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Yep, this is what people are not understanding. Too many engineers and not enough business owners on HN. The hardest part of starting a business is getting the network effects on your side, it isn't the tech.
Re:Patatap: Create musical forms with your keyboard on Saturday September 26, 2020 @03:37PM (#24601542)
it's too bad you can't loop things together
Re:Show HN: I made a free-to-use GPT-2 API on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @10:12PM (#24562234)
np! thanks for the response!
Re:Show HN: I made a free-to-use GPT-2 API on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @09:42PM (#24562070)
Is this open source? Any link to a repo?
Re:Chrome Web Store payments deprecation on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @10:40AM (#24554924)
I get an occasional request for new features maybe once a month. If I can add them in a few minutes I do, otherwise I tell them it isn't supported and won't be. So basically, no.
Re:Chrome Web Store payments deprecation on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @12:42AM (#24550921)
Sorry, no monthly.
Re:Chrome Web Store payments deprecation on Monday September 21, 2020 @10:26PM (#24550291)
yeah, I've made my money back so I'm not as concerned about the $25, but there goes any chance of growing the revenue in any meaningful way.

I am getting a kick out of all the people here saying that "no one pays for extensions". I've consistently made $50-100 from mine with no marketing whatsoever.

Re:Chrome Web Store payments deprecation on Monday September 21, 2020 @06:41PM (#24549219)
Just my luck...

I created my extension and started monetizing it March of this year...

tbh, I've already said more than I'd like to about the matter.
I didn't get into the details because I was adamantly against doing it.
Much more than I'm getting paid at Amazon.
I work for Amazon and have had people reach out to me about doing this with a large price tag attached to it.
Re:Ask HN: Open-Source Software Newsletters on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @12:21PM (#24409901)
> https://www.programmerweekly.com/

This isn't quite what I had in mind. But thanks anyway! subscribed!

Re:Rethinking the App Store on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @05:11PM (#24287319)
because they don't get the margin they're currently getting :)
What do you mean by this one? Retirement homes for social media influencers? Cleaning up social media posts from defunct platforms a la Myspace?
Re:Shiro Kawai: Schemer, Lisper, Actor on Saturday August 08, 2020 @07:42PM (#24096129)
Do you mind elaborating on what you mean by "Our regex engine"? I'd love to hear more about what you needed a regex engine written in Lisp for.
I would say the real and more fundamental problem is the anti-competitive behavior. This is what makes their corporate censorship as powerful as it is.
I just tried Mastodon yesterday. I was highly unimpressed with the on-boarding funnel and confusing UX.

I think one point people miss is, the social media market is highly competitive. All it takes is for Twitter's UX and on-boarding funnel to be 1% better than Mastodon's for Twitter to win.

Someone needs to provide decentralized social media platform without leaking the decentralization into the UX and on-boarding funnel and I've yet to see anyone do that to date.*

*I'm still looking so if anyone has anything for me to check out I'd be thrilled!

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