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The Adobe deal didn't go through. Last publicly hinted valuation was back at ~$10B when employee share buyouts happened in JAN 2024.

lol. funny because it's true

Good point.

The government can both subsidize development with low construction loan rates and disincentivize owners from flipping homes for quick profits. There are places where capital gains rates on home sales are onerous if sold before ten years. Both can be true at the same time. The likely oversupply of homes in this scenario is what most people would reject.

I think we'll see these types of films going the way of books and recorded music. We'll have an explosion of films released to hyper-niche audiences (at best). The middle of the market goes away. 10-20 traditional films still get produced and marketed to large audiences. This evolution makes more sense, since to your point — people like you have already stopped watching the product.

I suspect there is a market for adult-focused genre-based animated films that where never economically feasible before.

I'm not sure existing cities can evolve themselves to fully solve these problems.

There are Americans that want affordable housing in densely populated areas that are also car centric. Hard to get all of three of those requirements. There are other Americans who already have a home in their ideal neighborhood and don't want change. The two groups are just incongruent.

Affordable housing is possible, but it requires a number of drivers:

1) Don't make policies that disincentivize developers. 2) Don't turn homes into financial assets. 3) Don't build the city around cars. 4) Don't romanticize the single family residence (SFR) home.

This might require brand new cities to be built — where these promises can be set from the get go.

Related: Anyone using libSQL (SQLite fork) and Turso for production apps? Any lessons learned to share?

Agree. That's point. I'd rather scan a QR code that links to great photos than have a printed menu with no photos. They informally call them food picture books in restaurants I've eaten at in China, Indonesia, Japan, and Singapore. Example: https://www.kawanointernational.com/assets/file/KADO%2008%20...

Side Topic (Menus With Photos): There seems perception in the US that menus with pictures of the food are less sophisticated or cater to a less discerning clientele. In Asia, photos of the food in the menu is more of the norm than the exception (even for more upscale places). I discover more items I like when the photos are present. I would take QR codes with foods photos over a physical menu without (even for a $$$$ restaurant.

I'm not an attorney, but have sat through many sessions with our legal team in the past on this topic (pricing models). Agree the practice may fee icky, but I'm not sure this case would qualify as anticompetitive (in the US). First, lawyers would have a field day at defining and redefining the market. Related, it is unclear what other services we as consumers no longer have access to due to them executing this strategy. So across consumer harm, market power/monopoly, and predatory pricing the legal case might be challenging to construct. Back to your point, maybe this practice SHOULD run afoul with anti-trust laws, but the laws may need to change to apply to this situation.

You're implying native app. Previous comment said (browser) web app. Not sure who is correct on feature support, but you're cross talking on the product SKU.

Agree on that last sentence. Thanks for making Recut!

Fair point. That makes sense. May be an opportunity for better messaging for who the product is for. Good luck with the roll out. Others mentioned Descript (which is solid). There's a labs project from Adobe that's exploring the same space (https://labs.adobe.com/projects/shasta/). So lots of options. A more clear customer target is needed (zero experience, prosumer, post-production creative professional). Again, not knocking your product. Just feels like this may end up more of a feature than a product — the subscription angle will force you to add more value and better target the right audience.

I get the use case. Not sure there's enough value here as a cloud-based SaaS product. I use a similar product called Recut (https://getrecut.com/). $99 one-time fee (no subscription). Easy to open the edited project in NLEs. macOS only. Unclear that Kapwing is a better option when Recut would be breakeven at seven months and you can don't need to round trip videos in the cloud.

FYI, I'm using Google Cloud Run for this at the moment. Scales to zero, issues the SSL cert and provides the HTTPS endpoint. That's what I'd be benchmarking your service against. Let me know if you actually do something in this space.