ferryman

When you say taking this with a grain of salt, do you mean the success rate would be better outside of Indie Hackers?

Tangential question: are you both co-founders, not in the same city/ time-zone? If that's the case, how has your experience been collaborating remotely?

you should check out https://www.nohello.com/ Some folks at my workplace have been using this to explain their point of view to people who just send Hi/Hello

Interesting observation! Reading this , I felt this happened where I work. The extra reward for going beyond the job description , role expectations was reduced and people began to work with a 'coasting' mentality. do you have any more sources - studies , papers or even blogs on this?

For a company whose mission is "to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together.".. this was very hostile & intimidating. I'm not surprised that the author(also the OP) prioritised his own resources, mental health over standing up and litigating. He's still brave to share this in the media!

This is really eye opening. Thank you for sharing! Though I feel the military & the Marines specifically might be an outlier and not a valid comparison

For the OP/Author: The link is not working for me at the time of posting this comment. I get "Error establishing a database connection". I think you got the HN hug of death

> despite them all being filthy rich it was a very unappealing position to end up in

Maybe I am missing something but this sounds quite appealing to me. Sounds like one can chase moonshots , try out crazy ideas without the pressure, scrutiny and inevitable stress of working with the hard-driving execs

I think that there is always a survivorship bias with such anecdotes. We mostly hear about stories of people who have had good experiences with it - they share the recommendation to others too. On the other hand people who have had bad trips are less likely to talk about it.

I think the work factor is addressable to some extent. For example - my team was unhappy about working on a legacy , monolithic codebase so we pushed for rewriting it , convinced the leaders about the benefits and now are spending significant time on it.

They're headquartered in the Netherlands and it sucks here as well. Their operations are not optimised for a high volume of online orders and their website does a really poor job of handling that.

I wonder if governments around the world are thinking more about manufacturing and distribution since we have promising early results. Bill Gates & his foundation have been talking about how 7 billion doses vaccines will be produced [1] and distributed equitably [2].

[1] https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/What-you-need-to-know-abou...

[2] https://www.gatesfoundation.org/TheOptimist/Articles/coronav...

Reinfection is problematic for herd immunity strategy as it keeps the transmission rate , R high. This keeps the less healthy vulnerable.

> , you start going through math around the likelihood you'd die from the virus and realizing that even with a 1% mortality rate, for someone with the whole life ahead of them, the time/opportunity EV is negative.

Could you elaborate on this? By EV you mean the expected value?