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yeah, i guess the treadmill of growth expectations just climbs so much that it doesn't even make sense to think about the small fish coming in from freemium.

it's just odd to me because it should take 0 effort to manage a freemium pipeline as there's no human in the loop. but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If you've been following what Iranian leaders have been saying for the past 2 decades this shouldn't come as a surprise.

I mean they made a popular comedy around the absurdity of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQxX1M2fSOs

you miss out on openclaw so you spend the money on the next best thing. bold strategy cotton, lets see how it plays out for them

Hey HN! here's something I couldn't stop thinking about:

your coworkers probably think good things about you that they'll never say. Not because they don't mean it, but because there's no moment in the workday where it's natural to say "you're really good at keeping things calm when everything's on fire."

Most recognition tools try to solve this by asking people to write compliments. That doesn't work. It's awkward, it's performative, and it ends up in a public channel where "Great job Sarah! " means nothing. The insight I kept coming back to is: what if you reframe the compliment as a poll answer? You're not choosing to compliment someone. You're just answering a question. That removes the awkwardness entirely.

So I built KudoSnap. It's a Slack bot. Here's how it works:

1. One person installs it — no admin approval needed. The Slack scopes are intentionally minimal (channels:read, users:read, chat:write). No message access. 2. It builds a social graph from channel co-membership to figure out who actually works together. 3. A couple times a week it sends you a 3-second anonymous poll: "Who explains complex things the clearest?" with 4 names from your actual coworkers. 4. Your vote becomes a private DM to that person: "A coworker said you explain complex things clearly." They answer a poll to see who said it — and now they've also voted for someone. The loop spreads itself.

The whole thing runs on Vercel + Supabase ($0/month at beta scale). pg_cron triggers poll delivery via HTTP calls to serverless endpoints.

It's Employee Appreciation Day, which felt like the right moment to share, but the reason I built this is that appreciation shouldn't need a holiday.

Free beta, open to any Slack workspace. I'd love feedback, especially: what would make you skeptical about installing this?

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now tell us what you really think...

It's not actually real. The lobbying firm behind most of the fact sheet is made up of people on the boards of different tech firms.

Is it just me or does the author never actually answer the question in the title?

Also, does anyone know if the pricing graph accounts for inflation?

I don't understand why businesses insist on betraying the very values they were built on in the first place. YouTube has always been about helping people feel heard and giving them a voice through their platform. Decisions like this one simply prove that in a few years they'll likely be defined as a publisher and not a platform.

what are your thoughts on storj.io? they utilize R-S for all their entire storage platform.

Huge news!

I see services like Storj the perfect hybrid model here. Companies get the security and optimizations of the cloud, while being able to simultaneously run their own storage nodes to get cost savings.

Exciting times for decentralized storage!

+1

Storj.io for the win. Move over Google!

Costs shouldn't rise or fall based on the price of the coin. You can pay directly in USD for the storage so that you don't have to worry about the pricing shifts.

Storj is going to be a lot more tried and battle tested than TahoLAFS. If you need to reliable store files under a strong encryption, I'd use storj.

If you want something that you can just plug into and leave alone, I'd just use Storj. It's priced the cheapest and their tech is the best thus far. I will say that it's built for developers so expect needing to spend some time to set everything up.

Agree with a lot of these points, but not quite sure how you solve them with a better solution.

If youtube wants to remove stuff they can, but they should start with removing the values they state on their about page. You can't say you give everyone a voice and then start blanket silencing people.

Marketplaces like this are hard to evaluate in a few months. It can take 6-7 months before you start to see pull, especially if the supply side has work they need to do to list their service.

No silver bullet solution. You've gotta hit all channels and see which ones get you the best traffic. Which channels work best really depends on the type of business you're building. Just toss spaghetti on the wall and see what sticks. Then, when it does, throw more!