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Either built a utility, game or a content/community site and monetize with ads. If you're feeling adventurous monetize via utility tokens.

Is there a particular area you specialize in for blockchain? I know there's a lot of opportunities outside of the standard currency/token space.

Setup Shopify with Oberlo. If you know what you want to sell (and know what will provide good margins) you only need to add products to your site (Oberlo automates this a lot). Install a good shopify theme and you should have a decent looking site. After this all orders get routed directly to the wholesaler, and you shouldn't have to do anything except respond to customer support (have a no questions asked refund policy and you should be good - just make sure your margins allow for it)

After that it's all about getting traffic - usually facebook ads are the way to do this. This is the part thats hard to put on autopilot. Maybe you can get someone to do it for you for cheap - but you need to make sure you have really good margins.

If you have a way to get traffic to your site - actually getting a site up and running is easy.

Not sure if this would be the right thread, but I'm a UI/UX designer and I am looking for 1 or more developers (front-end or backend) who wants to partner up for consulting work.

I would love to provide end-to-end design and development services to my clients.

The long-term goal is to scale up operations to be more of a platform like Gigster - but at the beginning it's more of a agency-esque approach.

SEEKING WORK - Remote

UI/UX designer and front-end developer

Currently building portfolio, here's a recent project we worked on:

Livejam - https://www.livejam.com - we worked on the design (Sketch) and the front-end (built in ReactJS talking to a NodeJS backend)

We have a few more projects that are currently not live - glad to show design samples over email.

You can email me at [email protected]

I'd be interested to see videos of these mock interviews. Would be helpful for folks who aren't interviewing now but might some day.

Popular highlights would probably be a great start.

For me it was more around me reading a book and being able to see additional notes and thoughts from others who read it before me. Seems like I'd benefit from the notes of those smarter than me (kind of like how Harry Potter benefited from the notes of the Half Blood prince :D )

Interesting concept. Adult stories are definitely a lucrative market. I believe literotica is one of the largest websites in the world by traffic (I believe in the top 50), but they don't really have much competition.

I do wonder what the monetization opportunities are here. Advertising might not be a good option since not a lot of brands advertise on adult sites - so you're left with scammy or predatory ads.

Do you guys have a plan for the long term monetization yet?

" the company won't hire unless you have experience in a big bank"

Seems like this is the requirement the candidate doesn't meet - although its unstated.

If the issue was sex, race or age it would me a legitimate "study" but in this case, it'd be just lying about experience to get the job.

This was a very different scenario though. The intent was a legitimate research. I feel like OP is more looking for a justification for something he knows is wrong.

Even if it was conducted purely for research, the findings wouldn't really be interesting. Results for whether a company gives you a callback if you add experience they are explicitly seeking is hardly going to be surprising.

While I rarely highlight or take notes. I'd be interested in seeing other people's highlights and notes. Is that something you guys would consider putting on your roadmap - sort of a social aspect to your currently utilitarian product?

Its a very unethical approach. And if you're caught, it'll destroy people's trust in you (and thats something that's hard to gain back).

If you really want a job there, I'd say try to get in touch with the hiring manager or someone who's on the team. Usually it's HR acting as a gatekeeper without understanding the nuances of what makes a good candidate good.

Reach out to folks either through your personal network if you have a connection, or via LinkedIn.

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with the point you're trying to make regarding how Jack Ma might be part of the problem.

But its not really a "China" problem. There's a lot of startups and mature companies in the US that have similarly aggressive personalities at the helm who demand a lot from their employees.

My main point was the notion that people are assuming that its universal in China, when its not always true (whether its more prevalent than in the US or not - i dont know).

The only reason I'm even making this point was because how grandparent to my comment made a simple comment about how companies in Shenzen pay a lot, and the response to that was a blanket "but 996" when that might not be true.

The data gets encrypted, but its not deleted. Although I guess I was wrong in saying Apple can help - they wouldn't/can't unlock the device for you - but I'd probably still ask them what my options are.

"If we find things we like, 996 is not a problem," Ma said in a blog post Sunday on Chinese social media site Weibo. "If you don't like [your work], every minute is torture," he added.

I agree with this sentiment, I happen to work 996 on my own stuff mainly because I love it. I know a lot of people who have jobs and pour themselves into it because they love what they do as well.

I'd say its only an issue once you are being punished for not working 996.

Very cool. Congrats on the progress made. Hope you keep making iterative improvements to your product - that's the only way to built a successful startup.

This is unfortunately a common phenomenon where people from countries in the west see negative press about another country and assume its a universal issue. Often thats not true - companies like Alibaba, Tencent, and many others are willing to bend over backwards to get the best talent.

There's a lot of other companies that want their employees to work overtime, but thats probably true in a lot of countries - probably even in the US.

I wish there was some way of balancing the news coming out of countries - without resorting to censorship. It would remove a lot of prejudice,

If you go to the Apple Store, they should be able to help you out. Like someone else mentioned, unless you had enabled the "Delete my data after 10 unsuccessful attempts" - which I'm guessing is unlikely in this scenario - then all the data should still be there.

I dont consider Facebook inherently evil and even their more recents f-ups around user privacy and security I had attributed to incompetence of the employees (anyone working at a large co would know - this is all very common).

But when they hire people like this, I dont know how to excuse them anymore...

I think it was a combination of:

-People don't value privacy as much - outside of a niche.

-Building hardware companies is hard. Its harder when you're competing against big brands like Apple and Google. Its really really hard when you're trying to displace something as personal as a smartphone.

-There were key strengths missing in design, branding and marketing which counts for a lot.

Something thats less ambitious might have succeeded, but this seemed like an all or nothing play.

Are these original content or are you collecting interviews from other sources?

I dont understand this, but I like it :) - Is the name a play on thispersondoesnotexist.com ?

Established networks dont give you enough ROI. Google and Facebook for example have slowly become more and more expensive to the point where if you aren't dedicated to optimizing and testing ads on their platform, you'll lose money.

The best way forward is to look at smaller networks. What new platforms are your target audience using that isn't quite "mass-market" yet.

In my experience I found content marketing to be better - although its not exactly plug and play yet like Adwords is. Maybe try advertising on blogs and other publications (maybe via Outbrain or something similar).

What RSS reader do you use?

Hi, I'm a designer and I can help you with the website design (as well as some feedback/advice on branding and marketing if you are interested) - email is in my profile.

The video was impressive, but I'd like to see videos where the self-driving failed and the driver had to take over. Those would give me more confidence in the technology since I'd know what the limits are.

Now it seems very staged (probably isn't but still - i'd imagine they'd pick the most impressive video to post out of all their tests)

The chinese startup scene is really thriving and a lot of the recent acquisitions and IPOs are overshadowing ones from sillicon valleys.

For years I had heard about China being on its way to become a leader in tech and innovation, but I never really though it would be possible (at least not so soon) since its such a difficult thing to artificially do. Turns out they managed to pull it off.

Really excited to see what the next five years hold.