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Re:AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @02:38PM (#45751182)

Someone wrote about Bending Spoons' history and playbook:

https://www.colinkeeley.com/blog/bending-spoons-operating-ma...

I enjoyed this part:

No On-Call Rotations: Bending Spoons aims to build systems so reliable that they eliminate the need for on-call rotations. This is unusual in the tech industry, where on-call duties are standard to promptly address system issues.

For most of their products, they have no on-call schemes at all. Engineers are encouraged to think through all corner cases to ensure robustness, knowing there is no fallback like an on-call team.

Re:Where to find ideas – by Rob Snyder on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @05:10AM (#44795870)

"We are looking for a person who has an unavoidable priority, where their current options are insufficient or unworkable. This person would be weird not to buy our product."

So in other words, a market need or underserved niche.

Re:We're bringing Pebble back on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @10:01AM (#42853082)

It sounds difficult to make a definitive statement based on the findings of the referenced paper:

"Overall, the vitamin content of the frozen commodities was comparable to and occasionally higher than that of their fresh counterparts. β-Carotene, however, was found to decrease drastically in some commodities."

It was occasionally lower, too.

Re:Has Social Media Fuelled a Teen-Suicide Crisis? on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @04:45AM (#41706036)

Have you read 1984? It's quite useful for discussing the state of the real world.

Re:Show HN: Engineering Book Club on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @04:34AM (#35885090)

I'd participate - I find it much more engaging to read and discuss with others.

Re:Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @10:14PM (#34799607)

https://peel.fm/0eeddb0

I'm having too much fun with this. Thanks!