Congrats! We use WorkOS and they have saved us tons of time in both engineering and support cases. We frequently have customers compliment us on how easy it is to configure SAML and SCIM, but it's really WorkOS's wizard that they are complimenting :)
I learned a lot about how to debate more constructively second-hand from my business partner who took the class referenced here [1]. The “crossing the net” tool was especially helpful to me once I started actively noticing how often I did it. Really trying to follow that forced me to ask better questions to understand where my views differed and why. All 5 tips are good areas to reflect on and experiment with, though.
I wouldn't be surprised if it feels random because it is loaded after a network request with variable timing checks to see if you have the pro version or not.
For payroll taxes they could also just pay 7.5% less and net take-home pay would be similar for drivers.
The real draw of independent contractors is the reduction in capital expenditures. They don't need to buy and service cars or pay for mileage. Paying for standby time is also probably prohibitively expensive.
I think the way to think about it is Google is doing what it does best: search. They use whatever content they can scrape from the screen using the view hierarchy once the user signals intent that they want to search. It's a faster way to do search using context (in this case the screen) to provide the "keywords". The app indexing part is how they are able to show related apps with deep links. They use app indexing of other apps to find relevant results for the query.
App indexing makes sense when you have more stable content inside of an app like a traditional public website. Think Yelp and their 'screen' per place inside of the app. It doesn't make sense to publish the contents of a chat conversation to Google's app index -- that would be a huge privacy leak! It would be the equivalent of GoogleBot indexing my Gmail inbox.
The difference is that for iBeacon to track devices the user has to download an app related to the beacons and give permission. MAC address tracking happens without the user giving consent.
I love this idea! I wanted something like this for kiteboarding, actually, which an interesting coincidence given the name.
Some UX feedback: You should warn the user in advance that you are going to send an SMS to their phone number to confirm the number. After getting the first SMS to confirm my account, I started to add my emergency contact. I stopped, though, because I was worried that you might send an SMS to them asking to confirm their number, status as emergency contact, etc. The UI doesn't make it clear what will happen when I add them as a contact.