nicolasmelo12

I feel like startups is just a way to do money laundering nowadays. You can say what you want but there is NO way this startup is worth a billion dollars and that this money is actually clean.

Seriously, look at their website: https://www.island.io/ There is not even a SINGLE image of the browser itself, it's just 3D renders, there is no way to test it. At least BREX, Slack and the others are product you can see, it's something that you can know it exists. Even in the use cases for the browser they don't show anything about the browser itself.

This is REALLY disappointing for any entrepreneur working on a REAL product and receiving NO from every single investor they talk to.

I mean: i, a nobody, has a solid product, has paying clients. But because i am not friend of a VC or somebody else i need to listen that my product is not good enough, that it will never scale, that i don't have the right revenue to justify an investment. You can see my product, you can test it if you want. But then a guy comes with something that doesn't even have a proper website and is valuated a billion dollars out of the gate.

It's just sad to see what the startup ecosystem has become.

Isn't privacy, security and freedom the hole idea of firefox?

As of my understanding, firefox, contrary of chrome and Edge, is really commited on privacy.

It's because USA knows the nuclear power of Russia that both countries doesn't go in conflict directly.

It seems strange, but because you can nuke me, and i can nuke you, we need to live peacefully for good or for worse.

I know that Ukraine is in a bad situation, but you think this would happen if Ukraine had nuclear power? Actually, the United States wanted Ukraine to give up on their nuclear weapons.

Actually because nations have the power to destroy humanity multiple times with their arsenal we live in a more peaceful world (although there are multiple wars, none of them compare to WW2 or WW1, there's a good video from Kurzgesagt on that topic.)

Although this article has many valid points, it's important to say that Reddit is mostly used by english speakers. (Maybe 1/3 of the world, i think that probably less). I'm a software developer and i think that most of the time i prefer websites like stack overflow or github issues directly.

As a software developer i see that reddit answers most questions like "Is it better to use A over B?", "Why using C can be bad for my code?". It's for questions that are more open and less exact or technical.

So yeah, i don't see reddit being used as a search engine because english speakers are not even half of the world and it definitely don't answers most daily basis questions.

really nice that you've used wasm and no server. This seems really secure to test.

I was thinking at first: Hey, this might be kinda dangerous, imagine iterating in a tool and sending my database to a server and any attacker retrieves the database.

But since it runs everything inside of the browser with wasm i found it WAY more secure. Nice that you've done it, will probably use it a lot.

This looks really nice in the backend side, it's clear that you put a lot of care in the hole security and permissions configuration.

But even as the backend is nice i think there is a big room for improvement in the front-end, i don't have android so i've checked the your website and the screenshots of your app.

Your icons are too big, the interface looks something like from middle 90's with lot's of tables and rectangular shapes. Your "call" button is a lot different fom the rest of the UI. It's clear for me that it is not your area of expertise so it's really fine actually. The main problem for this is for your users, the first thing they will see is the UI and not much the backend and the features you built, so for a product it's nice to have a nice UI for it to become successful.

If you have money you can try to hire some designers to help you (at least freelancers) Ben awad is a youtuber/developer who is also creating an app and one things you can see from his journey is that he hired designers with his co-founder to help make the app beautiful (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViYUp7jsJNM)

If you still need some inspiration and tools: - You can try Figma for designing and prototyping, it's free. - Dribbble for inspiration - Freecodecamp for courses and tutorial on UI/UX design.

I think this is what you will probably need. Besides that, it looks nice and really promising, just need some polishing.