I think you'll need to implement a queue of some sort. if it's locked while the message is being edited, then any amount of serious traffic will block the whole thing and turn people away.
So instead of leaving a message for the next person, put a message in the queue, and each time somebody visits grab the next message in the queue.
I'm still confused why that happened. I walk in lots of crowded places and am perfectly capable of not "trampling children" without a need to vocally warn them about my movement... Like, just if you're going to run into a kid... just Don't do that?
You say a lot that startups should collect revenue very early. If my startup is currently just a side-project and I haven't yet incorporated, what's the legal concern of collecting payment?
I feel like startups like Door Dash have dealt with this, but I was just wondering if there's anything I should be aware of.
This is great! I was just thinking about something similar, perhaps you'd like to work it in.
basically, it would automatically assign meeting times, based on who's meeting, for how long, except that it would be scheduling several meetings, and take those into account.
I.e. throughout the week various employees in an office would simple set meetings for "friday"
The system would compile all the meetings that take place, and schedule them, to the best of their ability, so that no two meetings would conflict. On thursday night, the times are finalized and the meetings are placed on attendees calendars.
You'd need some sort of conflict resolution, but if you ran it each time for each meeting request came in, you could alert the involved parties immediately.
I can't give you any advice about working in a shitty boring job you hate, because I myself am quite terrible at it, but I think Paul Graham has already answered one of your questions.
If you're serious about making a business out of a side project, PG once talked about how you shouldn't try to think about ideas that are "good startup ideas" Instead he says, work on things that you find profoundly interesting. When you've hit something that users love, the idea according to him his, it will take over your life and you will know that your side project is no longer a side project, but a startup. So I wouldn't worry about if you think your ideas are bad, as long as they are interesting to you, work on them.
So what you're saying is we've found a way to fund education without debt to students or taxes, and the school has an incentive to get you internships so that you graduate with work experience AND incentive to place you at the highest paying job after college?
This looks fantastic. Would love to see what it looks like when volume increases.