The "If" in your statement is exactly my point.
But if you're selling there, you can still manage to avoid a lot of the red tape, bureaucracy, etc. You can be a c-corp and sell there. I'm sure a lot of the US companies that sell there don't have to engage in all that, so why not focus on that market?
Sure they have limits but why start in the US? What makes it great is what makes it super competitive.
US is oversaturated with products, solutions, competitors, etc...
I think you can achieve "scale" in markets like Brazil which aren't as attractive but still have +200M people if you build the right thing.
And the right thing can be simple and something that has worked in markets like the US before.
Why do so many founders build for the US or with the ambition to go sell in the US? I get the consumerist culture, higher willingness to pay, etc, but there are so many other markets where you can build and sell much simpler products and dominate.Why compete in the biggest pool when you can dominate a smaller one?
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I've been working on my startup for years to no avail. Raised VC money and burned through millions - now built a simple service that lets you add a "chat to us" button (or can hook to your forms) to launch a WhatsApp chat.The key here is that the button can open chats with different WhatsApp numbers based on rules you can set.These rules can be based on the website visitor's geography,...
Heyy,I've been building this game for the past few weeks and I'm excited to share it with you all.What is it?WikiWho? is a Wordle-like guessing game where you are shown a Wikipedia Pane and you have to guess who the person is.You can reveal more of the pane by clicking on the "Reveal" button, but you lose points for doing so. You get 3 attempts to guess the correct person.If you can't guess the...
Maybe instead of lat/long, you expose a dropdown of popular cities? Again not bulletproof but does make the user's life easier
Yeah, having a target number of ants or varying sizes could be interesting but I don't want small ants dying either :'(
Agreed in game time is nice to match up to real life. But, do you really need detailed location data though? You can get rough location/timezone in a much less intrusive way using IP. You could even get timezone just in JS on the client side even. That should be enough to match up time (not sunset sunrise but better than nothing and less input from user)
I'm curious to know how something like Google Analytics can tell where traffic is coming from to your site? Do they just rely on document.referrer? or is there more happening under the hood?
But I do think that the mechanics linking the ant colony and the player's mental health need to be designed in a "healthy" manner.
If breath work is what you want to encourage, maybe best to link that to the colony's well-being without ants dying.. Not sure how it would work but just highlighting that it won't scale as the colony will need more and more food than the player is willing to breath through and that might be frustrating/demoralising.
All in all, I think there is definitely something here! It's quite mesmerising to watch.
Another thing I think can be improved: the controls. There's too many options. Just start with really good defaults and maybe only expose a fast forward slider that's a simple 2x, 5x, 10x time speed up.
I hope this helps and well done!
Seems like a solid bet with clear roadmap, pricing and strong performance. Also, looks to be more affordable than Timescale.
InfluxDB was such a bait though - it has potential but unfortunately, don't want to take that risk with our infrastructure.
Thanks for the answers below - was really helpful in making a decision.
It seems like tech is getting more linear. Last time a product felt magical for me was the first time I tried active noise cancellation in a busy street. What has felt magical to you?