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Have you considered that you may optimize excessively and way too early? People who would buy your product do not care whether it's serverless or not.

If people like product and it sells well, you will have time and money to refactor your product (I would still think twice before doing so).

Consider this: > remoteok.io is a single PHP file called "index.php" generating $2,342.04 in a day. No frameworks. No libraries.

If you want to start quickly with app that has signup and pay for content, consider this open source app: https://github.com/builderbook/builderbook I am a co-author.

If you really need passwordless-like flow, check out: https://www.npmjs.com/package/passwordless

Thanks for summary. My 2 cents: I think Amazon search ads are more profitable than Google's. When user searches for product on Amazon, this user is only one click away from buying.

Edit: There should be a differentiator for new search engine, there is more room (problems to solve) in Q&A search and Discovery.

It's easy to criticize Medium, and I wish they started with direct monetization earlier or went 100% native ads. Now Medium has somewhat limited choice. Reason is because it's not a publisher, it's a platform for different types of publishers.

Site-wide paywall won't work, since majority of writers do not want to limit access to their content and publish to get eyeballs. Metered access might solve that problem but a lot of testing is needed to figure out right amount of access limiting, so casual readers would never see a wall.

Premium section might work but big question is how to split revenue among writers and how to select writers. Share based on recommend count? Perhaps. How much would Medium have after payouts?

Premium feature(s) would work but what.

Giving existing, relatively big, publishers a monetization tool to create and manage subscriptions. Big question here is again, how much Medium would make after payouts?

Premium section seems like a lot of work but could work. Attracting big publishers and giving them great CMS and great way to monetize might work as well but it is a very different path.

My cofounder Kelly @klyburke has put together pros and cons of different monetization strategies for Medium.

fair observation overall, but not sure about "patience" - in 3 years, who knows how much of current VC funding remains.

Sam, thank you for working on a new online course. I think it will have a huge impact.

For how many companies per batch, YC is a second accelerator? How many companies have raised Seed round?

I see. What would be a mechanism? Upvotes by the paid users? Thanks for feedback.

Hi, thanks for the feedback. Does a refund system sound like a good solution?

Unexpectedly hunted on PH: https://www.producthunt.com/tech/zen-market-2

Got it. Weird bug, will look into it. Thanks!

Hi, thanks for the reply, are you guys talking about browser back button, or back button on the list of purchased webpage?

Made a change again. Let me know. Thanks!

Thanks! I made a few changes. Let me know if you think if there is a UX improvement.

I think that the question about how efficiently gov uses tax money is an order of magnitude more important than the question of how much to pay in taxes.

Another related question is how efficient gov in allocating the help. I wish there is a separate gov body that quantifies the efficiency of all allocations.

Who knows, perhaps, when inefficiencies are removed, taxes we pay now is enough to build a just society with big middle class. I personally consider Wall Street's bailouts and international military interventions are among the biggest gov inefficiencies.

Buddy, I strongly suggest to add Google to the resume, it will let you find a new job pretty quickly.

If asked by the potential employer, just explain the situation.

Take it easy. Don't damage yourself to the degree when your future productivity is affected.

I got 2-3 clicks on video, average duration: 1 sec =) And 2 clicks on demo, average duration: 0 sec. I guess decision was made based on application. Submitted early, on the 2d day.

Hey, https://mixmax.com/ has scheduling.

http://www.boomeranggmail.com/ has it as a main feature.

Also http://www.getsidekick.com/ will add it soon.

If in doubt, check: https://zen.market/?q=schedule%20emails

This time fellowship is an experiment, so number of selected will be low. The goal is to figure out how to scale advice and work with remote teams. But I believe that YC will eventually fund 1000 startups using this program. Two birds are killed: more founders get help and YC discovers more talented teams/big ideas.

Hey, check these 4 SEO resources:

https://zen.market/?q=SEO

Helped me.

EDIT: website is built by me. check the 4 links under "Get armed with SEO tools". clicking on search result brings dropdown with all resources. These resources are the most explicit I could find.

Yeah, totally. I thought that Magic is on demand search engine for human intelligence as well. Not sure that it would easily scale though. Seems like database would be better than on-demand. Thanks for the insight.

Yeah relevant ads are not as bad. Are you willing to pay to remove ads or get more relevant results?

Whoa, did not know that such services exist. Thanks for link.

Could you please describe main obstacles? Academia is a specific market. Not sure it would feasible to charge companies to be listed on search engine for everyone.

I agree that former is harder. Thanks for the insight.

I see. Would you mind giving an example?

Hah, that's a surprising answer. Thanks for sharing. Why not filter bubble? It does not do a good job guessing personalized results?

Thanks for reply.

1. Yes, say logged in with Gmail.

2. Say, results which are made by both robot-algorithm (like Google) but further refined with a human intelligence (curators).

URL from the debate thread: http://veekaybee.github.io/who-is-doing-this-to-my-internet/

Just added upvote by non-registered users.

Hey, thanks for feedback! The upvote functionality is designed for Curators only (users which are invited manually). I will hide upvote icon from non-Curators. Good catch, thanks again!