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I’m not sure about copy but the UI seems designed to look like an AI response which is certainly a choice

Meanwhile Xfiles has a montage on YouTube of all the times the boom mic crept into the shot.

So I can’t super accept that these are geniuses - it was cheap TV.

In hindsight sure, whole cult following etc. but doesn’t mean it is well designed or even thought out.

Need to scale and have deployments in different locations, more guaranteed uptime, more resources that I have at home.

Would be a good problem to have!

For hobbies and even small businesses a home server on residential ISP is a lot of fun

Used Heroku until they got rid of free

Used Vercel until they banned img tags

Used AWS until they suspended my account (they always do this, new account -> week later suspended, can’t pay them, they don’t want me)

Used GCP until I got the first bill

Every option was a headache, so now I just self host. Forward router ports, install an SSL, npm start

Problem solved. For free

It depends. For drivers, it’s basically been captured.

For say, peer-to-peer car or vacation rental (e.g. Turo, Airbnb) you have some one man companies but the top hosts on the platform is usually an established company often with a staff of employees.

It’s not until you tap through to see they have tens of thousands of trips, dozens of cars in each city, etc.

So when you say Uber driver - it may work in the “driver” category only. In pretty much the rest of the gig economy there is a lot of room for both solopreneuers and SMB.

The “gig economy” may well end up just being “the economy”.