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How did you decide to build your one sync engine instead of use an off-the-shelf solution?

We’re exploring Zero (by Rocicorp), PowerSync, ElectricSQL, and a few others

After the recent NCAA settlement, college athletic departments will (in the next year) be able to distribute as much as $22M+ to student athletes — aka revenue sharing

We’re building the tech that General Managers need to manage their roster, valuate players, construct contracts, and pay players.

Basically Moneyball-as-a-Service

This is entirely anecdotal, but reading the comments here it feels like compensation for the bottom 50% of creators has gone down in the last 5-ish years

I ran a Minecraft YouTube channel in high school in 2014 (I thought I was too late to get big on YouTube and shut it down in 2016!) and made $500 a month with 2,500 subscribers. I happened to have one video that got a few hundred thousand views, which helped

I understand the justification for UBI from a labor perspective if all “mundane jobs” are automated, but where I haven’t heard convincing justification is on the more abstract “life purpose” side of things. What happens, regardless of UBI, if we move towards a system that provides little to no purpose in working towards anything, or at a basic level, working for a living at all? I know many friends and relatives who reached retirement and faced anxiety and depression due to lack of “a reason to get up in the morning” - it feels like UBI would introduce this problem at a larger scale, and I’m not convinced by the general “we’ll all just be artists” concept either…

“You either die a hero, or live long enough to become the villain”

Not to be anti-capitalist, but you’re describing capitalism lol

I swear I’ve seen this article title a dozen times over the last dozen years

100% it is - wealth is a predictor of “risk-taking” in general (in quotations because the relative risk is actually fairly small when you’re wealthy)

Congrats! What are you focusing on to differentiate yourself from Supabase?

Your sentiment is not specific to the tech industry. Many who work in tech are quite blessed to have careers that, despite the supposed realities you mention, give them a quality of life others can only dream of.

Interesting about the reading text… I can’t recall ever dreaming about written word in any form

Random thought dump here.. it’s kind of crazy how we all discuss the implications of the internet and social media on society and culture whilst all seeing dramatically different “versions” of the internet

The TikTok/Twitter/Instagram that I know is totally different than the version you’re familiar with. Dropping into your feeds would give me a totally different impression of what those platforms are

Basically, the way everyone mentally models and perceives these platforms is unique. YouTube in my brain is literally a different application than the YouTube in your brain

We’re probably really underestimating the impact of these differences on the way we view the world around us

The target market (for now) is probably their existing customers looking for better risk management by checking balance data through an authentic bank connection before initiating transactions through other Stripe products they already use.

I’m sure Stripe’s hope is that this becomes a full-blown Plaid killer, but as you mentioned that’s certainly not yet the case

This isn’t always the case, but sometimes I find myself naturally skeptical of people who seem overly interested in what’s going on in my life and overwhelming positive and complimentary of anything I mention - as if the nicer someone is the more I perceive their kindness to be BS. I’ve had to focus on suppressing this inclination to see the genuine good in others at times.

Does the green check mean the ban is or isn’t being applied?

I don't think it's fair to assign blame to "positivity" and "optimism" as others in the comments have.

It takes an incredible amount of positivity to start or join a small startup. You have to believe that you/your coworkers will accomplish something that very few people have done successfully, and that requires a lot of confidence when things look gloomy.

As a total outsider here, it sounds like most ex-Fast employees are very talented and positive people. Perhaps the problem was not overall "company positivity" so much as it was executive leadership being naive and unwilling to A) identify when serious pivots/changes needed to be made and B) actually make those pivots.

Positivity is good, but not when it translates to unchecked naiveté. If you believe too strongly in your ability to succeed, you might start rejecting any signs of failure as they crop up. When something goes wrong or a mistake is made, you might find a scapegoat or otherwise discount the severity of the problem.

The other "reason for failure" might simply be that... well... startups are hard. Sometimes it just doesn't work. There might not be anyone to blame.

Hey, no need to lump Sgt. Pepper’s into this conversation!

You should pivot to providing a simple API for other developers to integrate their users’ sports getting data into their own apps - I could see that being a really useful thing

To be fair, those are a few exceptions that buck a greater trend of Presidents and lawmakers almost universally attending expensive and prestigious undergrad and graduate institutions

Not that this is super relevant to the article’s thesis, but regardless of necessity… people still like going to college. People will continue to value a college education because people continue to value going to college.

People like going to the state school and rooting for the big football team they grew up adoring. People like going to prestigious institutions and feeling like they’re achieving things that others are not. People like meeting hundreds of new friends every semester, partying on the weekends, learning constantly, and living in an environment outside of the control of their parents/guardians for 4 (and often more) years before the necessities of adulthood demand more effort and action.

College is fun and gratifying for millions of people, so it’s not crazy that the world continues to give it “artificial” prestige

Not to shill in this thread… but I’m 23 and thinking through a lot of the things you’re thinking about right now.

I realized recently that there are lots of “unknowns” in my life that I actually could reasonably uncover with a little bit of effort and a sensible system for discovery.

Examples: Marriage, home ownership, retirement, work promotions, children, hobbies/interests

These are things we actually can know if we’re on track for, we just don’t know how. It’s just math at the end of the day - what $$$ needs to come in and out and when to accomplish XYZ thing.

No silly online calculator understand the context of your situation. We need a solution that is all-encompassing, highly unopinionated and configurable, and that embraces uncertainty.

I’m building a little software tool for this called Wayform (https://www.wayform.io). I still have a lot of work to do, but I want it to be useful for young people like ourselves trying to find mental peace while also caring deeply about our life trajectory.

There are a lot of cool private companies, especially tech-focused ones, working to disrupt the public sector bureaucracy you’re describing. Might be worth exploring those options?

I work at https://payitgov.com. Would be happy to chat more about it

Hi HN, I'm developing SponsorWhale primarily with the goal of helping content creators monetize their content regardless of their size. Here's how it works:

1) Enter any Amazon product URL and write a tweet-length review of the product 2) Share the link through your content 3) You make money as an affiliate when someone purchases the product

The Beta lacks in some important functionalities like detailed analytics, but I wanted to get the MVP out there to make sure this is something small content creators really want (I suspect they do based on interviews I've conducted).

Ultimately in its current state it's just a super simple way to do affiliate marketing, but I plan on building a user-base of small content creators for which brands can create custom, high-paying affiliate opportunities.

Looking for criticism.

"Ebay's buyer feedback rating is absolutely useless now, ever since it was made impossible to give negative feedback to a buyer for any reason, including outright fraud."

I do agree with your point. Craigslist's lack of report system has made us feel strongly about including the ability to report negative interactions with buyers, so our dependability rating should include those as well.

"But nothing in the Pradl model prevents lowballer/flake "buyers" either."

I could have made this connection better within the blog post, but the feature we believe can help minimize the damages of lowballers is the screening questions. Before buyers are allowed to ever ask the seller to contact them, they must agree to a number of conditions that the seller sets, such as "Is your offer above X price"? The idea here is that the buyer can be as annoying as they want and be set on making a lowball offer, but that communication should occur with Pradl without the seller having to deal with it. The seller only comes into contact with the buyer when they feel they aren't going to waste their time doing so. We think that even just double checking that the buyer is on the same page about some of these things before contacting the seller is enough of a deterrent to keep the bad ones, like the potential flakers, away. You might have a different opinion on that though, and I'd be happy to hear it.