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Your website looks good, if I were in the market for such a solution I'd probably consider yours ?

But as someone already said, you maybe need to focus on solving a more specific problem or vertical, rather than being all things to all people. To find it, naybe think back about why you built this in the first place?

A more minor point : I would trust you more as a customer if you added an About page, to put a face on your product.

What's your product?

...and the new policies haven't really taken effect yet.

>> they're primary skill is that they have a great "product sensibility" that engineers lack

Sounds a lot like what comes up when you google "Rick Rubin meme"

OTOH, I regularly come across great engineers who seem bad at picking projects, and who don't seem to get any better at this over time.

This cultural phenomenon is sometimes called "the Long 90s"

Exactly. My grandfather was punished in school whenever he spoke Breton

There are a couple of light accents in France (Toulouse,Marseille) but not many.

Stronger accents are found outside France: Quebec, Africa...

"You will find the same thing in [...] France".

Actually, you don't. Strong regional accents are pretty rare compared to the UK or Germany

It's true that the general public have a revealed preference for the housing crisis to continue forever.

However in principle, as with many social issues, a motivated actor such as a startup could still have a chance of fixing it.

No, where did you get this idea? Good startups do not think this way.

A good question to ask before starting a startup is : "Do I see myself working 10 years on this problem?". Looks like they ran out of steam, rather than out of runway.

1M "on paper", no cash

Not having to self-host is 80% of the point of these services

Browsing through the "selected works", some of the photos don't do him justice. There is some interesting stuff but also some drab apartment housing, and even a shed ?

If you read their tweets, YC's message is that their companies are growing faster than ever

Dropbox and Airbnb were superhot companies within 2 or 3 years after YC. My first Airbnb booking was in 2013, and that I felt like a late adopter.

... in mice

Check out the eevblog forum

No need... if things continue the way they are, they'll soon be offered the opportunity to buy Siberia

Meanwhile, in the UK: let's obliterate our Digital-Mittelstand. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43152154

It's not generous. Did you RTFA?

You described Linkedin?

I had the same question reading this. Ron, which was the idea you had highest conviction in?

On the other hand, HW engineers are very cheap to hire in the UK. So, as a founder, you could look at this problem as an opportunity.

I'm more concerned with the impact of Brexit, in terms of attracting people, and also the issue of quickly shipping goods to and from the EU.

Anything less would be throwing your customers under the bus.

Of course there are well known companies out there closing services with a only couple months notice ; but that's not an example to follow.

Because a 2x bump isn't perceived to be enough to justify all the drawbacks and hoops : extra cost of living (healthcare, travel), being treated as a second class citizen, and of course the H1B lottery.

As others suggested, read through the Recurse Center website and see if you'd be interested in applying. They'll even help you find a new job afterwards if you want.

I enjoyed Eraserhead (1977), Playtime (1967), The General (1926)

There are apparently products based on the CM (Ableton Move?), not sure how they sell these at a profit.

Even if it were reliably available in such quantities, I'm not sure Pi's pricing would make sense in the context of any mass produced product.