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How do you even run a company like that? Sounds soulless af.

I mean, sure make money for your investors, but shouldn't you also try to fulfill your mission statement? Or is the mission statement only to make the share price go up?

So you just make it look good on financials?

snack-boyeon Postgres Full-Text Search: A search engine in a database

Silly question, I'm using pg right now and most of my queries are something like this (in english)

Find me some results in my area that contain these categoryIds and are slotted to start between now and next 10 days.

Since its already quite a filtered set of data, would that mean I should have little issues adding pg text search because with correct indexing and all, it will usually be applied to a small set of data?

Thanks

snack-boyeon Mammals dream about the world they are about to experience before they are born

Imagine if this is the dream, as we get older and stuff seems to make less sense is actually getting closer to birth.

snack-boyeon Ask HN: How to verify a business (users will register their business on my app)

I am trying an approach to lead generation for SMBs.

I'd like to verify these small business owners who sign up, so for example if Sally's Holistic Yoga wants to sign up, then Sally would make an account for her business.

However, I could manually verify this information somehow by calling them or whatever else, or there may be some API or service I could use to do this for me.

that being said, I've never done this kind of thing before.

snack-boyeon Ask HN: How to verify a business (users will register their business on my app)

in the US we have EIN.

however I'm not getting much results on "EIN lookup api" or "business verification api" https://www.judydiamond.com/products/einfinder/ein-api-autom... is only promising one

I'm just a solo dev trying to figure this out sorry if I ask stupid q :D