People are very scared of messing up authentication and getting hacked. They would rather offload that responsibility to a third party and not think about it.
I've been working on webtool because I got tired of battling captchas in Playwright and cloud browsers.
For most tasks, it's a lot better to just let the agent work in a real, live Chrome browser that is not detected as a bot at all.
Plus it's fun to watch the agent click around and figure out how to do things.
I think even for those who do not subscribe to any election fraud conspiracies, this will seriously shake confidence in the election. If a mistake like this went by unnoticed until the results were posted, what other monkeying about with the database goes on?
The main value of token compensation is liquidity. People frequently underestimate how long it will take until exit and their equity becoming cash.
Tokens for a good project are liquid immediately on numerous exchanges, and likely will be worth at least something. Don't neglect the time value of money.
Most people on HN exist in a very different world from the unbanked population. Credit scores mean nothing to these people. Many can't even get approved for a checking account and rely primarily on cash equivalents and prepaid products.
The following may or may not apply to your specific situation, but this is what I would be thinking in your case. You have two options:
A. Accept failure, fold the company now, return remaining investor funds and get a job.
B. Do whatever it takes to get profitable in the next 60 days.
This is a possible game plan for option B.
1. If you're doing enterprise sales, your problem is likely as much about cash flow as it is revenue. Collect as much cash as you can now. Get customers paying monthly/quarterly to pay annually. Make big prospects an offer they can't refuse to prepay in advance.
2. Get revenue any way you can. Become a consulting company. Do things that don't scale. Sublet your office. Hold events at your office and sell tickets. Sell some Aeron chairs. Just get some more cash coming in.
3. Cut costs ruthlessly. With 2-3 months left, there is no way you should have 10-15 employees. Assume you have 3 months left to live. Do you really need all of them that badly? It will be tough and heartbreaking to let people go, but it's better to let half go with warning than to have everyone find out they're not getting paid a couple months down the line. Cut benefits immediately. Yes it will be tough and unfair, yes it will hurt morale, but you're at the end of the line. Do it. 3 months of runway with 15 people could become a year of runway with 3 people.
4. Mine your CRM and personal network for leads. Strip mine it for whatever value it has left. From now on, everyone on the team is spending at least 30% of their time on the phone with customers. Either you get some sales, or you get some great feedback about customer pain points and problems you can use for your next effort. Stop coding. This is one problem you won't be able to code your way out of.
5. Unless you have amazing revenue traction, forget about raising more money. The one thing VCs hate most is a rock that is rolling downhill. Fundraising will be a fatal distraction. Instead, go back to your bootstrapping roots and do whatever it takes to get profitable now.
Exception: Your current investors may have some capital in reserve to support you. Ask them for it. If they don't re-up, your fundraising prospects are good as dead.
Feel free to shoot me an email with more specifics, happy to give other advice if you think it's useful: ilya [at] mixrank.com.
I've found that the key to success in this is context and setting.
Rather than going somewhere because there are women there, go somewhere you would like to go regardless and don't worry about approaching anyone, just relax and have a good time.
Everything is dependent on mindset and setting. You, the same exact person might be anxious and uncomfortable in a loud club, and at the same time you might be the most confident guy in the room at a cocktail party after a business conference...or vice versa. So go to places that play to your strengths.
i.e coffee shops are a terrible place to meet people. There's absolutely zero sexual energy and everyone there is just trying to get some work done.
If you're in the bay area, email me(email in my profile) and I'll show you exactly what I mean.