study that can be validated but it does sort of make sense in my mind.

A la antibodies etc.

You'll own nothing and be happy about it as the life motto goes.

Of course, USA and China still seem to be doing fine and everyone wants to do business.

US of A and their war on [drugs|WMDs|insert other reason] happens outside of the country so the millions of dead doesn't matter?

Terrorist Police in London just hit a little different. Machine guns, 5 police to 1 person, all separated apart. Refusing to do so was just not worth the back and forth, generally speaking we would have given them a hard time.

But essentially we were out for a road trip and a friend of mine happens to be a videographer. We were around St. Paul's later at night with 2 cars a few guys and a couple of ladies. My friend was filming the Cathedral and a patrol drove passed and turnaround. They asked to see what was on video, they saw it, a couple of friends turned into deer in headlights with their responses and that's when they called backup.

I tried to keep the producer which they gave me with all the details etc but haven't been able to find it. Odd experience. I couldn't be any lesson 'terrorist' looking if I tried.

Exactly, literally every time I see these articles I just think of the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_Unite...

I remember being questioned on terrorism charges outside St. Pauls Cathedral, alongside my friends by about 20 police with 4 vans. They told us that we need to leave London (lived outside of it) and they will watch us to ensure that we leave, if we do not then there will be further problems for us.

I would say the same feeling is had with global warming and climate change. You can't really see it, you can't really connect rainfall + sunlight directly to anything to do with the climate because it really is all just invisible.

1. We are so awful at predictions.

2. Tech predictions live and die by hype cycles (which gets a nice little write up in this article https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/8-lessons-from-20-years-hype-... where the author reviews 20 years of hype cycles, what has come of them etc)

Youtube Premium is a perfect example IMO. I know a lot of people who flat out refuse to do a trial, me included.

So clearly people are happy to be advertised to so why not show them things they might be interested in via tracking?

Because people like products and tangible things. Look at the Apple accessories - overpriced, overengineered yet people will happily overpay, lose it and then pay for it again.

Ask someone for £3 for a full vehicle check to know if it's been stolen, crashed, written off, still on finance (basically major headaches) is way too much of an ask.

An example that I have is my project that does the above. 300 free checks and 5 premium checks 6 months later, I still scratch my head at how people are scared of buying 2nd hand cars but literally do nothing to protect themselves.

But 1000 HN readers paying $X per month for a web browsing service is not going to pay for the R&D needed to overcome Google's amazing ability to search the web.

ex. $5 per month from 1000 HN readers is only $5000. This is petty money if you want and all swinging, all dancing product, profit and work/life balance.

You should check out Indie Hackers which is essentially a graveyard of products, ideas and people asking why their $3 per month product is not being purchased or used.

You using software for free and in return providing some data in return is the old barter system. Which many people would love to go back to...

I love the personal entitlement people have when using free email, free social media, free search engines and everything else to the point they are offended if they try to make ends meet by making profit.

Do you think Y Combinator investments don't use tracking? You would get laughed out of a room if you said you track nothing and have a solid product. A phone call to ask about your product is tracking because it all gets recorded and noted.

Its literally why things like Solar Wind hacks happen with cost cuts. Also products become unfixable, you get locked-in, random shit happens that requires everyone to spend a little extra and so on.

It always amazes me that people who adore the startup f-you mentality are shocked when they go public that this mentality fizzles out pretty quickly. Google & Facebook were adored as leaders in tech and now...

The traffic light system is used in the UK to show how much sugar/salt/fat is in the product. To be honest it shocked me to see so much red for salt so it definitely was eye opening.

The issue with this, that I can now see, is that it would take government action to make this a requirement. But I can see that there would definitely be a benefit for education the customer.

So it would definitely need to be category specific but I do think this could be a hugely interesting idea for organic products etc

Thank you for this. The idea of having some additional explanatory notes alongside each serving as in the first layout you shared is very interesting, almost reminds be of ELI5.

This is brilliant! I even love the additional information added such as 'you don't have to avoid sugar completely' (are these coloured boxes also visible on the label or is it just for illustrative purposes?).

When you say actual calories, what do you mean?

Sugar etc is all there to view and basically legally required.

Are there any other pieces of information that you would like to see?

Yup, most people have weak cores from poor posture and sitting down all the time. Standing up has to engage your core and keep it stable. Literally dealing with a pulled back because I haven't done core strength in months. The difference is incredible.

This is very true.

I wonder how often restaurants change their menus. I live on the coast of Poland and 5 years later of living here, I can probably tell you what the menu is for the 5 'hot' locations to go to because it literally hasn't changed.

Exactly, you would be sitting pretty right now.

All of my 'successes' (granted they are very small but hey you gotta take some wins from time to time) have come from opportunities which arose from conversation.