I used Waymo about 10 times in Austin - it was great. I wish they'd accelerate the rollout to other cities. I wonder what the major technical hurdles are for launching in a new city?
We use them at CommentSold for feature ideas, bug reports, and even top 1% feature ideas. The ability to tie it into our product and see the features voted on from an MRR aggregate not a vote-aggregate is phenomenal
Having used tiktok for a total of 10 hours now, I get programmer humor, car videos and funny animal videos - exactly what I want
That's the whole point - the ability to curate content that you will like is phenomenal, especially given the non-obvious inputs to their model. Like a video? Sure you'll see more of that kind of stuff. You may not think about scrolling up/down to restart the video, watching it multiple times, sharing it, opening/closing the comments (and I'm sure 10,000 other inputs) all feed into it's ability to curate
The ultra-rich will have a variable level of "decreased performance in their portfolio". They're still rich, especially if not over-levered. They are also well positioned to take advantage of any hyper-inflation event.
The average american, with the loss of their primary income and no real UBI is going to feel it the most.
It was a lot of fun watching the project and community evolve. I think you and the team did an excellent job. I remember a huge spike in users around when discovery.etcd.io launched. It was really a game changer for us building large-scale multi-data center telecom systems. I still remember bootstrapping the first cluster in a 24 data center test and having things blow up, particularly in higher-latency environments (cross-DC)
Fast-forward 4 months, the project had grown and scaled to support the influx of new curious devs and use-cases that stretched the bounds of what was possible at the time. At the end of the 4-months, we had a 128 node cluster that stayed up for years and still powers all of the emergency notifications in a few states in the US!
Even at $1/year - their 1.5 billion active users should be an equal amount of revenue. I'd say that's enough to cover the cost of servers and bandwidth.
CommentSold (https://commentsold.com) | Lead UI/designer | Full-Time | Remote or Onsite | Huntsville, AL
CommentSold is a social selling platform, where people order products through Facebook and Instagram via commenting "sold". Currently have a couple thousand customers after launching in April of 2017. You can make a huge impact in a small company (7 people total). Vanity metrics: hundreds of thousands of customers use our system daily to shop and just over million use it monthly
I mentioned this in the price reductions of S3 announcement
People fail to realize the true cost of operating on S3, specifically when hundreds of TB of usable data is in play
"By putting the "tax" on bandwidth, a lot of these business cases are solved. I see why Amazon does that.
AWS is great, but as you get into high scale (specifically in storage - 2PB+), it becomes extremely cost prohibitive."
This is a fantastic move for Amazon and I'll tell you why. The cost of long distance is nearing 0 and application providers are making bank. The pricing is also extremely disruptive. Most contact centers price minutes/DIDs just like Amazon but ALSO charge a per-agent per-month fee. [1]
All of the contact center solutions mentioned so far were customers of mine at MagicJack. We did wholesale long distance for them. The one trend in the industry is that long-distance continues to fall fast, but the pricing of telecom-related apps stayed the same.
Since I am no longer under NDA, the average cost of long distance (US Domestic) at MagicJack when I left in 2013 was $0.0017/minute!!
For those saying contact centers won't move over because the investment - I will tell you that we lost and gained 1,000 agent operations over 10% cost savings every single month.
It's worth noting that, at that scale, you actually get PAID for inbound calls. At MagicJack, the cost of our went into the negative because of access fees. Even though Amazon is not a carrier (yet), they will likely work a deal to get paid.
Vonage does the same thing. They receive a revenue share of the access charges from level 3.