royalty free I'd assume you meant as well, or are you pitching a new SaaS model for stock photos?

Haha, the idea's all yours. Let me know how it goes.

'cause, yeah, what the world needs is YASIS, yet another stock imagery something. i'm way too outside the SV bubble to be affected by its reality distortion field to think that would be a good idea.

This is probably one of the few good things about current meltdown and no low rates. No more silly Peletoneque startups.

edit: for a while anyway

I find myself sometimes wondering with things like Peleton and Juicero, what would happen if Ron Popeil was born a couple decades later so he had access to the same VC those companies did?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Popeil

I think they'll just use AI/GPT Hype and sell whatever next hypegrowth based on flimsy evidence they can.

The current narrative in financial places seems to be 2023 is gone but 2024 comes with a vengeance, feel safe investing, your real estate will grow in value! We're making people go back to the office so that it does! More lemmings! Less quality! More production!

Yes. I'm peak cynical after 3 years of self made economic destruction only to tell those who didn't cause it that "of course they must pay for the broken plates".

i love the self-awareness of the misplaced ire, but still being okay with it anyways.

Misplaced ire? Maybe not well communicated in a brief spell between shopping for stuff on a Saturday.

Also, everytime someone invests a lot in explaining themselves in HN, if it goes against the current thread narrative, it'll still be ignored so it's not like it's particularly worth it. HN feels more Reddit and less Slashdot of old.

Still a nice aggregator to find stuff that might peak interest.

and yet you participate in society

There are technically not royalty free images of the Eiffel Tower at night because the lights' owners consider them copyrighted.

so is pretty much every famous building you can imagine someone wanting to specifically photograph. Eiffel's little tower isn't unique in this regard. Chrysler's little building in New York along with pretty much every other famous building is as well. You just have to hope that your framing with these structures is not considered the focal point of your image.

Not the tower, the lights on it. The tower itself is too old and is now public domain.

Depending on the country and specific circumstances, such photographs might be covered by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_panorama.

There was a pretty neat Google project a few years back that showed time-lapse videos of buildings under construction created entirely through publicly posted images that people had happened to take at the same spot over time.